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udev-hid-bpf To Help Enable HID-BPF Use Rather Than Kernel Drivers To Fix HID Hardware   Hardware   2024-04-22
Autodafe 0.2 Released For Freeing Your Project From Autotools   Programming   2024-04-18
Dbus-Broker 36 Released For This Fastest D-Bus Implementation   Free Software   2024-04-12
Flatpak 1.15.7 Will Now Automatically Remove Obsolete Driver Versions   Programming   2024-03-28
Mesa NVK Vulkan Driver Now Declared Vulkan 1.3 Conformant, Mesa 24.1 To Build By Default   Nouveau   2024-02-28
X.Org Server Clears Out Remnants For Supporting Old Compilers   X.Org   2024-02-20
Autoconf 2.72 Released With C23 Support, New Year 2038 Safety Option   Programming   2023-12-23
Plymouth Boot Splash Screen Sees First Update In Nearly Two Years   Free Software   2023-12-22
Mesa 23.3-rc2 Released With Fixes For Zink, Rusticl, RADV & Other Drivers   Mesa   2023-11-01
GNOME 45.rc Brings GDM Wayland Multi-Seat, More libadwaita Adoption   GNOME   2023-09-09
XDG-Desktop-Portal 1.17.1 Released With Accent Color Support   Desktop   2023-08-29
Meson 1.2 Build System Released   Free Software   2023-07-17
libei 1.0 Released For Better Supporting Emulated Input On Wayland   Wayland   2023-06-08
Linux 6.5 VirtIO GPU DRM Driver Adding Sync Object uAPI For Vulkan   Virtualization   2023-06-07
Opus 1.4 Royalty-Free Audio Codec Released   Multimedia   2023-04-20
GTK3 Port Of GIMP Is "Officially Finished"   Free Software   2023-04-19
Meson 1.1 Build System Released With Numerous Additions   Free Software   2023-04-10
NVIDIA VA-API Driver 0.0.9 Released With YUV444 Support   NVIDIA   2023-03-12
Mesa 23.1 Gets Basic LoongArch Support   Mesa   2023-02-27
systemd 253 Released With Ukify Tool, systemd-cryptenroll Unlocking Via FIDO2 Tokens   systemd   2023-02-15
Audacious 4.3 Beta Adds PipeWire Plugin, Restores GTK3 + Ships Mature Qt6 Support   Multimedia   2023-02-11
systemd 253 Is Near With RC3 Out For Testing   systemd   2023-02-10
Cairo 1.17.8 Released - OpenGL/GLES Drawing Removed, Better macOS & Windows Support   Free Software   2023-02-05
systemd 253-rc2 Released With More Changes To This System & Service Manager   systemd   2023-02-02
GIMP 3.0 Aiming To Release In 2023   Free Software   2023-01-30
MPV Player 0.35.1 Released With Wayland & PipeWire Fixes   Multimedia   2023-01-28
VA-API 2.17 Released With Basic X11 DRI3 Support, Enabling VA-API On Windows   Multimedia   2023-01-17
Meson 1.0 Build System Released   Programming   2022-12-23
Meson 1.0 Build System Nears With Stable Rust Module, Other Improvements   Free Software   2022-12-10
MPV 0.35 Media Player Released With PipeWire Backend, Wayland DMA-BUF Support   Multimedia   2022-11-12
Meson 0.64 Build System Released With Intel oneAPI Compiler Support, Incremental ThinLTO   Programming   2022-11-07
Flatpak 1.15 Released With Initial Meson Build System Support   Free Software   2022-10-25
NVIDIA-VAAPI-Driver 0.0.7 Released For Enjoying VA-API With NVIDIA's Proprietary Driver   NVIDIA   2022-10-14
VA-API Library 2.16 Released With Various Improvements   Multimedia   2022-10-08
Xfce's Xfwm4 Sees Wayland Port With Wlroots   Wayland   2022-07-15
Intel Releases libva 2.15 Video Acceleration Library   Intel   2022-07-01
Meson 0.63.0rc1 Brings Support For Mold, Improvements For Windows Cross-Compiling   Programming   2022-06-20
The Bizarre Case Of Zstd's Very Slow Performance On Arch Linux   Arch Linux   2022-06-18
GNOME's Mutter Moving Closer To Pure Wayland-Only Build Option   GNOME   2022-05-31
Dbus-Broker 30 Released For High Performance Linux Message Bus   Free Software   2022-05-10
Mesa Can Now Be Built With Select Video Codecs Disabled For Software Patent Concerns   Mesa   2022-04-29
Cairo Graphics Library Drops Many Old Backends   X.Org   2022-02-27
VA-API Library 2.14 Released With AV1 Encode Interface   Multimedia   2022-02-22
DirectFB2 Is Modernizing DirectFB With Meson, Modularizing The Sources   Desktop   2022-02-10
DirectFB2 Aims To Resurrect DirectFB For Embedded Systems   Free Software   2022-01-27
Systemd 250 Piles On Yet More Features With New Release Candidate   systemd   2021-12-20
Wayland 1.20 Released With Proper FreeBSD Support, Protocol Additions   Wayland   2021-12-09
Wayland Protocols 1.24 Released With Improvement To DMA-BUF Protocol For Multi-GPUs   Wayland   2021-11-23
Picolibc 1.7.4 Brings Improved Meson Support, Restructured Math Code   Programming   2021-11-20
Wayland 1.20 Alpha Released With Upstreamed FreeBSD Support, Autotools Nuked   Wayland   2021-11-05
X.Org Server Bids Farewell To Autotools   X.Org   2021-10-29
Wayland 1.20 Planned For Release In December   Wayland   2021-10-29
X.Org Server 21.1 Released With Variable Rate Refresh In Modesetting Driver, Other Work   X.Org   2021-10-27
Meson v0.60 Build System Brings Numerous Improvements   Programming   2021-10-24
X.Org Server 21.1 RC2 Brings Fix For Mixed VRR/Non-VRR Multi-Monitor Setups   X.Org   2021-10-14
X.Org Server 21.1 RC1 Released With VRR Support For Modesetting Driver, Other Features   X.Org   2021-09-21
MATE 1.26 Desktop Released With Some Wayland Support, Other Improvements   Desktop   2021-08-18
Mesa 21.2-rc3 Offered For Testing, Mesa 21.1.6 Reaches Stable   Mesa   2021-07-28
PulseAudio 15 Released With Bluetooth Improvements, Better Hardware Support   Multimedia   2021-07-28
FreeType 2.11 Released With New Rendering Module, Smooth Rasterizer Is Faster   Free Software   2021-07-19
Meson 0.59 Build System Adds First Class Cython, Wine Resource Compiler Support   Programming   2021-07-19
China's Alternative To GSoC Is Seeing Some Interesting Summer Open-Source Projects   Free Software   2021-07-11
X.Org Server 21.1 Development Snapshot Released   X.Org   2021-07-05
Wayland-Protocols 1.21 Released With XDG_Activation, Staging Replaces Unstable   Wayland   2021-05-03
X.Org Server 1.20.11 Released Due To New Security Advisory   X.Org   2021-04-13
CentOS Hyperscale SIG Backported Newer Systemd, Preps For Experimental Repo   Operating Systems   2021-04-05
Proposal Raised For Dropping Mesa's Classic OpenGL Drivers From Mainline This Year   Mesa   2021-03-22
Wayland 1.19 Released With Small Protocol Updates, Fixes   Wayland   2021-01-27
PulseAudio Lands Much Better Support For FreeBSD - Audio Now Plays Correctly   BSD   2021-01-18
Wayland 1.19 Alpha Released   Wayland   2020-12-21
XWayland 21.1 Proposed In Splitting Off Releases From The X.Org Server   X.Org   2020-12-18
Wayland 1.19 Is Set To Come Soon As First Update In Nearly One Year   Wayland   2020-12-17
Allwinner "Cedrus" Media Driver Finally Sees Support For VP8 Decode   Multimedia   2020-12-14
QEMU 5.2 Released For Improving The Linux Open-Source Virtualization Stack   Virtualization   2020-12-09
Mesa To Drop Support For Ancient Drivers   Mesa   2020-11-20
Mesa 20.2.1 Released With Initial Batch Of Fixes   Mesa   2020-10-14
Mesa 20.1.7 Brings OpenBSD Fixes, New RadeonSI Workaround   Mesa   2020-09-02
Qt Creator 4.13 Release Brings Initial Meson Support, Updates C++ Code Model   Qt   2020-08-26
GStreamer 1.18 RC1 Released For This Leading Open-Source Multimedia Framework   Multimedia   2020-08-22
Qt Creator 4.13 RC Released With Initial Meson Integration, Updated C++ Code Model   Qt   2020-08-13
Open-Source GPU Driver Updates Sent In For Linux 5.9 From Sienna Cichlid To Rocket Lake   Linux Kernel   2020-08-06
The Small DRM Drivers See Another Round Of Updates For Linux 5.9   Linux Kernel   2020-07-19
Qt Creator 4.13 Beta Released - Finally Offers Meson Build System Integration   Qt   2020-07-13
GNU Linux-Libre 5.7 Released - Drops Intel iGPU Security Fix Over Arrays Of Numbers   Linux Kernel   2020-06-04
Mesa 20.1 Adds A Vulkan Device Selection Layer For Better Handling Multi-GPU Setups   Mesa   2020-04-28
Pixman 0.40 Released As First Update In A Year For This Key Library For The Linux Desktop   X.Org   2020-04-20
Linux 5.7 Changes So Far: New exFAT Driver, Tiger Lake Graphics By Default, Apple Fast Charge, Etc   Linux Kernel   2020-04-06
Plenty Of New Sound Hardware Support, Continued Sound Open Firmware Work For Linux 5.7   Hardware   2020-04-03
Linux 5.7 Media Updates Add H.264 / H.265 / VP9 Decode To The Meson Driver   Multimedia   2020-03-31
XMMS-Inspired Audacious 4.0 Released With Move From GTK To Qt5 Toolkit   Multimedia   2020-03-22
It's 2020 - Oracle Adds Meson Build System To Solaris   Oracle   2020-03-17
MetaInfo Creator - Easily Creating AppStream Metadata For Software   Standards   2020-03-08
Wayland 1.18 Released With Meson Support, Other Minor Changes   Wayland   2020-02-12
Linus Torvalds Just Made A Big Optimization To Help Code Compilation Times On Big CPUs   Linux Kernel   2020-02-08
Linux 5.6 Media Updates Bring Improvements For Rockchip Users   Multimedia   2020-02-01
Wayland 1.18 Alpha Released With Meson Support, Connection Sharing   Wayland   2020-01-21
Wayland 1.18 Planned For Release Next Month   Wayland   2020-01-15
Goals: Red Hat Developer Working On New Tool To Improve Upon Make   Red Hat   2020-01-14
Wayland Adds Meson Build System Support   Wayland   2020-01-14
Linux 5.5 Lands Broadcom BCM2711 / Raspberry Pi 4 Bits   Arm   2019-12-06
Mesa Adds Option For Changing Intel's OpenGL Driver Default   Mesa   2019-12-02
Mesa 19.3-RC1 Released With OpenGL 4.6 For Intel, Many Vulkan Driver Improvements   Mesa   2019-10-30
Mesa 19.2.2 Brings Fixes For Solaris/Illumos, Continued Fixes For Intel ANV + Radeon RADV   Mesa   2019-10-25
Valve's SteamOS Compositor Has Begun Seeing Some Activity Recently   Valve   2019-10-23
Mesa 19.1.8 Released To End Out The Series   Mesa   2019-10-22
Arch Linux's Pacman 5.2 Released - Drops Support For Delta Packages, Adds Zstd Support   Arch Linux   2019-10-21
GNOME 3.35.1 Released As The First Step Towards GNOME 3.36   GNOME   2019-10-20
Google Releases Bazel 1.0 Build System With Faster Build Performance   Google   2019-10-17
Libdrm 2.4.100 Released With Bits For Intel Elkhart Lake, Tiger Lake Graphics   Mesa   2019-10-17
Amlogic Video Decode Driver Nearly Ready With H.264 Support   Hardware   2019-10-09
Meson 0.52 Released With Better Support For Solaris/Illumos   Programming   2019-10-07
Picolibc 1.0 Released - A New C Library For Embedded Systems   Programming   2019-09-24
Linux 5.4 Continues Sound Open Firmware, Improvements For AMD/NVIDIA HDMI Audio   Hardware   2019-09-17
PulseAudio 13.0 Released With Dolby TrueHD and DTS-HD Master Audio Support   Desktop   2019-09-16
GNU Linux-libre 5.3 Continues Deblobbing & Dealing With Firmware Trickery   GNU   2019-09-16
VDPAU Library 1.3 Switches To Meson Build System, Adds VP9 Video Format Definitions   NVIDIA   2019-08-29
Enlightenment 0.23 Released With Massive Wayland Improvements   Desktop   2019-08-24
GTK-VNC 1.0 Released With GTK3 Requirement & Other Improvements   GNOME   2019-08-08
KDevelop 5.4 Released With Meson Support, Scratchpad Plug-In   KDE   2019-08-06
GNOME 3.34 Beta Released - Now Under UI/Feature/API/ABI Freezes   GNOME   2019-08-06
GNOME 3.33.4 Released As The Last Step Before The GNOME 3.34 Beta   GNOME   2019-07-24
OpenHMD 0.3 Released With Support For More VR/AR Devices   Hardware   2019-07-13
Wayland's Weston 7.0 Compositor Aiming To Release Next Month   Wayland   2019-07-13
Linux 5.3 Media Driver Updates Bring New Amlogic Meson Video Decoder   Multimedia   2019-07-10
Mesa 19.1.2 Released - Led By Intel & Radeon Vulkan Driver Fixes   Mesa   2019-07-09
OpenHMD 0.3.0-rc2 Released For This Open-Source API/Drivers For VR/AR Hardware   Hardware   2019-07-04
Mesa 19.0.7 Now Available As The Last Of The Series   Mesa   2019-06-25
Wayland's Weston 6.0.1 Released With Build System Fixes & Other Corrections   Wayland   2019-06-24
Mesa 19.1.1 Is Coming Next Week With A Variety Of Fixes   Mesa   2019-06-22
It Looks Like PulseAudio 13.0 Will Be Releasing Soon   Multimedia   2019-06-22
Bzip2 Is About To See Its First Real Update In Close To A Decade   Free Software   2019-06-21
Waffle 1.6 Released As Library Allowing GL / Windowing System Selection At Runtime   Mesa   2019-06-10
Mesa 19.1-RC2 Released For Testing With The Latest Intel & Radeon Driver Fixes   Mesa   2019-05-14
GNOME 3.33.1 Kicks Off The New Development Cycle Leading Up To GNOME 3.34   GNOME   2019-04-26
GLAMOR Sees More Improvements For What Will Eventually Be X.Org Server 1.21   X.Org   2019-04-18
GStreamer 1.16 Is Nearly Ready With AV1 For Matroska/MP4 Containers, V4L HEVC   Multimedia   2019-04-15
Wayland's Weston 6.0 Compositor Released With New Remoting/Streaming Plug-In   Wayland   2019-03-28
Fedora's Mesa Drivers Have Been Running Slower As They Were Accidentally Debug Builds   Mesa   2019-03-26
GTK4 Seeing Text Entry Improvements, Easier To Create Custom Entry Widgets   GNOME   2019-03-16
Wayland 1.17 & Weston 6.0 Gear Up To Release Next Week   Wayland   2019-03-15
Mesa 19.0 Released With Many Improvements To The Open-Source Vulkan/OpenGL Drivers   Mesa   2019-03-13
A Look At The Many Improvements & New Features In GNOME 3.32   GNOME   2019-03-13
Meson 0.50 Build System Brings PGI Compiler Support, Various Fortran Improvements & CUDA   Programming   2019-03-10
Wayland 1.17 + Weston 6.0 Reach Beta   Wayland   2019-03-07
VDPAU Library 1.2 Released With HEVC 4:4:4 Support   NVIDIA   2019-02-28
GNOME 3.32 Beta 2 Released   GNOME   2019-02-21
Mesa 19.0-RC5 Released As The Cycle Drags Into Overtime   Mesa   2019-02-20
Wayland 1.17 & Weston 6.0 Reach Alpha, Officially Releasing Next Month   Wayland   2019-02-19
Chamferwm: A Vulkan-Powered X11 Window Manager   Vulkan   2019-02-18
Pixman 0.38 Released With Meson Build System Support   Free Software   2019-02-11