After 16 years of alpha releases, the open-source real-time strategy game 0 A.D. ships release 28, Boiorix, as its first non-alpha version.

Following last week’s Plasma 6.6 release, KDE developers today shipped Plasma 6.6.1 as the first point release with an assortment of different bug fixes…

Jason Donenfeld of WireGuard and Linux cryptography fame has taken a break from that to release a new version of CGIT, the lightweight web interface for Git repositories. CGIT 1.3 is the first new release in six years and comes with a lot of changes…

After more than a decade focused on KDE Plasma, KaOS has shared the technical and systemd-related reasons for its big desktop change.

Fedora is heading back to sunny Southern California! As we gear up for SCaLE 23x, we are thrilled to announce a special edition of Fedora Hatch. This is taking place on Friday, March 6 as an embedded track at SCALE. Whether you’re a long-time contributor, a curious user, or someone looking to make your very […]

GNU Octave 11 has been officially announced today for this open-source, free, and cross-platform high-level language, primarily intended for numerical computations.

The open-source PanVK driver providing Vulkan support for modern Arm Mali graphics hardware is seeing big speed-ups in the multi-sample anti-aliasing (MSAA) performance in Vulkan tests as a result of new code merged today to Mesa 26.1…

Following yesterday’s Linux 7.0-rc1 release, Linus Torvalds authored and merged a patch to get rid of the Linux kernel’s WARN_ALL_UNSEEDED_RANDOM Kconfig option. While that option was added with good intentions, on some systems it can yield a lot of unnecessary kernel log spam…

It was less than four years ago that the modern AMDGPU/AMDKFD open-source driver stack was at four million lines of C code and header files. Now with the Linux 7.0 kernel it has surpassed six million lines. Or put another way, by the same calculations Linux 7.0-rc1 is at 39.2 million with the modern AMD kernel graphics driver now making up 15% of the kernel’s entire codebase as the single largest driver…

The newest driver proposed for the Linux kernel’s accelerator “accel” subsystem is named QDA and is a Qualcomm DSP Accelerator driver…

Mozilla has published today the final builds of the Firefox 148 open-source web browser ahead of its official unveiling on February 24th, 2026, so it’s time to take a look at the new features and improvements.

The 7.0 merge window

closed on February 22 with 11,588 non-merge commits total,
3,893 of which came in after
the article covering the first half of the merge
window. The changes in the second half were weighted toward bug fixes over
new features, which is usual. There were still a handful of surprises, however, including
89 separate tiny code-cleanup changes from different people for the rtl8723bs
driver, a number that
surprised
Greg Kroah-Hartman. It’s unusual for a WiFi-chip driver to receive that much
attention, especially a staging driver that is not yet ready for general use.

Over on the Collabora blog, Marius Vlad has an overview
of Weston 15.0, which was released on February 19. Weston is the
reference implementation of a Wayland compositor. The new
release comes with a new shell that can be programmed using the Lua language, a new, experimental Vulkan
renderer, smoother media playback, color-management additions, and more.

One of Weston’s fundamental pillars has always been making the most efficient use of display hardware. Over time, all the work we did to track and offload as much work as possible to this efficient fixed-function hardware has come at the cost of eating CPU time. In the last couple of release cycles, we’ve focused really hard on improving performance on even the most low-end of devices, so not only do we make the most efficient use of the GPU and display hardware, but we’re also really kind on your CPU now. As part of that and to improve our tooling, Weston 15 now comes with support for the Perfetto profiler.

Intel’s open-source OpenVINO AI toolkit is out with its first major release of 2026. With today’s OpenVINO 2026.0 release there is expanded large language model (LLM) support, improved Intel NPU support for Core Ultra systems, and a variety of other enhancements for benefiting Intel’s CPU / NPU / GPU range of products for AI…

Firefox 148 release binaries are now available ahead of the official release announcement on Tuesday. Most notable is the new AI controls found with Firefox 148 for those wishing to disable Firefox’s growing AI capabilities…

While the version bump to 7.0 is driven solely by Linus Torvalds’ versioning preferences, with Linux 7.0 there are many great changes to be found in this upcoming stable kernel version to power the likes of Ubuntu 26.04 LTS. Here is a recap of all the interesting changes with Linux 7.0.

The FreeBSD Project has published their Q4’2025 status report to outline progress made on their software, infrastructure, and other initiatives over the past quarter. Meanwhile among the work to look forward to this year in FreeBSD is getting their Rust kernel driver support up to scratch…

The 280th installment of the 9to5Linux Weekly Roundup is here for the week ending February 22nd, 2026, keeping you updated on the most important developments in the Linux world.

For those interested in Vulkan Video on the Intel “ANV” open-source Linux driver, merged last week to Mesa 26.1-devel were some H.265 encode fixes…

Emperor Penguin releases kernel 7.0 rc1 with some numerological musingsLinus Torvalds has pondered his professional mortality in a self-deprecating post to mark the release of the first release candidate for version 7.0 of the Linux kernel.…