ARM Linux Maintainer Drafts Deprecation Timeline For Old Boards/Features

ARM Linux maintainer Arnd Bergmann laid out a proposal with deprecation timeline today for beginning to work toward removing many older ARM boards and obsolete features...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/ARM-Linux-Post-2024-Deprecation

Intel Publishes AVX10.2 Documentation, GCC Compiler Enablement Begins For AVX10.2

Intel closed out July by publishing AVX10.2 technical details as part of a now public document. Intel's compiler engineers are also already at work on enabling AVX10.2 in the GCC and LLVM/Clang compilers...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Intel-AVX10.2-Details-GCC

Etnaviv NPU Driver Support Working Well For The NXP i.MX 8M Plus SoC

Open-source developer Tomeu Vizoso who has been working on supporting Vivante NPU IP within the reverse-engineered Etnaviv driver has been much time recently focused on enabling the Vivante NPU found within the NXP i.MX 8M Plus SoC. While not yet upstreamed, he's been successful in this effort and seeing good performance for object detection with this hardware...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Etnaviv-NPU-Performing-iMX8MP

Intel Vulkan Driver Merges H.264/H.265 Video Encode Support

The open-source Intel "ANV" Vulkan driver within Mesa is now more capable for its Vulkan Video support with the H.264 and H.265 encode support now wired up for Mesa 24.3...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Intel-Vulkan-Video-H264-H265

GNOME Disks Adds New Standalone UI For Managing/Mounting Disk Images

In addition to the KDE development activity this week, GNOME developers have also been busy polishing their desktop ahead of their next GNOME release in September...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/GNOME-Disks-Mounting-UI

Immutable Version Of Arch-Based Manjaro Linux Available For Testing

For those intrigued by the likes of the likes of Fedora Silverblue, Vanilla OS, and NixOS for an immutable Linux distribution but desiring something based on Arch Linux, Manjaro Linux has an immutable variant now available for testing...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Immutable-Manjaro-Linux

Rust-Written Redox OS Now Has A Working Web Server

The Redox OS project that is a from scratch open-source operating system written in the Rust programming language now has a working web server, among other improvements achieved during the month of July...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Redox-OS-Working-Web-Server

Firefox 129 Now Available With HTTPS Replacing HTTP As Default Protocol

Mozilla Firefox 129.0 is now available for download ahead of its formal release announcement on Tuesday. Making Firefox 129 notable is that for non-local sites it's now replacing HTTP with HTTPS by default. Firefox will now aim for HTTPS as the default protocol on non-local sites...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Firefox-129-Released

In 2024 Another Attempt To Get The Apple Touch Bar In Good Shape For Linux On x86 Macs

A set of nine patches were posted for review on Tuesday in aiming to get the Apple Touch Bar working well under Linux for the x86 T2-based Macs...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Apple-Touch-Bar-Linux-2024

System76 Releases COSMIC Alpha Desktop - It's Looking Quite Interesting

System76 today is releasing an alpha build of Pop!_OS 24.04 that is built atop Ubuntu 24.04 LTS and making it very interesting is that it includes the alpha version of their Rust-written COSMIC desktop environment. I've been playing around with this Pop!_OS 24.04 alpha in advance of today's embargo lift and it's been working out quite well...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/System76-COSMIC-Alpha

Canonical Moves To Shipping Very Latest Upstream Kernel Code For Ubuntu Releases

Following decisions like exploring -O3 package builds for Ubuntu Linux, another newly-announced change by Canonical I must applaud is their decision to commit to shipping the very latest upstream kernel code at release time...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Ubuntu-Releases-Fresher-Kernels

Niri 0.1.8 Compositor Implements Gradient Borders, Output Management Protocol

Niri as a scrollable-tiling Wayland compositor inspired by PaperWM is out with a new feature release. Niri 0.1.8 is the new release out today and it also marks the project's one year birthday...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Niri-0.1.8-Wayland-Compositor

Eclipse OpenJ9 v0.46 Released For High Performance JVM

A new version of Eclipse OpenJ9 is now available for this high performance Java Virtual Machine (JVM)..
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Eclipse-OpenJ9-v0.46

Haiku OS R1 Beta 5 Approaching Soon, New Performance Improvements

The BeOS-inspired Haiku open-source operating system is out with their latest status update that highlights various improvements made in recent weeks...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Haiku-OS-R1-Beta5-Approaches

Radeon "RADV" Vulkan Driver Now Handles 12-bit AV1 Video Decoding

The Vulkan Video support within Mesa's Radeon "RADV" Vulkan driver continues to be improved upon. The newest addition now found in the code for Mesa 24.3 is enabling 12-bit AV1 content accelerated decoding...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/RADV-AV1-12-bit-Decode

Bcachefs Merges New On-Disk Format Version For Linux 6.11, Working Toward Defrag

Ahead of the Linux 6.11-rc4 kernel release coming up later today, some more Bcachefs file-system patches were merged this weekend for this experimental copy-on-write file-system...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Bcachefs-Merge-Linux-6.11-rc4

Linux Patches Work To Upstream Raspberry Pi's RP1 PCI Device Support

Andrea della Porta of SUSE has been working on upstreaming the Linux kernel support to boot the Raspberry Pi 5 on a mainline kernel. Over the past few months Andrea has posted a number of different patches derived in part from Raspberry Pi's downstream kernel code. The latest effort being pursued by the SUSE engineer is on upstreaming Raspberry Pi RP1 PCI device sup…
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Raspberry-Pi-RP1-Linux-Patches

GIMP 3.0 Enters String Freeze, Inching Closer To Release

Today marks the beginning of the string freeze for the long-awaited GIMP 3.0 open-source image editor release as one of the leading free software alternatives to Adobe Photoshop...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/GIMP-3.0-String-Freeze

Bochs DRM Linux Driver Being Modernized - Better Performance For QEMU Display

The Bochs Direct Rendering Manager (DRM) kernel driver is in the process of being modernized. The Bochs driver is important in that it's commonly used for virtual VGA output with QEMU for Linux virtualization...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Bochs-DRM-Modernizing

Mesa's PanVK Vulkan Driver Prepares For Arm Mali Valhall Support

Mesa's PanVK driver that provides open-source Vulkan API support for Arm Mali graphics is preparing to support newer "Valhall" hardware...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Mesa-PanVK-Valhall-Prep

Archinstall 2.8.3 Arch Linux Installer Adds COSMIC Desktop Option

Just one week after the Archinstall 2.8.2 update, another release of this command-line driven Arch Linux installer is now available for quick and easy Arch deployments...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Arch-Linux-Archinstall-2.8.3

Mir-Powered Miracle-WM Continues Tacking On New Features Ahead Of Fedora Miracle

Miracle-WM as the Mir-powered Wayland compositor inspired by i3 and Sway is out with another new release. It's rather ironic that while Miracle-WM is principally developed by a Canonical engineer associated with Ubuntu Linux, these recent Miracle-WM releases are being driven in part by preparing for a Fedora Miracle spin due out as part of the Fedora Linux 4…
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Miracle-WM-v0.3.3-Released

Oracle Updates TrenchBoot For The Linux Kernel To Advance Boot Security & Integrity

Oracle engineers continue working on the TrenchBoot initiative to advance boot security and integrity for Linux. The tenth iteration of the TrenchBoot patches were posted this week as it works its way toward the mainline kernel...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Oracle-TrenchBoot-v10

Microsoft Advances Its Open-Source Font For Developers With "Cascadia Next"

Back in 2019 Microsoft announced Cascadia Code as an open-source font designed for terminals and code editors. This monospaced font they view is great for developers like those using Visual Studio Code. Over the years Microsoft has further improved upon Cascadia Code with subtle revisions while now they are working to roll-out "Cascadia Next" as their next big step …
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Microsoft-Cascadia-Next

Wireshark 4.4 Released For This Leading Network Protocol Analyzer

Wireshark 4.4 has been released as the newest version of this leading network protocol analyzer. Wireshark 4.4 brings many new and improved features...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Wireshark-4.4-Released

Linux 6.12 To Optionally Display A QR Code During Kernel Panics

Submitted today via DRM-Misc-Next to DRM-Next for staging ahead of the Linux 6.12 merge window in mid-September is optional support for displaying a QR code within the DRM Panic handler infrastructure when a Linux kernel panic occurs...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-6.12-DRM-Panic-QR-Code

Servo Browser Now Supports Tabbed Browsing, WAV Audio Files

The Rust-based, open-source Servo web engine had a very eventful month as the developers involved continue advancing this browser engine as well as their example/reference web browser...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Servo-August-2024