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| Imagination PowerVR Open-Source GPU Driver To Be Introduced In Linux 6.8 | Linux Kernel | 2023-11-23 |
| Louvre Is A New C++ Library Helping To Build Wayland Compositors | Wayland | 2023-11-17 |
| GTK 4.14 Adding Graphics Offloading Capabilities Under Wayland | GNOME | 2023-11-15 |
| COSMIC Desktop Rolls Out Lock/Login Screen, More Wayland Protocols | Desktop | 2023-10-20 |
| AMD Posts Linux Patches For Better Graphics/Compute Interoperability & Other Benefits | AMD | 2023-10-17 |
| PipeWire 0.3.80 Released With Vulkan DMA-BUF Support, Tag Param | PipeWire | 2023-09-14 |
| AMD Readies "New Stuff" For Linux 6.6 Graphics Driver, AMDGPU DC For RISC-V | Radeon | 2023-07-28 |
| MPV Player 0.36 Released With Wayland Fractional Scaling, Vulkan Video Decode | Multimedia | 2023-07-23 |
| Open-Source Graphics Driver Updates Begin Queuing For Linux 6.6 | Linux Kernel | 2023-07-13 |
| Intel Compute Runtime 23.22.26516.18 Is A Big Update With New Level Zero APIs | Intel | 2023-07-13 |
| Mozilla Firefox 116 To Allow For Wayland-Only Builds | Mozilla | 2023-06-26 |
| Linux 6.4 Bringing Great Improvements From AMD G.A.M. To Early Apple M2 Code, More Rust | Linux Kernel | 2023-06-24 |
| NVIDIA 535.54.03 Linux Driver Released With Vulkan Updates, DMA-BUF v4 Wayland Protocol | NVIDIA | 2023-06-14 |
| Imagination PowerVR DRM Open-Source Driver Continues To Be Improved Upon | Linux Kernel | 2023-06-14 |
| NVIDIA R535 Linux Beta Brings New Vulkan Extensions, DMA-BUF v4 Wayland Protocol | NVIDIA | 2023-05-30 |
| Linux 6.4 Kernel Graphics Drivers Include More Meteor Lake Code, Rockchip 4K, QAIC | Linux Kernel | 2023-04-24 |
| An Early Look At Linux 6.4 Features: AMD CDX, AMD GAM, Intel LAM, Apple M2 & More | Linux Kernel | 2023-04-14 |
| WebKitGTK Working On Accelerated Composited Rendering With DMA-BUF | GNOME | 2023-04-03 |
| Linux 6.4 Preparing DRM Deadline Hints To Help Influence GPU Frequency/Performance | Linux Kernel | 2023-03-26 |
| XWayland 23.1 Released With High Resolution Scroll Wheel, DMA-BUF v4 Feedback | Wayland | 2023-03-22 |
| Linux 6.4 AMD Graphics Driver Picking Up New Power Features For The Steam Deck | Radeon | 2023-03-18 |
| XWayland 23.1 Aims For Release In March With New Features | Wayland | 2023-02-14 |
| MPV Player 0.35.1 Released With Wayland & PipeWire Fixes | Multimedia | 2023-01-28 |
| Intel Habana Labs AI Driver Moving To New "Accel" Subsystem For Linux 6.3 | Intel | 2023-01-27 |
| NVIDIA Contributes linux_dmabuf v4 Feedback Support To XWayland | X.Org | 2023-01-21 |
| Wine's Wayland Driver Is Becoming Mature, May Aim For Upstreaming Early Next Year | WINE | 2022-12-12 |
| Intel VPU Driver Adapted To Linux's New Accelerator Framework | Intel | 2022-12-08 |
| MPV 0.35 Media Player Released With PipeWire Backend, Wayland DMA-BUF Support | Multimedia | 2022-11-12 |
| Mesa Lands DMA-BUF Feedback Support For Vulkan On Wayland | Mesa | 2022-10-22 |
| More DRM-Misc-Next Driver Changes Queue Up For Linux 6.1 | Linux Kernel | 2022-09-06 |
| ASpeed DRM Driver Adding DMA-BUF/PRIME Sharing For Use With Servers Having dGPUs | Linux Kernel | 2022-08-29 |
| Imagination PowerVR Rogue DRM Linux Kernel Driver Out For Review | Linux Kernel | 2022-08-23 |
| Linux 6.0 Graphics Driver Changes Preparing For Intel DG2/Alchemist & AMD RDNA3 | Linux Kernel | 2022-08-03 |
| Firefox 103 Better Handles High Refresh Displays, WebGL Performance Fix On NVIDIA Driver | Mozilla | 2022-07-26 |
| WayVNC 0.5 VNC Server For wlroots-Based Wayland Compositors Released | Wayland | 2022-07-10 |
| Linux 5.19 Advances In Quest To Improve Explicit Synchronization For Graphics | Linux Kernel | 2022-06-10 |
| NVIDIA's List Of Known Wayland Issues From SLI To VDPAU, VR & More | NVIDIA | 2022-05-22 |
| VP9 Encoder & Other Media Functionality Of Tesla's FSD Chip To Be Upstreamed In Linux | Hardware | 2022-05-17 |
| GNOME 42 Released With Many Improvements From Wayland To GTK4 Porting | GNOME | 2022-03-23 |
| Mesa 22.0 Released With Vulkan 1.3, Many Open-Source Intel & AMD Driver Improvements | Mesa | 2022-03-09 |
| GNOME Shell & Mutter Prepare For GNOME 42 Beta With More Desktop Enhancements | GNOME | 2022-02-14 |
| GNOME Shell 42 Lands Redesigned OSD Notifications | GNOME | 2022-02-12 |
| Mesa 22.0-rc1 Released With Many Radeon & Intel Linux GPU Driver Features, Vulkan 1.3 | Mesa | 2022-02-02 |
| Wayland's Weston 10.0 Compositor Released With DMA-BUF Feedback, Libseat Support | Wayland | 2022-02-01 |
| Sway 1.7 Released With VR Headset DRM Leasing, Renames "--my-next-gpu-wont-be-nvidia" | Wayland | 2022-01-23 |
| GNOME Shell & Mutter Prepare For GNOME 42 Alpha With Exciting Improvements | GNOME | 2022-01-12 |
| GNOME On Wayland Lands Improved Handling For Direct Scanout Support | GNOME | 2022-01-08 |
| GNOME 42 Lands DMA-BUF Feedback Support For Better Multi-GPU, Proper Direct Scanout | GNOME | 2022-01-05 |
| Happy New Year & A Wrap On 2021 | Phoronix | 2021-12-31 |
| Mesa 22.0 Zink Lands macOS Build Fix For OpenGL On Vulkan Via MoltenVK On Metal | Mesa | 2021-12-29 |
| Sway 1.7-rc1 Has Better Zero-Copy Direct Scanout, Drops "--my-next-gpu-wont-be-nvidia" | Wayland | 2021-12-23 |
| NVIDIA NVDEC Video Decode Support Sent Out For Linux 5.17, Better Power Management | NVIDIA | 2021-12-17 |
| Wayland's Weston 10 Alpha Brings Early Color Management Work, More Zero-Copy Scanout | Wayland | 2021-12-14 |
| DMA-BUF Feedback Support For Wayland Lands In Mesa 22.0's EGL Code | Mesa | 2021-11-27 |
| Wayland Protocols 1.24 Released With Improvement To DMA-BUF Protocol For Multi-GPUs | Wayland | 2021-11-23 |
| Intel's Habana Labs Continues Improving Their AI Accelerator Driver Stack With Linux 5.16 | Linux Kernel | 2021-11-07 |
| Steam Beta Adds VA-API Acceleration For Remote Play | Valve | 2021-11-03 |
| Firefox 94 To Start Using EGL On Linux - Better Performance, Lower Power Use | Mozilla | 2021-10-30 |
| Linux 5.16 Will Be A Great Christmas Gift For Open-Source Fans With Many New Features | Linux Kernel | 2021-10-25 |
| Habana Labs For Linux 5.16 To Bring Peer-To-Peer Support With DMA-BUF | Intel | 2021-10-18 |
| NVIDIA Contributing Tegra NVDEC Support To Linux 5.16 | NVIDIA | 2021-10-10 |
| Chrome 96 To Feature Improved WebRTC Code, Better Wayland Screensharing | Google | 2021-10-06 |
| Linux 5.16 To Add Quirk For The Steam Deck, Other DRM-Misc-Next Changes | Linux Kernel | 2021-09-16 |
| Habana Labs AI Driver Updates Submitted For Linux 5.15 | Linux Kernel | 2021-09-10 |
| NVIDIA Confirms Sway Wayland Compositor Works Fine With Their New GBM Driver Support | NVIDIA | 2021-09-04 |
| Habana Labs' Linux AI Driver Causes More Concerns - Changes Dropped Ahead Of Linux 5.15 | Hardware | 2021-08-23 |
| DRM-Misc-Next Continues Prepping More Code Ahead Of Linux 5.15 | Linux Kernel | 2021-07-23 |
| Graphics Driver Changes Begin Queuing For Linux 5.15 | Linux Kernel | 2021-07-16 |
| Intel Discrete Graphics On Linux Nearing The Point Of A Working, Accelerated Desktop | Intel | 2021-07-01 |
| Linux 5.13 - Another Step In Prepping Intel Discrete Graphics, Preferring Local Memory | Intel | 2021-04-06 |
| Linux 5.12 Corruption, GNOME 40, AMD Milan, Rust In Linux-Next Made For An Exciting March | Phoronix | 2021-04-01 |
| OBS Studio Now Ready With Wayland Capture Support | Wayland | 2021-03-31 |
| NVIDIA Proposes Mesa Patches To Support Alternative GBM Back-Ends | NVIDIA | 2021-03-29 |
| NVIDIA 460.67 Linux Driver Brings A Few Fixes, 5.11 Kernel Compatibility | NVIDIA | 2021-03-18 |
| NVIDIA 470 Series Driver Looks Like It Will Bring OpenCL 3.0 Support | NVIDIA | 2021-03-09 |
| NVIDIA 470 Linux Driver Series To Be "Even More Wayland-Friendly" | NVIDIA | 2021-03-05 |
| More Open-Source Adreno 500 Series Support, A6xx Speedbin Sent In For Linux 5.12 | Linux Kernel | 2021-02-26 |
| RDMA Changes For Linux 5.12 Add DMA-BUF Support For Peer-To-Peer Transfers With GPUs | Hardware | 2021-02-22 |
| Mir 2.3.2 Released With Better XWayland HiDPI, Copy/Paste Between Wayland/XWayland | Ubuntu | 2021-02-11 |
| Intel Working On A VirtIO DMA-BUF Driver For Multi-GPUs, Virtualized Environments | Intel | 2021-02-03 |
| Ubuntu 21.04 Will Try To Use Wayland By Default | Ubuntu | 2021-01-28 |
| Vulkan Wayland Compositors Are Nearing Reality | Vulkan | 2021-01-20 |
| NVIDIA Prepares XWayland OpenGL/Vulkan Acceleration Support | NVIDIA | 2021-01-07 |
| Some Linux/Open-Source Letdowns Last For Years | Free Software | 2021-01-01 |
| The Most Popular NVIDIA Linux News + Milestones Of 2020 | NVIDIA | 2020-12-30 |
| Better WebRTC Support Is Coming To Chrome/Chromium For Benefiting Wayland Screen Sharing | Wayland | 2020-12-18 |
| NVIDIA Is Working On DMA-BUF Passing That Should Help Improve Their Wayland Support | NVIDIA | 2020-12-01 |
| NVIDIA Is Working On Vulkan Support With RDMA Memory | NVIDIA | 2020-11-20 |
| Mesa 21.0 RadeonSI Merges Buffer Modifier Support | Mesa | 2020-11-13 |
| KDE Plasma 5.21 To Bring Multi-GPU Support For Wayland | KDE | 2020-10-10 |
| Intel Continues Bringing Up DMA-BUF Support For RDMA | Intel | 2020-10-05 |
| GNOME DMA-BUF Screencasting Now Limited To Intel Drivers Due To Bugs Elsewhere | GNOME | 2020-09-14 |
| Facebook Still Pursuing "NetGPU" - Working On AMD GPU Support In Addition To NVIDIA | Linux Networking | 2020-08-29 |
| Android AOSP Can Boot Off Mainline Linux 5.9 With Just One Patch | Google | 2020-08-29 |
| X.Org Server 1.20.9 Released With Numerous XWayland Fixes | X.Org | 2020-08-26 |
| Firefox 79 Is Ready To Ship With Safeguard On "_blank" Links, More Wayland VA-API Work | Mozilla | 2020-07-27 |
| PCI Changes For Linux 5.8 Bring Power Savings, AMD Workarounds/Whitelisting | Hardware | 2020-06-06 |
| Microsoft Is Writing Its Own Wayland Compositor As Part Of WSL2 GUI Efforts | Microsoft | 2020-05-20 |
| Mainlining The Microsoft DirectX Kernel Driver For Linux Will Be An Uphill Battle | Microsoft | 2020-05-20 |
| AMD Radeon Graphics Driver Amassing Improvements For Linux 5.8 | Radeon | 2020-04-14 |
| FFmpeg Squaring Away Vulkan Support For Its Next Release | Vulkan | 2020-03-13 |
| Peer-To-Peer DMA-BUF Support Being Ironed Out, Patches Pending For AMDGPU | Radeon | 2020-03-12 |
| GNOME 3.36 Set To Be Released Today With Ongoing Wayland + Performance Improvements | GNOME | 2020-03-11 |
| Firefox 75 On Wayland Now To Have Full WebGL, Working VA-API Acceleration | Mozilla | 2020-03-03 |
| DMA-BUF Explicit Sync Improvements Being Discussed To Help Vulkan, Other Modern Users | Linux Kernel | 2020-03-02 |
| GNOME On Wayland Screencasting Is About To Be A Heck Of A Lot More Efficient | GNOME | 2020-02-24 |
| Linux 5.6 Graphics Changes Bring Open-Source NVIDIA Turing, AMD Pollock Enablement | Linux Kernel | 2020-01-30 |
| Firefox Is Seeing Work On Wayland VA-API Video Acceleration | Mozilla | 2020-01-25 |
| Linux 5.6 Is Going To Be A Prominent Kernel With Features From USB4 To WireGuard | Linux Kernel | 2020-01-06 |
| Wayland's Weston 8.0 Reaches Beta With Direct-Display Extension, Partial Updates, HDCP | Wayland | 2019-12-21 |
| DMA-BUF HEAPS Coming To Linux 5.6, Poulsbo Pops Back Up To Get Page-Flipping | Linux Kernel | 2019-12-17 |
| GNOME Shell + Mutter Had A Busy November With Some Big Performance Optimizations | GNOME | 2019-12-03 |
| Wayland's Weston 8.0 Bringing Direct-Display Extension, HDCP On DRM Back-End + More | Wayland | 2019-11-27 |
| Firefox 71 Landing Wayland DMA-BUF Textures Support | Fedora | 2019-10-08 |
| KDE Frameworks 5.62 Released With KWayland Additions & Other Improvements | KDE | 2019-09-14 |
| VKMS Getting PRIME Import Support For Helping To Test Linux's PRIME Functionality | X.Org | 2019-08-26 |
| Waypipe Offers A Transparent Wayland Proxy For Running Programs Over The Network | Wayland | 2019-06-29 |
| Linux 5.3 Kernel To Bring Ingenic KMS Driver, Rockchip RK3328 Support | Linux Kernel | 2019-06-25 |
| Mesa 19.1-RC4 Released With More RadeonSI, Lima, Vulkan Fixes | Mesa | 2019-05-29 |
| Qualcomm FastRPC Driver Going Mainline For Offloading Tasks To The DSP | Linux Kernel | 2019-02-12 |
| Vulkan 1.1.100 Released Ahead Of Vulkan's Third Birthday | Vulkan | 2019-02-11 |
| PipeWire Should Be One Of The Exciting Linux Desktop Technologies For 2019 | PipeWire | 2019-02-03 |
| Freedreno Lands An A2xx NIR Backend, Other Improvements For Mesa 19.0 | Mesa | 2019-01-23 |
| Wayland's Weston Moving Towards Its Next Release Soon | Wayland | 2019-01-20 |
| GStreamer 1.15.1 Released With Work On AV1, V4L HEVC Encode/Decode | Multimedia | 2019-01-19 |
| DRM Graphics Drivers Already Queuing Changes For Linux 5.1 | Linux Kernel | 2019-01-08 |
| Intel Linux Graphics Driver Developers Working On More Efficient Display Presentation For GVT | Intel | 2018-12-29 |
| FreeSync Support Lands In Linux 4.21 With Other DRM Updates In Christmas Day Merge | Linux Kernel | 2018-12-26 |
| AMDGPU Driver Gets Final Batch Of Features For Linux 4.21 | Radeon | 2018-12-08 |
| Intel KVMGT 2018-Q3 Released As Their Latest Open-Source GPU Virtualization Bits | Virtualization | 2018-10-19 |
| Vulkan 1.1.86 Released With Driver Properties & Atomic INT64 Extensions | Vulkan | 2018-09-29 |
| A Nice Overview Of The ROCm Linux Compute Stack | Radeon | 2018-09-28 |
| Sway 1.0 Alpha 6 Released, Now Supports Moving/Resizing Tiled Windows With The Mouse | Wayland | 2018-09-22 |
| AMDGPU & Nouveau Getting HDMI CEC Support For DisplayPort/USB-C To HDMI Adapters | Linux Kernel | 2018-09-06 |
| Some Of The Smaller Features Hitting The Linux 4.19 Kernel This Week | Linux Kernel | 2018-08-16 |
| Librem 5 Continues Working On Its Wayland Software Stack, Testing Vibration Motors, Chargers | Hardware | 2018-06-13 |
| Allwinner Open-Source Video Decode Continues Improving With Sunxi-Cedrus Driver | Free Software | 2018-05-07 |
| Intel KVMGT 2018-Q1 Release Offers Mediated GPU Pass-Through Improvements | Intel | 2018-04-20 |
| Bootlin Making Progress On Their Open-Source Allwinner VPU Support | Hardware | 2018-03-24 |
| Vulkan 1.1.71 Released As The First Update To Vulkan 1.1 | Vulkan | 2018-03-17 |
| With Vulkan 1.1 It's Technically Possible To Write A Pure Wayland Compositor | Vulkan | 2018-03-08 |
| Raspberry Pi VC4 Working On Polishing KMS Support, Continued VC5 Progress | Raspberry Pi | 2018-02-13 |
| Intel Introduces "Hyper DMA-BUF" To Exchange Buffers Between VMs | Virtualization | 2017-12-20 |
| Vulkan 1.0.66 Introduces Three New Extensions | Vulkan | 2017-11-27 |
| GNOME Mutter 3.27.1 Brings Hybrid GPU Support | GNOME | 2017-10-17 |
| Eric Anholt Gets More Of The VC5 OpenGL Gallium3D Driver In Order | Mesa | 2017-10-03 |
| Work Begins On Kernel DRM Driver For BCM7268 With VC5 | Hardware | 2017-08-28 |
| Wayland Protocols v1.9 Released | Wayland | 2017-07-11 |
| GStreamer 1.12 Is On Approach With New Features, Wayland Zero-Copy Playback | GNOME | 2017-04-20 |
| VC4 Fencing, HDMI Runtime PM & More For This Raspberry Pi Driver | Raspberry Pi | 2017-04-17 |
