Servo 0.0.3 Browser Engine Brings Better Performance, Embedding Improvements Servo 0.0.3 is out today as the newest update to this Rust-based, open-source web layout engine. Servo 0.0.3 incorporates many enhancements made over the past month from better performance to enhancing its embedding API and other improvements like context menus for more web content... image
GIMP 3.2-RC2 Brings Bug Fixes & Minor Refinements GIMP 3.2-RC2 is out today as what could be the last release candidate of GIMP 3.2 before its stable release. This leading open-source image editor/creation alternative to the likes of Adobe Photoshop continues becoming much more refined and polished in the GIMP 3 series... image
Torvalds On Linux Security Modules: "I Already Think We Have Too Many Of Those Pointless Things" Stemming from a security researcher and his team proposing a new Linux Security Module (LSM) three years ago and it not being accepted to the mainline kernel, he raised issue over the lack of review/action to Linus Torvalds and the mailing lists. In particular, seeking more guidance for how new LSMs should be introduced and raised the possib… image
Flatpak Adds Support For Building OCI Bundles Using Zstd Compressed Layers Back in November Flatpak 1.17 released with support for sideloading from OCI images and other improvements in working toward the Flatpak 1.18 stable release. Out today is Flatpak 1.17.1 and was then followed quickly by Flatpak 1.17.2 to fix a mistake in the release artifacts... image
Wayland Protocols 1.47 Released With Updated Color Management Protocol Following the Color Management protocol introduced in Wayland Protocols 1.41, out today is Wayland Protocols 1.47 with various revisions to that color management and HDR support... image
CentOS Kmods SIG Providing NVIDIA Linux Open GPU Kernel Modules For RHEL/CentOS Users The CentOS kernel modules "Kmods" special interest group (SIG) is now providing NVIDIA Linux Open GPU Kernel Modules for users of Red Hat Enterprise Linux and its downstreams as well as for CentOS Stream... image
FFmpeg Lands Initial Support For JPEG-XS The widely-used FFmpeg open-source multimedia library has merged initial support for JPEG-XS... image
Exciting Laptop & Gaming Handheld Device Improvements Merged For Linux 6.19 Merged during this second week of the Linux 6.19 feature merge window were the many x86 platform driver changes. As usual, much of the x86 platform driver activity surrounds bettering Linux hardware laptop support but also a growing number of handheld computers / gaming devices... image
New Rule Forbids GNOME Shell Extensions Made Using AI Generated Code The GNOME.org Extensions hosting for GNOME Shell extensions will no longer accept new contributions with AI-generated code. A new rule has been added to their review guidelines to forbid AI-generated code... image
KDE Plasma 6.6 Will Finally Support Proper Screen Mirroring On Wayland It's an exciting week in KDE Plasma development land ahead of the holidays. Plasma 6.6 continues tacking on more feature work for Wayland... image