Wine 9.10 Released With Upgrade To VKD3D 1.12, Brings DPI Awareness Improvements
31 May
Godot 4.3 Beta 1 Released With Native Wayland Support
Dav1d 1.4.2 Provides More AVX2 & AVX-512 Performance Optimizations
Intel Lands A Nice Memset Performance Optimization In Glibc
Linux 6.10 Is Making It Much Easier To Deal With Quirky Touchscreens
Bcachefs Preparing For New Features In Linux 6.11
More AMDGPU Linux Firmware Published For RDNA 3+
Kdenlive 24.05 Brings Multi-Format Rendering, Automatic Subtitle Translations
30 May
Wayland 1.23 Released With OpenBSD Support
Microsoft Rolling Out New Windows Subsystem For Linux "WSL" Features For 2024
AMD EPYC 4124P Benchmarks: A Quad-Core $149 Server CPU
Fedora's New Web-Based Installer UI Delayed Yet Again... Now In 2025 With Fedora 42
Real-Time Kernel Now Available On Ubuntu 24.04 LTS
Servo Web Engine Continues Advancing But Seeing Just $1.6k In Monthly Donations
Yocto 5.0 LTS Released - Now Powered By Linux 6.6 LTS, Boeing Joins The Project
AMD & Intel Team Up For UALink As Open Alternative To NVIDIA's NVLink
Intel Battlemage Platform Support Begins Landing In Mesa 24.2
Intel Improving NMI Source Reporting On Linux With FRED
Google Enabling PowerVR Rogue GX6250 Open-Source Support With The MediaTek MT8173
KDGpu v0.5 Vulkan Wrapper Released, KDXr Begins Wrapping OpenXR
29 May
VKD3D 1.12 Released With Support For Directly Outputting SPIR-V & D3D Shader Assembly
XZ 5.6.2 Released With The Frightening Backdoor Removed
Amazon Cloud Traffic Is Suffocating Fedora's Mirrors
Framework Announces Intel Core Ultra Powered Laptop With 2.8k Display
Linux 6.10 Features Include TPM Bus Encryption, More AMD Zen 5 & A Prison Letter Merge Request
Arm Announces The Cortex-X925 & Cortex-A725
QuestDB 8.0 Brings Up To 50% Performance Improvement, ZFS Data Compression
KDE Launches "Opt Green" Initiative For Sustainable Software & Hardware
Canonical Developing "Flamenco" For Enhancing .NET Developer Experience On Ubuntu
Valve's AMD Shader Compiler "ACO" Makes More Preparations For Radeon RDNA4
Intel Makes One Line Tweak To GCC To Fix A "Random Performance Penalty"
Intel's Sub-NUMA Clustering Support Linux Patches Spun A 19th Time
Flowblade 2.16 Open-Source Video Editor Released
28 May
SVT-AV1 2.1 Released With Yet More Performance Improvements
Xe2 Ray-Tracing & More Intel Lunar Lake Enabling Land In Mesa 24.2
Microsoft Starts Preparing Its Open-Source DirectX Shader Compiler For "HLSL 202x"
Chrome 127 Should Provide PipeWire Camera Capture Support
Crucial Pro DDR5-6000 32GB Memory Kit
Linux cpupower Tool Fix Coming For AMD Zen 5 CPUs
AlmaLinux 8.10 Released With Support Re-Enabled For Some Older Hardware
TPM HMAC Encryption Being Pulled Back To x86_64 By Default For Linux 6.10
ASUS Linux Driver Adding Ability To Toggle CPU Cores, APU Memory Settings & dGPU TGP
openSUSE Aeon RC2 Released With Btrfs Compression Default, ZRAM & Tik
Ubuntu 24.04 Now Available For The Milk-V Mars RISC-V Single Board Computer
27 May
FreeBSD 14.1-RC1 Adds More Packages To The DVD Images - Including The Sway Compositor
Intel Performance Limit Reasons For Linux To Report Why Your CPU Is Downclocking
Intel Releases ISPC 1.24 With New AVX-VNNI & AVX512-VNNI Targets
AMD's GPUOpen Vulkan Memory Allocator 3.1 Improves Raspberry Pi Support
Linux Patches Posted For Enabling A 22 x 35 mm RISC-V / ARM Board
An End-User Has Made It Easier To Build ROCm & AMD GPU Machine Learning Software
26 May
Linux 6.10-rc1 Kernel Released With Many New Features
Intel NPU Driver Being Refactored For More Versatile CPU+NPU Handling
Linux 6.10 Supports NUMA Balancing For Multi-Size THPs
Updated Patches For AMD "Fast CPPC" To Yield Higher Performance At Same Power Level
Nouveau DRM_Panic Being Worked On For Linux "Blue Screen Of Death" Type Situations
Modern NTFS Driver Sees Bug Fixes With Linux 6.10
25 May
Linux 6.10 Improves AMD ROCm Compute Support For "Small" Ryzen APUs
Linux 6.10 On RISC-V Allows Configurable Boot Image Compression
Llamafile 0.8.5 Delivers Greater Performance: Tiny Models 2x Faster On Threadripper
GNOME Continues Working On New Installer, "Major Issue" With STF
Intel NPU Acceleration Library 1.1 Adds New Model Support & Optimizations
KDE Landed Many Last Minute Features Ahead Of The Plasma 6.1 Beta
24 May
Memory Sealing "mseal" System Call Merged For Linux 6.10
New AMD RDNA3 APUs Added To Open-Source Linux Driver Along With RDNA4 Fixes
KDE Plasma 6.1 Beta Released With Wayland Explicit Sync, Input Capture Portal & More
Intel Core Ultra 7 165U "Meteor Lake" Linux Performance
KDE Plasma 6.1 Lands Dynamic Triple Buffering Support
PoCL 6.0-RC1 OpenCL Bringing OpenMP, Intel oneTBB Driver & Better Level Zero
Btrfs Sends In Fixes For Linux 6.10 & Restores "norecovery" Mount Option
DM-Crypt "High Priority" In Linux 6.10 Makes For Better Throughput & Latency
PipeWire 1.2 Can Stream To Snapcast Servers For Multi-Room Audio
Linux 6.10 Hardware Monitoring Includes New Lenovo ThinkStation Driver
Framework 13 & 16 Added To ChromeOS Platform Driver In Linux 6.10
Linux 6.10 Adds Support For The Machenike G5 Pro Controller
23 May
Linux 6.10 Is Disabling NFS v2 Client Support By Default
GNOME Publishes Draft Of Five-Year Strategic Plan
Coreboot 24.05 Released With 25 More Platforms - Including The Framework 13 AMD
Ubuntu 24.04 + Linux 6.9 Intel & AMD Server Performance
Linux 6.10 Delivers AMD & Intel P-State Driver Updates To Refine Power Management
64-bit ARM With Linux 6.10: Building FIT Images & Optional Disabling 32-bit User-Space
Linux 6.10 Staging Drops Broken & Unused Drivers To Remove 19k L.O.C.
Intel Removes Knights Mill & Knights Landing Xeon Phi Support In LLVM 19
Newer AMD Radeon Graphics Cards Now Work On RISC-V With Linux 6.10
GNOME Shell & Mutter Broke Their Good Faith With Ubuntu
VirtIO Improvements Ready For Linux 6.10
22 May
systemd 256 Nears Release With run0, systemd-vpick, importctl & More
Initial Windows NT Sync Driver Merged Into Linux 6.10 But Not Yet Complete
Mesa 24.1 Released With Explicit Sync Vulkan Drivers, More Mature NVK Driver
RISC-V Now Supports Rust In The Linux Kernel
Steam Deck Platform Driver In No Apparent Rush For Upstreaming Into The Linux Kernel
Linux 6.10's Hardening Configuration Now Enables KCFI & Other Features
Linux 6.10 Shows People Are Still Using USB To Parallel Port Adapters In 2024
FUSE Adds VirtIO-FS Multi-Queue For ~5x Performance Win With Linux 6.10
Alpine Linux 3.20 Released With Initial 64-bit RISC-V Support
Linux 6.10 Perf Tools Brings AMD Zen 5 Events & Intel Updates
Linux 6.10 KVM Does More Prepping For Intel TDX
Eclipse OpenJ9 v0.45 Released For Supporting OpenJDK 22
Linux 6.10 Adds Support For The RISC-V Milk-V Mars & More SoC Additions
Box64 0.2.8 Released With Support For 16K Page Size - Allowing Games On Apple Silicon
21 May
ASRock Rack Releases BIOS Update For EPYC 4004 Support With AM5 Ryzen Boards
NVIDIA 555.42.02 Linux Beta Brings Wayland Explicit Sync, GSP Firmware Used By Default
AMD EPYC 4004 Benchmarks: Outperforming Intel Xeon E-2400 With Performance, Efficiency & Value
LibreOffice 24.8 Alpha 1 Open-Source Office Suite Released
Linux 6.10 Adds eDP/DisplayPort Support For The Snapdragon X Elite
F2FS With Linux 6.10 Delivers Better Performance On Zoned Storage
Hangover 9.9 Adds Support For Using The NTSYNC Driver
GCC 13.3 Compiler Released With Tons Of Bug Fixes
Linux 6.10 Adds Support To Reset CXL Devices
Qt 6.7.1 Released With 400+ Fixes - Including Several Wayland Fixes
20 May
XFS Expanding Its Online Repair Capabilities In Linux 6.10
Linux 6.10 Honors One Last ReiserFS Request Made By Hans Reiser
RFC Patches Posted For Rust-Written NVIDIA "Nova" GPU Driver
Intel Announces Q3'2024 Arrival For Lunar Lake
Many x86 Laptop Improvements In Linux 6.10 Plus Acer ARM Laptop
Fedora Miracle Spin Approved To Ship As Part Of Fedora Linux 41
Farewell Intel Xeon Phi: Support Removed In The GCC 15 Compiler
AMDGPU ISP Firmware Upstreamed In linux-firmware.git
OCFS2 File-System Seeing Improved Write Performance On Linux 6.10
Linux 6.10 Will Print The Number Of Populated Memory Slots At Boot Time
Intel CR 24.17.29377.6 Offers Latest OpenCL & oneAPI Level Zero Support
Fwupd 1.9.20 Released With Updated FPC Fingerprint Reader Support
19 May
Bcachefs Brings Safety Improvements To Linux 6.10, Preps For Online Fsck
Cloudflare Praises Golang PGO For Significant CPU Savings
EXT4 In Linux 6.10 Adds FS_IOC_GETFSSYSFSPATH Support
Linux Patch Posted For The Bigscreen Beyond VR Headset
Linux 6.10 Scheduler Changes Bring More Refinements
Turbostat Gains New Features & New Hardware Support With Linux 6.10
18 May
SUSE's YaST Team Drops Cockpit With New Installer Code
Linux 6.10 NFSD Brings Optimizations & Preps For New nfsdctl Utility
Niri 0.1.6 Wayland Compositor Adds Interactive Window Resizing & Mouse View Scrolling
GNOME OS Working On A New Installer & Other Enhancements To Make It More Practical
Linux 6.10 x86 Instruction Decoder Prepares For APX & Other New Intel Instructions
Linux 6.10 Preps For "When Things Go Seriously Wrong" On Bigger Servers
KDE Apps Improving Experience When Running Outside Of Plasma
17 May
Wine 9.9 Brings ARM Improvements, Drops Obsolete WineD3D Features
Linux 6.10 Adds Support For Posted Interrupts On Bare Metal Hardware
Ubuntu 24.10 To See More Polishing, NVIDIA Wayland By Default & New Welcome Wizard
Intel's OpenVINO Now Available In openSUSE
Linux 6.10 Improves Performance For Opening Unencrypted Files
Linux 6.10 Wires Up More Compute Express Link "CXL" Functionality
Intel Readies Xeon Phi Removal For GCC 15
EROFS Adds Zstd & Btrfs Gets Minor Performance Work In Linux 6.10
Sysctl Sentinel Bloat Removal Wrapping Up In Linux 6.10
16 May
GNOME 47 Aims For Release On 18 September
AMD Ryzen 5 8400F vs. Intel Core i5 14400F: 230+ Benchmarks For Sub-$200 CPU Performance
Germany's Sovereign Tech Fund Now Supporting FFmpeg
Linux Patch Posted For NVMe Flexible Data Placement (FDP)
AMD & Supermicro Collaborating On Open-Source Firmware With The OSFF
Ampere Computing 2024 Roadmap Update: 256 Core 3nm CPU In 2025
PipeWire 1.2 Preps For Async Processing, Snap Support & Explicit Sync
Valve's Linux Graphics Engineers Begin Prepping RADV Driver For AMD RDNA4 "GFX12"
Intel IPU6 Driver Being Upstreamed In Linux 6.10
Firewire IEEE-1394 Support Continues To Be Improved With The Linux 6.10 Kernel
Linus Torvalds On Dogfooding The Linux Kernel
15 May
Mesa 24.1-rc4 Backports NVK DRM Format Modifiers Support
Intel TDX For Confidential VMs Causing Concern Among Fedora & Open-Source Advocates
The NTSYNC Driver For Wine/Proton Is "Broken" For Linux 6.10
ZLUDA Has Been Seeing New Activity For CUDA On AMD GPUs
XWayland 24.1 Released With Explicit Sync, Better Rootful Experience
Linux 6.10 Networking Adds New Intel Hardware Support, More WiFi 7 Enablement
Arm Mali/Immortalis GPU Driver, New AMD Graphics IP & Lunar Lake Display In Linux 6.10
Mir 2.17 Better Supports Hybrid Graphics & Other Wayland Enhancements
14 May
systemd 256-rc2 Released With A Few More Features
Linus Torvalds Is Doing More ARM64 Linux Testing Now That He Has A More Powerful System
Framework 13 AMD Laptop Seeing Experimental Coreboot Port
Intel Releases Updated CPU Microcode For Fixing Three New Security Issues
Benchmarking The First RISC-V Cloud Server: Scaleway EM-RV1 Performance
Microsoft Engineer Ports EXT2 File-System Driver To Rust
Debian Releases APT 2.9.3 With New Package Solver
Steam Deck IMU Support Submitted For Linux 6.10 Plus ASUS ROG Ally HID
NVK Vulkan Driver Lands DRM Format Modifiers Support
Zone Write Plugging Comes To Linux 6.10 For Better Performance
Qualcomm Talks Up Their Linux Support For The Snapdragon X Elite
Raspberry Pi M.2 HAT+ Now Available For $12 To Connect NVMe Drives & More
Manjaro 24.0 Released: Powered By Linux 6.9 & The Latest Desktops
13 May
Rust 1.78 Upgrade For Linux 6.10, Dropping In-Tree "alloc" Fork To Save ~10k Lines
More ARM-Based Handheld Game Consoles Supported By Linux 6.10
Linux 6.10 Makes AES-XTS Disk/File Encryption Much Faster For Modern Intel/AMD CPUs
SUSE Working On Upstream Linux Kernel Support For Booting The Raspberry Pi 5
Firefox 126 Available - Adds "Linux" To The Android User Agent String
Linux Foundation Launches The High Performance Software Foundation
x32 Shadow Stacks, Locking Optimizations, Intel VFM & Other x86 Changes For Linux 6.10
GNU Linux-libre 6.9 Released: More Deblobbing, Fixes Intel Graphics On GuC-Less Systems
Intel-Powered Aurora Supercomputer Breaks The Exascale Barrier
Arch Linux Powered CachyOS Adds Bcachefs Installer Support
FreeBSD 14.1 Bringing Reproducibly Built Kernels, OpenZFS 2.2.4
12 May
Linux 6.9 Released With Faster Intel Core Ultra Performance, Larger Console Fonts Option
Linux 6.10 Features Expected From The NTSYNC Driver To Performance Optimizations
Linux 6.10 AMD P-State To Deliver Fixes, Better Support On Older Zen CPUs
Intel Arc Graphics Demonstrated Running On ARM With Ampere Altra
AMD RDNA4 "GFX12" Support Merged For Mesa's RadeonSI Driver
IO_uring Bringing Better Send Zero-Copy Performance With Linux 6.10
Another AMD Zen 5 PCI ID Squeezing Into Linux 6.9
11 May
ReactOS "Open-Source Windows" Making Good Strides On SMP CPU Support
Torvalds Voices Thoughts On Linux Mitigating Unexpected Arithmetic Overflows/Underflows
KDE Making Good Progress On HDR, Better Gamescope Integration
Cloudflare Releases Pingora 0.2 For Building Fast & Reliable Networked Systems
Rustls Can Now Work With Nginx Via New OpenSSL Compatibility Layer
Wasmer 4.3 Released: WebAssembly Runtime 25% Faster On Cold Startups
KDE Plasma 6 Sees More Features Merged Ahead Of Plasma 6.1
10 May
NVIDIA's Open GPU Linux Kernel Driver Will Soon Be The Default For Turing & Newer GPUs
AMD Aims For AMF Decode In FFmpeg, Questioned Over Vulkan Video Commitment
Linux 6.10 Adding TPM Bus Encryption & Integrity Protection
Intel Takes Open-Source Hyperscan Development To Proprietary Licensed Software
Linux 6.9 Features Many Great Improvements For Both Intel & AMD
Vulkan 1.3.285 Released With New Extension From Valve VKD3D-Proton Developer
Rocky Linux 9.4 Released For RHEL 9.4 Derived Distribution
SDL3 Adds PipeWire Camera Support
Intel Updates Its PyTorch Build With More Large Language Model Optimizations
9 May
SteamOS 3.6 Preview Released With Linux 6.5, Updated Arch Linux & Mesa 24.1
Mozilla's Llamafile 0.8.2 Scores Big With New AVX2 Performance Optimizations
LLVM Dealing With Slower Performance On AMD CPUs When Targeting AMD Zen Optimizations
SLUB Updates Submitted Ahead Of Linux 6.10 Merge Window
AMD Preparing PCIe TPH Support For Upcoming CPUs
Ubuntu 24.04 LTS & Fedora 40 Continue To Trail Intel's Linux Performance Optimizations
AMD Publishes Micro Engine Scheduler "MES" Firmware Documentation
ChromeOS EC Hardware Monitoring Driver Being Revived For Framework Laptops
Intel NPU Driver Preparing Hardware Scheduler & Profiling Support
AMD Linux Graphics Driver Plumbs Integration With New ISP Hardware Block
Limbo Is An SQLite-Compatible OLTP DBMS Leveraging IO_uring & Rust
Python 3.13 Beta Out For Testing With Experimental JIT, Better Interactive Interpreter
Pop!_OS' COSMIC Desktop Finishing Up Work On App Store
8 May
AMD ROCm 6.1.1 Brings Fixes, Preps For Upcoming Changes & cuDNN 9.0 Support
Mesa 24.0.7 & Mesa 24.1-rc3 Provide Latest Open-Source OpenGL/Vulkan Drivers
Zed Code Editor Making Progress On Linux Support
Intel Revises PCIe Cooling Driver To Reduce Link Speed When Running Too Hot
RISC-V Performance On Ubuntu 24.04 LTS With Scaleway's EM-RV1
Fedora Asahi Remix 40 Now Available For Apple Silicon Devices, KDE Plasma 6 By Default
SHIFTphone 8 Preparing Mainline Linux Support Ahead Of Launch
AMD Linux Engineers Introduce New "schedstat" Tool
GCC 15 Bids Farewell To Solaris 11.3 Support
Zstd Compression For EROFS Published: Better Than LZ4 But Higher CPU Costs
Merged For Mesa 24.2: Faster Startups For Zink, Rusticl Now Handles Bigger Workloads
7 May
GNOME Took In $556k Last Year While Spending $675.9k
Microsoft Contributes Windows On ARM64 "aarch64-w64-mingw32" Support To GCC 15
Apple Announces The M4 Chip With Up To 10 CPU Cores
Raspberry Pi Connect Reaches Beta For Remote Raspberry Pi Access
Vulkan 1.3.284 Released With Another Extension To Help Zink
AMD Posts Patches For Improving Heterogeneous Core Type CPUs On Linux
Fedora 41 Approved To Make Package Builds More Reproducible
Linux 6.10 Goes Ahead In Removing Sysctl Sentinel Bloat
AMD Core Performance Boost For Linux Getting Per-CPU Core Controls
GCC 14.1 Compiler Released - Intel APX & AVX10.1 Support, AMD Zen 5 Target & -fhardened
6 May
ECC DDR5-4800 vs. DDR5-5200 Memory Performance For AMD Ryzen Zen 4
AlmaLinux 9.4 Released With Support For Hardware Deprecated By RHEL
PowerPC 40x Processor Support To Be Dropped From The Linux Kernel
Fedora Cleared To Build Python Package With "-O3" Optimizations
Linux 6.10 To Drop Support For Very Old DEC Alpha Hardware
Framework Laptop EC Driver Being Prepared For Linux
FreeBSD 14.1 Beta Released For Testing
NVIDIA VA-API Driver 0.0.12 Brings Fixes, Chrome Compatibility Work
Dillo 3.1 Lightweight Web Browser Released After Nine Years
GIMP 2.10.38 Released As What Might Be The Last Of GIMP 2
5 May
Linux 6.9-rc7 Released: The Kernel Is Looking Good
New Intel P-State Linux Driver Patches To Better Handle Hybrid Core CPUs
Linux 6.10 To Support Sound On ASUS ROG 2024 Laptops, Lenovo ThinkPad 13X
Synaptics Releases DisplayLink 6.0 USB Graphics Driver Package For Linux
Mesa's Venus Vulkan Driver Updated To Allow QEMU Support
ASUS ROG RAIKIRI & Lunar Lake Point M Device IDs Sent In For Linux 6.9-rc7
4 May
NetBSD On The State & Future Of X.Org/X11
GNOME Shell's Layout Being Improved For Smaller Displays
Valve Working On Explicit Sync Support For "NVK" NVIDIA Vulkan Driver
Wine-Staging 9.8 Comes In At 430 Patches, Fixes A 16 Year Old Game
KDE Readies More Changes For Next Month's Plasma 6.1
3 May
Wine 9.8 Fixes Nearly 20 Year Old Bug For Installing Microsoft Office 97
GCC's Rust Compiler To See Improvements With GSoC 2024
FreeBSD Working On Improving Its Audio Stack & Creating Graphical OS Installer
FEX 2405 Gets Close To Running Far Cry On ARM Linux Systems
Mold 2.31 Now ~10% Faster When Linking Very Large, Debug Info Enabled Binaries
Fwupd 1.9.19 Supports New Docks, Incorporates More Fixes
Intel Talks Up Their Latest Compiler Toolchain Enhancements For AVX10.1, AMX & More
OpenZFS 2.2.4 Released With Linux 6.8 Support
Dell Laptop Platform Profile Patches Being Worked On For Linux
2 May
Proton 9.0-1 Released With Many Improvements For Steam Play Linux Gaming
XWayland 24.1 RC2 Brings Fixes For Explicit Sync & DRM Leasing
Pop!_OS With Linux 6.8 Is Benefiting Older System76 Threadripper Systems Too
AlmaLinux Forms An HPC & AI SIG
Mesa 24.1-rc2 Released With More Graphics Driver Fixes
AMD 3rd Gen EPYC "Milan" Sees Some Performance Benefits To Ubuntu 24.04 LTS
NZXT Kraken 2023 AIO CPU Cooler Monitoring With Linux 6.10
FSVERITY/DM-Verity Can Yield Much Better Performance With Multi-Buffer Hashing
1 May
Valve Publishes Steam Survey Numbers For April 2024
Proposal Raised To Deprecate "-Ofast" For The LLVM/Clang Compiler
SDL 3.1.2 Preview Prefers PipeWire Over PulseAudio, Fixes XWayland Mouse Warp
Nano 8.0 Text Editor Released With Modern Bindings Option
Serpent OS Close To Having A System Installer & Being Able To Test On Real Hardware
PCI-SIG Provides CopprLink Cable Specs For PCIe 5.0 & PCIe 6.0
Intel Baseline Profile Yields Odd Power/Performance On Linux
Punting GPU Drivers From The Initramfs Due To Ever Increasing Firmware Bloat
Canonical Releases Landscape 24.04 LTS With New Snap Management, New Web Portal
DM-Crypt Adding "High Priority" Option In Linux 6.10
DRM Buddy & AMDGPU Wired Up For Clear Page Tracking In Linux 6.10