GNOME Shell & Mutter 50 Beta Releases Bring Stable VRR, Improved Frame Scheduling Ahead of the imminent GNOME 50 beta release, the GNOME Shell and Mutter components have declared their "50.beta" releases to ship the latest bug fixes, memory leak fixes, and some last minute improvements ahead of the stable release in March... https://www.phoronix.com/news/GNOME-Shell-Mutter-50-Beta

Mesa 26.0-rc3 Released With More Graphics Driver Fixes Eric Engestrom is out with another on-time Mesa release. Mesa 26.0-rc3 provides the latest week's worth of bug fixes as we work toward the stable Mesa 26.0 release as soon as next week... https://www.phoronix.com/news/Mesa-26.0-rc3-Released

Intel Driver Disabling Vulkan Video Encode On Newer Hardware Due To Insufficient Testing While Vulkan Video is a cross-vendor, cross-platform video encode and decode API that is beginning to gain traction by multimedia applications and frameworks, the Intel "ANV" open-source Vulkan driver has for now taken a step-back on its encode support with newer hardware. Newer Intel graphics hardware is seeing Vulkan Video encode support disabled due to insufficient testing... https://www.phoronix.com/news/Intel-Vulkan-Video-Disable-New

GNU Coreutils 9.10 Released With Many Improvements Earlier this week Rust Coreutils 0.6 released while out today is GNU Coreutils 9.10 as the de facto standard for this set of core utilities on Linux systems and other platforms... https://www.phoronix.com/news/GNU-Coreutils-9.10

LibreOffice 26.2 Released With Many Refinements To This Open-Source Office Suite LibreOffice 26.2 is now officially released as the newest half-year update to this leading open-source and cross-platform free software office suite... https://www.phoronix.com/news/LibreOffice-26.2-Released

libinput 1.31 Bringing Support For Fast Three-Finger Swipes Linux input expert Peter Hutterer of Red Hat announced today the first release candidate of libinput 1.31, the input handling library used by both modern X.Org Server and Wayland desktop environments... https://www.phoronix.com/news/libinput-1.31-rc1

NVIDIA DLSS For Blender Under Review But Licensing Concerns Persist A few months ago at SIGGRAPH was a demo of Blender with NVIDIA Deep Learning Super Sampling (DLSS) integration. The pull request is now open for landing NVIDIA DLSS support into Blender for better quality upscaling/denoising and performance but concerns persist over the licensing due to NVIDIA DLSS binaries... https://www.phoronix.com/news/NVIDIA-DLSS-Blender

GNOME 50 Lands Virtual Monitor / Remote Desktop Improvements - Including HiDPI In time for next month's GNOME 50 release are some improvements merged today for the Mutter compositor code adding HiDPI and monitor mode emulation support to the screen-casting API and DevKit... https://www.phoronix.com/news/GNOME-50-Remote-Desktop-HiDPI

Reworked NTFS Linux Driver Posted With More Improvements & Fixes Announced back in October was NTFS Plus as a new Linux driver for NTFS based on the former NTFS kernel driver prior to Paragon Software contributing the NTFS3 driver code. The intent with this new driver is for better performance. more features, public user-space utilities around it, and all-around a nice step forward for those reliant on this Microsoft file-system. Out this week is the sixth iteration of … https://www.phoronix.com/news/NTFS-Remake-Linux-v6

Rust Coreutils 0.6 Brings Increased Compatibility, Removing Some Unsafe Code & More Perf Following the Rust Coreutils presentation from FOSDEM this weekend, Rust Coreutils 0.6 is now available as the latest feature release for this Rust programming language re-implementation of GNU Coreutils... https://www.phoronix.com/news/Rust-Coreutils-0.6