KDE Developers Begin Working On A New Login Manager KDE developer David Edmundson has published a lengthy blog post today outlining the long-standing challenges they have with the SDDM display manager, unimplemented features they want out of a log-in manager, and acknowledging GNOME's GDM as a "gold standard" for display managers. While not yet an official project, they have begun working on a new KDE Login Manager for improving the…

KDE Developers Begin Working On A New Login Manager - Phoronix

KDE developer David Edmundson has published a lengthy blog post today outlining the long-standing challenges they have with the SDDM display manage...

XZ 5.8 Debuts As First Major Feature Release Since The Backdoor Disaster XZ 5.8 is out today as the first notable feature release since last year's malicious backdoor in XZ 5.6 inserted by a then-co-maintainer of the project. XZ 5.6.2 was out last May while XZ 5.8.0 is now stable today for bringing new features to this lossless data compressor project...

XZ 5.8 Debuts As First Major Feature Release Since The Backdoor Disaster - Phoronix

XZ 5.8 is out today as the first notable feature release since last year's malicious backdoor in XZ 5.6 inserted by a then-co-maintainer of th...

MPV 0.40 Media Player Released With Wayland HDR Support MPV 0.40 was just released as the newest version of this open-source media player derived from MPlayer/MPlayer2. With the MPV 0.40 release there is support for HDR videos on Wayland using the new color management protocol along with a variety of other new features...

MPV 0.40 Media Player Released With Wayland HDR Support - Phoronix

MPV 0.40 was just released as the newest version of this open-source media player derived from MPlayer/MPlayer2

Flowblade 2.20 Open-Source Video Editor Leveraging SDL2, Other Improvements Flowblade 2.20 is out this morning as the newest feature update to this open-source, non-linear video editing system for Linux...

Flowblade 2.20 Open-Source Video Editor Leveraging SDL2, Other Improvements - Phoronix

Flowblade 2.20 is out this morning as the newest feature update to this open-source, non-linear video editing system for Linux.

GRUB Bootloader Received 73 Patches To Fix A Variety Of Recent Security Issues The GRUB bootloader saw a set of 73 patches last month for addressing a variety of security flaws that were discovered...

GRUB Bootloader Received 73 Patches To Fix A Variety Of Recent Security Issues - Phoronix

The GRUB bootloader saw a set of 73 patches last month for addressing a variety of security flaws that were discovered.

Wayland Protocols 1.42 Updates Cursor Shape & Tablet Protocols With the FreeDesktop.org GitLab infrastructure getting back up, Wayland Protocols 1.42 was released today as the newest version of this official set of protocols for Wayland compositors...

Wayland Protocols 1.42 Updates Cursor Shape & Tablet Protocols - Phoronix

With the FreeDesktop.org GitLab infrastructure getting back up, Wayland Protocols 1.42 was released today as the newest version of this official se...

Arch Linux Powered Endeavour OS "Mercury Neo" Released The Endeavour OS enthusiast Linux distribution built atop Arch Linux is out with its March 2025 ISO refresh under the codename "Mercury Neo" for this spin featuring the latest software packages...

Arch Linux Powered Endeavour OS "Mercury Neo" Released - Phoronix

The Endeavour OS enthusiast Linux distribution built atop Arch Linux is out with its March 2025 ISO refresh under the codename 'Mercury Neo&#0...

KDE KWin Lands FIFO v1 Wayland Support, GNOME 48 Squeezed In XDG Toplevel Drag v1 There is some new Wayland protocol support activity this week worth mentioning for both the KDE Plasma and GNOME desktops...

KDE KWin Lands FIFO v1 Wayland Support, GNOME 48 Squeezed In XDG Toplevel Drag v1 - Phoronix

There is some new Wayland protocol support activity this week worth mentioning for both the KDE Plasma and GNOME desktops.

KDE Continues Prepping More Features For Plasma 6.4 KDE developers continue pushing ahead with new feature development on the Plasma 6.4 desktop to further refine Plasma 6...

KDE Continues Prepping More Features For Plasma 6.4 - Phoronix

KDE developers continue pushing ahead with new feature development on the Plasma 6.4 desktop to further refine Plasma 6.

Linux 6.14 Sees Last Minute Fix For A Two Year Old Regression Causing A 30% Performance Drop Submitted today ahead of the Linux 6.14 stable release expected Sunday is a lone scheduler fix for the kernel. This patch is for reverting a change made to the Linux kernel two years ago that ended up regressing some workloads with a significant performance hit...

Linux 6.14 Sees Last Minute Fix For A Two Year Old Regression Causing A 30% Performance Drop - Phoronix

Submitted today ahead of the Linux 6.14 stable release expected Sunday is a lone scheduler fix for the kernel