The release process has begun for releasing Wine 9.0 as stable early next year…

Source: Phoronix – Wine 9.0-rc1 Released With Upgraded VKD3D, Wine Wayland Improvements

Vulkan 1.3.273 was released today as the latest weekly update to this high performance graphics and compute API…

Source: Phoronix – Vulkan 1.3.273 Released With KHR Calibrated Timestamps Extension

Intel engineers maintain multiple Ethernet drivers in the Linux kernel for their wide-range of networking hardware from consumer to high-end data center wares. There’s been an ongoing effort to overhaul their Ethernet driver management to reduce code duplication between the different drivers for better code sharing and with an end goal of more unification…

Source: Phoronix – Intel Striving To Overhaul Their Multiple Ethernet Linux Drivers: “The Great Code Dedup”

AMD Secure Encrypted Virtualization (SEV) and Intel Trust Domain Extensions (TDX) are intended to help provide better security for virtual machines and are key elements to both companies investments around confidential computing. It turns out they have a common enemy in their VM security goals: x86 32-bit software…

Source: Phoronix – Linux Dealing With x86 32-bit Software Security Issue For Intel TDX & AMD SEV

It looks like GNOME 46 might finally see the dynamic triple buffering support merged for Mutter to enhance the performance particularly for systems with integrated graphics…

Source: Phoronix – GNOME’s Dynamic Triple Buffering “Ready To Merge”

Canonical’s Multipass software that is advertised as “cloud-style VMs at your fingertips” and making it easy to spin-up “Ubuntu VMs on demand for any workstation”, is out with a new test release adding snapshots support and other new features…

Source: Phoronix – Canonical Releases Multipass 1.13 RC With Snapshots Support, Migrated To Qt6

PoCL 5.0-RC1 is out today as the newest feature release being brewed for this “Portable Computing Language” implementation that allows for OpenCL code to run on CPUs as well as running OpenCL code on other back-ends such as atop NVIDIA CUDA and AMD ROCm and other LLVM back-ends…

Source: Phoronix – PoCL 5.0-RC1 Released With Experimental OpenCL For Networked Systems

Friday’s release of Wine 8.22 is expected to be the last bi-weekly feature release before shifting focus to the code freeze and making Wine 9.0 ready for release in early 2024. It’s coming down to the finish line how much more Wine Wayland driver functionality will be merged in time…

Source: Phoronix – Wine Wayland Driver Lands Mouselook Support, Relative Cursor Motion

It looks like Intel will soon be submitting their first Xe Direct Rendering Manager (DRM) driver pull request to DRM-Next for mainlining this modern, current and future hardware focused kernel graphics driver to be added to the mainline Linux kernel. It looks like this mainlining is set to still happen in time for the upcoming Linux 6.8 cycle…

Source: Phoronix – Intel Will Submit New Xe Kernel Graphics Driver Soon – Likely For Linux 6.8

Following yesterday’s big AMD AI event where they launched the Instinct MI300A / MI300X and ROCm 6.0, today AMD engineers released Radeon GPU Profiler 2.0 along with other GPUOpen tooling updates…

Source: Phoronix – AMD Releases Radeon GPU Profiler 2.0, RGA 2.9 & Other GPUOpen Tools

A new drm-misc-next pull request was sent today to DRM-Next bringing a few notable changes for the upcoming Linux 6.8 merge window…

Source: Phoronix – Linux 6.8 Dropping Support For Very Old Graphics Drivers

KDE’s KWin compositor has added DMA-Fence deadline support to its DRM back-end that can help ensure rendering is completed on-time and otherwise helping to boost the GPU clock speeds…

Source: Phoronix – KDE’s KWin Adds DMA-Fence Deadline Support

Alpine Linux 3.19 has been released as the newest feature update to this lightweight Linux distribution employing Busybox and libc…

Source: Phoronix – Alpine Linux 3.19 Released – Now Powered By Linux 6.6 LTS

As an early Christmas present for Linux kernel developers and others keeping track of kernel development, the git.kernel.org Cgit web interface has rolled out native dark mode support…

Source: Phoronix – git.kernel.org Adds Native Dark Mode Support

As a nice update ahead of the holidays, the Raspberry Pi folks have released Raspberry Pi OS 2023-12-05 as the first update to their Debian-based operating system since the official launch of the Raspberry Pi 5 back in October…

Source: Phoronix – Raspberry Pi OS Improves Wayfire Rendering, Enhanced Raspberry Pi 5 Support

Google on Wednesday released Chrome 120 as the newest version of their cross-platform web browser…

Source: Phoronix – Chrome 120 Released With Theora Support Evaporating, Adds WebGPU & CSS Improvements

The Red Hat engineers responsible for creating the Linux Vendor Firmware Service (LVFS) are celebrating tonight with LVFS paired with the Fwupd Linux firmware updating utility now having served more than 100 million firmware updates!..

Source: Phoronix – LVFS Has Supplied More Than 100 Million Firmware Updates To Linux Users

Ahead of the holidays systemd 255 has debuted as stable and comes with systemd-bsod as a “Blue Screen of Death” service capable of displaying full-screen error messages on Linux. There’s also a new tool, systemd-vmspawn, that can be used for spawning virtual machines…

Source: Phoronix – systemd 255 Released With A “Blue Screen of Death” For Linux Systems

In addition to AMD using its AI event today for launching the Instinct MI300A and MI300X along with ROCm 6.0, AMD also announced the Ryzen 8040 series mobile processors. A big emphasis with these forthcoming laptop processors is on the AI capabilities between the dedicated NPU with AMD XDNA, Zen 4 CPU cores with AVX-512 VNNI support, and AMD RDNA3 graphics capable of accelerating AI.

Source: Phoronix – AMD Announces The Ryzen 8040 Series Mobile Processors With Better Ryzen AI

At AMD’s AI event today the company provided more details on their Instinct MI300 series for their very exciting data center APU and CDNA3 discrete GPU accelerator. ROCm 6.0 was also announced for advancing AMD’s AI software capabilities.

Source: Phoronix – AMD Details The MI300X & MI300A, Announces ROCm 6.0 Software