Thanks to prolific Mesa RADV contributor Samuel Pitoiset of Valve’s Linux graphics team, a fix is on the way for addressing various issues with Unreal Engine 4 and Unreal Engine 5 games running on Linux…

Source: Phoronix – Mesa Radeon Vulkan Driver “RADV” Works Around Bugs For Unreal Engine 4 & 5

The newest Wine Wayland driver code to be merged is improved HiDPI support…

Source: Phoronix – Wine Wayland Driver Lands Improved HiDPI Support

Hours after writing about Microsoft’s Direct3D 12 back-end for Mesa seeing OpenGL 4.4 support, the in-review OpenGL 4.5 code mentioned in that article happened to land in Mesa…

Source: Phoronix – Microsoft Achieves OpenGL 4.5 Atop Direct3D 12 With Mesa

While not as popular as Rust or other languages these days, for COBOL enthusiasts and those continuing to maintain codebases in this 50’s programming language, the out-of-tree GCC COBOL compiler support continues to be worked on in late 2023…

Source: Phoronix – GCC COBOL Compiler Support Continues To Be Worked On

The latest software offering announced today by Canonical with an enterprise focus and their hopes of driving new Ubuntu Pro and support subscriptions is MicroCloud. Their MicroCloud software aims to make it easy to deploy a private cloud that is a “fully functional cloud in minutes” atop Ubuntu Linux…

Source: Phoronix – Canonical Launches MicroCloud To Deploy Your Own “Fully Functional Cloud In Minutes”

From SC23 going on in Denver, the PCI-SIG team sent out a news release that they have announced the naming for their next-generation PCI Express cabling… CopprLink…

Source: Phoronix – PCI-SIG Announces “CopprLink” PCI Express Cable Name

On 14 December is the previously-announced launch of 5th Gen Xeon Scalable “Emerald Rapids” and Intel Core Ultra “Meteor Lake” processors via a webcast from NASDAQ that Intel is promoting as the “AI Everywhere” event. AMD meanwhile recently announced an “Advancing AI” event for the week prior. While details on the AMD Advancing AI event are light, it’s all the more interesting now with AMD teasing open standards and open-source around the event…

Source: Phoronix – AMD Talking Up Open-Source & Open Standards Ahead Of “Advancing AI” Event

Intel has released new CPU microcode this morning for mitigating a new CPU security vulnerability (INTEL-SA-00950). This new microcode drop also fixes various functional issues on recent generations of Intel processors…

Source: Phoronix – Intel Publishes “20231114” CPU Microcode For New Security Advisory & Functional Issues

Just two weeks since Fwupd 1.9.7 was released, Fwupd 1.9.8 is now available for this open-source solution that facilities firmware updating on Linux systems for system firmware as well as various devices/peripherals…

Source: Phoronix – Fwupd 1.9.8 Released With Firmware Updating For New DP Converters, Wacom Cintiq Pro

The Canonical-developed Netplan has served for Linux network configuration on Ubuntu Server and Cloud versions for years. With the recent Ubuntu 23.10 release, Netplan is now being used by default on the desktop. Canonical is committing to fully leveraging Netplan for network configuration with the upcoming Ubuntu 24.04 LTS release and in turn also marking the Netplan 1.0 release…

Source: Phoronix – Ubuntu 24.04 LTS Committing Fully To Netplan For Network Configuration

It was just last week that Microsoft got OpenGL 4.3 implemented over Direct3D 12 for use in cases where Windows lacks a native OpenGL driver or for use under Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSLg). After implementing a few more GL extensions atop D3D12, Microsoft has now got OpenGL 4.4 in Mesa running on Direct3D…

Source: Phoronix – Microsoft Gets OpenGL 4.4 Running Atop Direct3D 12 Using Mesa, OpenGL 4.5 Inbound

Merged overnight to Mesa 24.0 is the Rust-written NAK compiler back-end for the Nouveau Gallium3D driver and NVK Vulkan driver…

Source: Phoronix – Rust-Written NAK Compiler Merged For Nouveau/NVK In Mesa 24.0

After a one week delay, Blender 4.0 is now available as the latest major update to this leading open-source and cross platform 3D modeling software…

Source: Phoronix – Blender 4.0 Released For This Incredible Open-Source 3D Modeling Software

With newly-merged optimizations to Mesa 24.0-devel, the Intel shader compiler back-end is seeing its scheduling code execute around 30% faster. This big speed-up comes due to overhauling how they store pass information and reusing that for multiple pre-RA scheduling modes…

Source: Phoronix – Intel’s Mesa Shader Compiler Backend Scheduling Now ~30% Faster

AMD is announcing this morning in Bavaria (SPS 23 in Nürnberg) the Ryzen Embedded 7000 series processors, the latest addition to the Zen 4 family. The Ryzen Embedded 7000 Series are socketed CPUs intended for various embedded and edge applications in the 60~105 Watt space.

Source: Phoronix – AMD Announces Ryzen Embedded 7000 Series Processors

Since the Linux 6.5 kernel this summer the SLAB allocator has been officially deprecated. This followed the demise of SLOB and trying to get all Linux users over to the SLUB allocator. Patches have now been posted for stripping out the SLAB allocator for good from the mainline kernel…

Source: Phoronix – Patches Posted For Removing The SLAB Allocator From The Linux Kernel

Guardrails have been in place where the Firefox browser has enabled Wayland by default (when running on recent GTK versions) but as of today that code has been removed… Firefox will try to move forward with stable releases where Wayland will ship by default!..

Source: Phoronix – Firefox Is Going To Try And Ship With Wayland Enabled By Default

The Aurora supercomputer originally was supposed to be completed by Intel and Cray/HPE for the Argonne National Laboratory back in 2018. Now at the end of 2023, it’s made its first debut on the TOP500 list… But only as a partial deployment and is coming in at spot number two…

Source: Phoronix – Intel’s Aurora Supercomputer Debuts On TOP500 In Spot #2

One of the great niche features of Ubuntu Linux has been the Ubuntu Mainline Kernel PPA that’s been maintained by Canonical for providing daily kernel builds of the Linux Git kernel state as well as of all point releases and release candidates. Sadly it’s now been broken for one month for this very convenient feature…

Source: Phoronix – One Of Ubuntu’s Great Features Has Been Broken For One Month

Kicking off an exciting Supercomputing SC23 week, The Linux Foundation announced this morning that they are forming the High Performance Software Foundation (HPSF) to help advance an open-source core software stack for high performance computing (HPC). Already a number of national labs, Intel, NVIDIA, and other stakeholders are involved…

Source: Phoronix – Linux Foundation Creating The High Performance Software Foundation (HPSF)