RadeonSI Lands Shared Virtual Memory "SVM" Support For Mesa 25.2 Adding to the many graphics driver features to look forward to with next quarter's Mesa 25.2 release is now Shared Virtual Memory (SVM) support for the RadeonSI Gallium3D driver...

RadeonSI Lands Shared Virtual Memory "SVM" Support For Mesa 25.2 - Phoronix

Adding to the many graphics driver features to look forward to with next quarter's Mesa 25.2 release is now Shared Virtual Memory (SVM) suppor...

Intel Graphics Compiler 2.12.5 Brings Fixes, C++20 Compatibility Updates The Intel Graphics Compiler "IGC" 2.12.5 release just occurred as the next feature release to this open-source graphics compiler used by the Intel Compute Runtime and also by various graphics APIs under Microsoft Windows with the Intel graphics driver...

Intel Graphics Compiler 2.12.5 Brings Fixes, C++20 Compatibility Updates - Phoronix

The Intel Graphics Compiler 'IGC' 2.12.5 release just occurred as the next feature release to this open-source graphics compiler used by ...

RADV Vulkan Driver Lands Some "Random Bits & Pieces" For CDNA Accelerators The RADV open-source Radeon Vulkan driver within Mesa supports GFX9/Vega graphics cards but not the later CDNA-based Instinct accelerators. However, some patches merged today for Mesa 25.2-devel did introduce some "random bits and pieces" for CDNA but not a full implementation...

RADV Vulkan Driver Lands Some "Random Bits & Pieces" For CDNA Accelerators - Phoronix

The RADV open-source Radeon Vulkan driver within Mesa supports GFX9/Vega graphics cards but not the later CDNA-based Instinct accelerators

Firefox 140 Released With "Unload Tab", CSS Custom Highlighting API Mozilla Firefox 140 release binaries are available today as what's going to be the web browser project's next Extended Support Release (ESR) version...

Firefox 140 Released With "Unload Tab", CSS Custom Highlighting API - Phoronix

Mozilla Firefox 140 release binaries are available today as what's going to be the web browser project's next Extended Support Release (E...

RADV Driver Lands VK_EXT_shader_float8 Support The Mesa Radeon Vulkan driver "RADV" is now the first Mesa in-tree driver supporting 8-bit floating point use within shaders via the new VK_EXT_shader_float8 extension...

RADV Driver Lands VK_EXT_shader_float8 Support - Phoronix

The Mesa Radeon Vulkan driver 'RADV' is now the first Mesa in-tree driver supporting 8-bit floating point use within shaders via the new ...

KDE Plasma Remains Committed To A Wayland Future: 70%+ Already On Wayland Prominent KDE developer Nate Graham put out a blog post today reaffirming the KDE Plasma's intent that Wayland is their main focus and X11 support continues to be maintained but eventually it will go away. Nate Graham also noted around 73% of KDE Plasma 6 users are already using the Wayland session...

KDE Plasma Remains Committed To A Wayland Future: 70%+ Already On Wayland - Phoronix

Prominent KDE developer Nate Graham put out a blog post today reaffirming the KDE Plasma's intent that Wayland is their main focus and X11 sup...

XLibre 25.0 Released As Inaugural Version Of X.Org Server Fork XLibre 25.0 was just released as the first tagged release of this recent X.Org Server fork...

XLibre 25.0 Released As Inaugural Version Of X.Org Server Fork - Phoronix

XLibre 25.0 was just released as the first tagged release of this recent X.Org Server fork.

KDE Plasma 6.4 Is Looking To Be In Good Shape, Fewer Bugs KDE developer Nate Graham is out with his weekly blog post summarizing all of the interesting KDE Plasma developments for the past week. Notable this week was the debut of Plasma 6.4 stable and from early user feedback appears to be in good shape...

KDE Plasma 6.4 Is Looking To Be In Good Shape, Fewer Bugs - Phoronix

KDE developer Nate Graham is out with his weekly blog post summarizing all of the interesting KDE Plasma developments for the past week

Vulkan 1.4.319 Published With New Data Graph Extension Just one week after Vulkan 1.4.318 was introduced with a new Valve extension, Vulkan 1.4.319 released this morning with another new extension...

Vulkan 1.4.319 Published With New Data Graph Extension - Phoronix

Just one week after Vulkan 1.4.318 was introduced with a new Valve extension, Vulkan 1.4.319 released this morning with another new extension.

Microsoft Releases WSL 2.6 As The First Open-Source Release Microsoft announced back in May at their Build developer conference that WSL would be going open-source. Todya Windows Subsystem for Linux 2.6 was released as their first new release now being an open-source project...

Microsoft Releases WSL 2.6 As The First Open-Source Release - Phoronix

Microsoft announced back in May at their Build developer conference that WSL would be going open-source