RadeonSI Begins Upstreaming Its OpenGL Mesh Shader Support OpenGL doesn't receive nearly as much love these days as the Vulkan API, but over the past several months there's been at least one notable new extension in the works: cross-vendor mesh shader support with the pending GL_EXT_mesh_shader extension. Beginning today the AMD RadeonSI Gallium3D upstreaming process has begun for introducing mesh shader support for this Radeon OpenGL dr…

RadeonSI Begins Upstreaming Its OpenGL Mesh Shader Support - Phoronix

OpenGL doesn't receive nearly as much love these days as the Vulkan API, but over the past several months there's been at least one notab...

QuestDB 9.0 Released For High Performance, Time-Series Database QuestDB 9.0 debuted today as the latest major update to this high performance, time-series database that is open-source under an Apache 2.0 license. QuestDB continues to be built using a combination of Java, C++, and Rust for being an interesting time-series database...

QuestDB 9.0 Released For High Performance, Time-Series Database - Phoronix

QuestDB 9.0 debuted today as the latest major update to this high performance, time-series database that is open-source under an Apache 2.0 license

GCC 12.5 Compiler Released To End Out The GCC 12 Series With 241+ Bug Fixes For those seldom update to new compiler versions, GCC 12.5 was released today as the newest and final update to the GCC 12 compiler that debuted back in 2022...

GCC 12.5 Compiler Released To End Out The GCC 12 Series With 241+ Bug Fixes - Phoronix

For those who seldom update to new compiler versions, GCC 12.5 was released today as the newest and final update to the GCC 12 compiler that debute...

OpenCL 3.0.19 Released With SPIR-V Queries & Android Hardware Buffer Extensions The Khronos Group today published the OpenCL 3.0.19 documentation as the latest specification for the OpenCL 3.0 compute API...

OpenCL 3.0.19 Released With SPIR-V Queries & Android Hardware Buffer Extensions - Phoronix

The Khronos Group today published the OpenCL 3.0.19 documentation as the latest specification for the OpenCL 3.0 compute API.

Nouveau NAK Lands A Big Improvement For NVIDIA Kepler GPUs: As Much As 2.5x Faster Merged today to the open-source NVIDIA "NAK" compiler code within Mesa 25.2 is Kepler instruction scheduling. This real instruction scheduling support for GeForce GTX 600/700 "Kepler" graphics processors can provide some significant performance benefits in select workloads...

Nouveau NAK Lands A Big Improvement For NVIDIA Kepler GPUs: As Much As 2.5x Faster - Phoronix

Merged today to the open-source NVIDIA 'NAK' compiler code within Mesa 25.2 is Kepler instruction scheduling

Blender 4.5 RC1 Released With Much Better Vulkan Support The release candidate of the Blender 4.5 3D modeling software is now available for testing. There are many great improvements to find with Blender 4.5 and this new version is all the more important in being the next Long Term Support (LTS) release for this popular cross-platform 3D modeling software...

Blender 4.5 RC1 Released With Much Better Vulkan Support - Phoronix

The release candidate of the Blender 4.5 3D modeling software is now available for testing

LibreOffice 25.8 RC1 Released With Various File Performance Improvements The first release candidate of the LibreOffice 25.8 open-source office suite is now available for testing. This half-year update as the leading free software alternative to Microsoft Office has been working on performance improvements for various file types, dropping support for old versions of Windows, and various other enhancements...

LibreOffice 25.8 RC1 Released With Various File Performance Improvements - Phoronix

The first release candidate of the LibreOffice 25.8 open-source office suite is now available for testing

Wayback Is Now Hosted On FreeDesktop.org Wayback began recently as an experimental X11 compatibility layer for non-Wayland desktop environments to leverage Wayland components. While still in early form, the project has already taken off from being a personal GitHub project to now being hosted on FreeDesktop.org alongside other projects such as Wayland and the X.Org Server itself plus other prominent software like Mesa and GStreamer and much…

Wayback Is Now Hosted On FreeDesktop.org - Phoronix

Wayback began recently as an experimental X11 compatibility layer for non-Wayland desktop environments to leverage Wayland components

Mesa 25.2 Drops Legacy DRI2 Code With A Bonfire To Pre-DMABUF Winsys Support A big merge today to Mesa Git ahead of next week's Mesa 25.2 code branching is removing the pre-DMA-BUF winsys support and as part of that clearing out all of the old DRI2 driver support...

Mesa 25.2 Drops Legacy DRI2 Code With A Bonfire To Pre-DMABUF Winsys Support - Phoronix

A big merge today to Mesa Git ahead of next week's Mesa 25.2 code branching is removing the pre-DMA-BUF winsys support and as part of that cle...

PowerVR Vulkan Driver Enhancements Merged Ahead Of Mesa 25.2 The Mesa 25.2 code is expected to be branched next week to kick off the release process for this quarter's iteration of open-source OpenGL and Vulkan drivers. As such, there's going to be a mad dash over the next week to land lingering features and other improvements for Mesa 25.2. Making it into Mesa Git today was a big set of 42 patches for the Imagination PowerVR Vulkan driver…

PowerVR Vulkan Driver Enhancements Merged Ahead Of Mesa 25.2 - Phoronix

The Mesa 25.2 code is expected to be branched next week to kick off the release process for this quarter's iteration of open-source OpenGL and...