With this week’s release of Blender 5.1 I have begun benchmarking it on different CPUs and GPUs. In this article is an initial look at the positive impact Blender 5.1 is having on CPU-based rendering performance on Linux.

Germany’s federal “Deutschland-Stack” puts Open Document Format at the center of its digital infrastructure plans.

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PipeWire 1.4.11 multimedia framework arrives as a maintenance update for the older 1.4 branch, fixing crashes, memory issues, and improving JACK compatibility.

Version
1.7.0 (“Daffodil”) of the Radicle peer-to-peer, local-first code
collaboration stack has been released. Some of the changes in this
release include improved I/O usage, the ability to block nodes at the
connection level, and clearer errors for rad id
updates. See the release notes for a full list of changes and bug
fixes.

The kernel project has a unique approach to tooling that avoids many
commonly used development systems that do not fit the community’s scale and
ways of working. Another way of looking at the situation is that the kernel
project has often under-invested in tooling, and sometimes seems bent on
doing things the hard way. In recent times, though, the amount of effort
that has gone into development tools for the kernel has increased, with
some interesting results. Recent developments in this area include the
Sashiko code-review system, a patch-review manager built into b4, and a new
attempt at a framework for the specification and verification of kernel
APIs.

The last release of Llamafile was back in May and it’s led me recently to wonder if Mozilla was slowly abandoning this AI project like they had done in the past to DeepSpeech and other software projects. Fortunately, that’s not the case and out today is Llamafile 0.10 with some big updates…

Who knew questioning authority and signaling virtue would lead to growth?Anthropic has been killing it in the business market, success that appears to be at least partially attributable to pushback against the Pentagon.…

The OpenGL API is still seeing new extensions introduced in 2026. Merged today to the OpenGL Registry is a new extension intended to help Wine usage for 32-bit Windows games/apps on 64-bit Linux systems…

Last week I provided a look at the EXT4 and XFS performance from Linux 6.12 LTS through Linux 7.0 in its current development form. As mentioned in that article and as requested by many Phoronix readers, benchmarks have since wrapped up looking at how the Btrfs copy-on-write file-system performance has evolved since that late 2024 period and all major Linux kernel releases past that Long Term Support version.

It’s been a while since most of you probably thought about the Opera web browser, but these days they have been catering their “Opera GX” web browser to gamers. Today they have finally delivered this Opera GX gaming-focused browser for Linux users…

Drew Fustini sent out DeviceTree patches this past weekend for enabling the HDMI display controller on the T-Head TH1520 RISC-V SoC. Additionally, there’s a patch for lighting up the HDMI display support on the LicheePi 4A RISC-V board…

With Ubuntu 26.04 LTS quickly approaching release next week, Canonical is beginning more of their road-mapping for Ubuntu 26.10 and beyond. To help in plotting future work, Canonical is interested in feedback for features or improvements that developers/users would like to see around their Mir project…

The fourth iteration of patches implementing Virtual Swap Space for Linux were sent out on Wednesday. This stems from ideas going back years for an abstraction to better separate a swap entry from its physical backing storage…

GNOME 50 Tokyo introduces parental controls with screen time limits, as well as significant performance and usability enhancements.

A polished Arch-based distro with a stellar installer, sane defaults, and plenty of choices to keep power users happy.

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Several Linux distributions are restricting access from Brazil due to concerns about a new digital law impacting online software distribution.

Last week it was security issues with AppArmor to worry about on Ubuntu Linux while this week a “high” rated vulnerability for Ubuntu’s Snap daemon has been revealed…

Java 26 is now available, featuring HTTP/3 support, enhanced G1 garbage collector performance, faster JVM startup, and new APIs.

Inside this week’s LWN.net Weekly Edition:

• Front: Privacy battles; page-cache-timing protections; null filesystems; Fedora Sandbox; safer kmalloc(); BPF in io_uring.
• Briefs: AppArmor vulnerabilities; snapd vulnerability; Sashiko; DPL election; Fedora Asahi 43; GIMP 3.2; Marknote 1.5; Quotes; …
• Announcements: Newsletters, conferences, security updates, patches, and more.

I’ve been calling this project Cursor for LibreOffice to myself, but I knew I couldn’t use the name forever, so I researched and chose WriterAgent. It supports Calc, and Draw as well, but I didn’t like OfficeAgent, which sounds like some Soviet-era KGB job title.