SquashFS Tools 4.7.3 Brings Optimizations For As Much As "1500 Times" Speed Improvement For those dealing with SquashFS compressed, read-only file-systems, a new version of the user-space tools were released this week...

SquashFS Tools 4.7.3 Brings Optimizations For As Much As "1500 Times" Speed Improvement - Phoronix

For those dealing with SquashFS compressed, read-only file-systems, a new version of the user-space tools were released this week.

Qt Merges Wayland Color Management "color-management-v1" The Qt toolkit has merged support for Wayland's color-management-v1 protocol to replace the former xx-color-management-v4 protocol shipped by this open-source toolkit. The change was merged for Qt 6.11 development but also back-ported for the Qt 6.10 series...

Qt Merges Wayland Color Management "color-management-v1" - Phoronix

The Qt toolkit has merged support for Wayland's color-management-v1 protocol to replace the former xx-color-management-v4 protocol shipped by ...

GTK Adds "Reduced Motion" Accessibility Option To Follow macOS, Windows & Others In addition to GNOME's Mutter compositor removing its X11 back-end support to focus exclusively on Wayland while keeping around XWayland client support, another notable GNOME change this week was the GTK toolkit adding a "reduced motion" accessibility option...

GTK Adds "Reduced Motion" Accessibility Option To Follow macOS, Windows & Others - Phoronix

In addition to GNOME's Mutter compositor removing its X11 back-end support to focus exclusively on Wayland while keeping around XWayland clien...

Mesa 25.3-rc4 Brings Fix For Many Steam Play Games To Properly Run On Intel Linux Driver Mesa 25.3-rc4 is available for testing as the latest weekly candidate as we work toward the Mesa 25.3 stable release this month...

Mesa 25.3-rc4 Brings Fix For Many Steam Play Games To Properly Run On Intel Linux Driver - Phoronix

Mesa 25.3-rc4 is available for testing as the latest weekly candidate as we work toward the Mesa 25.3 stable release this month.

Hyprland 0.52 Released With New Features For This Wayland Compositor Hyprland 0.52 is available today as the latest feature update for this alternative Wayland compositor...

Hyprland 0.52 Released With New Features For This Wayland Compositor - Phoronix

Vulkan 1.4.332 Brings A New Qualcomm Extension For AI / ML Vulkan 1.4.332 is out today as the latest weekly update to this high performance graphics and compute API specification. Besides a number of documentation clarifications/corrections, there is one new extension this week in the name of AI / machine learning...

Vulkan 1.4.332 Brings A New Qualcomm Extension For AI / ML - Phoronix

Vulkan 1.4.332 is out today as the latest weekly update to this high performance graphics and compute API specification

Mesa Lands Fixes For HDR With Vulkan Drivers Merged overnight to Mesa 26.0-devel and likely to be back-ported for the upcoming Mesa 23.3 release are a few fixes around high dynamic range (HDR) support within the common Vulkan windowing system integration (WSI) / display code...

Mesa Lands Fixes For HDR With Vulkan Drivers - Phoronix

Merged overnight to Mesa 26.0-devel and likely to be back-ported for the upcoming Mesa 25.3 release are a few fixes around high dynamic range (HDR)...

Archinstall 3.0.13 Adds WiFi Connection Menu To Arch Linux Installer Just days after the Archinstall 3.0.12 release for this text-based Arch Linux installer, Archinstall 3.0.13 is now available to deliver a new feature. That new feature is a text-based interface for being able to connect to a WiFi network within Archinstall...

Archinstall 3.0.13 Adds WiFi Connection Menu To Arch Linux Installer - Phoronix

Just days after the Archinstall 3.0.12 release for this text-based Arch Linux installer, Archinstall 3.0.13 is now available to deliver a new feature

Intel ANV Vulkan Driver Finally Exposes Pipeline Binary "VK_KHR_pipeline_binary" Introduced back in August of 2024 with Vulkan 1.3.294 was VK_KHR_pipeline_binary as a pipeline binary extension to retrieve binary data associated with individual pipelines. The focus of this is to bypass the Vulkan pipeline caching mechanism and so applications can manage caches themselves. Finally today for Mesa 26.0-devel the Intel "ANV" open-source Vulkan…

Intel ANV Vulkan Driver Finally Exposes Pipeline Binary "VK_KHR_pipeline_binary" - Phoronix

Introduced back in August of 2024 with Vulkan 1.3.294 was VK_KHR_pipeline_binary as a pipeline binary extension to retrieve binary data associated ...

RadeonSI + ACO Brings Some Performance Gains For Radeon Workstation Graphics Last week Mesa 26.0-devel enabled the ACO back-end by default within the RadeonSI Gallium3D driver for all supported Radeon graphics cards by this open-source Linux driver. This move was done in the name of better performance, faster shader compilation times, and ACO being all-around better than the AMDGPU LLVM back-end these days for both OpenGL and Vulkan use. I…

RadeonSI + ACO Brings Some Performance Gains For Radeon Workstation Graphics - Phoronix

Last week Mesa 26.0-devel enabled the ACO back-end by default within the RadeonSI Gallium3D driver for all supported Radeon graphics cards by this ...