FFmpeg 8.0 Released With OpenAI Whisper Filter, Many Vulkan Video Improvements FFmpeg 8.0 is now available! FFmpeg 8.0 is a magnificent update to this widely-used open-source multimedia library and with this new version is the introduction of an OpenAI Whisper filter for automatic speech recognition, many Vulkan Video improvements for greater GPU-accelerated video handling, and a number of CPU performance optimizations...

FFmpeg 8.0 Released With OpenAI Whisper Filter, Many Vulkan Video Improvements - Phoronix

Libre-Chip Awarded NLnet Grant To Prototype A CPU That Isn't Vulnerable To Spectre Flaws The Libre-Chip project led by Jacob Lifshay has received a grant from NLNet to develop a prototype/proof-of-concept processor design that can be high performance but not vulnerable to speculative execution vulnerabilities like Spectre...

Libre-Chip Awarded NLnet Grant To Prototype A CPU That Isn't Vulnerable To Spectre Flaws - Phoronix

The Libre-Chip project led by Jacob Lifshay has received a grant from NLNet to develop a prototype/proof-of-concept processor design that can be hi...

LibreOffice 25.8 Released With UI Enhancements, Better Performance LibreOffice 25.8 is now available as the latest half-year feature release to this open-source office suite that is one of the most comprehensive alternatives to Microsoft Office for Linux and other platforms...

LibreOffice 25.8 Released With UI Enhancements, Better Performance - Phoronix

LibreOffice 25.8 is now available as the latest half-year feature release to this open-source office suite that is one of the most comprehensive al...

Git 2.51 Released With More Changes Preparing For Git 3.0 Git 2.51 is out this Monday as the newest milestone for this widely-used, distributed version control system...

Git 2.51 Released With More Changes Preparing For Git 3.0 - Phoronix

Git 2.51 is out this Monday as the newest milestone for this widely-used, distributed version control system.

SDL3 Enhances Logic For Selecting The Most Performant Vulkan GPU The SDL3 library that is widely-used by cross-platform games has landed new code for revising how it selects the high performance GPU in multi-GPU systems...

SDL3 Enhances Logic For Selecting The Most Performant Vulkan GPU - Phoronix

The SDL3 library that is widely-used by cross-platform games has landed new code for revising how it selects the high performance GPU in multi-GPU ...

Wine-Staging 10.13 Adds Patch For 13 Year Old Bug Building off yesterday's Wine 10.13 release following the month-long summer release hiatus, Wine-Staging 10.13 is out today with some 300 patches atop the upstream codebase...

Wine-Staging 10.13 Adds Patch For 13 Year Old Bug - Phoronix

Building off yesterday's Wine 10.13 release following the month-long summer release hiatus, Wine-Staging 10.13 is out today with some 300 patc...

Ubuntu Developing New "Dangerous" Desktop Images Concept The Ubuntu Release Management Team is pursuing a new concept called "Dangerous" Desktop Images that will ship leading-edge Snaps atop the latest Ubuntu daily development images...

Ubuntu Developing New "Dangerous" Desktop Images Concept - Phoronix

The Ubuntu Release Management Team is pursuing a new concept called 'Dangerous' Desktop Images that will ship leading-edge Snaps atop the...

Ubuntu 25.10 Enters Its Feature Freeze Period As of today the Ubuntu 25.10 "Questing Quokka" is now under a feature freeze ahead of the stable release due out in October...

Ubuntu 25.10 Enters Its Feature Freeze Period - Phoronix

As of today the Ubuntu 25.10 'Questing Quokka' is now under a feature freeze ahead of the stable release due out in October.

LibreOffice 26.2 To Better Handle Documents With Restricted Embedded Fonts Next year's LibreOffice 26.2 open-source office suite is set to better handle documents with restricted embedded fonts. This is for dealing with situations where fonts may have restricted licensing rights and where up to now LibreOffice Writer simply hasn't dealt with them correctly...

LibreOffice 26.2 To Better Handle Documents With Restricted Embedded Fonts - Phoronix

Next year's LibreOffice 26.2 open-source office suite is set to better handle documents with restricted embedded fonts

Linux 6.18 With Nouveau Driver Will Default To Using GSP Firmware A change queued in drm-misc-next for DRM-Next ahead of the Linux 6.18 kernel cycle later this year is promoting the Nouveau driver for open-source NVIDIA GPU support to be using the GSP firmware by default. This reflects the reality that using the NVIDIA GPU System Processor "GSP" firmware with Turing and Ampere GPUs should provide a better experience than the older firmware alte…

Linux 6.18 With Nouveau Driver Will Default To Using GSP Firmware - Phoronix

A change queued in drm-misc-next for DRM-Next ahead of the Linux 6.18 kernel cycle later this year is promoting the Nouveau driver for open-source ...