One nugget of information in the LibreOffice 7.6 release announcement for those who missed it and deserves calling out specifically… Succeeding LibreOffice 7.6 will not be v7.7 or v8.0 but rather v24.2…

Source: Phoronix – LibreOffice 24.2 Will Succeed LibreOffice 7.6

Intel is well regarded for their vast open-source contributions from being a major contributor to the Linux kernel and other areas like Mesa, GCC/glibc, and other key open-source projects to various niche projects like ConnMan and other smaller software projects. Debuting a few months ago as one of the newest open-source Intel projects catching us by surprise was Intel One Mono as a font designed for developers. Today brings a new version of that font…

Source: Phoronix – Intel Releases Updated Version Of Its Open-Source Font For Developers

New (Windows) tools have been released that break the NVIDIA BIOS Signature Lock, the “security” functionality in use since the GeForce GTX 900 days around signed firmware/BIOS handling. This authentication mechanism is what in turn has led to the GeForce GTX 700 series still being the best supported series by the open-source Nouveau driver while the GTX 900 series and later have been crippled to their low boot clock speeds due to PMU/re-clocking restrictions. While Nouveau developers have been working on the GPU System Processor (GSP) approach for RTX 20 “Turing” GPUs and newer to workaround this limitation as NVIDIA’s blessed path forward, the NVIDIA BIOS Signature Lock has now been broken by Windows modders…

Source: Phoronix – NVIDIA BIOS Signature Lock Broken – What Caused Pains For Open-Source For Years

Git 2.42 is out today as the newest feature update for this dominant open-source distributed revision control system…

Source: Phoronix – Git 2.42 Released With Less Warnings For SHA-256 Usage

In recent days a number of feature patches were queued in HID-next to provide new driver features and hardware support within the Human Interface Device subsystem…

Source: Phoronix – Several HID Driver Improvements Ready For Linux 6.6

The amdfwtool utility living within the Coreboot repository for dealing with AMD platform firmware files has now added support for EPYC 9004 “Genoa” processors…

Source: Phoronix – Coreboot’s amdfwtool Updated For EPYC Genoa

On Friday AMD sent out another pull request of AMDGPU/AMDKFD driver changes for the upcoming Linux 6.6 merge window. With the Linux 6.5 release due out likely in one week and the cut-off having passed for new “feature” code for DRM-Next, this latest AMDGPU pull request was centered around bug-fixes but also with a few minor additions…

Source: Phoronix – Linux 6.6 AMDGPU Driver To Expose Current & Average Power For Capable GPUs

For those that have been eyeing an AMD Ryzen 7 7040 “Phoenix” series laptop for Linux use, over the coming weeks ahead there will be benchmarks and a review on the Lenovo ThinkPad P14s Gen4 with AMD Ryzen 7 PRO 7840U laptop. With this 8-core / 16-thread Zen 4 mobile processor clocking up to 5.1GHz, 64GB of LPDDR5x-6400 memory, 1TB NVMe SSD, and 2.8K OLED display it should be a real treat if the Linux support is all in good shape…

Source: Phoronix – Lenovo ThinkPad P14s Gen4 AMD Ryzen 7 PRO 7840U Linux Tests Forthcoming

Melissa Wen with consulting firm Igalia continues working with AMD and Valve engineers on supporting AMD driver-specific color management properties for Linux to benefit the Steam Deck but ultimately to benefit all AMD Linux users as well…

Source: Phoronix – AMD Color Management Improvements For Linux & The Steam Deck Continue

LibreOffice 7.6 is now available as the latest major release to this leading open-source office suite that is widely used on the Linux desktop and elsewhere…

Source: Phoronix – LibreOffice 7.6 Now Available For This Best Free Software Office Suite

The new nvidia-drm-kmod is a FreeBSD port of Linux’s nvidia-drm.ko open-source kernel module…

Source: Phoronix – FreeBSD Experimenting With A Port Of NVIDIA’s Linux Open DRM Kernel Driver

Following last Friday’s release of Wine 8.14 following a summer holiday, Wine-Staging 8.14 is out today with its re-base for this testing/experimental flavor of Wine…

Source: Phoronix – Wine-Staging 8.14 Released – Less Than 500 Patches Atop Upstream

Mesa has landed GPUVis integration with a focus on CPU side tracing for help to uncover where games are blocking on the GPU. This GPU Trace Visualizer integration for Mesa was spearheaded by RADV developer Bas Nieuwenhuizen…

Source: Phoronix – Mesa Adds GPUVis Integration – GPU Trace Visualizer

Budgie 10.8 is out today as the newest feature release for this Linux desktop environment…

Source: Phoronix – Budgie 10.8 Linux Desktop Released

The linux-firmware.git Git repository on the kernel.org Git repository has been the de facto location for collecting all of the microcode/firmware files needed by upstream Linux kernel drivers. The linux-firmware.git repository is the centralized repository for all firmware files, including the GPU/DRM graphics drivers. Now though a dedicated DRM firmware repository is being established as a staging area for new GPU firmware prior to being picked up by linux-firmware.git…

Source: Phoronix – Linux DRM Firmware Repo Established For Queuing New GPU Firmware

Linus Torvalds released the Linux 6.5-rc7 test kernel today, a few hours ahead of schedule…

Source: Phoronix – Linux 6.5-rc7 Released: Stable Linux 6.5 Expected Next Week

A new release of Box64 is now available, the Linux x86_64 emulator for running programs and games on non-x86_64 architectures like ARM/AArch64 and RISC-V…

Source: Phoronix – Box64 0.2.4 Released – Some x86-64 Games Now Playable On RISC-V

Intel ISPC 1.21 is now available as the newest feature update to this Implicit SPMD Program Compiler for a C language variant focused on single program, multiple data (SPMD) programming for exploiting the full potential of modern CPUs and GPUs…

Source: Phoronix – Intel ISPC 1.21 Released With Meteor Lake Xe-LPG Support

Last week the FreeBSD 14 alpha phase kicked off and available today is the second weekly alpha release for this upcoming major BSD operating system update…

Source: Phoronix – FreeBSD 14 Alpha 2 Available For Testing – The Last Series For 32-bit Platforms

The DeviceTree additions to allow the Orange Pi 5 64-bit ARM single board computer (SBC) to work on the upstream Linux kernel are working their way closer to mainline…

Source: Phoronix – Orange Pi 5 Support Nears The Mainline Linux Kernel