Python 3.14 RC1 Released With Free-Threaded Python Officially Supported The first release candidate of Python 3.14 is now available for testing as what will be this year's big feature update to this popular scripting language...

Python 3.14 RC1 Released With Free-Threaded Python Officially Supported - Phoronix

The first release candidate of Python 3.14 is now available for testing as what will be this year's big feature update to this popular scripti...

Mesa 25.3 Merges Vulkan WSI Support For Using Atomic Mode-Setting A nearly five year old merge request was merged today to Mesa Git for Q4's Mesa 25.3 release. This merge transitions the Vulkan windowing system integration (WSI) from using the DRM "legacy" kernel mode-setting APIs over to the modern atomic mode-setting interfaces...

Mesa 25.3 Merges Vulkan WSI Support For Using Atomic Mode-Setting - Phoronix

A nearly five year old merge request was merged today to Mesa Git for Q4's Mesa 25.3 release

Intel Wildcat Lake OpenGL & Vulkan Support Upstreamed In Mesa Intel Linux software engineers have recently been busy working on Wildcat Lake support primarily for the kernel drivers while now that work has been extended to Mesa for the Intel Iris Gallium3D (OpenGL) and ANV Vulkan drivers...

Intel Wildcat Lake OpenGL & Vulkan Support Upstreamed In Mesa - Phoronix

Intel Linux software engineers have recently been busy working on Wildcat Lake support primarily for the kernel drivers while now that work has bee...

HarfBuzz 11.3 Delivers Significant Performance Improvements HarfBuzz 11.3 released on Sunday as the newest release of this open-source text shaping engine. HarfBuzz 11.3 brings some nice performance improvements for this text shaping engine that is used by many prominent software programs and toolkits like Google Chrome, Firefox, GNOME / GTK, KDE / Qt, LibreOffice, OpenJDK, Godot, and many closed-source programs too like Adoboe Photoshop and…

HarfBuzz 11.3 Delivers Significant Performance Improvements - Phoronix

HarfBuzz 11.3 released on Sunday as the newest release of this open-source text shaping engine

Firefox 141 Release Brings Lower RAM Usage On Linux The Mozilla Firefox 141.0 release binaries are out today for this monthly update to this cross-platform, open-source web browser...

Firefox 141 Release Brings Lower RAM Usage On Linux - Phoronix

The Mozilla Firefox 141.0 release binaries are out today for this monthly update to this cross-platform, open-source web browser.

Linux 6.16-rc7 Released: "I Think We're In Good Shape" The seventh weekly release candidate of Linux 6.16 is now availablr for testing with the stable release debuting hopefully next Sunday otherwise the following week...

Linux 6.16-rc7 Released: "I Think We're In Good Shape" - Phoronix

The seventh weekly release candidate of Linux 6.16 is now available for testing with the stable release debuting hopefully next Sunday otherwise th...

Radeon Vulkan Driver's Emulated Ray-Tracing Scores A ~40% Improvement For Quake II RTX In addition to Mesa's open-source Radeon Vulkan driver "RADV" making some nice performance improvements for modern AMD GPUs with hardware ray-tracing, the emulated ray-tracing code path in RADV for primarily older GPUs has seen some improvements merged this weekend. In fact, so significant that from one merge request is around 40% faster performance fo…

Radeon Vulkan Driver's Emulated Ray-Tracing Scores A ~40% Improvement For Quake II RTX - Phoronix

In addition to Mesa's open-source Radeon Vulkan driver 'RADV' making some nice performance improvements for modern AMD GPUs with har...

Debian 13.0 "Trixie" Planning For Release On August 9 The Debian release team today shared their final release plans for Debian 13 "Trixie" that aims to be out as stable in less than one month's time...

Debian 13.0 "Trixie" Planning For Release On August 9 - Phoronix

The Debian release team today shared their final release plans for Debian 13 'Trixie' that aims to be out as stable in less than one mont...

Rust-Written NOVA Open-Source NVIDIA Driver Being Further Built Out In Linux 6.17 For Linux 6.17 in addition to Intel enabling SR-IOV for Battlemage graphics cards and many other big Intel Xe kernel graphics cards and then more AMD graphics driver features too, the NOVA driver for modern open-source NVIDIA driver support is continuing to be further built out in this next kernel version...

Rust-Written NOVA Open-Source NVIDIA Driver Being Further Built Out In Linux 6.17 - Phoronix

For Linux 6.17 in addition to Intel enabling SR-IOV for Battlemage graphics cards and many other big Intel Xe kernel graphics cards and then more A...

KDE Plasma 6.5 Brings Rounded Bottom Corners For Windows By Default KDE Plasma 6.5 is introducing a change that has been "years in the wanting" and that is rounded bottom corners for windows...

KDE Plasma 6.5 Brings Rounded Bottom Corners For Windows By Default - Phoronix

KDE Plasma 6.5 is introducing a change that has been 'years in the wanting' and that is rounded bottom corners for windows.