Vulkan 1.4.311 Released With New Extension For BFloat16 The Vulkan 1.4.311 specification update is out today with a handful of issues resolved with various clarifications and other subtle refinements. Plus two new extensions...

Vulkan 1.4.311 Released With New Extension For BFloat16 - Phoronix

The Vulkan 1.4.311 specification update is out today with a handful of issues resolved with various clarifications and other subtle refinements

Mesa 25.0.2 Changes Range From Fixing Soft FP64 For Old AMD GPUs To RX 9070 Fixes Even amid the ongoing FreeDesktop.org GitLab cloud/server migration, Eric Engestrom has managed to release Mesa 25.0.2 on schedule as the newest stable release for these open-source OpenGL and Vulkan drivers for Linux systems...

Mesa 25.0.2 Changes Range From Fixing Soft FP64 For Old AMD GPUs To RX 9070 Fixes - Phoronix

Even amid the ongoing FreeDesktop.org GitLab cloud/server migration, Eric Engestrom has managed to release Mesa 25.0.2 on schedule as the newest st...

Miracle-WM 0.5 Released For Mir-Based Wayland Tiling Window Manager Miracle-WM 0.5 released on Wednesday as their first update of 2025 for this Mir-based Wayland tiling window manager. With this release comes a number of new features and other enhancements...

Miracle-WM 0.5 Released For Mir-Based Wayland Tiling Window Manager - Phoronix

Miracle-WM 0.5 released on Wednesday as their first update of 2025 for this Mir-based Wayland tiling window manager

GNOME 48 Released With New Default Font, HDR Support, New Audio Player & More GNOME 48 is officially out as the newest stable release for this open-source desktop that will be powering the likes of Fedora Workstation 42 and Ubuntu 25.04...

GNOME 48 Released With New Default Font, HDR Support, New Audio Player & More - Phoronix

GNOME 48 is officially out as the newest stable release for this open-source desktop that will be powering the likes of Fedora Workstation 42 and U...

OpenJDK Java 24 Released With Garbage Collector Improvements, Deprecating x86 32-bit Along with the GraalVM 24 update today, Oracle has formally released OpenJDK Java 24. JDK 24 is now out under general availability status with many new features and changes...

OpenJDK Java 24 Released With Garbage Collector Improvements, Deprecating x86 32-bit - Phoronix

Along with the GraalVM 24 update today, Oracle has formally released OpenJDK Java 24

Nginx Rejects Dark Mode Support For Error Pages A pull request was opened last week for adding web browser dark mode support for Nginx error pages. Unfortunate for those who prefer browsing in dark mode and then shocked when hitting Nginx-served 404 error pages or similar, the change has been rejected...

Nginx Rejects Dark Mode Support For Error Pages - Phoronix

A pull request was opened last week for adding web browser dark mode support for Nginx error pages

GIMP 3.0 Stable Being Released As Long-Awaited Update To Adobe Photoshop Alternative After some 13 years of writing about GIMP 3.0 development, today is finally the day: GIMP 3.0 has been tagged and is in the process of being released...

GIMP 3.0 Stable Being Released As Long-Awaited Update To Adobe Photoshop Alternative - Phoronix

After some 13 years of writing about GIMP 3.0 development, today is finally the day: GIMP 3.0 has been tagged and is in the process of being released.

Linux 6.14-rc7 To Support A Few More Gaming Controllers Ahead of the Linux 6.14-rc7 kernel release later today, a set of input subsystem updates were merged overnight that add in support for a few more gaming controllers...

Linux 6.14-rc7 To Support A Few More Gaming Controllers - Phoronix

Ahead of the Linux 6.14-rc7 kernel release later today, a set of input subsystem updates were merged overnight that add in support for a few more g...

Paid XR Desktop For GNOME "Breezy Desktop" In Open Beta With Multi-Display Support The much anticipated GNOME 48 is releasing this coming week as a big step forward for this popular Linux desktop environment. In addition there are a lot of other interesting projects continuing in tandem around GNOME. This Week in GNOME is out with its latest issue to highlight some of these most recent GNOME-related changes...

Paid XR Desktop For GNOME "Breezy Desktop" In Open Beta With Multi-Display Support - Phoronix

The much anticipated GNOME 48 is releasing this coming week as a big step forward for this popular Linux desktop environment

OpenRazer 3.10.1 Adds Support For A Few More Razer Devices On Linux OpenRazer 3.10 released last month with support for new Razer devices and a wealth of other enhancements for these open-source, community-developed Razer kernel drivers for Linux. Out today is OpenRazer 3.10.1 with some fixes as well as supporting a few more Razer products...

OpenRazer 3.10.1 Adds Support For A Few More Razer Devices On Linux - Phoronix

OpenRazer 3.10 released last month with support for new Razer devices and a wealth of other enhancements for these open-source, community-developed...