Firefox Begins Rolling Out QUIC + HTTP/3 Support
17 April
16 April
Mesa's Radeon "RADV" Vulkan Driver Makes First Steps Towards Ray-Tracing
openSUSE Tumbleweed Now Offering GNOME 40
Devuan 4.0 Alpha Builds Begin For Debian 11 Without Systemd
Intel Compute Runtime 21.15.19533 Released With Initial Level Zero 1.1 Support
GNU Assembly Launches As Collaborative Platform For GCC, Other Packages
Mesa 21.2 Begins Seeing Intel Xe-HP Graphics Driver Changes
NVIDIA CUDA 11.3 Released - Previews Better Python Support
Patches Resubmitted For Linux With Selectable Intel Graphics Platform Support
15 April
The 12 Most Interesting Changes Of Linux 5.12 - PS5, N64, Intel VRR, RDNA2 OverDrive
NVIDIA RTX 30 Series OpenCL / CUDA / OptiX Compute + Rendering Benchmarks
LXQt 0.17 Released For This Lightweight Qt5 Desktop
OpenZFS 2.1-rc3 Delivers More Fixes
Google Supports Getting Rust Into The Linux Kernel
LLVM 12.0 Released With Alder Lake + Sapphire Rapids Support, More C++20
Hangover 0.6.5 Released For Running Windows Software On ARM64, POWER
14 April
Metro Exodus Launches For Linux But Off To Bumpy Start
Rust Support In The Linux Kernel Undergoing Another Round Of Discussions
Chrome 90 Released With AV1 Encode, New APIs
Mesa 21.1-rc1 Released With RADV Optimizations, Faster Zink, Many Other New Features
The Linux Kernel & GNOME Desktop Preparing For Privacy Screen Support
NVIDIA 465.24.02 Linux Driver Released As Stable
Windows 10 Rockets Ahead Of Ubuntu Linux On The Core i9 11900K For Some Workloads
Gigabyte Motherboard WMI Temperature Driver Queued Ahead Of Linux 5.13
Mesa 21.1 Squeezes In Improvements For Direct3D 9 (Gallium Nine)
Mesa's Virgl Straps On A Simple Disk Cache
Linux 5.13 To Allow For OpenBMC Development With A Lower-Cost ASRock Rack Motherboard
13 April
FreeBSD 13.0 Brings Better Performance, LLVM Clang 11, Obsolete GNU Bits Removed
System76 Developing "COSMIC" Desktop Environment For Pop!_OS
X.Org Server 1.20.11 Released Due To New Security Advisory
SiFive Tapes Out Their First 5nm RISC-V Processor Core
Vulkan Video Arrives For New Industry-Standard Video Encode/Decode
Multigenerational LRU Code Updated For Enhancing Linux Kernel Performance
Vulkan 1.2.175 Published With Many New Extensions
ROCm AOMP 13.0 Released For OpenMP Offloading To Radeon GPUs
Slackware 15 Beta Process Begins
Secret Memory Areas For Linux Might Finally Be Ready With memfd_secret
Arcan Presents "Pipeworld" Dataflow Computing Interface
12 April
Google Talks Up Logica As Open-Source Programming Language For Data Manipulation
NVIDIA Announces Grace CPU For ARM-Based AI/HPC Processor
Radeon Vulkan Variable Rate Shading Benchmarks For Boosting RDNA2 Performance
KDE KWin Introducing Item-Based Scenes For Improved Wayland Support
Intel DG1 Graphics Card Nears Working State On Linux
MSM DRM Driver Picks Up Initial Support For The Snapdragon SC7280
Intel Rocket Lake Target Added To GCC 11
11 April
Linux 5.12-rc7 Kernel Released - It's Big And Causing Some Concern
Linux 5.13 Will Stop Restricting CPU Power Metrics Access For AMD Energy Driver
Dynatron A38 Performance For Cooling 280 Watt AMD EPYC CPUs
SiFive FU740 PCIe Support Queued Ahead Of Linux 5.13
EXT4 With Linux 5.13 Looks Like It Will Support Casefolding With Encryption Enabled
10 April
LuxCoreRender 2.5 Open-Source PBR Renderer Released With NVIDIA OptiX/RTX Support
KDE Lands More Crash Fixes, Activities Feature Working On Wayland
Radeon Vulkan Driver Adds Option Of Rendering Less For ~30% Greater Performance
9 April
Wine 6.6 Released With Better Plug & Play Driver Support
X.Org Server Git Lands Support For Hardware-Accelerated XWayland With NVIDIA
AMD EPYC 7003 Series Working Out Well With The Supermicro H12SSL-i
Fedora 34 Adding SEVCTL Utility For Managing AMD SEV
HPVM 1.0 Released As LLVM-Based Compiler For CPUs / GPUs / FPGAs / Accelerators
FFmpeg 4.4 Released With AV1 VA-API Decoder, SVT-AV1 Encoding
Linux 5.13 Poised To Allow Randomizing Kernel Stack Offset At Each System Call
AMD ROCm 4.1.1 Released To Clarify Some HIP Bits
8 April
Google's VirtIO-GPU "Venus" Vulkan Driver Merged Into Mesa 21.1
Initial Apple M1 SoC Support Aims For Linux 5.13 Kernel
Xen 4.15 Hypervisor Brings Live Updates To Xenstored
GnuPG 2.3 Released With New Experimental Key Database Daemon, TPM 2.0 Daemon
GCC 10.3 Compiler Released With AMD Zen 3 Tuning Backported, Nearly 200 Bug Fixes
AMD Finally Flipping On ASPM For Navi 1x To Lower Power Consumption
Fedora 35 Looking To Make Use Of Debuginfod By Default
XScreenSaver 6.0 Released With Increased Security, Better EGL & GLSL/GLES 3.0 Support
Reiser4 Ported Early To The Linux 5.12 Kernel
LLVM 12.0 Delays Drag On With RC5 Now Shipping
7 April
OpenZFS 2.1.0-rc2 Released With Bug Fixes
Mesa 21.1's Lavapipe Now Teases Vulkan 1.1 On CPUs
Sway 1.6 Wayland Compositor Released With Smoother Move/Resize
Mesa 21.0.2 Released With Lavapipe Fixes, Improved AMD L3 Cache Calculation
AVX / AVX2 / AVX-512 Performance + Power On Intel Rocket Lake
Google Begins Allowing Rust Code For Developing Android
AMDVLK 2021.Q2.1 Finally Adds Navi 12 Support
Wayland Is Driving Fragmentation Around EDID Parsing - A Call To Fix That
VirtIO Bluetooth Driver On The Way To The Linux Kernel
Running Steam's Linux Build On FreeBSD Is Becoming Increasingly Capable For Gaming
6 April
Google Posts Initial Code For Lyra Speech Codec
AMD Sends Out Linux Kernel Patches To Allow Disabling Predictive Store Forwarding (PSF)
Intel Launches 3rd Gen Xeon Scalable "Ice Lake" CPUs With Up To 40 Cores
Linux 5.13 - Another Step In Prepping Intel Discrete Graphics, Preferring Local Memory
GCC 11 Lands A Last Minute Optimization For Intel Skylake
WMI Linux Temperature Driver Being Worked On For Gigabyte Motherboards
KDE Now Maintaining Their Own Set of Patches For Qt 5
Libinput X.Org Driver 1.0 Released Following A License Mixup
PulseAudio 15 Lands mSBC Codec Support To Enable Bluetooth Wideband Speech
Linux Finally Has A Tool For Encryption Setup With Older Logitech Wireless Keyboards
5 April
VirtIO-GPU Vulkan Driver Looks To Go Upstream In Mesa
AMD Instinct MI100 "Arcturus" Bits Added To Linux-Firmware.Git
Two Decade Old RTS Game Rolls Out v4.0 Update With Vulkan Renderer
CentOS Hyperscale SIG Backported Newer Systemd, Preps For Experimental Repo
Mesa 21.1 RADV Adds Another Performance Knob For RDNA2 Testing
The Current State Of The Intel "Crocus" Gallium3D Driver
The Linux Kernel Continues Crafting A WWAN Subsystem
4 April
Linux 5.12-rc6 Released - A "Positively Tiny" Easter Kernel
Benchmarking AMD Zen 3 With Predictive Store Forwarding Disabled
Arch Linux's Install Media Adds "Archinstall" For Quick/Easy Installations
PHP 8.1 Feature Work Includes Adding Enums, Fsync Function
Ubuntu 21.04 Testing Week Continues For Taming The Hirsute Hippo
3 April
FreeBSD 13.0-RC5 Released Due To Lingering Bugs
READFILE System Call Rebased For More Efficient Reading Of Small Files
KDE Starts April By Landing KHamburgerMenu
OBS Studio 27.0-rc1 Released With Wayland Support, Undo/Redo
Intel oneDNN 2.2 Released With More Optimizations For Alder Lake, Sapphire Rapids
2 April
AMD Publishes Security Analysis Of Zen 3 "PSF" That Could Possibly Lead To A Side-Channel Attack
Spectre Mitigation Performance Impact For Intel's Rocket Lake
VCN Load Balancing, LTTPR, More Aldebaran + Other Changes For Radeon In Linux 5.13
GCC 10.3 Release Candidate Arrives For Testing
Zink Lands Threaded Context Support For A Big Speed Boost With OpenGL Over Vulkan
Steam On Linux Ends Q1'2021 Still Below 1% Marketshare
1 April
Ubuntu 21.04 Beta Released For This Linux 5.11 Powered Update With Wayland By Default
Proton 6.3-1 Released With More Windows Games Now Running On Linux / Steam Play
Intel's Vulkan Driver Adds Conservative Rasterization - Helps DXVK/VKD3D For Linux Gaming
Intel Graphics Compiler 1.0.6748 Released With CM-CL Library
AMD Zen 3 Tuning Backported To The GCC 10 Compiler
Intel Wraps Up Linux 5.13 Graphics Driver Development By Preparing For Future Hardware
LLVM 12.0-rc4 Released For Squaring Up This Open-Source Compiler
Linux 5.12 Corruption, GNOME 40, AMD Milan, Rust In Linux-Next Made For An Exciting March
RPM 4.17 Planned For Fedora 35 With Better Install Failure Handling, Lua Integration
31 March
Oracle Releases UEK R6U2 Kernel With New Slab Memory Controller
GIMP 2.10.24 Released For This Open-Source Adobe Photoshop Alternative
Initial Benchmarks Of Fedora Workstation 34 Beta On AMD Ryzen + Radeon
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.4 Beta Released With New Features, Improvements
Canonical Releases "Ubuntu on Windows Community Preview"
AlmaLinux Now Available For Download As RHEL/CentOS Alternative
Qt 6.0.3 Released With Another ~40 Bug Fixes
More Intel Core i5 11600K, Core i9 11900K Benchmarks
GNOME 41 To Introduce Libadwaita For Helping To Define GNOME Apps
OBS Studio Now Ready With Wayland Capture Support
"PKRAM" Revived For Preserving Memory Pages Across Kexec'ing Kernels
The Most Popular AMD Linux/Open-Source News For Q1'2021
30 March
Systemd 248 Released With System Extension Images Feature, More TPM2/FIDO2 Integration
GTK 4.2 Released With NGL Renderer By Default
Arm Announces ARMv9 Architecture With SVE2
NVIDIA Now Allows GeForce GPU Pass-Through For Windows VMs On Linux
Intel Core i5 11600K + Core i9 11900K Linux Performance Across ~400 Benchmarks
NVIDIA 465.19.01 Linux Beta Driver Released
Intel's Bus Lock Detection Might Be Ready For The Mainline Linux Kernel
Linux 5.13 To Enable The Keyboard/Touchpad Of Newer Microsoft Surface Laptops
OpenZFS 2.1-rc1 Released With Distributed Spare RAID "dRAID"
29 March
FreeBSD 13.0-RC4 Released With POWER Fixes, Other Bugs Addressed
The Most Exciting Open-Source Graphics Driver News From Q1'2021
NVIDIA Proposes Mesa Patches To Support Alternative GBM Back-Ends
Intel's Clear Linux In 2021 Still Squeezing More Performance For Xeon Scalable
PHP's Git Server Compromised, Now Switching To GitHub
28 March
Linux 5.12-rc5 Released - It's Bigger Than Average
Flax Engine 1.1 Released For This Impressive Open-Source 3D Game Engine
Many New/Updated Benchmarks For March With New SDR/Radio Tests, More Code Compilation
Box86 Continues Quest For Running x86 Linux Programs On ARM, Other Archs
Wine-Staging 6.5 Comes In A Bit Lighter Thanks To Upstreaming Many Patches
Mesa Considers Raising CPU Support Baseline
27 March
Debian 10.9 Released With FWUPD SBAT Support, Bug Fixes
The Linux Kernel Might Finally See Proper Support For The Apple Magic Mouse 2
X.Org Reins In Their Cloud Costs, Switches Public Clouds
KDE Introduces "Quick Settings" Page, Lands More Wayland Fixes
Loongson 2K1000 Support Queued Ahead Of Linux 5.13
Intel's Cloud-Hypervisor 0.14 Brings Improvements For MSHV, AArch64
26 March
Wine 6.5 Released With OpenCL 1.2 Support
NZXT Kraken Driver Queued For Introduction In Linux 5.13
Samsung 980 NVMe SSD Linux Performance
Linux 5.13 To Fix Its Handling Of Unused ACPI Power Resources
Another Intel Gen12 Performance Optimization Coming For Mesa's Vulkan Driver
Linux 5.13 To Bring A Huge Speed-Up For MD RAID10 DISCARD Handling
Lavapipe CPU-Based Vulkan Performance Looking Good Compared To SwiftShader
Mesa's Intel Vulkan Driver Introduces A Null Hardware Layer
25 March
Total War: Rome Remastered + Metro Exodus Coming To Linux In April
QEMU 6.0 On The Way With LTO Support, AMD SEV-ES Guests, Multi-Process Experiment
AMD AOCC 3.0 Compiler Performance With The EPYC 75F3 - Making Fast Even Faster
Intel GNA Linux Driver Updated For Accelerating Speech Recognition, Noise Reduction
Linux Core Scheduling Nears The Finish Line To Avoid Flipping Off HT
Generic USB Display Driver "GUD" Slated For Linux 5.13
New AMD Zen 3 Fixes Published For The GCC 11 Compiler
24 March
Mesa 21.0.1 Released, 20.3.5 Issued To Close Out The Older Series
NVIDIA's Open-Source DALI Reaches Version 1.0
Intel's VA-API Library LibVA 2.11 Released With Support For Protected Content
AMD Sends Out New Linux Code For SEV-SNP With EPYC 7003 Series
AMD Is Trying To Optimize Their Gallium3D Driver Even Further With Lower Overhead
GNOME 40 Released With Many Improvements
AMD Releases Radeon Pro Software for Enterprise 21.Q1 for Linux
Crocus: Working On Gallium3D For Old Intel Graphics
AOMedia libaom AV1 3.0 Encoder Released With Better Compression Efficiency
Linux Kernel Patches Sent Out For A More Powerful Virtual M68k Machine
23 March
Radeon ROCm 4.1 Released - Still Without RDNA GPU Support
Plan 9 Copyright Transferred To Foundation, MIT Licensed Code Released
Intel Provides Update On 7nm, New US Fabs, "Intel On" Event
Manjaro 21.0 Released With Linux 5.10 Kernel, GNOME 3.38 + Xfce 4.16 + KDE Plasma 5.21
Xfce 4.18 Planning Begins With An Eye On Wayland Application Support
Firefox 87 Released With Privacy Improvements But Backs Out AVIF
V3DV Pipeline Caching Work Leads To Greater Raspberry Pi Vulkan Performance
Fedora 34 Beta Released With PipeWire In Action, GNOME 40 Desktop
AMD Sends Out Latest Patches For HMM-Based SVM Memory Manager
Linux Kernel's Preliminary Rust Code Seeing 64-bit POWER Support
Ubuntu Figuring Out Whether To FSCK Its File-Systems At Boot
Shells.com Continues Work On Supporting More Linux Distros For This "Cloud Desktop"
Mesa 21.1 Will Aim To Be Out By Mid-May
22 March
Proposal Raised For Dropping Mesa's Classic OpenGL Drivers From Mainline This Year
AMD Prepares USB-C Linux Driver Support For Radeon Graphics Cards
IBM Lands Last Minute POWER10 Updates Into GCC 11 Compiler
OpenPOWER Microwatt To See Chip Fabrication Thanks To Google + Skywater
The Linux Foundation Wants To Help Water Farms From The Cloud
Intel Announces Launch Date For 3rd Gen Xeon Scalable "Ice Lake"
Radeon RX 6700 XT "Navy Flounder" Microcode Lands In Linux-Firmware.Git
Better Support For Thrustmaster Steering Wheels Is Driving To The Linux Kernel
Vulkan 1.2.173 Comes With New Extensions For Google's Fuchsia
FreeCAD 0.19 Released For Advancing Open-Source CAD Software
21 March
Linux 5.12-rc4 Released - The 5.12 Kernel Is Still Looking Good
OpenRazer 3.0 Released For Supporting Many More Razer Peripherals Under Linux
Months After Being Deprecated, Linux Ready To Say Goodbye To WiMAX
Linux 5.13 To Address Some Networking Overhead Caused By Retpolines
OpenSUSE Tumbleweed's Very Busy Week With An Entire Rebuild, Latest KDE Packages
Patches Proposed So Microsoft Debuggers Can Deal With GCC-Built MinGW Executables
Qt 6.1 Beta 2 Released, Qt-Project.org Called For Revival
20 March
FreeBSD 13.0-RC3 Released With The WireGuard Driver Removed
Ubuntu 21.04 Moves Ahead With Enabling LTO Optimizations For Greater Performance
AMD Sends In Aldebaran, FreeSync HDMI, Other Graphics Changes For Linux 5.13
Debian 11.0 Is Now Under A Hard Freeze
KDE Saw More Wayland Fixes This Week, Other Changes
Linux Looks To Finally Remove Its Legacy IDE Driver Support
19 March
Initial Support For The Rust Language Lands In Linux-Next
Canonical Continues To Talk Up Google's Flutter UI Toolkit
GNOME 40 Release Candidate Arrives Ahead Of Next Week's Official Debut
AMDVLK 2021.Q1.6 Released With Radeon RX 6700 XT Support
Intel Tweaking Ice Lake Xeon Linux Power Management Code For Higher C6 Latency
RISC-V XIP Support Queued Ahead Of Linux 5.13 To "eXecute In Place"
FreeBSD: Sway Compositor Can Run While KDE Plasma On Wayland Is Still A Work-In-Progress
NZXT Kraken Liquid Cooler Driver Under Review For The Linux Kernel
Zink OpenGL-Over-Vulkan Still Has ~200 Patches To Land, More Performance Work
18 March
Radeon Software For Linux 20.50 Released With RX 6700 XT Support
Manjaro 21.0-RC1 Brings Linux 5.10 LTS, GNOME 3.38 / KDE Plasma 5.21
NVIDIA 460.67 Linux Driver Brings A Few Fixes, 5.11 Kernel Compatibility
Zen 3 GCC Tuning Continues With More Correct Latencies Rather Than "Random Numbers"
AMD AOCC 3.0 Is Here To Help Squeeze A Bit Extra Performance Out Of Zen 3
CIFSD In-Kernel SMB3 File-Sharing Server Lands In Linux-Next
AV1 Codec Library libaom 3.0-rc1 Released
Standalone XWayland Makes It For Ubuntu 21.04 Along With Linux 5.11, Mesa 21.0