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GBM Linux & Open-Source News |
| XWayland 24.1 RC Released With Explicit Sync, Improved Rootful & GLAMOR Optimizations | Wayland | 2024-04-17 |
| XWayland 24.1 Planned For Release Next Month With Explicit Sync & Other Features | Wayland | 2024-04-12 |
| XWayland Nukes The NVIDIA EGLStream Backend | Wayland | 2024-03-18 |
| NVIDIA 550.54.14 Release Brings R550 Series Linux Driver To Stable | NVIDIA | 2024-02-23 |
| NVIDIA 550 Linux Beta Driver Released With Many Fixes, VR Displays & Better (X)Wayland | NVIDIA | 2024-01-24 |
| XWayland 23.2 RC2 Restores An Optimization For Depth 24 Windows | X.Org | 2023-08-02 |
| XWayland 23.2 RC1 Brings Tearing Control, Resizable Rootful, Emulated Input | X.Org | 2023-07-19 |
| Failing A PCIe 5.0 NVMe SSD In Less Than 3 Minutes Without Extra Cooling | Hardware | 2023-05-10 |
| KDE Improving Its Multi-GPU Infrastructure For Intel & AMD GPUs | KDE | 2023-04-15 |
| WebKitGTK Working On Accelerated Composited Rendering With DMA-BUF | GNOME | 2023-04-03 |
| XWayland 23.1 Released With High Resolution Scroll Wheel, DMA-BUF v4 Feedback | Wayland | 2023-03-22 |
| KDE KWin's Move Away From GBM Surfaces | KDE | 2023-03-14 |
| LibreELEC 11 Released With GBM/V4L2 HDR Support On x86_64, More ARM Hardware | Multimedia | 2023-03-06 |
| XWayland 23.1 Aims For Release In March With New Features | Wayland | 2023-02-14 |
| LibreELEC 11 Beta 1 Released As Linux OS Built Around Kodi 20 - Adds HDR For Intel & AMD | Multimedia | 2023-01-29 |
| AMD Zen 4, Apple Silicon, Intel Arc Graphics & More Excited Linux Users This Year | Phoronix | 2022-12-30 |
| NVIDIA R520 Linux Driver Being Prepped For Release With New GPU Support | NVIDIA | 2022-10-10 |
| GNOME Shell & Mutter 43 Release Candidates Bring Last Minute Changes | GNOME | 2022-09-04 |
| Mir 2.9 Released With XDG-Shell For Wayland, Support For More Protocols | Ubuntu | 2022-08-26 |
| Renewed Work Around GNOME 30-bit Deep Color Frame-Buffer Support | GNOME | 2022-08-09 |
| NVIDIA's List Of Known Wayland Issues From SLI To VDPAU, VR & More | NVIDIA | 2022-05-22 |
| Ubuntu 22.04 LTS Changes Default For NVIDIA Driver Back To Using X.Org Rather Than Wayland | NVIDIA | 2022-04-23 |
| Steam Deck, Ryzen Servers, Apple M1 On Linux & Milan-X Excited Linux Users In Q1 | Phoronix | 2022-03-31 |
| Ubuntu 22.04 LTS Will Default To Wayland With NVIDIA For v510+ Driver | Ubuntu | 2022-03-22 |
| Steam Deck, GNOME 42 Advancements & AMD Linux Updates Excited Readers In February | Phoronix | 2022-03-01 |
| X.Org vs. (X)Wayland Gaming Performance For NVIDIA GeForce & AMD Radeon On Ubuntu 22.04 | Linux Gaming | 2022-02-14 |
| NVIDIA 510.54 Linux Driver Released | NVIDIA | 2022-02-14 |
| GNOME Dynamic Triple Buffering Can 2x The Desktop Performance For Intel Graphics, Raspberry Pi | GNOME | 2022-02-13 |
| NVIDIA 510.47.03 Linux Driver Released With Vulkan 1.3 Support, RTX 3050 Compatibility | NVIDIA | 2022-02-01 |
| Sway 1.7 Released With VR Headset DRM Leasing, Renames "--my-next-gpu-wont-be-nvidia" | Wayland | 2022-01-23 |
| KDE Enjoys Improvement For Much Better NVIDIA Wayland GBM Experience | NVIDIA | 2022-01-19 |
| GNOME Shell & Mutter Prepare For GNOME 42 Alpha With Exciting Improvements | GNOME | 2022-01-12 |
| NVIDIA 510.39.01 Linux Beta Brings Vulkan Dynamic Rendering, AV1 VDPAU Decode & More | NVIDIA | 2022-01-11 |
| Sway 1.7 Nears Release With Less Abrasive NVIDIA Option, Zero-Copy Direct Scanout | Wayland | 2022-01-09 |
| KDE Gets A 2022 Roadmap - Plasma Wayland To Shine, Updated Breeze Icons | KDE | 2022-01-03 |
| Happy New Year & A Wrap On 2021 | Phoronix | 2021-12-31 |
| Fedora Had A Stellar 2021 & Continued Running At The Forefront Of Linux Innovations | Fedora | 2021-12-30 |
| Sway 1.7-rc1 Has Better Zero-Copy Direct Scanout, Drops "--my-next-gpu-wont-be-nvidia" | Wayland | 2021-12-23 |
| Fedora 36 Planning To Run Wayland By Default With NVIDIA's Proprietary Driver | Fedora | 2021-12-07 |
| XWayland Adds Support For Touchpad Gestures | X.Org | 2021-12-05 |
| NVIDIA 470.86 Linux Driver Released With VRR/G-SYNC Fix | NVIDIA | 2021-11-10 |
| XWayland 21.1.3 Released With Support For NVIDIA's 495 Driver GBM | X.Org | 2021-11-08 |
| Linux I/O Optimizations, AMD Improvements, NVIDIA GBM Excited Linux Users Last Month | Phoronix | 2021-11-01 |
| NVIDIA 495.44 Linux Driver Released With GBM Support | NVIDIA | 2021-10-26 |
| KDE Plasma Readies Its NVIDIA GBM Support, Fingerprint Authentication Added | KDE | 2021-10-23 |
| XWayland 21.1.3 Nears With Support For NVIDIA 495 Driver's GBM | Wayland | 2021-10-21 |
| NVIDIA 495 Linux Beta Driver Released With GBM Support | NVIDIA | 2021-10-14 |
| Linux 5.15, AMD / Radeon Advancements, Intel SDSi Dominated Discussions This Month | Phoronix | 2021-10-01 |
| NVIDIA 470.74 Linux Driver Released With Several Fixes | NVIDIA | 2021-09-20 |
| NVIDIA Confirms Sway Wayland Compositor Works Fine With Their New GBM Driver Support | NVIDIA | 2021-09-04 |
| Mesa 21.2.1 Released With "Nice Changes For Almost Everyone" | Mesa | 2021-08-19 |
| Mesa 21.2 Released With New Intel Crocus Driver, PanVK, Early M1 Code | Mesa | 2021-08-04 |
| XWayland 21.1.2 Released With NVIDIA Hardware Acceleration Support | Wayland | 2021-07-09 |
| Mesa 21.2 Lands NVIDIA's Code For Handling Alternate GBM Backends | Mesa | 2021-07-07 |
| Mesa's Exciting Milestones So Far In 2021 From Zink To Great Intel/AMD Open-Source Work | Mesa | 2021-06-27 |
| Canonical's Mir 2.4 Brings Numerous X11 + Wayland Enhancements | Ubuntu | 2021-06-08 |
| The Most Exciting Open-Source Graphics Driver News From Q1'2021 | Mesa | 2021-03-29 |
| NVIDIA Proposes Mesa Patches To Support Alternative GBM Back-Ends | NVIDIA | 2021-03-29 |
| NVIDIA Is Working On DMA-BUF Passing That Should Help Improve Their Wayland Support | NVIDIA | 2020-12-01 |
| Mir 2.2 Released With Display Wall Capabilities, Composite Bypass On GBM-KMS | Ubuntu | 2020-11-19 |
| Mesa 21.0 Adds EGL_EXT_platform_xcb Support | Mesa | 2020-11-14 |
| Mir 2.1 Released With Some New Protocol Support, Many Fixes | Ubuntu | 2020-09-29 |
| 30-bit Deep Color For GNOME On Wayland Will Likely Take Some Time | GNOME | 2020-08-18 |
| Mir 2.0 Released In Dropping Legacy Bits, New Platform Improvements | Ubuntu | 2020-07-24 |
| Wayland's Wild Decade From v1.0 Release To Usable GNOME/KDE Desktop Support | Wayland | 2019-12-29 |
| Ten Years Past GNOME's 10x10 Goal, The Linux Desktop Is Still Far From Having A 10% Marketshare | GNOME | 2019-12-14 |
| Wayland's Weston 8.0 Reaches Alpha With EGL Partial Updates, Headless OpenGL | Wayland | 2019-12-07 |
| Wayland's Weston 8.0 Bringing Direct-Display Extension, HDCP On DRM Back-End + More | Wayland | 2019-11-27 |
| NVIDIA Still Working On A Generic Allocator - Has Working Open-Source Implementation | NVIDIA | 2019-10-07 |
| Waffle 1.6 Released As Library Allowing GL / Windowing System Selection At Runtime | Mesa | 2019-06-10 |
| NVIDIA EGLStreams Support Merged Into KWin For KDE Plasma 5.16 | KDE | 2019-04-15 |
| The Lima Gallium3D Driver Is Aiming To Be Merged In Mesa | Mesa | 2019-03-16 |
| Lima DRM Driver Strikes Version Two For Mali 400/450 Open-Source Support | Arm | 2019-02-27 |
| The Latest NVIDIA EGLStreams Wayland Backend Code Under Review For KDE/KWin | KDE | 2019-01-30 |
| Wayland Support On The BSDs Continuing To Improve | BSD | 2019-01-21 |
| Panfrost Open-Source Mali Driver Now Has A Winsys Working With ARM's Kernel Driver | Mesa | 2019-01-07 |
| KDE Had A Darn Exciting Year With Better Wayland Support, Improved Kdenlive, Krita 4.0 | KDE | 2018-12-30 |
| The Biggest GNOME Stories Of 2018 | GNOME | 2018-12-29 |
| A Look At The Wayland/Weston Development Stats For 2018 | Wayland | 2018-12-26 |
| Mir 1.1 Is Releasing Soon With Experimental X11 Support & NVIDIA Binary Blob Handling | Ubuntu | 2018-11-30 |
| NVIDIA Working On An EGLStreams Back-End For KDE On Wayland | KDE | 2018-11-14 |
| AMDGPU DC Display Code Ported To GCN 1.0 "Southern Islands" GPUs | Radeon | 2018-10-08 |
| Mir Has Partial Support For The NVIDIA Proprietary Driver, X11 Support Remains WIP | Ubuntu | 2018-08-17 |
| X.Org Server 1.20 Branch Created, Latest EGLStreams Patches Added | X.Org | 2018-08-05 |
| Kodi 18 Alpha 2 Released With Stability & Usability Improvements + New Wayland Code | Multimedia | 2018-06-22 |
| Making Use Of Chrome's Ozone-GBM Intel Graphics Support On The Linux Desktop | Intel | 2018-06-22 |
| NVIDIA Contributes EGLStreams Improvements For GNOME's Mutter Wayland Support | GNOME | 2018-06-16 |
| XWayland Gets Patch To Automatically Use EGLStreams For NVIDIA Support When Needed | X.Org | 2018-05-31 |
| Mir Is Running On Arch Linux; Mir Also Progressing With EGLStreams Support | Ubuntu | 2018-05-26 |
| The Shiny New Features Of X.Org Server 1.20 | X.Org | 2018-05-03 |
| X.Org Server 1.20 RC5 Released, Adds EGLStreams To Let NVIDIA Work With XWayland | X.Org | 2018-04-24 |
| EGLStreams XWayland Code Revised Ahead Of X.Org Server 1.20 | X.Org | 2018-04-21 |
| KDE Frameworks 5.45 Released With Remote Access Interface For KWayland | KDE | 2018-04-14 |
| GNOME 3.28 Is Being Released This Next Week With Many Features & Improvements | GNOME | 2018-03-11 |
| With Mesa Git You Can Now Run A Completely Open Graphics Stack On The Tegra X1 | Mesa | 2018-03-09 |
| With Vulkan 1.1 It's Technically Possible To Write A Pure Wayland Compositor | Vulkan | 2018-03-08 |
| EGLStreams For XWayland Gets Updated | X.Org | 2018-03-07 |
| KDE Plasma Working On Wayland Screen-Sharing With XDG-Desktop-Portal / Pipewire | KDE | 2018-03-06 |
| DRI3 v1.1 Updated by Collabora For Modifiers & Multi-Plane Support | X.Org | 2018-02-16 |
| XWayland Gets Initial Support For EGLStreams To Support NVIDIA's Driver | X.Org | 2018-02-07 |
| Atomic Mode-Setting Finally Landing For Wayland's Weston Compositor | Wayland | 2018-02-06 |
| Kodi 18 Is Coming But They Are Already Thinking About Kodi 19 | Multimedia | 2018-02-04 |
| GNOME's Mutter Now Supports GBM With Modifiers - Allowing Tiling & Compression | GNOME | 2018-01-24 |
| NVIDIA Contributes Some New Tegra/Nouveau Patches | Nouveau | 2018-01-11 |
| NVIDIA's New Allocator Library Will Need A Lot Of Work In 2018 | NVIDIA | 2017-12-29 |
| NVIDIA's Open-Source Christmas: Experimental Allocator Driver For Nouveau | Nouveau | 2017-12-20 |
| NVIDIA's New Memory Allocator Project To Be Standalone, Undecided On Name | NVIDIA | 2017-11-30 |
| NVIDIA Wants Feedback On Its Device Memory Allocator Project | NVIDIA | 2017-11-21 |
| KWin Maintainer On KDE Wayland Remains Uninterested In NVIDIA's Driver | KDE | 2017-10-31 |
| NVIDIA Offers Update On Their Proposed Unix Device Memory Allocation Library | NVIDIA | 2017-09-20 |
| XDC2017 To Feature Update On New Memory Allocation API, HDR, GPGPU, GLVND | X.Org | 2017-08-21 |
| NVIDIA Makes It Easier On Fedora To Try GNOME With EGLStreams On Wayland | Fedora | 2017-07-26 |
| Mesa 17.1.1 Coming This Week | Mesa | 2017-05-22 |
| GLAMOR Updates Land In The X.Org Server, OpenGL ES Fallback | X.Org | 2017-05-18 |
| Sway Wayland Compositor Adding Proprietary NVIDIA Driver Support | Wayland | 2017-04-30 |
| Mir Will Support NVIDIA's EGL Streams Approach | Ubuntu | 2017-03-19 |
| Timothy Arceri Takes To Revising Mesa OpenGL Threaded Dispatch | Mesa | 2017-03-07 |
| Chrome/Chromium's EXO Now Supports Hardware Cursors | Google | 2017-02-01 |
| Tegra/Nouveau Render-Only Gallium3D Support | Mesa | 2017-01-13 |
| The Top NVIDIA vs. AMD/Radeon Linux News Of 2016 | Hardware | 2016-12-29 |
| The Wayland Highlights Of 2016 | Wayland | 2016-12-28 |
| GNOME vs. KDE: The Top Linux Desktop News Of 2016 | Desktop | 2016-12-28 |
| Etnaviv Gallium3D Driver Revived, Render-Only Library Updated Too | Mesa | 2016-12-24 |
| Intel Publishes Renderbuffer Decompression Patches | Intel | 2016-12-02 |
| Forum Spam/Filtering Redesign; 300+ Linux News/Articles/Reviews For November | Phoronix | 2016-12-01 |
| Vivante Gallium3D Driver Proposed For Mainline Mesa + Render-Only Gallium Library | Mesa | 2016-11-30 |
| GNOME Lands Mainline NVIDIA Wayland Support Using EGLStreams | GNOME | 2016-11-17 |
| Fedora 25's Hybrid Graphics Improvements, To Support NVIDIA Wayland EGLStreams | Fedora | 2016-11-01 |
| RadeonSI Got Another Optimization After The 13.0 Branching | Mesa | 2016-10-20 |
| New Documentation Around NVIDIA's Push For A GBM Alternative To Memory Allocation | NVIDIA | 2016-10-04 |
| Wayland 1.13 Is Open For Development | Wayland | 2016-09-24 |
| NVIDIA's Proposal For A New API Better Than GBM Has Already Made Some Progress | Wayland | 2016-09-23 |
| NVIDIA Presents Over GBM vs. EGLStreams, The Big Wayland Support Debate Continues | Wayland | 2016-09-21 |
| Qt's Comprehensive Display/Graphics Options | Qt | 2016-09-19 |
| KDE Wayland Is Not Yet Interested In NVIDIA's EGLStreams Approach | KDE | 2016-09-14 |
| The Interesting Wayland/Vulkan/Graphics Talks Happening This Month At XDC2016 | X.Org | 2016-09-08 |
| NVIDIA To Meet With Wayland, Linux Kernel Developers To Discuss GBM vs. Streams | NVIDIA | 2016-07-21 |
| Wayland 1.12 Planned For Release In September | Wayland | 2016-06-01 |
| AMD Unleashes Initial AMDGPU Driver Support For GCN 1.0 / Southern Islands GPUs | Radeon | 2016-05-13 |
| A Wayland Developer Shares His Concerns About NVIDIA's EGLStreams Proposal | Wayland | 2016-05-13 |
| Streams vs. GBM: The Fight Continues Over NVIDIA's Proposed Wayland Route | Wayland | 2016-05-12 |
| NVIDIA Linux Developers Don't Sound Too Happy About The ChromeOS Driver Approach | NVIDIA | 2016-05-03 |
| NVIDIA Continues Discussing Their Controversial Wayland Plans With Developers | NVIDIA | 2016-04-03 |
| A Call To Move Games Outside Of Linux Desktop Environments, Own Wayland/KMS Setup | KDE | 2015-12-10 |
| Mesa 10.6.8 Is Focused On Nouveau Fixes | Mesa | 2015-09-20 |
| X.Org Server 1.17 Pre-Release "TimTam" Is Out | X.Org | 2015-01-23 |
| FreeBSD Made A Lot Of Progress In The Past Few Months Of 2014 | BSD | 2015-01-17 |
| Collabora Looks To Add DMA-BUF Protocol To Wayland | Wayland | 2014-12-13 |
| NVIDIA Posts Tegra Gallium3D Patch For K1+ Support | NVIDIA | 2014-11-27 |
| Recapping All The Interesting Talks Of XDC2014 | X.Org | 2014-10-12 |
