GNU Debugger 17.1 Released With CET Shadow Stack Support, New DAP Features The GNU Debugger "GDB" 17.1 is out today with a number of new features for enhancing the open-source debugging experience... image
Mesa 26.0 NVK Driver Lands Improvement For NVIDIA GeForce RTX 20 "Turing" GPUs In addition to the open-source NVIDIA "NVK" Vulkan driver in Mesa merging compression support for big performance wins, another performance optimization was merged earlier in the week that stand to benefit GeForce RTX 20 "Turing" graphics processors... image
KDE Plasma 6.6 Finally Supporting Ambient Light Sensors, Fixing Windows Games With HDR There are some nice KDE Plasma 6.6 improvements that were merged ahead of Christmas... image
Vulkan 1.4.337 Debuts With Long Vector & 3D ASTC Compression Extensions Vulkan 1.4.337 released a short time ago as what could be the last Vulkan API spec update of 2025 depending upon how much time the working group takes off or not around the holidays. In any case, it's a nice holiday treat with the new VK_EXT_texture_compression_astc_3d and VK_EXT_shader_long_vector extensions... image