Laptop Vendor Malibal Suggests Not Supporting Coreboot In a rather surprising post this morning, laptop vendor Malibal that offers both Linux and Windows systems is suggesting to not support the Coreboot project for open-source system firmware... https://www.phoronix.com/news/Malibal-Suggests-No-Coreboot

GCC Preparing To Set C23 "GNU23" As Default C Language Version The GNU Compiler Collection (GCC) support for the C23 programming language standard is now considered "essentially feature-complete" with GCC 15. As such they are preparing to enable the C23 language version (using the GNU23 dialect) by default for the C language version of GCC when not otherwise specified... https://www.phoronix.com/news/GCC-Prepares-std-gnu23-Default

Python 3.14 Alpha 1 Released With Early Changes It was just last week that Python 3.13 saw its official release with many great features from a new interactive interpreter to an experimental JIT and removing the Global Interpreter Lock (GIL) in the experimental free-threaded build mode. Python 3.14 Alpha 1 is already out today in the first very early stage development milestone toward next year's big Python update... https://www.phoronix.com/news/Python-3.14-Alpha-1

Unvanquished Working On OpenGL 4.6 Renderer Support It's been a while since we have seen anything new to report on Unvanquished as one of the few remaining and promising open-source game projects. The Unvanquished FPS/RTS game has been in development for 12 years now and built atop the Daemon engine that is now a very distant fork from the id Tech 3 engine. The latest now is that Unvanquished has been pushing forward OpenGL 4.6 rendering su… https://www.phoronix.com/news/Unvanquished-OpenGL-4.6

Improvements To The Ad Experience As a result of user feedback and being able to reproduce some annoying ad experiences, particularly on mobile devices, I've been able to make some enhancements to hopefully improve the user ad experience when browsing Phoronix... https://www.phoronix.com/news/Improving-Ad-Experience-2024

Vulkan 1.3.297 Introduces VK_EXT_present_mode_fifo_latest_ready Slipping under my radar until now was the Vulkan API 1.3.297 spec update released last week that introduces a new extension, VK_EXT_present_mode_fifo_latest_ready... https://www.phoronix.com/news/Vulkan-1.3.297

KDE Plasma 6.2 Released With More Desktop Polishing KDE Plasma 6.2 is now available as the latest refinement to the modern Plasma 6 desktop environment... https://www.phoronix.com/news/KDE-Plasma-6.2-Released

Qt 6.8 LTS Released With XR Module, Lower RAM Usage & Quicker Start Times Today marks the release of Qt 6.8 as not only a new feature release but also the latest long-term support (LTS) release for this open-source, cross-platform toolkit... https://www.phoronix.com/news/Qt-6.8-LTS-Released

Python 3.13 Debuts With New Interactive Interpreter & Experimental JIT Following a last minute delay due to a performance regression, Python 3.13 stable is out today as the annual major feature release to this widely-used scripting language implementation... https://www.phoronix.com/news/Python-3.13-Released

Apple Vulkan Driver "HoneyKrisp" Lands Many Fixes & Features HoneyKrisp as the open-source Mesa Vulkan driver for Apple Silicon graphics and developed as part of the Asahi Linux project has landed a number of enhancements into the mainline Mesa code... https://www.phoronix.com/news/Mesa-HoneyKrisp-October