Mold 2.38 is out this weekend as the latest feature update to this open-source, high-speed linker...
Ahead of the Linux 6.16 merge window opening up in just one month, the new Zblock allocator was queued up into Andrew Morton's "MM" tree of memory management material likely destined for the next kernel merge window. Zblock is showing much potential as a compressed slab memory allocator...
Tvrtko Ursulin of Igalia has been pursuing the Fair DRM Scheduler as a "fair" scheduling policy to help with multiple applications/processes aiming to make use of the GPU concurrently. With this week's v4 patch-set to the DRM Fair Scheduler there are some big code changes but overall looking well as a nice scheduling policy for multiple apps/games/processes wanting equal access to GPU resources...
With the Linux kernel now limiting 32-bit systems to 4GB of memory even with the "HIGHMEM" Kconfig option, an issue was uncovered where if the system was still populated with more memory than addressable by 32-bit systems, the kernel would crash. With the Linux 6.15-rc4 kernel due out on Sunday, this issue will be addressed...
A new Wayland-only feature merged for GNOME 49's Mutter is support for tablet pad relative dials. These dials found on some drawing tablets now allow for relative moment under the GNOME Wayland session when paired with recent libinput and libwacom releases...
As we near the end of April, KDE developers remain quite busy working on more enhancements for the Plasma 6.4 desktop while many of them were also meeting this week in Graz, Austria for further development and planning...
Following recent Vulkan 1.1 support within Mesa for the PanVK driver for open-source Arm Mali Vulkan driver support, Vulkan 1.2 is now being advertised...
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