Wayland Color Management & HDR Protocol Support Merged As a quick follow-up to the article earlier today... The Wayland Color Management and HDR protocol support is now merged to upstream Wayland Protocols!..

Wayland Color Management & HDR Protocol Support Merged - Phoronix

As a quick follow-up to the article earlier today..

Wayland Color Management & HDR Protocols Expected To Be Merged Imminently Today could finally be the day. In the works for 5+ years, the Wayland color management and HDR protocol additions look like they will finally be merged in the coming hours...

Wayland Color Management & HDR Protocols Expected To Be Merged Imminently - Phoronix

Today could finally be the day

Mesa 25.0-rc3 Released With Numerous RADV & RadeonSI Fixes Mesa 25.0-rc3 is out today as a rather large weekly release candidate to Mesa 25.0 that will be debuting as stable later this month...

Mesa 25.0-rc3 Released With Numerous RADV & RadeonSI Fixes - Phoronix

Mesa 25.0-rc3 is out today as a rather large weekly release candidate to Mesa 25.0 that will be debuting as stable later this month.

Python 3.14 Alpha 5 Released With New Tail-Call Interpreter Python 3.14 Alpha 5 is out today as the latest of many development releases in stepping toward the Python 3.14 stable release in October...

Python 3.14 Alpha 5 Released With New Tail-Call Interpreter - Phoronix

Python 3.14 Alpha 5 is out today as the latest of many development releases in stepping toward the Python 3.14 stable release in October.

GNOME 48 Now Allows Grouping Notifications By App While the GNOME 48 feature and UI freezes went into effect just a little more than one week ago, a freeze exception was granted for merging support in GNOME Shell for grouping notifications on a per-app basis...

GNOME 48 Now Allows Grouping Notifications By App - Phoronix

While the GNOME 48 feature and UI freezes went into effect just a little more than one week ago, a freeze exception was granted for merging support...

Ubuntu 25.04's GNOME Web Browser Will Be Able To Play More Web Videos By Default Those making use of the GNOME Web "Epiphany" web browser with the upcoming Ubuntu 25.04 release will be able to enjoy playing more popular web videos thanks to a packaging change...

Ubuntu 25.04's GNOME Web Browser Will Be Able To Play More Web Videos By Default - Phoronix

Those making use of the GNOME Web 'Epiphany' web browser with the upcoming Ubuntu 25.04 release will be able to enjoy playing more popula...

Firefox ForkServer Getting Ready To Enhance Linux Browser Performance Firefox has been shipping their nightly Linux builds the past three months with ForkServer enabled to improve the multi-process browser experience. The results are looking good and Firefox official releases for Linux should soon begin shipping with ForkServer too for this performance win...

Firefox ForkServer Getting Ready To Enhance Linux Browser Performance - Phoronix

Firefox has been shipping their nightly Linux builds the past three months with ForkServer enabled to improve the multi-process browser experience

SysVinit 3.14 Released: Overcomes Three Decade Limitation Of Inittab Line Length For those continuing to make use of SysVinit as the aging init system that in the Linux world has been largely replaced by systemd, SysVinit 3.14 is out today and overcomes a long-standing limitation around the length of lines within the inittab files...

SysVinit 3.14 Released: Overcomes Three Decade Limitation Of Inittab Line Length - Phoronix

For those continuing to make use of SysVinit as the aging init system that in the Linux world has been largely replaced by systemd, SysVinit 3.14 i...

KDE Plasma 6.3 Receives Final Polishing Prior To Release Next Week The KDE Plasma 6.3 desktop has received a lot of last minute polishing and fixes ahead of its planned release next week. Plasma 6.3 is scheduled for its stable debut next Tuesday on 11 February...

KDE Plasma 6.3 Receives Final Polishing Prior To Release Next Week - Phoronix

The KDE Plasma 6.3 desktop has received a lot of last minute polishing and fixes ahead of its planned release next week

GCC 15 Compiler Showing Off Nice Performance Improvements On AMD Zen 5 With the GCC 15 compiler having progressed to its final stage of development prior to the GCC 15.1 stable release in the likely March~April time frame, I've begun testing the updated GNU Compiler Collection on some test systems. Overall GCC 15 is looking nice and on AMD Zen 5 "znver5" in particular seeing some solid gains over GCC 14. Here are some initial performance benchmar…

GCC 15 Compiler Showing Off Nice Performance Improvements On AMD Zen 5 - Phoronix

With the GCC 15 compiler having progressed to its final stage of development prior to the GCC 15.1 stable release in the likely March~April time fr...