Intel's VA-API 2.22 Library Adds VVC/H.266 Video Decode Interface

Intel engineers today released version 2.22 of libva, the driver-agnostic library for the Video Acceleration API (VA-API). Most notable with libva 2.22 is adding a new interface for Versatile Video Coding (VVC / H.266)...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Intel-libva-VA-API-2.22

Miracle-WM v0.3 Released - Working Out To Daily-Drive This Mir-Based Wayland Compositor

Canonical engineer Matthew Kosarek has released Miracle-WM v0.3 as the newest version of this Wayland tiling compositor built atop Mir. Miracle-WM is beginning to be useful and practical enough for daily driving by its lead developer...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Miracle-WM-0.3

Redox OS Doubles The Performance Of Its File-System & I/O Drivers

The Rust-written Redox OS open-source operating system is out with its monthly development summary that notes some interesting work taking place...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Redox-OS-June-2024

Fedora 41 Looks To Finally Say Goodbye To Python 2.7

A change proposal has been filed by Red Hat engineer Miro Hrončok for retiring Python 2.7 within Fedora 41 and to drop packages still depending upon Python 2...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Fedora-41-Drop-Python-2.7

Fedora 42 Looks To Make It Easier For Unprivileged System Flatpaks & Disk Management

In addition to proposed opt-in data metrics collection and the new web-based installer UI, some of the other early proposals for Fedora Linux 42 that isn't due out until April of 2025 is expanding the possibilities for unprivileged users...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Fedora-42-Unprivileged-Proposal

Debian GNU/Hurd Adds Experimental 32-bit SMP Kernel & Rust Compiler

The GNU Hurd team has put out their Q2'2024 status update to outline recent activity around this micro-kernel platform...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Hurd-Progress-Q2-2024

CentOS Stream 10 Taking Shape, Fedora-Flavored Kernels From Kmods SIG

While CentOS 7 reached end of life a few days ago, CentOS Stream 10 as the future basis of RHEL 10 continues advancing along with other ongoing initiatives in the CentOS Stream space...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/CentOS-June-2024

Linux's DRM Panic "Screen of Death" Sees Patches For QR Code Error Messages

Linux 6.10 introduces DRM Panic for providing a new panic screen in case of kernel errors and situations where the VT support may be disabled. This new kernel functionality is akin to Windows' Blue Screen of Death or thanks to open-source can be adapted to take on other forms such as a black screen of death and conveying monochrome logos rather than ASCII art. New …
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-DRM-Panic-QR-Codes

KDE Plasma 6.2 To Support libinput's Auto-Scrolling Feature

It's been a busy start to July with KDE developers tackling more features for Plasma 6.2 while continuing to deliver fixes to the modern KDE Plasma desktop stack...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Plasma-6.2-Auto-Scrolling

Direct3D 8 Support "D8VK" Merged Into DXVK

Direct3D 8 support by way of the D8VK project has now been merged into DXVK, the widely relied upon open-source software for mapping Direct3D 9/10/11 atop Vulkan that is used by Valve's Steam Play (Proton) for enjoying Windows games on Linux...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Direct3D-8-D8VK-In-DXVK

GNU Debugger GDB 15.1 Brings Better Python Support

GDB 15.1 was released on Sunday as the first version in the GNU Debugger 15 branch for this widely-used, open-source debugging solution...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/GDB-15.1-Released

GCC & LLVM/Clang Compilers Updated For Intel Branch Hint

Both the GCC and LLVM/Clang compilers today saw support for Intel's Branch Hint extension merged today for this feature of Redwood Cove P cores as found with current generation Meteor Lake processors as well as upcoming Intel Granite Rapids server processors...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/GCC-Clang-Intel-x86-Branch-Hint

Intel Continues Readying Linux For Lunar Lake's New Adaptive Sharpening Filter

Back in February I wrote about Intel's open-source graphics driver engineers working on a new adaptive sharpening filter capability to be found with upcoming Xe2 graphics starting with Lunar Lake. This new adaptive sharpening filter has minimal power and performance impact and at least according to the driver engineers is working out rather well. Besides th…
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-DRM-Sharpening-Property

LXD 6.1 Released With Automatic Core Pinning Load Balancing, Fixes Hosts With 64+ CPU Cores

Canonical today released LXD 6.1 as the newest version of this Ubuntu-focused solution for managing virtual machines (VMs) and containers...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/LXD-6.1-Released

Fedora Workstation 41 Install Media Will Ship With Wayland-Only GNOME

Fedora Workstation 41 has been granted approval for its installation media (ISOs) to ship with only Wayland GNOME support with the X11 support removed...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Fedora-WS-Wayland-Only-ISOs

Firefox 128 Now Available With A Fix For A 25 Year Old Bug Report

Mozilla Firefox 128.0 is now available for download ahead of the official release announcement due out in the coming hours...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Firefox-128-Released

Hyperscalers Begin Working On CentOS Stream Hyperscale 10

With CentOS Stream 10 beginning to take shape as the basis for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10, the Hyperscale Special Interest Group (SIG) has begun crafting CentOS Stream Hyperscale 10...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/CentOS-Stream-10-Hyperscale

Box64 v0.3 Brings Support For Emulating x86_64 Binaries With AVX/AVX2 On ARM

Box64 v0.3 is now available as the newest feature release to this user-space x86_64 emulator for Linux binaries on AArch64 (ARM64) hosts. Box64 is one of several promising projects in this area for being able to run x86_64 games and applications under ARM64 with great speed...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Box64-0.3-Released

Experimental Code Gets Open-Source Mesa RADV Vulkan Driver Running On Windows

Over the years there have been various attempts at getting the open-source RADV Vulkan driver on Windows, Faith Ekstrand of Collabora has been recently hacking on it and achieving success for having this popular Radeon Vulkan API driver for Linux working under Windows...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Experimental-RADV-Windows

JetBrains IntelliJ-Based IDEs Offer Preview Wayland Support

JetBrains announced this week that via their 2024.2 Early Access Program that IntelliJ-based IDEs will now offer experimental Wayland support...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/JetBrains-IntelliJ-Wayland-Pre

AMD Provides Updated Zen 1/2/3/4 CPU Microcode For Linux Users

Updated AMD CPU microcode was published today and subsequently merged into linux-firmware.git for all Family 17h and Family 19h processors, spanning Zen 1 through Zen 4 models...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/AMD-July-2024-CPU-Microcode

Zed Editor Now Publishing Native Linux Builds

The Rust-written, GPU-accelerated Zed text editor is finally providing official Linux builds!..
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Zed-Native-Linux-Builds

Thunderbird 128 Now Avaialble With More Rust Code & UI/UX Enhancements

Thunderbird 128 "Nebula" is now available as the newest Extended Support Release (ESR) of this open-source and cross-platform mail client...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Thunderbird-128

Git 2.46-rc0 Continues Preparations For Switching To SHA256 By Default WIth Git 3.0

Git 2.46-rc0 was published on Friday as the first tagged development release on the trek toward Git 2.46...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Git-2.46-rc0-Released

Pingora 0.3 Released With Support For HTTP Modules

Pingora started out as an in-house replacement to Cloudflare's Nginx usage that was written in Rust and eventually open-sourced earlier this year. Pingora has evolved into a Rust framework for building fast and reliable networked systems. Ending out the week is the release of Pingora 0.3 as the latest step forward for this Rust code that is widely used within the confines of Cloudflare...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Cloudflare-Pingora-0.3

Linux 6.10 Released With New Panthor Graphics Driver, Radeon Display Support On RISC-V

As anticipated the Linux 6.10 kernel was released as stable a few minutes ago by Linus Torvalds...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-6.10-Released

Bcachefs For Linux 6.11 Landing Disk Accounting Rewrite & Self-Healing On Read I/O Error

Bcachefs maintainer Kent Overstreet has already sent out all of the exciting Linux 6.11 feature updates for this copy-on-write file-system. Bcachefs continues maturing nicely within the mainline Linux kernel while continuing to tack on new functionality...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-6.11-Bcachefs

Solus Linux Dropping Support For AppArmor & Phasing Out Snaps

The Solus Linux project announced today they will be dropping the AppArmor patches carried by their kernels. In turn this means their Snap packaging support will only run with partial confinement...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Solus-Ending-AppArmor-Snaps

Linux Patch To Disable The Snapdragon X Elite "X1E80100" GPU By Default

While many have been excited around the prospects of laptops powered by the Qualcomm Snapdragon X Elite SoC, the Linux support so far still leaves a lot to be desired... The initial Snapdragon X Elite laptops aren't utilizing ACPI standards and the bring-up under Linux has been slow, but patches have begun appearing for some models. But even with patches, the Adreno…
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-Disabling-X-Elite-GPU

Linux 6.11 Adds ChromeOS EC LED Driver For The Framework Laptops

For those running the popular, modular/upgradeable Framework Laptops, the Linux 6.11 kernel is bringing some nice driver additions for enhancing the support on the recent models...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-6.11-LEDs

Raspberry Pi "PiSP" Driver Landing Upstream For Raspberry Pi 5 Camera System

All of the media subsystem feature updates for the in-development Linux 6.11 kernel were sent out overnight. Arguably most notable with the media driver changes for the new kernel is introducing the Raspberry Pi "PiSP" driver for the image signal processor (ISP) found with the Raspberry Pi 5 for powering its camera system...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-6.11-Media-Raspberry-PiSP

XFS Real-Time Enables FITRIM Support With Linux 6.11

The XFS file-system updates have been merged for the in-development Linux 6.11 kernel...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/XFS-RT-FITRIM-Linux-6.11

EXT4 Has A Very Nice Performance Optimization For Linux 6.11

With the maturity of the EXT4 file-system it's not too often seeing any huge feature additions for this commonly used Linux file-system but there's still the occasional wild performance optimization to uncover... With Linux 6.11 the EXT4 file-system can see upwards of a 20% performance boost in some scenarios...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-6.11-EXT4

Linux 6.11 Lands Support For Snapdragon X1 Elite ASUS Vivobook S15 & Lenovo Yoga Slim7x

All of the SoC and platform updates slated for the Linux 6.11 kernel have been merged including new SoCs and adding DeviceTree files for a number of new systems, including some of the first Qualcomm Snapdragon X1 powered laptops...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-6.11-SoC-Platforms

New Linux Patches Enable The Snapdragon X1 Elite Powered Lenovo ThinkPad T14s Gen 6

With Linux 6.11 support for the Lenovo Yoga Slim7x and ASUS Vivobook S15 are upstreamed for some of the first Qualcomm Snapdragon X1 Elite powered laptops. But for follow-on kernel cycles you can expect yet more Snapdragon X1 Elite/Plus powered laptop support to appear with new DeviceTree additions. On Friday, Linaro engineer Konrad Dybcio sent out the…
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-X1E-ThinkPad-T14s-Gen-6

LXQt 2.0 Desktop Planned For Availability In Fedora 41

A change proposal was raised this week for upgrading Fedora's LXQt desktop offering to the recently released LXQt 2.0 for the upcoming Fedora 41 release...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Fedora-41-LXQt-2.0-Packages

Mesa 24.2 Enjoyed Some Last Minute Code Cleaning & Modernization

Just prior to the Mesa 24.2 code branching / feature freeze on Thursday, two merge requests landed working on cleaning up some Mesa interfaces and code modernization...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Mesa-24.2-Modern-Interfaces

Rust Linux Kernel Code Prepares For CPU Mitigations Handling

The latest Rust for the Linux kernel work led by Miguel Ojeda is on preparing the Rust kernel code for various CPU security mitigations...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Rust-Linux-CPU-Mitigations

AMD Ryzen 9000 Series Launch Delayed To August

While we have been super eager for the AMD Ryzen 9000 series "Zen 5" desktop processor launch that's been set for 31 July, AMD has issued a last minute delay. Instead the processors will launch in two stages in August...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/AMD-Ryzen-9000-Series-Delay

AMD's Unified AI Software Stack Might Be A Boon For Other Vulkan/SPIR-V Hardware Too

Earlier this month AMD talked more about their Unified AI Software Stack plans for debuting in the coming months to provide a unified software view where AI work can be seamlessly offloaded to Ryzen processors, AMD graphics, or AMD Ryzen AI NPU hardware. Another possible and exciting prospect came to mind when going through the LLVM/Clang 19 changes…
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Unified-AI-Software-MLIR-SPIR-V

Fwupd 1.9.22 Released With Framework SD Expansion Card & Raspberry Pi 5 Support

Richard Hughes of Red Hat just released Fwupd 1.9.22 as the newest version of this open-source solution for allowing system and peripheral firmware updates to be carried out quickly and easily from Linux systems...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Fwupd-1.9.22-Released

NVIDIA's Open-Source Linux Kernel Driver Performing At Parity To Proprietary Driver

With the recently introduced NVIDIA 555 Linux driver stable series their open-source GPU kernel driver modules are in great shape across consumer and professional graphics products. Over the past two years the support has evolved so much that NVIDIA is now promoting their open-source kernel driver usage and with the NVIDIA 560 Linux driver beta posted this week th…
https://www.phoronix.com/review/nvidia-555-open

UBIFS File-System Being Hardened Against Power Loss Scenarios

While most Linux file-systems are rather robust in recovering when the system experiences a power loss, the UBIFS file-system is more prone to problems when a power-cut happens. With patches submitted for the Linux 6.11 merge window, UBIFS is seeing some hardening so it can better cope with the loss of power...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/UBIFS-Power-Cut-Hardening-Linux

Linux VFS Fix For 5 Year Old Bug That Could Cause Corruption, Security Issues Or Crash

Ahead of the Linux 6.11 merge window set to close tomorrow, Linux engineer Christian Brauner at Microsoft sent in a set of two VFS fixes. One of the fixes is more noteworthy that is for a five year old bug that could cause on-disk corruption, security issues, or a kernel crash...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-6.11-VFS-Fix-5-Year-Bug

openSUSE's Aeon RC3 Released With Full Disk Encryption By Default

OpenSUSE's Aeon is up to its third release candidate as what was formerly known as MicroOS Desktop GNOME for a container-based, immutable desktop operating system. With the Aeon RC3 release, full disk encryption is enabled by default as an exciting development...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/openSUSE-Aeon-RC3-FDE-Default

Vanilla OS 2 Released With Hybrid Debian Base, Improved Multi-GPU Support

Vanilla OS 2 debuted on Sunday as a major release to this Linux distribution now built atop a Debian base for this distro that started out being an immutable and atomic version of Ubuntu. Vanilla OS 2 besides switching its packaging base has pulled in the GNOME 46 desktop, the Linux 6.9 kernel, and made a slew of other enhancements to polish its desktop experience while offering…
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Vanilla-OS-2