Sway 1.11 Released With New Wayland Protocols & More Simon Ser announced the release of Sway 1.11 on Sunday as the newest feature update to this popular i3-inspired Wayland compositor from which the wlroots library was originally born... image
Linux 6.16-rc1 Released: New AMD & Intel Drivers, More Performance & Blackwell Support Linux 6.16-rc1 was just released by Linus Torvalds. This first release candidate of Linux 6.16 marks the close of the two-week merge window where many new features and other changes were introduced... image
GNOME 49 Alpha 0 Releases Begin As GNOME 49 Preps For X11 Disabled-By-Default The GNOME 49 Alpha release isn't expected until the end of June but for facilitating additional testing and a number of prominent changes this cycle, a number of GNOME packages have begun releasing "GNOME 49 Alpha 0" tags as part of plans to issue multiple alpha releases this cycle. Notable for GNOME 49 are plans moving forward for disabling X11 session support … image
Vulkan 1.4.317 Introduces VP9 Video Decode, ARM Tensors & 8-bit Floating Point Vulkan 1.4.317 was made public on Friday with a number of exciting new extensions, including VP9 video decoding for Vulkan Video, 8-bit floating-point data type support, and other additions... image
Initial USB Audio Offloading Code Merged For Linux 6.16 Merged on Friday to the Linux 6.16 kernel by way of the USB/Thunderbolt branch was the massive set of patches (12k+ lines of code) for USB offload support for audio devices... image
KDE Prepares For Plasma 6.4 Debut Next Week With Better VRR Experience KDE developers are on the final stretch of fixes and polishing ahead of the Plasma 6.4 release next Thursday. Plus there has been plenty of early work building toward Plasma 6.5... image
Intel Vulkan Driver Lands Improvement For Helping Direct3D Games Under Steam Play Merged today to Mesa 25.2 is an adjustment for the Intel "ANV" open-source Vulkan driver to help with Direct3D games running under Linux with Valve's Steam Play via Proton + VKD3D... image