Improved Memory Bandwidth Throttling Behavior For Linux 6.9
19 March
Linux 6.9 Has A Big Rework To CPU Timers - Some Power/Performance Benefits
18 March
F2FS Improves Zoned Block Device Support & Per-File Compression For Linux 6.9
XWayland Nukes The NVIDIA EGLStream Backend
Firefox 124 Now Available With Screen Wake Lock API
LLVM Clang Shows Off Great Performance Advantage On NVIDIA GH200's Neoverse-V2 Cores
CoreCtrl 1.4 Brings Radeon RX 7000 Series Fan Curve Controls, Intel CPU Temperatures
Rust Coreutils & Reproducible Builds Receives Funding From The Sovereign Tech Fund
AMD Zen 5 "Znver5" CPU Enablement Merged For GCC 14
Linux 6.9 Adds Support For Several Samsung Bluetooth HID Devices
Linux 6.9 Continues Clearing Out Code For Intel's Defunct "Carillo Ranch" Platform
AMD Posts Updated Linux Patches For P-State Core Performance Boost
Linux 6.9 Adds Support For Snakebyte Gamepads
17 March
LibreELEC 12 Beta Moves More Devices To 64-bit - Including The Raspberry Pi 5 & 4
Many Laptop Improvements In Linux 6.9, Much Faster HP Performance At Higher TDP
CXL For Linux 6.9 Adds Error Injection, Native Memory Performance Enumeration
XFS With Linux 6.9 Brings Online Repair Improvements
Hyprland Wayland Compositor Celebrates Two Years With A New Release
Linux 6.9 Change Allows Old Macs Using Firewire To Enjoy Virtualization Support
16 March
SDL Storage API Merged For SDL 3.0
New Gestures Code Squeezes Into GNOME 46
Mold Linker Jumps From v2.4.1 To v2.30 To Resolve GNU libtool Compatibility
RadeonSI OpenGL CTS Tests Running ~30% Faster With Mesa 24.1
Initial IBM Power11 Enablement Begins With Linux 6.9
An Open-Source Driver Effort Has Begun For Rockchip's NPU
Bcachefs Multi-Device Users Should Avoid Linux 6.7: "A Really Horific Bug"
KDE Continuing To Land More Fixes, Eye More Features For Plasma 6.1
15 March
Linux 6.8.1 & Other Stable Kernels Released With Intel RFDS Mitigation
FUSE Passthrough Mode Merged For Linux 6.9
The Performance Impact Of Intel's Register File Data Sampling "RFDS" Mitigation
Bcachefs Sees Improved Journal Pipelining & More Efficient Discard With Linux 6.9
VKD3D-Proton 2.12 Released With Initial Support For NVIDIA Reflex
LXD 5.21 LTS Released With UI By Default, AMD SEV Memory Encryption For VMs
ARM64 Rust Support & dpISA 2023 Extensions Merged For Linux 6.9
Intel Releases SVT-AV1 2.0 For Even Faster AV1 Encoding
Mobileye EyeQ5 SoC Support Upstreamed In Linux 6.9
14 March
Linux 6.9 VFIO Updates Bring A New Driver For NVIDIA's Grace-Hopper Superchip
AMD Makes HIP Ray-Tracing Open-Source
Intel & AMD Enjoy SoundWire Updates With Linux 6.9
Intel Launches Core i9 14900KS, Clocking Up To 6.2GHz
Rust-Tailored Slint GUI Toolkit Adding Python API
openSUSE Tumbleweed Begins Rolling Out KDE Plasma 6 Desktop, But No Wayland Default Yet
Krita Looking More At GPU Acceleration & AI In 2024
Mesa 24.1 Adds Support For The Intel Data Center GPU Flex 170G
Mesa 24.0.3 Released With Many Graphics Driver Bug Fixes
13 March
Linus Torvalds Isn't Happy With Some Of The Bcachefs Code For Linux 6.9
Linux 6.9 Makes A Change To Satisfy Microsoft For EFI x86 Shim Loader Signing
DM VDO "Virtual Data Optimizer" Merged For Linux 6.9
New ARM SoCs & Various Smartphones/Devices Now Supported By Linux 6.9
System76 Now Planning For COSMIC Desktop Alpha Release In Late May
LVFS/Fwupd Ponders 2025 Plans: Servers, Desktop Motherboards & More
Linux 6.9 Cleans Up Printk Code While Preparing For Atomic Consoles
Mesa 24.1 Enables Intel Xe Kernel Driver Support By Default
Blumenkrantz Picks His Next Battle: Mesa's DRI Interfaces
Linux 6.9 Graphics Drivers Prepare For RDNA3 Refresh & RDNA4, More Intel Xe Driver Work
12 March
OBS Studio 30.1 Released With AV1 Support For VA-API & PipeWire Video Capture
KDE Plasma 6.0.2 Delivers Another Week Worth Of Bug Fixes
GhostRace Detailed - Speculative Race Conditions Affecting All Major CPUs / ISAs
New Intel CPU Microcode & "RFDS" Linux Kernel Patch For New Security Vulnerabilities
Ubuntu 24.04 LTS To Help Further Boost AMD EPYC 9004 Series Performance
Linux 6.9 Lands Reworked Topology Code For Better Hybrid CPU Support
Many Networking Improvements & New Wired/Wireless Devices For Linux 6.9
AdaptiveCpp 24.02 Released: "One Of The Best SYCL Compilers" For Performance
Too Many Debug Messages Were Reportedly Slowing Down Some AMD Linux Systems
Intel Continues Prepping The Linux Kernel For X86S
Dynamic Kernel Stacks Proposed For Linux With Big Memory Savings
11 March
Intel FRED Merged For Linux 6.9 As An Important Improvement With Future CPUs
Microsoft's DirectX Shader Compiler Sees Improved Linux Build Support
Btrfs Enjoys Performance Optimizations With Linux 6.9
AMD P-State Preferred Core Submitted For Linux 6.9 While Intel Meteor Lake Gets Tuned
Intel Makes Continuous Profiler Open-Source To Help Improve CPU Performance
GNU Linux-libre 6.8-gnu Dealing With Blobs From New Intel Drivers
Ubuntu 24.04 LTS To Support Installs With NVMe-Over-TCP Drives
Linux 6.9 Making It Easier Managing Security Mitigation Options
AMD Posts Performance Monitoring Patches For Zen 5 CPUs
Raspberry Pi V3D Graphics Driver Preps For Super Pages To Boost Performance
x86/cpu Change For Linux 6.9 Slightly Eases Future AMD Zen CPU Enablement
10 March
Linux 6.8 Released As Stable With New Intel Xe Graphics Driver
Awesome Changes Coming With Linux 6.9: Lots From Intel/AMD, FUSE Passthrough & More Rust
Linux 6.9 To Allow AMD P-State With ACPI CPPC V2 For Threadripper 3000 Series CPUs
Radeon Memory Visualizer Hooks Up With Qualcomm Adreno Vulkan Driver
Niri 0.1.3 Wayland Compositor Brings Touch Support, New Animations
Linux 6.9 To Upgrade Rust Toolchain - Making More Features Stable
Effort Continues To Remove Most Of The SPARC 32-bit CPU Support From Linux
9 March
GNOME 46 Release Candidate Rolls Out Last Minute Fixes, VRR & Other Refinements
Linux 6.8 Is Very Exciting With Intel Xe Driver, Raspberry Pi 5 Graphics & New Hardware
GNOME Developers Continue Tweaking The Shell, Tuning For Performance
NVK Lands Sparse Memory Support - Enabling More Games To Run On This Open-Source Driver
LXQt Desktop Now "100%" Ready For Wayland
KDE Developers Are Currently Seeing 150~200 Bug Reports Per Day
8 March
Wine 9.4 Released With VKD3D 1.11 Bundled, OpenGL Support For Wayland Driver
AMD Squeezes In Additional GPU Enablement Code For Linux 6.9
Vulkan 1.3.280 Released With NVIDIA Ray-Tracing Validation Extension
Ubuntu 24.04 Helping Achieve Greater Performance On Intel Xeon Scalable Emerald Rapids
VirtualBox KVM Backend Adds Support For SR-IOV Graphics
Improved Debugging Of Suspend/Resume For AMD Ryzen Laptops On Linux Coming With MP2 STB
Improved Case-Insensitive File Handling Coming To Linux 6.9
Linux 6.8 Squeezing In Support For A Few Newer HP HyperX Controllers
Linux 6.9 Set To Drop The Old NTFS File-System Driver
7 March
Canonical Looking At Including Performance Tools In Ubuntu 24.04 By Default
Mesa's VDPAU State Tracker Adds Support For AV1 Decoding
GNUnet 0.21 Rolls Out New Transport Layer For Building Decentralized, Distributed Apps
GTK 4.14 To Provide Crisper Font Rendering, Better Fractional Scaling
Mesa's CPU-Based Vulkan Driver Now Supports Ray-Tracing
Etnaviv Preps For Vivante PCI Device Support, Changes For Mesa's Teflon NPU Handling
Experimental Linux Patches Allow Kernel Tracing To Work Past Reboots/Crashes
Fedora Workstation 41 To No Longer Install GNOME X.Org Session By Default
6 March
Basic OpenGL Support Merged For Wine's Wayland Driver
Tiny Corp At "70%" Confidence For AMD To Open-Source Some Relevant GPU Firmware
OpenVINO 2024.0 Brings More GenAI Features, New JavaScript API
NVIDIA R550 Linux Driver's Open Kernel Modules Performing Well On GeForce GPUs
AMD Introducing FRU Memory Poison Manager In Linux 6.9
Lisa Su Says The "Team Is On It" After Tweet About Open-Source AMD GPU Firmware
LLVM/Clang 18.1 Released With Intel AVX10.1 Work, Adds Clearwater Forest & Panther Lake
RADV Now Supports Experimental VK_EXT_shader_object For RDNA3 GPUs Using NGG
UWSM Aims To Be A Universal Wayland Session Manager
5 March
KDE Plasma 6.0.1 Released With First Batch Of Bug Fixes
Microsoft Rebranding CBL-Mariner Linux Distribution To "Azure Linux"
CentOS Stream ISA Optimized Packages Show Great Results On Intel Xeon Emerald Rapids
VKD3D 1.11 Allows Compiling Legacy Direct3D Bytecode To SPIR-V
AMD Updates FreeSync Certification Requirements For New Monitors & TVs
Microsoft Ending Support For Windows Subsystem For Android
Linux DM-VDO "Virtual Data Optimizer" Preparing To Land In The Upstream Kernel
AMD Announces Spartan UltraScale+ FPGA Family
FEX 2403 Fixes Steam Support, Introduces More CPU Optimizations
openSUSE Tumbleweed Is Finding Success Moving From GRUB To systemd-boot
FreeBSD 13.3 Released With Better WiFi Support, LLVM objdump Added
4 March
GStreamer 1.24 Released With Vulkan H.264/H.265 Decode & Many Enhancements
AMDGPU Linux Driver No Longer Lets You Have Unlimited Control To Lower Your Power Limit
Opus 1.5 Audio Codec Able To Make Extensive Use Of Machine Learning
The Compositor Modules "COMO" To Build Wayland Compositors Have Arrived
Nouveau Supporting HDMI 2.1 Won't Hopefully Be Too Challenging Thanks To NVIDIA Firmware
Mesa 24.1 Lands Support For GFX11.5.1 "RDNA3 Refresh" Variant
Intel Vulkan Driver Lands Descriptor Buffer Support To Reduce Linux Gaming CPU Overhead
Arch Linux's Pacman 6.1 Released With Cache Server Support
LACT 0.5.3 Released For Managing AMD Graphics Cards Under Linux
Updated AMDGPU VCN Firmware Fixes VP9 Decoding Issues
3 March
Linux 6.8-rc7 Released With The Stable Kernel Potentially Coming Next Week
GNOME Shell & Mutter 46 RC Brings Modifier-Aware Screencasting, VRR & X.Org Sync Fix
OpenMediaVault 7.0 Released For Debian 12 Powered NAS Platform
Redox OS Scores A Massive Performance Boost For I/O
Wine Code Merged To Overcome A Vulkan Performance Penalty
GDB 14.2 Brings A Few Fixes For The GNU Debugger
FFmpeg Merges DVD-Video Demuxer
KDE Plasma 6.0 Is Proving To Be Unlike The Rocky KDE 4 Launch
2 March
Mutter Merges Experimental Variable Refresh Rate For GNOME 46
UWP'ed Mesa Running On Microsoft Xbox, Allowing For New Game Ports With OpenGL
Vulkan 1.3.279 Brings New NVIDIA Extension Co-Engineered By Valve
AMD FreeSync Video Facing Retirement In Linux 6.9
WavPack Lossless Audio Compression Format Adds Multi-Threaded Encode/Decode
Mesa 24.1 To Raise Limit Supporting More Than Eight Vulkan GPUs Per System
1 March
Steam's February Survey: AMD CPUs & GPUs Continue To Dominate For Linux Gamers
Intel Makes Open-Source Its Python NPU Acceleration Library
Panthor DRM Driver Set For Linux 6.9, Arm Mali Gen10 Merged To Panfrost Gallium3D
Coreboot 24.02 Released - Supporting Three New Motherboards
Experimental VRR Support Might Still Land For GNOME 46
Intel's oneDNN Neural Network Library Prepares For Lunar Lake Xe2, Sierra Forest & GNR
The X.Org Foundation Needs More Candidates To Hold An Election
Ubuntu 24.04 LTS Won't Support JPEG-XL Out-Of-The-Box
Intel Enables Fastboot Across The Board With Their Graphics Driver In Linux 6.9
CUDA On ROCm, Ryzen 8000G Series & Rust Activity Made For An Exciting February
Musl libc 1.2.5 Released With RISC-V 32-bit & LoongArch 64-bit Ports
Ubuntu 24.04 LTS Enters Its Feature Freeze
29 February
Serpent OS Makes Progress On Packaging The GNOME 45 Desktop
Arch Linux CachyOS Benchmarks Of x86-64-v3 & x86-64-v4 Repositories
Zink Lands Support For Partial Updates / Damage Handling
Mesa 24.1 Enables AV1 LTR Encode Support For RDNA3 GPUs With VCN4
Distrobox 1.7 Improves NVIDIA GPU Support, Better Wolfi Containers
Mesa 24.0.2 Brings Many Zink Fixes, More Intel Alder Lake N IDs
Steam On Linux Should Stop Crashing If No OpenGL Drivers Are Found
28 February
Mesa NVK Vulkan Driver Now Declared Vulkan 1.3 Conformant, Mesa 24.1 To Build By Default
HDMI Forum Rejects Open-Source HDMI 2.1 Driver Support Sought By AMD
AMD Zen 4 vs. Zen 4C Performance, Zen 4C Core Scaling With Ryzen 5 8500G
Cloudflare Makes Pingora Rust Framework Open-Source
FUSE Passthrough Support May Land For Linux 6.9 To Help Boost I/O Performance
Intel Xe Kernel GPU Driver Starts Landing SR-IOV Bits & Other Features For Linux 6.9
NVK Vulkan Driver Lands Shader Object & Graphics Pipeline Library
Servo Improves Its Experimental Support For HTML Tables, More CSS Features
KDE MegaRelease 6 Debuts For Plasma 6.0, KF6 & Gear 24.02
27 February
Linux's V4L2 VP9 Codec Kernel Code Rewritten In Rust For Better Memory Safety
Wine Wayland Driver Patches Enable Basic OpenGL Support
64K Kernel Page Size Performance Benefits For HPC Shown With NVIDIA's GH200 Grace CPU
KWinFT Compositor Now Known As Theseus' Ship
Libre-SoC Open-Source GPU/VPU Project Loses Key Funding
Mold Linker Performance Remains Very Compelling In 2024 Over GNU Gold/ld, LLVM lld
RADV Driver Lands Vulkan Video AV1 Decode For Mesa 24.1
Intel HFI Driver Can "Save Tons Of CPU Cycles" By Only Enabling Itself When Needed
AMD Preparing ROCm 6.1 For Release With New Features
FreeBSD 13.3-RC1 Improves WiFi Stability, Takes Care Of Some Kernel Panics
26 February
Ubuntu Blog Talks Up Rust Schedulers, Potential For Micro-Kernel Design Future
KiCad 8.0 Released For Leading Open-Source EDA Software
PVM Virtualization Framework Proposed For Linux - Built Atop The KVM Hypervisor
AMD Radeon RX 7900 GRE Linux Performance
SDDM 0.21 Display Manager Released With Better Wayland Support, Qt6 Fixes
Mesa OpenGL Threading Work Sees Much Reduced Memory Footprint For OpenGL Calls
Intel Xeon D "Granite Rapids-D" Processors Coming In 2025
Reverse-Engineered NPU Driver Tantalizingly Close To Proprietary Driver Performance
WayVNC 0.8 Adds Auto Server-Side Resizing Of Headless Outputs, Detached Mode
25 February
Linux 6.8-rc6 Released: This Kernel May Need An Extra Week For Testing
Open-Source NVIDIA Vulkan Driver "NVK" Lands Improvements For ReBAR
GNOME Makes Progress On GPU-Accelerated Screencasting, systemd-homed Home Encryption
Linux 6.8 x86/urgent Update Beefs Up Protection Against Side Channel CPU Bugs
Bcachefs Publishes Patches For Disk Accounting Rewrite
Microsoft Pushes Out Big February Update For CBL-Mariner 2.0 Linux Distro
24 February
GLFW 3.4 Brings Better Support For Wayland & Run-Time Platform Selection
CachyOS Moves To Glibc 2.39 & Other Package Upgrades For February
Sway 1.9 Released - Using New wlroots Rendering API For Better Performance
Git 2.44 Released - Can Yield Faster Pack Generation & Faster Rebases
XZ 5.6 Released: Sandboxing Improvements, Prefers -O2 Instead Of -O3
Intel Releases OSPRay Studio 1.0 As Its Awesome Interactive Visualization & Ray-Tracing App
KDE Plasma 6.0 Ready For Release Next Week, Plasma 6.1 Seeing Early Feature Work
23 February
Proton 9.0 Beta Makes More Games Playable Under Steam Play, Updates VKD3D-Proton & DXVK
Wine 9.3 Brings New HID Pointer Driver & Better Internet Proxy Support
Micron Engineer Sends Out Linux Patches For New FAMFS File-System
Linux 6.8 Features Excite With New Intel Xe Driver, Performance Optimizations & New Hardware
Intel Extension For PyTorch Now Officially Supports Arc A-Series Graphics
NVIDIA 550.54.14 Release Brings R550 Series Linux Driver To Stable
Nouveau Driver Squeezes In Some Last Minute Minor Additions For Linux 6.8
SDL3 Introduces A Vulkan Renderer
Mesa 24.1 Now Builds Zink By Default, Also Building D3D12 Driver By Default On Windows
NetworkManager 1.46 Can Now Manage Ethtool EEE Settings, IPv4 DAD Default & 2FA VPNs
AMDVLK 2024.Q1.2 Brings Several New Vulkan Extensions
22 February
OpenZFS 2.2.3 Released With Numerous Fixes, Support For Linux 6.7~6.8 Kernels
Rosebush Proposed As A New Data Structure For The Linux Kernel
Intel Core i3 14100 / i5 14500 vs. AMD Ryzen 5 8500G / 8600G In 500+ Benchmarks
Ubuntu 22.04.4 LTS Released With Linux 6.5 HWE Kernel
CodeWeavers Releases CrossOver 24 Built Atop Wine 9.0
Mesa Looks At Making The Zink Driver Build By Default
Ardour 8.4 Digital Audio Workstation: Still Relying On GTK2, Adds AAF Import
DreamWorks Releases OpenMoonRay 1.5 Open-Source Renderer
KDE Slimbook V Announced: The First KDE Plasma 6 Laptop With AMD Ryzen 7 7840HS CPU
Casper Excalibur Laptops To See Better Linux Support With New Driver Proposal
21 February
GIMP Releases Last Development Version For GIMP 3.0
IBM Begins Work On Power11 Enablement For Upcoming Linux 6.9
Intel Mesa Driver Code Working To Split Off Old Broadwell "Gen8" Graphics Code
WebKitGTK Moving To Skia For 2D Rendering To Yield Better Performance
VVenC 1.11 Brings More Performance Improvements For H.266/VVC Encoding
Open-Source NVIDIA Driver Moving To NVK + Zink For OpenGL On Newer GPUs
A Linux Kernel API For Today's Complex RGB Devices Is Being Devised
20 February
AMD's Latest ROCm Effort: More Blogging With A New Blog Platform
Intel Survey Finds Maintainer Burnout & Documentation Top Open-Source Challenges
Bcachefs Receives Funding By NLNet With NGI Zero Grant
NVIDIA GH200 72 Core Grace CPU Performance vs. AMD Ryzen Threadripper Workstations
Red Hat Changing How They Handle Their Minor Release Betas
New Linux Patches Aim To Help Improve Intel Meteor Lake Performance & Power Efficiency
X.Org Server Clears Out Remnants For Supporting Old Compilers
Valve Makes All Steam Audio SDK Source Code Available Under Apache 2.0 License
19 February
Windows NT Synchronization Primitive Driver Updated For The Linux Kernel
Fedora Workstation's Anaconda Web UI Installer Delayed To Fedora 41
AMD Graphics Driver Gets "More New Stuff" For Linux 6.9: Continued RDNA4 Enablement
Miracle-WM Announced As A Wayland Compositor Built On Mir
Intel Lunar Lake "Xe2" Graphics Firmware Upstreamed For Xe Linux Driver
Mozilla Firefox 123.0 Available With Improved Translation Support, New Developer Features
Linux Still Working To Disable RNDIS Drivers In 2024
Third Version Of Linux Atomic Console Support Posted
Intel Linux Graphics Driver Wrapping Up Adaptive Sync SDP Support
18 February
Linux 6.8-rc5 Released With Documented Process For CVE Security Vulnerabilities
Linux 6.9 Adding AMD MI300 Row Retirement Support For Problematic HBM Memory
Cloud Hypervisor 38 Brings Extended CPU Affinity, Improved VFIO Device Support
Linux Developers To Meet Again To Work On HDR, Color Management & VRR
The Linux Kernel Prepares For Rust 1.77 Upgrade