NVK Now Vulkan 1.4 Conformant For NVIDIA Maxwell GPUs Mesa's NVK Vulkan driver had been Vulkan 1.4 conformant for Turing and newer GPUs, but now with Mesa 25.2-devel it's Vulkan 1.4 conformant going back to Maxwell GPUs. This change is exported to be back-ported to the upcoming Mesa 25.1 release as well for those interested in using this open-source NVIDIA Vulkan driver...

NVK Now Vulkan 1.4 Conformant For NVIDIA Maxwell GPUs - Phoronix

Mesa's NVK Vulkan driver had been Vulkan 1.4 conformant for Turing and newer GPUs, but now with Mesa 25.2-devel it's Vulkan 1.4 conforman...

Sway 1.11-rc1 Released With Many New Features & New Wayland Protocols Sway 1.11-rc1 is out today as a test release ahead of this next Wayland compositor feature release. Sway 1.11 is bringing a number of new features for this i3-inspired Wayland compositor while also building off the new features laid out in the recent wlroots 0.19-rc1 library...

Sway 1.11-rc1 Released With Many New Features & New Wayland Protocols - Phoronix

Sway 1.11-rc1 is out today as a test release ahead of this next Wayland compositor feature release

FFmpeg AV1 Vulkan Encoder Patch Posted While the FFmpeg multimedia library merged Vulkan Video encode support last year, it was initially limited to H.264 and H.265 formats. With a new patch posted for review this week, AV1 encode support using the Vulkan Video API is now underway...

FFmpeg AV1 Vulkan Encoder Patch Posted - Phoronix

While the FFmpeg multimedia library merged Vulkan Video encode support last year, it was initially limited to H.264 and H.265 formats

GCC 16 Adding Support For GNU/Hurd On RISC-V Targets GNU/Hurd has long struggled with hardware support and is still working on its x86_64 support while having a host of various hardware limitations but it also appears they are eager to explore Hurd on RISC-V platforms...

GCC 16 Adding Support For GNU/Hurd On RISC-V Targets - Phoronix

GNU/Hurd has long struggled with hardware support and is still working on its x86_64 support while having a host of various hardware limitations bu...

KDE Preps More Wayland Improvements, Addresses Another Possible KWin Crash KDE developers continue to be very busy working toward the Plasma 6.4 desktop release and making other enhancements throughout this open-source desktop...

KDE Preps More Wayland Improvements, Addresses Another Possible KWin Crash - Phoronix

KDE developers continue to be very busy working toward the Plasma 6.4 desktop release and making other enhancements throughout this open-source des...

GCC 15.1 Compiler Release Candidate For Testing, GCC 15.1.0 Potentially Next Week Following the GCC 15 code branching after working its way down to zero "P1" regressions of the highest priority, GCC 15.1 Release Candidate 1 is out today for testing...

GCC 15.1 Compiler Release Candidate For Testing, GCC 15.1.0 Potentially Next Week - Phoronix

Following the GCC 15 code branching after working its way down to zero 'P1' regressions of the highest priority, GCC 15.1 Release Candida...

Framework 13 With AMD Ryzen AI 300 Series "Strix Point" Makes For A Great Linux Laptop Today the review embargo lifts on the Framework 13 with AMD Ryzen AI 300 "Strix Point" SoCs: wow, what an upgrade! I've spent the past week testing out the Framework 13 with the AMD Ryzen AI 9 HX 370 and it's been terrific. Framework 13's modularity continues to pay off and allows easily upgrading to the new Strix Point bearing motherboard with AMD…

Framework 13 With AMD Ryzen AI 300 Series "Strix Point" Makes For A Great Linux Laptop Review - Phoronix

Today the review embargo lifts on the Framework 13 with AMD Ryzen AI 300 'Strix Point' SoCs: wow, what an upgrade! I've spent the pa...

GCC 15 Compiler Branched Ahead Of GCC 15.1 Stable Release The GNU Compiler Collection (GCC) code was branched today to the releases/gcc-15 branch and GCC 16.0.0 is now the version on the main development branch...

GCC 15 Compiler Branched Ahead Of GCC 15.1 Stable Release - Phoronix

The GNU Compiler Collection (GCC) code was branched today to the releases/gcc-15 branch and GCC 16.0.0 is now the version on the main development b...

Mesa's Old OpenCL "Clover" Driver Removed For Mesa 25.2 Now that Mesa 25.1 is branched for this quarter's Mesa 3D feature release, Mesa 25.2 has entered development on the main Git branch. One of the first merged changes for Mesa 25.2 is removing the old OpenCL Gallium3D "Clover" driver...

Mesa's Old OpenCL "Clover" Driver Removed For Mesa 25.2 - Phoronix

Now that Mesa 25.1 is branched for this quarter's Mesa 3D feature release, Mesa 25.2 has entered development on the main Git branch

Mesa 25.1-rc1 Released With AMD RDNA4 Improvements, Lots Of RADV & Intel ANV Additions Eric Engestrom is once again stepping up to manage the next quarterly Mesa driver feature release and thus today we have the on-time branching of Mesa 25.1 from Mesa Git and already the release of Mesa 25.1-rc1. This release brings many improvements to the collection of open-source OpenGL and Vulkan drivers that should be ready for their stable debut in Ma…

Mesa 25.1-rc1 Released With AMD RDNA4 Improvements, Lots Of RADV & Intel ANV Additions - Phoronix

Eric Engestrom is once again stepping up to manage the next quarterly Mesa driver feature release and thus today we have the on-time branching of M...