Mesa 25.2-rc2 Released With Intel Wildcat Lake Enablement, Legacy-X11 Option Deprecated Eric Engestrom just released Mesa 25.2-rc2 as the newest, on-time weekly release candidate for this quarter's Mesa 25.2 feature series... image
Pogocache 1.0 Released: Claims Better Performance Than Memcache, Valkey & Redis Pogocache 1.0 was released today as a fast open-source caching software that aims for low latency and great CPU efficiency. Pogocache supports Memcache / Valkey / Redis / HTTP / Postgres wire protocols while claiming to offer much better throughput and lower latency than these caching alternatives... image
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... image
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... image
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... image
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… image
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... image
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... image
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… image
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... image