Inkscape Celebrates 20 Years With New Release

The Inkscape open-source graphics editor application that is popular among Linux users and has evolved into a viable alternative to the likes of Adobe Illustrator is celebrating its 20th anniversary...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Inkscape-1.3.1-For-20-Years

Microsoft Enables OpenGL 4.6 Support Over Direct3D 12

The week began with Microsoft taking its Mesa Direct3D 12 code from OpenGL 4.3 to OpenGL 4.4 and then a short time after that reaching OpenGL 4.5. Microsoft now closed out the week by managing to get OpenGL 4.6 implemented atop Direct3D 12...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Microsoft-OpenGL-4.6-D3D12

Open-Source Graphics DevRoom Returning For FOSDEM 2024

Luc Verhaegen has announced the return of the Graphics DevRoom for FOSDEM 2024 taking place in early February in Brussels...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Graphics-DevRoom-FOSDEM-24

Etnaviv NPU Open-Source Driver Now Twice As Fast For Image Classification Workloads

Tomeu Vizoso has been leading the effort for supporting Vivante's NPU IP within the Etnaviv driver that began as a reverse-engineered driver for Vivante graphics. The Vivante NPU architecture ends up being close to the graphics cores and Vizoso has been making good progress for enabling the NPUs on this open-source stack. The latest achievement is image classifi…
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Etnaviv-NPU-2x-Fast

Firefox 120 Ready With Global Privacy Control, WebAssembly GC On By Default

Ahead of the official release announcement due out tomorrow, the Mozilla Firefox 120.0 release binaries are now available...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Firefox-120-Available

Open-Source NVIDIA "NVK" Driver Is Now Conformant For Vulkan 1.0

Mesa's NVK Vulkan driver atop the Nouveau DRM kernel driver is now officially Vulkan 1.0 conformant for passing all the necessary Vulkan 1.0 conformance test suite cases. Though don't get your hopes too high for this open-source NVIDIA Linux driver as the performance is still overall slow and the driver stack remains a work-in-progress, but at least it's a step in the right …
https://www.phoronix.com/news/NVK-Vulkan-1.0-Conformant

FreeBSD 14.0 Released: Supports Up To 1,024 CPU Cores, OpenZFS 2.2 & Adds Fwget

FreeBSD 14 has been released as stable today as the newest major release of this leading open-source BSD operating system...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/FreeBSD-14.0-Released

wlroots 0.17 Adds New Wayland Protocols, Continued Vulkan Renderer Work

Released on Tuesday was a new version of wlroots, the Wayland compositor support library that was born out of the i3-inspired Sway compositor project. With this new release are new Wayland protocols, continued work on their Vulkan renderer, and the ability for the Wayland back-end to embed a wlroots compositor inside an existing Wayland client...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/wlroots-0.17

The Linux Kernel Preparing To Drop Infrastructure For Old & Obsolete Graphics Drivers

Back during the Linux 6.3 kernel support for a number of legacy DRM drivers was removed and now patches have been volleyed for taking things one step further by now eliminating the infrastructure for supporting these older user-space mode-setting graphics/display drivers...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-Drop-Old-UMS-DRM-Infra

Xen 4.18 Hypervisor Released With Support For New AMD EPYC & Intel Xeon CPU Features

The Linux Foundation today announced the release of the Xen Project Hypervisor 4.18 for this open-source hypervisor that serves as an alternative to Linux KVM use...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Xen-4.18-Hypervisor

OpenSSL 3.2 Released With Client-Side QUIC, SSL/TLS Security Level 2 Default

OpenSSL 3.2 was released this morning as the latest major update to this widely-used cryptography and SSL/TLS project...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/OpenSSL-3.2-Released

Imagination PowerVR Open-Source GPU Driver To Be Introduced In Linux 6.8

It's been well over a decade since many were wanting open-source Imagination PowerVR graphics when their graphics IP was more common among SoCs, but with the Linux 6.8 kernel in early 2024 there will finally be an upstream, open-source PowerVR DRM kernel graphics driver! But before getting your hopes too high, this is the effort that's only around the newer Power…
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Imagination-PVR-Linux-6.8-DRM

GIMP 3.0 Is Hoping To Release In May

GIMP 3.0 could be finally released in a few months if all goes very well...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/GIMP-3.0-May-2024-Schedule

Atomic Async Page Flips Expected To Land For Linux 6.8

Following yesterday's week drm-misc-next pull that added the new Imagination PowerVRM DRM driver, the three patches for atomic DRM_MODE_PAGE_FLIP_ASYNC were queued into drm-misc-next. Now that this atomic async page flip support is in drm-misc-next, next week it should appear in DRM-Next and in turn make it for the Linux 6.8 kernel in the new year...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-6.8-Atomic-Async-Flips

LACT Is The Newest AMD Radeon GUI Control Panel For Linux

While the open-source AMD Radeon Linux graphics driver is well received by the community, one of the longest sought features has been an official GUI control panel for managing the driver settings and the like under Linux with ease. AMD for their part exposes much of the same tunables available under Windows but is left to just command-line controls or software to poke differen…
https://www.phoronix.com/news/AMDGPU-LACT-GUI-Control-Panel

Arrow Lake Support Added To The Intel Graphics Compiler

Intel on Thursday committed Arrow Lake "ARL" support to their open-source Intel Graphics Compiler (IGC) that is used by their Compute Runtime stack for OpenCL and Level Zero while on Windows IGC is additionally used as their graphics shader compiler as well...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Intel-Arrow-Lake-IGC

Noctua NH-U14S & NH-D9 Air Cooling For The AMD Ryzen Threadripper 7980X

For those wondering about the air cooling prospects for DIY builds with the new 350 Watt AMD Ryzen Threadripper 7000 series processors, here's a brief look at the new Noctua heatsink options for the Socket sTR5 processors and the results in use with a Threadripper 7980X 64-core / 128-thread workstation.
https://www.phoronix.com/review/noctua-threadripper-7980x

Mesa 23.3-rc5 Released With The Latest Open-Source GPU Driver Fixes

Eric Engestrom on Friday released the fifth weekly release candidate of Mesa 23.3 with this quarterly stable release hopefully debuting in the next week...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Mesa-23.3-rc5-Released

KDE Is Down To Just One Wayland Showstopper Bug Remaining

The KDE Plasma 6.0 feature freeze is quickly approaching and the Plasma Wayland showstopper bug list is nearly cleared out for being able to endorse the Plasma Wayland session over X11...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/KDE-One-Wayland-Showstopper

Firefox 121 Is Looking Good For Having Wayland Enabled By Default

Firefox 121 is aiming to ship with Wayland support enabled by default rather than falling back to XWayland on modern Linux desktops. So far things are looking up for this indeed remaining the case for next month's Firefox 121 stable release...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Firefox-121-Wayland-Good