17 April

Firefox Begins Rolling Out QUIC + HTTP/3 Support

12:00 AM EDT - Mozilla - Firefox 88 - Add A Comment

16 April

Mesa's Radeon "RADV" Vulkan Driver Makes First Steps Towards Ray-Tracing

06:26 PM EDT - Radeon - RADV Ray-Tracing First Step - 4 Comments

openSUSE Tumbleweed Now Offering GNOME 40

11:41 AM EDT - SUSE - GNOME 40 + OpenSUSE - 9 Comments

Devuan 4.0 Alpha Builds Begin For Debian 11 Without Systemd

09:10 AM EDT - Debian - Devuan 4 - 48 Comments

Intel Compute Runtime 21.15.19533 Released With Initial Level Zero 1.1 Support

08:45 AM EDT - Intel - Level Zero 1.1 - Add A Comment

GNU Assembly Launches As Collaborative Platform For GCC, Other Packages

06:30 AM EDT - GNU - GNU Assembly - 11 Comments

Mesa 21.2 Begins Seeing Intel Xe-HP Graphics Driver Changes

06:11 AM EDT - Intel - Intel Xe-HP Compiler Bits - Add A Comment

NVIDIA CUDA 11.3 Released - Previews Better Python Support

05:56 AM EDT - NVIDIA - CUDA 11.3 - Add A Comment

Patches Resubmitted For Linux With Selectable Intel Graphics Platform Support

03:00 AM EDT - Intel - Disable Old Cruft - Add A Comment

15 April

The 12 Most Interesting Changes Of Linux 5.12 - PS5, N64, Intel VRR, RDNA2 OverDrive

06:42 PM EDT - Linux Kernel - Linux 5.12 Features - 2 Comments

NVIDIA RTX 30 Series OpenCL / CUDA / OptiX Compute + Rendering Benchmarks

01:10 PM EDT - Graphics Cards - 12 Comments

LXQt 0.17 Released For This Lightweight Qt5 Desktop

08:04 AM EDT - Qt - LXQt 0.17 - 59 Comments

OpenZFS 2.1-rc3 Delivers More Fixes

06:39 AM EDT - Linux Storage - OpenZFS 2.1-rc3 - 8 Comments

Google Supports Getting Rust Into The Linux Kernel

06:12 AM EDT - Google - Rust The Kernel - 42 Comments

LLVM 12.0 Released With Alder Lake + Sapphire Rapids Support, More C++20

04:00 AM EDT - LLVM - LLVM 12.0 - 2 Comments

Hangover 0.6.5 Released For Running Windows Software On ARM64, POWER

03:00 AM EDT - WINE - Hangover 0.6.5 - 5 Comments

14 April

Metro Exodus Launches For Linux But Off To Bumpy Start

08:15 PM EDT - Linux Gaming - Metro Exodus - 36 Comments

Rust Support In The Linux Kernel Undergoing Another Round Of Discussions

06:29 PM EDT - Programming - Rust For Linux - 56 Comments

Chrome 90 Released With AV1 Encode, New APIs

06:00 PM EDT - Google - Google Chrome 90 - 5 Comments

Mesa 21.1-rc1 Released With RADV Optimizations, Faster Zink, Many Other New Features

04:43 PM EDT - Mesa - Mesa 21.1 - 5 Comments

The Linux Kernel & GNOME Desktop Preparing For Privacy Screen Support

01:11 PM EDT - Hardware - Linux + GNOME - 27 Comments

NVIDIA 465.24.02 Linux Driver Released As Stable

11:02 AM EDT - NVIDIA - NVIDIA 465.24.02 - 7 Comments

Windows 10 Rockets Ahead Of Ubuntu Linux On The Core i9 11900K For Some Workloads

09:00 AM EDT - Operating Systems - 45 Comments

Gigabyte Motherboard WMI Temperature Driver Queued Ahead Of Linux 5.13

07:16 AM EDT - Hardware - Gigabyte-WMI - 12 Comments

Mesa 21.1 Squeezes In Improvements For Direct3D 9 (Gallium Nine)

06:18 AM EDT - Mesa - Gallium Nine - 4 Comments

Mesa's Virgl Straps On A Simple Disk Cache

05:51 AM EDT - Mesa - Disk Cache - 4 Comments

Linux 5.13 To Allow For OpenBMC Development With A Lower-Cost ASRock Rack Motherboard

02:00 AM EDT - Hardware - Low-Cost Board Option - Add A Comment

13 April

FreeBSD 13.0 Brings Better Performance, LLVM Clang 11, Obsolete GNU Bits Removed

04:02 PM EDT - BSD - FreeBSD 13.0-RELEASE - 15 Comments

System76 Developing "COSMIC" Desktop Environment For Pop!_OS

03:29 PM EDT - Desktop - System76 COSMIC - 35 Comments

X.Org Server 1.20.11 Released Due To New Security Advisory

11:02 AM EDT - X.Org - xorg-server 1.20.11 - 34 Comments

SiFive Tapes Out Their First 5nm RISC-V Processor Core

09:25 AM EDT - RISC-V - RISC-V At TSMC 5nm - 34 Comments

Vulkan Video Arrives For New Industry-Standard Video Encode/Decode

09:00 AM EDT - Vulkan - Vulkan Video - 38 Comments

Multigenerational LRU Code Updated For Enhancing Linux Kernel Performance

08:44 AM EDT - Linux Kernel - Multigenerational LRU v2 - 4 Comments

Vulkan 1.2.175 Published With Many New Extensions

07:11 AM EDT - Vulkan - Vulkan 1.2.175 - 6 Comments

ROCm AOMP 13.0 Released For OpenMP Offloading To Radeon GPUs

06:41 AM EDT - Radeon - AOMP 13.0 - 5 Comments

Slackware 15 Beta Process Begins

05:49 AM EDT - Operating Systems - Slackware 15 - 28 Comments

Secret Memory Areas For Linux Might Finally Be Ready With memfd_secret

03:00 AM EDT - Linux Security - memfd_secret - 15 Comments

Arcan Presents "Pipeworld" Dataflow Computing Interface

12:00 AM EDT - Desktop - Pipeworld - 7 Comments

12 April

Google Talks Up Logica As Open-Source Programming Language For Data Manipulation

06:33 PM EDT - Programming - Logica - 13 Comments

NVIDIA Announces Grace CPU For ARM-Based AI/HPC Processor

12:43 PM EDT - NVIDIA - NVIDIA Grace CPU - 93 Comments

Radeon Vulkan Variable Rate Shading Benchmarks For Boosting RDNA2 Performance

11:26 AM EDT - Display Drivers - 22 Comments

KDE KWin Introducing Item-Based Scenes For Improved Wayland Support

08:02 AM EDT - KDE - Better KWin Wayland - 40 Comments

Intel DG1 Graphics Card Nears Working State On Linux

07:00 AM EDT - Intel - Intel DG1 Patches - 35 Comments

MSM DRM Driver Picks Up Initial Support For The Snapdragon SC7280

05:59 AM EDT - Hardware - SC7280 - Add A Comment

Intel Rocket Lake Target Added To GCC 11

05:44 AM EDT - Intel - -march=rocketlake - 2 Comments

11 April

Linux 5.12-rc7 Kernel Released - It's Big And Causing Some Concern

06:47 PM EDT - Linux Kernel - Linux-5.12 - 4 Comments

Linux 5.13 Will Stop Restricting CPU Power Metrics Access For AMD Energy Driver

12:53 PM EDT - AMD - Let Anyone Read It... - 9 Comments

Dynatron A38 Performance For Cooling 280 Watt AMD EPYC CPUs

08:37 AM EDT - Peripherals - 10 Comments

SiFive FU740 PCIe Support Queued Ahead Of Linux 5.13

06:05 AM EDT - RISC-V - FU740 PCI Express - 12 Comments

EXT4 With Linux 5.13 Looks Like It Will Support Casefolding With Encryption Enabled

05:48 AM EDT - Linux Storage - EXT4 Casefolding + Encryption - 5 Comments

10 April

LuxCoreRender 2.5 Open-Source PBR Renderer Released With NVIDIA OptiX/RTX Support

09:41 AM EDT - Free Software - LuxCoreRender 2.5 - Add A Comment

KDE Lands More Crash Fixes, Activities Feature Working On Wayland

06:00 AM EDT - KDE - KDE Wayland Improvements - 28 Comments

Radeon Vulkan Driver Adds Option Of Rendering Less For ~30% Greater Performance

12:00 AM EDT - Radeon - RADV Render Less - 39 Comments

9 April

Wine 6.6 Released With Better Plug & Play Driver Support

05:05 PM EDT - WINE - Wine 6.6 - 33 Comments

X.Org Server Git Lands Support For Hardware-Accelerated XWayland With NVIDIA

11:24 AM EDT - NVIDIA - xorg-server - 42 Comments

AMD EPYC 7003 Series Working Out Well With The Supermicro H12SSL-i

11:07 AM EDT - Motherboards - 8 Comments

Fedora 34 Adding SEVCTL Utility For Managing AMD SEV

09:10 AM EDT - Fedora - AMD Secure Encrypted Virtualization - Add A Comment

HPVM 1.0 Released As LLVM-Based Compiler For CPUs / GPUs / FPGAs / Accelerators

05:57 AM EDT - LLVM - HPVM 1.0 - 3 Comments

FFmpeg 4.4 Released With AV1 VA-API Decoder, SVT-AV1 Encoding

05:42 AM EDT - Multimedia - FFmpeg 4.4 - 34 Comments

Linux 5.13 Poised To Allow Randomizing Kernel Stack Offset At Each System Call

03:00 AM EDT - Linux Security - Harder Attacks - 5 Comments

AMD ROCm 4.1.1 Released To Clarify Some HIP Bits

12:00 AM EDT - Radeon - Radeon Open eCosystem 4.1.1 - 5 Comments

8 April

Google's VirtIO-GPU "Venus" Vulkan Driver Merged Into Mesa 21.1

06:38 PM EDT - Mesa - Venus Vulkan - 14 Comments

Initial Apple M1 SoC Support Aims For Linux 5.13 Kernel

01:08 PM EDT - Hardware - Apple M1 For Linux 5.13 - 40 Comments

Xen 4.15 Hypervisor Brings Live Updates To Xenstored

12:55 PM EDT - Virtualization - Xen 4.15 - 1 Comment

GnuPG 2.3 Released With New Experimental Key Database Daemon, TPM 2.0 Daemon

10:55 AM EDT - GNU - GnuPG 2.3 - 9 Comments

GCC 10.3 Compiler Released With AMD Zen 3 Tuning Backported, Nearly 200 Bug Fixes

09:39 AM EDT - GNU - GCC 10.3 - 3 Comments

AMD Finally Flipping On ASPM For Navi 1x To Lower Power Consumption

06:36 AM EDT - Radeon - Navi 1x ASPM - 15 Comments

Fedora 35 Looking To Make Use Of Debuginfod By Default

05:54 AM EDT - Fedora - F35 Debuginfod - 18 Comments

XScreenSaver 6.0 Released With Increased Security, Better EGL & GLSL/GLES 3.0 Support

05:39 AM EDT - Desktop - XScreenSaver 6.0 - 41 Comments

Reiser4 Ported Early To The Linux 5.12 Kernel

03:00 AM EDT - Linux Storage - Reiser4 + Linux 5.12 - 20 Comments

LLVM 12.0 Delays Drag On With RC5 Now Shipping

12:00 AM EDT - LLVM - LLVM 12.0-rc5 - 5 Comments

7 April

OpenZFS 2.1.0-rc2 Released With Bug Fixes

08:20 PM EDT - Linux Storage - OpenZFS 2.1 - Add A Comment

Mesa 21.1's Lavapipe Now Teases Vulkan 1.1 On CPUs

06:12 PM EDT - Mesa - Vulkan 1.1 CPU-Based Vulkan - Add A Comment

Sway 1.6 Wayland Compositor Released With Smoother Move/Resize

05:18 PM EDT - Wayland - Sway 1.6 - 2 Comments

Mesa 21.0.2 Released With Lavapipe Fixes, Improved AMD L3 Cache Calculation

01:43 PM EDT - Mesa - Mesa 21.0.2 - 9 Comments

AVX / AVX2 / AVX-512 Performance + Power On Intel Rocket Lake

10:45 AM EDT - Software - 59 Comments

Google Begins Allowing Rust Code For Developing Android

08:11 AM EDT - Google - Rust For Android - 48 Comments

AMDVLK 2021.Q2.1 Finally Adds Navi 12 Support

07:29 AM EDT - Radeon - AMDVLK 2021.Q2.1 - 25 Comments

Wayland Is Driving Fragmentation Around EDID Parsing - A Call To Fix That

07:08 AM EDT - Wayland - EDID - 58 Comments

VirtIO Bluetooth Driver On The Way To The Linux Kernel

05:46 AM EDT - Virtualization - VirtIO Bluetooth - 10 Comments

Running Steam's Linux Build On FreeBSD Is Becoming Increasingly Capable For Gaming

12:00 AM EDT - BSD - Steam On Linux On FreeBSD - 9 Comments

6 April

Google Posts Initial Code For Lyra Speech Codec

08:16 PM EDT - Multimedia - Lyra Open-Source - 24 Comments

AMD Sends Out Linux Kernel Patches To Allow Disabling Predictive Store Forwarding (PSF)

12:43 PM EDT - AMD - PSF Mitigation - 1 Comment

Intel Launches 3rd Gen Xeon Scalable "Ice Lake" CPUs With Up To 40 Cores

11:00 AM EDT - Processors - 48 Comments

Linux 5.13 - Another Step In Prepping Intel Discrete Graphics, Preferring Local Memory

10:21 AM EDT - Intel - Dedicated vRAM - 3 Comments

GCC 11 Lands A Last Minute Optimization For Intel Skylake

09:15 AM EDT - Intel - GCC 11 Skylake Optimization - Add A Comment

WMI Linux Temperature Driver Being Worked On For Gigabyte Motherboards

07:24 AM EDT - Hardware - Gigabyte-WMI - 19 Comments

KDE Now Maintaining Their Own Set of Patches For Qt 5

06:07 AM EDT - KDE - Qt 5 Patch Collection - 143 Comments

Libinput X.Org Driver 1.0 Released Following A License Mixup

05:51 AM EDT - X.Org - xf86-input-libinput 1.0 - 1 Comment

PulseAudio 15 Lands mSBC Codec Support To Enable Bluetooth Wideband Speech

03:30 AM EDT - Multimedia - PulseAudio msBC - 49 Comments

Linux Finally Has A Tool For Encryption Setup With Older Logitech Wireless Keyboards

12:00 AM EDT - Hardware - Logitech 27MHz RF Keyboards - 4 Comments

5 April

VirtIO-GPU Vulkan Driver Looks To Go Upstream In Mesa

01:46 PM EDT - Mesa - VirtIO-GPU Vulkan - 32 Comments

AMD Instinct MI100 "Arcturus" Bits Added To Linux-Firmware.Git

01:00 PM EDT - Radeon - Arcturus Firmware - 1 Comment

Two Decade Old RTS Game Rolls Out v4.0 Update With Vulkan Renderer

12:18 PM EDT - Linux Gaming - Warzone 2100 v4.0 - 4 Comments

CentOS Hyperscale SIG Backported Newer Systemd, Preps For Experimental Repo

10:50 AM EDT - Operating Systems - Hyperscale For Q1-2021 - 1 Comment

Mesa 21.1 RADV Adds Another Performance Knob For RDNA2 Testing

07:24 AM EDT - Mesa - DCC For Storage Images - 2 Comments

The Current State Of The Intel "Crocus" Gallium3D Driver

06:16 AM EDT - Intel - Gallium3D For Old Intel - 24 Comments

The Linux Kernel Continues Crafting A WWAN Subsystem

06:12 AM EDT - Linux Networking - Linux WWAN - 3 Comments

4 April

Linux 5.12-rc6 Released - A "Positively Tiny" Easter Kernel

06:16 PM EDT - Linux Kernel - Linux 5.12-rc6 - 4 Comments

Benchmarking AMD Zen 3 With Predictive Store Forwarding Disabled

12:19 PM EDT - Software - 22 Comments

Arch Linux's Install Media Adds "Archinstall" For Quick/Easy Installations

07:09 AM EDT - Operating Systems - Archinstall - 94 Comments

PHP 8.1 Feature Work Includes Adding Enums, Fsync Function

06:06 AM EDT - Programming - PHP 8.1 - 10 Comments

Ubuntu 21.04 Testing Week Continues For Taming The Hirsute Hippo

12:00 AM EDT - Ubuntu - Ubuntu 21.04 - 6 Comments

3 April

FreeBSD 13.0-RC5 Released Due To Lingering Bugs

12:13 PM EDT - BSD - FreeBSD 13.0 - 10 Comments

READFILE System Call Rebased For More Efficient Reading Of Small Files

08:34 AM EDT - Linux Storage - READFILE - 51 Comments

KDE Starts April By Landing KHamburgerMenu

06:06 AM EDT - KDE - KDE Hamburgers - 55 Comments

OBS Studio 27.0-rc1 Released With Wayland Support, Undo/Redo

05:29 AM EDT - Multimedia - OBS Studio 27.0-rc1 - 7 Comments

Intel oneDNN 2.2 Released With More Optimizations For Alder Lake, Sapphire Rapids

12:00 AM EDT - Intel - oneDNN 2.2 - Add A Comment

2 April

AMD Publishes Security Analysis Of Zen 3 "PSF" That Could Possibly Lead To A Side-Channel Attack

06:01 PM EDT - AMD - Predictive Store Forwarding - 22 Comments

Spectre Mitigation Performance Impact For Intel's Rocket Lake

08:36 AM EDT - Software - 15 Comments

VCN Load Balancing, LTTPR, More Aldebaran + Other Changes For Radeon In Linux 5.13

05:45 AM EDT - Radeon - Linux 5.13 AMDGPU - Add A Comment

GCC 10.3 Release Candidate Arrives For Testing

05:41 AM EDT - GNU - GCC 10.3 - Add A Comment

Zink Lands Threaded Context Support For A Big Speed Boost With OpenGL Over Vulkan

01:00 AM EDT - Mesa - Zink Threaded Context - 35 Comments

Steam On Linux Ends Q1'2021 Still Below 1% Marketshare

12:00 AM EDT - Valve - March 2021 Numbers - 42 Comments

1 April

Ubuntu 21.04 Beta Released For This Linux 5.11 Powered Update With Wayland By Default

04:57 PM EDT - Ubuntu - Ubuntu 21.04 Beta - 44 Comments

Proton 6.3-1 Released With More Windows Games Now Running On Linux / Steam Play

04:10 PM EDT - Valve - Proton 6.3-1 - 23 Comments

Intel's Vulkan Driver Adds Conservative Rasterization - Helps DXVK/VKD3D For Linux Gaming

12:09 PM EDT - Intel - VK_EXT_conservative_rasterization - 2 Comments

Intel Graphics Compiler 1.0.6748 Released With CM-CL Library

09:08 AM EDT - Intel - Intel IGC 1.0.6748 - 2 Comments

AMD Zen 3 Tuning Backported To The GCC 10 Compiler

07:25 AM EDT - AMD - Znver3 + GCC 10 - 7 Comments

Intel Wraps Up Linux 5.13 Graphics Driver Development By Preparing For Future Hardware

05:47 AM EDT - Intel - drm-intel-next - Add A Comment

LLVM 12.0-rc4 Released For Squaring Up This Open-Source Compiler

05:23 AM EDT - LLVM - LLVM 12.0 - 5 Comments

Linux 5.12 Corruption, GNOME 40, AMD Milan, Rust In Linux-Next Made For An Exciting March

02:00 AM EDT - Phoronix - March 2021 Highlights - Add A Comment

RPM 4.17 Planned For Fedora 35 With Better Install Failure Handling, Lua Integration

12:00 AM EDT - Fedora - RPM 4.17 + Fedora 35 - 26 Comments

31 March

Oracle Releases UEK R6U2 Kernel With New Slab Memory Controller

06:45 PM EDT - Oracle - Unbreakable Enterprise Kernel - 5 Comments

GIMP 2.10.24 Released For This Open-Source Adobe Photoshop Alternative

05:02 PM EDT - Free Software - GIMP 2.10.24 - 27 Comments

Initial Benchmarks Of Fedora Workstation 34 Beta On AMD Ryzen + Radeon

03:00 PM EDT - Operating Systems - 23 Comments

Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.4 Beta Released With New Features, Improvements

12:38 PM EDT - Red Hat - RHEL 8.4 - 10 Comments

Canonical Releases "Ubuntu on Windows Community Preview"

12:00 PM EDT - Ubuntu - Ubuntu on Windows Preview - 81 Comments

AlmaLinux Now Available For Download As RHEL/CentOS Alternative

10:25 AM EDT - Operating Systems - Alma Linux - 21 Comments

Qt 6.0.3 Released With Another ~40 Bug Fixes

08:23 AM EDT - Qt - Qt 6.0.3 - 4 Comments

More Intel Core i5 11600K, Core i9 11900K Benchmarks

06:35 AM EDT - Intel - Rocket Lake Benchmarks - 4 Comments

GNOME 41 To Introduce Libadwaita For Helping To Define GNOME Apps

06:00 AM EDT - GNOME - Libadwaita - 35 Comments

OBS Studio Now Ready With Wayland Capture Support

05:34 AM EDT - Wayland - OBS Studio + Wayland - 35 Comments

"PKRAM" Revived For Preserving Memory Pages Across Kexec'ing Kernels

02:30 AM EDT - Oracle - PKRAM - Add A Comment

12:00 AM EDT - AMD - AMD Linux - Add A Comment

30 March

Systemd 248 Released With System Extension Images Feature, More TPM2/FIDO2 Integration

05:30 PM EDT - systemd - systemd 248 - 18 Comments

GTK 4.2 Released With NGL Renderer By Default

03:52 PM EDT - GNOME - GTK 4.2 - 26 Comments

Arm Announces ARMv9 Architecture With SVE2

03:17 PM EDT - Arm - ARMv9 - 71 Comments

NVIDIA Now Allows GeForce GPU Pass-Through For Windows VMs On Linux

11:28 AM EDT - NVIDIA - GeForce Virtualization - 56 Comments

Intel Core i5 11600K + Core i9 11900K Linux Performance Across ~400 Benchmarks

09:00 AM EDT - Processors - 44 Comments

NVIDIA 465.19.01 Linux Beta Driver Released

09:00 AM EDT - NVIDIA - NVIDIA 465.19.01 - 11 Comments

Intel's Bus Lock Detection Might Be Ready For The Mainline Linux Kernel

07:05 AM EDT - Intel - Bus Lock Detection - 1 Comment

Linux 5.13 To Enable The Keyboard/Touchpad Of Newer Microsoft Surface Laptops

06:10 AM EDT - Microsoft - Working Keyboard! - Add A Comment

Intel IGC Network Driver Queues XDP Support For Linux 5.13

05:49 AM EDT - Intel - Intel IGG + XDP - 1 Comment

OpenZFS 2.1-rc1 Released With Distributed Spare RAID "dRAID"

12:00 AM EDT - Linux Storage - OpenZFS 2.1-rc1 - 3 Comments

29 March

FreeBSD 13.0-RC4 Released With POWER Fixes, Other Bugs Addressed

08:22 PM EDT - BSD - FreeBSD 13.0-RC4 - 8 Comments

The Most Exciting Open-Source Graphics Driver News From Q1'2021

06:12 PM EDT - Mesa - Mesa Q1 - 2 Comments

NVIDIA Proposes Mesa Patches To Support Alternative GBM Back-Ends

02:26 PM EDT - NVIDIA - NVIDIA + GBM - 44 Comments

Linux Driver Published For FSP/3Y-Power Server PSUs

11:03 AM EDT - Hardware - FSP 3Y-Power - 1 Comment

Intel's Clear Linux In 2021 Still Squeezing More Performance For Xeon Scalable

07:14 AM EDT - Operating Systems - 9 Comments

PHP's Git Server Compromised, Now Switching To GitHub

06:56 AM EDT - Programming - PHP Git - 66 Comments

28 March

Linux 5.12-rc5 Released - It's Bigger Than Average

08:20 PM EDT - Linux Kernel - Linux 5.12-rc5 - 12 Comments

Flax Engine 1.1 Released For This Impressive Open-Source 3D Game Engine

05:46 PM EDT - Linux Gaming - Flax Engine - 60 Comments

Many New/Updated Benchmarks For March With New SDR/Radio Tests, More Code Compilation

12:54 PM EDT - Phoronix Test Suite - Benchmarks - 1 Comment

Box86 Continues Quest For Running x86 Linux Programs On ARM, Other Archs

06:03 AM EDT - Free Software - Box86 - 11 Comments

Wine-Staging 6.5 Comes In A Bit Lighter Thanks To Upstreaming Many Patches

05:43 AM EDT - WINE - Wine-Staging 6.5 - Add A Comment

Mesa Considers Raising CPU Support Baseline

12:00 AM EDT - Mesa - SSE2 Or Better? - 99 Comments

27 March

Debian 10.9 Released With FWUPD SBAT Support, Bug Fixes

10:49 AM EDT - Debian - Debian 10.9 - 16 Comments

The Linux Kernel Might Finally See Proper Support For The Apple Magic Mouse 2

09:28 AM EDT - Hardware - Magic Mouse 2 - 13 Comments

Arm Neoverse V1 Tuning Lands In GCC 11 Compiler

08:19 AM EDT - Arm - Neoverse V1 - 1 Comment

X.Org Reins In Their Cloud Costs, Switches Public Clouds

06:11 AM EDT - X.Org - Bye Google - 22 Comments

KDE Introduces "Quick Settings" Page, Lands More Wayland Fixes

05:58 AM EDT - KDE - KDE Improvements - 20 Comments

Loongson 2K1000 Support Queued Ahead Of Linux 5.13

03:30 AM EDT - Hardware - Loongson-2K1000 - 10 Comments

Intel's Cloud-Hypervisor 0.14 Brings Improvements For MSHV, AArch64

12:00 AM EDT - Virtualization - Cloud-Hypervisor 0.14 - Add A Comment

26 March

Wine 6.5 Released With OpenCL 1.2 Support

05:45 PM EDT - WINE - Wine 6.5 - 2 Comments

NZXT Kraken Driver Queued For Introduction In Linux 5.13

03:53 PM EDT - Hardware - NZXT Kraken - 3 Comments

Samsung 980 NVMe SSD Linux Performance

12:09 PM EDT - Storage - 39 Comments

Linux 5.13 To Fix Its Handling Of Unused ACPI Power Resources

09:25 AM EDT - Hardware - Unused Power Resources - 14 Comments

Another Intel Gen12 Performance Optimization Coming For Mesa's Vulkan Driver

06:39 AM EDT - Intel - Reduce Tile + Data Cache Flushes - Add A Comment

Linux 5.13 To Bring A Huge Speed-Up For MD RAID10 DISCARD Handling

06:05 AM EDT - Linux Storage - MD RAID 10 - Faster Discard - 2 Comments

Lavapipe CPU-Based Vulkan Performance Looking Good Compared To SwiftShader

05:46 AM EDT - Mesa - Lavapipe vs. SwiftShader - 15 Comments

Mesa's Intel Vulkan Driver Introduces A Null Hardware Layer

01:00 AM EDT - Mesa - Null - 10 Comments

25 March

Total War: Rome Remastered + Metro Exodus Coming To Linux In April

08:12 PM EDT - Linux Gaming - Native Linux Games - 27 Comments

QEMU 6.0 On The Way With LTO Support, AMD SEV-ES Guests, Multi-Process Experiment

04:12 PM EDT - Virtualization - QEMU 6.0 - 11 Comments

AMD AOCC 3.0 Compiler Performance With The EPYC 75F3 - Making Fast Even Faster

12:30 PM EDT - Software - 2 Comments

PanVK Started For Open-Source Vulkan On Arm Mali GPUs

11:16 AM EDT - Mesa - PanVK Vulkan Driver - 1 Comment

Intel GNA Linux Driver Updated For Accelerating Speech Recognition, Noise Reduction

09:18 AM EDT - Intel - Intel GNA - 2 Comments

Linux Core Scheduling Nears The Finish Line To Avoid Flipping Off HT

08:44 AM EDT - Linux Security - Core Scheduling - 23 Comments

Generic USB Display Driver "GUD" Slated For Linux 5.13

07:09 AM EDT - Hardware - GUD For Linux 5.13 - 9 Comments

Mesa 21.1 Wires Up Lima Shader Disk Cache

06:08 AM EDT - Mesa - Lima Shader Cache - 1 Comment

New AMD Zen 3 Fixes Published For The GCC 11 Compiler

05:51 AM EDT - AMD - Znver3 Fixes - 17 Comments

24 March

Mesa 21.0.1 Released, 20.3.5 Issued To Close Out The Older Series

08:18 PM EDT - Mesa - Mesa 21.0.1 - 13 Comments

NVIDIA's Open-Source DALI Reaches Version 1.0

06:30 PM EDT - NVIDIA - NVIDIA DALI 1.0 - 4 Comments

Intel's VA-API Library LibVA 2.11 Released With Support For Protected Content

03:55 PM EDT - Multimedia - libva 2.11 - 4 Comments

AMD Sends Out New Linux Code For SEV-SNP With EPYC 7003 Series

01:50 PM EDT - AMD - AMD SEV-SNP - 1 Comment

AMD Is Trying To Optimize Their Gallium3D Driver Even Further With Lower Overhead

01:00 PM EDT - Radeon - Less CPU Overhead - 10 Comments

GNOME 40 Released With Many Improvements

11:25 AM EDT - GNOME - GNOME 40 - 114 Comments

AMD Releases Radeon Pro Software for Enterprise 21.Q1 for Linux

10:48 AM EDT - Radeon - Radeon Pro Software for Enterprise 21.Q1 - 7 Comments

Crocus: Working On Gallium3D For Old Intel Graphics

08:16 AM EDT - Intel - Crocus - 40 Comments

AOMedia libaom AV1 3.0 Encoder Released With Better Compression Efficiency

07:11 AM EDT - Multimedia - AOMedia 3.0 - 8 Comments

Microsoft Surface "DTX" Driver Slated For Linux 5.13

03:30 AM EDT - Microsoft - Microsoft Surface DTX - 1 Comment

Linux Kernel Patches Sent Out For A More Powerful Virtual M68k Machine

12:00 AM EDT - Virtualization - Virtual M68k Machine - 3 Comments

23 March

Radeon ROCm 4.1 Released - Still Without RDNA GPU Support

08:50 PM EDT - Radeon - ROCm 4.1 - 57 Comments

Plan 9 Copyright Transferred To Foundation, MIT Licensed Code Released

06:27 PM EDT - Operating Systems - Plan 9 - 19 Comments

Intel Provides Update On 7nm, New US Fabs, "Intel On" Event

05:28 PM EDT - Intel - Intel Update - 41 Comments

Manjaro 21.0 Released With Linux 5.10 Kernel, GNOME 3.38 + Xfce 4.16 + KDE Plasma 5.21

04:22 PM EDT - Operating Systems - Manjaro 21.0 - 3 Comments

Xfce 4.18 Planning Begins With An Eye On Wayland Application Support

01:00 PM EDT - Desktop - Xfce 4.18 - 34 Comments

Firefox 87 Released With Privacy Improvements But Backs Out AVIF

11:21 AM EDT - Mozilla - Firefox 87 - 33 Comments

V3DV Pipeline Caching Work Leads To Greater Raspberry Pi Vulkan Performance

11:09 AM EDT - Mesa - V3DV - 1 Comment

Fedora 34 Beta Released With PipeWire In Action, GNOME 40 Desktop

10:50 AM EDT - Fedora - Fedora 34 - 42 Comments

AMD Sends Out Latest Patches For HMM-Based SVM Memory Manager

09:11 AM EDT - Radeon - HMM Shared Virtual Memory - 9 Comments

Linux Kernel's Preliminary Rust Code Seeing 64-bit POWER Support

06:54 AM EDT - Linux Kernel - PPC64LE Kernel Rust - 39 Comments

Ubuntu Figuring Out Whether To FSCK Its File-Systems At Boot

06:13 AM EDT - Ubuntu - Ubuntu FSCK - 27 Comments

Shells.com Continues Work On Supporting More Linux Distros For This "Cloud Desktop"

04:28 AM EDT - Desktop - Shells - 7 Comments

Mesa 21.1 Will Aim To Be Out By Mid-May

03:13 AM EDT - Mesa - Mesa 21.1 - 6 Comments

22 March

Proposal Raised For Dropping Mesa's Classic OpenGL Drivers From Mainline This Year

06:54 PM EDT - Mesa - Mesa Classic - 47 Comments

AMD Prepares USB-C Linux Driver Support For Radeon Graphics Cards

04:49 PM EDT - Radeon - AMD Radeon USB-C Driver - 21 Comments

IBM Lands Last Minute POWER10 Updates Into GCC 11 Compiler

01:12 PM EDT - GNU - Scheduling Description - 5 Comments

OpenPOWER Microwatt To See Chip Fabrication Thanks To Google + Skywater

11:22 AM EDT - Hardware - OpenPOWER Microwatt - 7 Comments

The Linux Foundation Wants To Help Water Farms From The Cloud

09:39 AM EDT - Free Software - Liquid Prep - 8 Comments

Intel Announces Launch Date For 3rd Gen Xeon Scalable "Ice Lake"

08:40 AM EDT - Intel - Ice Lake Xeon - 15 Comments

Radeon RX 6700 XT "Navy Flounder" Microcode Lands In Linux-Firmware.Git

08:30 AM EDT - Radeon - Ready To Go - 5 Comments

Better Support For Thrustmaster Steering Wheels Is Driving To The Linux Kernel

06:28 AM EDT - Hardware - Thrustmaster Wheels - 12 Comments

Vulkan 1.2.173 Comes With New Extensions For Google's Fuchsia

05:48 AM EDT - Vulkan - Vulkan 1.2.173 - Add A Comment

FreeCAD 0.19 Released For Advancing Open-Source CAD Software

12:00 AM EDT - Free Software - FreeCAD 0.19 - 10 Comments

21 March

Linux 5.12-rc4 Released - The 5.12 Kernel Is Still Looking Good

06:41 PM EDT - Linux Kernel - Linux 5.12 - 2 Comments

OpenRazer 3.0 Released For Supporting Many More Razer Peripherals Under Linux

01:41 PM EDT - Hardware - OpenRazer 3.0 - 12 Comments

Months After Being Deprecated, Linux Ready To Say Goodbye To WiMAX

09:15 AM EDT - Linux Networking - No More WiMAX - 13 Comments

Linux 5.13 To Address Some Networking Overhead Caused By Retpolines

08:47 AM EDT - Linux Networking - Return Trampolines - 3 Comments

OpenSUSE Tumbleweed's Very Busy Week With An Entire Rebuild, Latest KDE Packages

08:07 AM EDT - SUSE - openSUSE Tumbleweed - 9 Comments

Patches Proposed So Microsoft Debuggers Can Deal With GCC-Built MinGW Executables

06:13 AM EDT - GNU - PE-Specific CodeView Format - 24 Comments

Qt 6.1 Beta 2 Released, Qt-Project.org Called For Revival

12:00 AM EDT - Qt - Qt 6.1 - 32 Comments

20 March

FreeBSD 13.0-RC3 Released With The WireGuard Driver Removed

01:13 PM EDT - BSD - FreeBSD 13.0-RC3 - 33 Comments

Ubuntu 21.04 Moves Ahead With Enabling LTO Optimizations For Greater Performance

08:46 AM EDT - Ubuntu - Ubuntu 21.04 - 17 Comments

AMD Sends In Aldebaran, FreeSync HDMI, Other Graphics Changes For Linux 5.13

07:22 AM EDT - Radeon - Linux 5.13 AMDGPU - 14 Comments

Debian 11.0 Is Now Under A Hard Freeze

06:39 AM EDT - Debian - Debian 11 Bullseye - 12 Comments

KDE Saw More Wayland Fixes This Week, Other Changes

05:55 AM EDT - KDE - KDE Changes - 58 Comments

Linux Looks To Finally Remove Its Legacy IDE Driver Support

12:00 AM EDT - Linux Storage - While Keeping Libata - 24 Comments

19 March

Initial Support For The Rust Language Lands In Linux-Next

12:40 PM EDT - Linux Kernel - Rust + Linux-Next - 63 Comments

Canonical Continues To Talk Up Google's Flutter UI Toolkit

11:37 AM EDT - Ubuntu - Canonical Loves Flutter - 91 Comments

GNOME 40 Release Candidate Arrives Ahead Of Next Week's Official Debut

09:52 AM EDT - GNOME - GNOME 40.rc - 28 Comments

AMDVLK 2021.Q1.6 Released With Radeon RX 6700 XT Support

09:21 AM EDT - Radeon - Navi 22 - 5 Comments

Intel Tweaking Ice Lake Xeon Linux Power Management Code For Higher C6 Latency

08:16 AM EDT - Intel - Ice Lake Xeon - Add A Comment

RISC-V XIP Support Queued Ahead Of Linux 5.13 To "eXecute In Place"

06:28 AM EDT - RISC-V - RISC-V XIP - 1 Comment

FreeBSD: Sway Compositor Can Run While KDE Plasma On Wayland Is Still A Work-In-Progress

05:48 AM EDT - BSD - FreeBSD + Wayland - 40 Comments

NZXT Kraken Liquid Cooler Driver Under Review For The Linux Kernel

03:40 AM EDT - Hardware - NZXT-Kraken2 - 5 Comments

Zink OpenGL-Over-Vulkan Still Has ~200 Patches To Land, More Performance Work

01:00 AM EDT - Mesa - Zink Status - 3 Comments

18 March

Radeon Software For Linux 20.50 Released With RX 6700 XT Support

08:16 PM EDT - Radeon - Radeon RX 6700 XT - 24 Comments

Manjaro 21.0-RC1 Brings Linux 5.10 LTS, GNOME 3.38 / KDE Plasma 5.21

05:35 PM EDT - Operating Systems - Manjaro 21.0-RC1 - 5 Comments

NVIDIA 460.67 Linux Driver Brings A Few Fixes, 5.11 Kernel Compatibility

01:45 PM EDT - NVIDIA - NVIDIA 460.67 Linux - 32 Comments

Zen 3 GCC Tuning Continues With More Correct Latencies Rather Than "Random Numbers"