|
Bcachefs Lands Fixes In Linux 6.16 For Some "High Severity" Regressions Ahead of tomorrow's Linux 6.16-rc6 kernel release a number of Bcachefs file-system fixes were merged... |
|
Wine-Staging 10.12 Release Brings Patch For 11 Year Old Bug It's been a while since there have been any new patches in the Wine-Staging experimental area to note. More patches though have continued working their way from Wine-Staging to upstream/mainline Wine while this weekend Wine-Staging 10.12 is out at 292 patches atop upstream Wine and containing two new patches... |
|
Linux 6.17 Readies EDAC Support For Intel Granite Rapids D, Wildcat Lake, Raptor Lake HX In addition to Intel preparing Bartlett Lake S EDAC driver support for Linux 6.17, several other recent and upcoming Intel processors are also set to see Error Detection and Correction (EDAC) driver coverage with this next version of the Linux kernel... |
|
NVIDIA Publishes RTXNTC 0.7 Beta For Neural Texture Compression NVIDIA software engineers ended out the week by releasing a new beta of their RTX Neural Texture Compression (NTC) SDK. The RTXNTC software is NVIDIA's interesting solution for compressing material texture sets with very promising results for helping to reduce game data sizes moving forward... |
|
GNOME Builder & Digital Wellbeing Code Improved This Week On top of this week's release of the GNOME 49 Alpha, other application improvements and more came about in the past few days... |
|
KDE Preps More Crash KWin Crash Fixes, New Feature Work For Plasma 6.5 KDE developer Nate Graham is out with his weekly development recap of all interesting things and fixes merged for the week to Plasma... |
|
Wine 10.12 Released With Experimental EGL Backend For The X11 Driver Wine 10.12 has been uncorked as the latest bi-weekly development release of this open-source software running Windows games and applications on Linux and other operating systems... |
|
Attack Vector Controls Could Be Ready For Linux 6.17 Introduction The AMD engineering led work on Attack Vector Controls for the Linux kernel could be mainlined with the upcoming Linux 6.17 kernel with the remaining patches now being queued within a TIP branch... |
|
AMD Radeon RX 9070 Ray-Tracing Performance Improving With Mesa 25.2 With the feature freeze and code branching for Mesa 25.2 expected to take place next week and kick off the release process for this quarterly Mesa 3D version to debut as stable in August, I've begun running more benchmarks of this latest code on popular GPUs. As it pertains to the newest AMD Radeon RX 9000 series RDNA4 graphics processors, the most exciting area with Mesa 25.2 are the Vulkan ray-tracing improvements. Here is a look at some of what to expect with the upcoming Mesa 25.2 performance for the AMD Radeon RX 9070 graphics card on Linux. |
|
Smarter Cache Flushing For AMD SEV KVM Guest VMs Expected For Linux 6.17 Going back several months have been patches out of Google to optimize AMD cache flushing for KVM-based Linux guest virtual machines when making use of Secure Encrypted Virtualization (SEV). As anticipated, that AMD SEV cache flushing optimization work looks like it will be merged for the upcoming Linux 6.17 kernel cycle... |
|
Improved Debugging Support For AMDGPU Driver Expected For Linux 6.17 Sent out on Thursday along with Intel's huge Xe driver pull request with new features was the drm-misc-next material for the week. Notable with the drm-misc-next code were actually a set of AMDGPU driver patches to enhance the debugging with the information exposed via the DebugFS interface... |
|
RadeonSI Begins Upstreaming Its OpenGL Mesh Shader Support OpenGL doesn't receive nearly as much love these days as the Vulkan API, but over the past several months there's been at least one notable new extension in the works: cross-vendor mesh shader support with the pending GL_EXT_mesh_shader extension. Beginning today the AMD RadeonSI Gallium3D upstreaming process has begun for introducing mesh shader support for this Radeon OpenGL driver... |
|
QuestDB 9.0 Released For High Performance, Time-Series Database QuestDB 9.0 debuted today as the latest major update to this high performance, time-series database that is open-source under an Apache 2.0 license. QuestDB continues to be built using a combination of Java, C++, and Rust for being an interesting time-series database... |
|
GCC 12.5 Compiler Released To End Out The GCC 12 Series With 241+ Bug Fixes For those who seldom update to new compiler versions, GCC 12.5 was released today as the newest and final update to the GCC 12 compiler that debuted back in 2022... |
|
Intel Readies Big Graphics Driver Changes For Linux 6.17: Multi-Device Prep, SR-IOV, WCL Intel has some terrific improvements lined up for their modern "Xe" kernel graphics driver with the upcoming Linux 6.17 kernel cycle. New hardware support, SR-IOV preparations for Battlemage, other Intel Battlemage work, and also preparations for the upcoming multi-device support... |