Wine-Staging 10.2 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 10.2 is out at 292 patches atop upstream Wine and containing two new patches...

Wine-Staging 10.12 Release Brings Patch For 11 Year Old Bug - Phoronix

It's been a while since there have been any new patches in the Wine-Staging experimental area to note

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...

NVIDIA Publishes RTXNTC 0.7 Beta For Neural Texture Compression - Phoronix

NVIDIA software engineers ended out the week by releasing a new beta of their RTX Neural Texture Compression (NTC) SDK

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...

GNOME Builder & Digital Wellbeing Code Improved This Week - Phoronix

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...

KDE Preps More Crash KWin Crash Fixes, New Feature Work For Plasma 6.5 - Phoronix

KDE developer Nate Graham is out with his weekly development recap of all interesting things and fixes merged for the week to Plasma.

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 …

AMD Radeon RX 9070 Ray-Tracing Performance Improving With Mesa 25.2 - Phoronix

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 ...

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...

Improved Debugging Support For AMDGPU Driver Expected For Linux 6.17 - Phoronix

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

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 dr…

RadeonSI Begins Upstreaming Its OpenGL Mesh Shader Support - Phoronix

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 notab...

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...

QuestDB 9.0 Released For High Performance, Time-Series Database - Phoronix

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

GCC 12.5 Compiler Released To End Out The GCC 12 Series With 241+ Bug Fixes For those 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...

GCC 12.5 Compiler Released To End Out The GCC 12 Series With 241+ Bug Fixes - Phoronix

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 debute...

OpenCL 3.0.19 Released With SPIR-V Queries & Android Hardware Buffer Extensions The Khronos Group today published the OpenCL 3.0.19 documentation as the latest specification for the OpenCL 3.0 compute API...

OpenCL 3.0.19 Released With SPIR-V Queries & Android Hardware Buffer Extensions - Phoronix

The Khronos Group today published the OpenCL 3.0.19 documentation as the latest specification for the OpenCL 3.0 compute API.