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