Wayland Protocols 1.43 Released With Toplevel Tag Protocol Wayland Protocols 1.43 is out this morning with one new protocol: xdg_toplevel_tag_v1... image
CUPS 2.4.12 Released To End Out The CUPS 2.4 Print Server Series After the CUPS lead developer left Apple and OpenPrinting taking up CUPS developer after Apple ceased development, CUPS 2.4 eventually materialized. CUPS 2.4 released in 2021 as the culmination of that work to restore the open-source development around this print server while today brings CUPS 2.4.12 for ending out the series and looking toward a future with CUPS 2.5... image
Linux Patches Revised For The Lenovo Gaming Series WMI Drivers One of the patch series that unfortunately weren't finished up in time for the recent Linux v6.15 kernel merge window were the Lenovo Gaming Series WMI Drivers. These are the drivers for supporting some of the Lenovo gaming-oriented hardware under Linux and all the more interesting with the Lenovo Legion Go S handheld having an official Steam OS option... image
Five Year Old Ubuntu Bug For NVIDIA Suspend/Resume Experience: Now Working On X11, Wayland Not Yet For those looking toward a pleasant suspend and resume experience on Ubuntu with the default GNOME desktop, the Ubuntu 25.04 cycle is poised to allow for addressing a five-year-old Ubuntu bug report around the experience. However, for the near-term this is only expected to be in good shape for those using the GNOME X11 session with the GNOME Wa… image
RISC-V With Linux 6.15 Adds Support For BFloat16 "BF16" Instructions Merged on Friday for the nearly-over Linux 6.15 merge window were the RISC-V CPU architecture updates for this next kernel release... image
KDE Plasma Lands More Crash Fixes This Week, Refines Its Crash Reporting Wizard It's been a busy start to April for KDE Plasma developers as they continue working toward the Plasma 6.4 feature release. There have been yet more crash fixes along with other polishing and stability enhancements to kick off the new month... image
Wine 10.5 Brings Vulkan H.264 Video Decoding, Mono 10.0 & Bluetooth Pairing Wine 10.5 is out today as the newest bi-weekly development release of this open-source software that is the basis for Valve's Steam Play and allows Windows games and applications to run on Linux systems and elsewhere... image
Vulkan 1.4.312 Brings Two New Extensions From NVIDIA & Qualcomm Vulkan 1.4.312 is out today as the newest routine spec update to this high performance graphics and compute API. In addition to the usual mundane clarifications and fixes, this update brings two new extensions from Qualcomm and NVIDIA... image
Linux 6.15 USB/Thunderbolt Changes Include The New PS883X Driver Along with the staging updates, driver core, and char/misc merges this week for the areas of the kernel overseen by Greg Kroah-Hartman, he also sent out the USB and Thunderbolt updates for the Linux 6.15 kernel... image
Rust Is Looking For Your Feedback To Help Guide Its Future With Rust turning ten years old this year, they are reflecting and working to draft plans for the next decade. They have started the Rust Vision Survey where they are looking for feedback from all Rust skill-sets as they look toward the future... image