Mesa 23.3 Restores DCC With Mipmaps Performance Optimization For AMD RDNA3 GPUs
Prolific RADV developer Samuel Pitoiset with Valve's Linux graphics driver team has re-enabled Delta Color Compression (DCC) with mipmaps for AMD GFX11 (RDNA3) hardware for the Mesa 23.3 release...
Microsoft CBL-Mariner 2.0.20230924 Rebuilds AArch64 Packages Due To That Nasty GCC Bug
Microsoft released CBL-Mariner 2.0.20230924 this week as the newest version of their in-house Linux distribution. The driving force behind this release is to get out rebuilt AArch64 packages following the recent GCC security vulnerability that affected Arm 64-bit built software...
"Open-Source Windows" ReactOS To See Improved GUI Setup/Installation
ReactOS Deutschland e.V. has hired a longtime contributor to this "open-source Windows" project to spend the next five months working on the ReactOS GUI setup mode as an alternative to their classic text-based setup mode...
Linux Now Mitigating Hygon CPUs For Inception/SRSO Vulnerability
Disclosed back in August was the Inception vulnerability affecting all Zen processors. It took until today though for the mainline Linux kernel to mitigate Hygon processors for this vulnerability for those Zen 1 CPUs formed from the AMD-Chinese joint venture...
Silicon Motion X.Org Driver Sees First Release In Six Years
The xf86-video-siliconmotion X.Org driver has seen its first new release in six years for supporting the Silicon Motion Lynx and Cougar chipsets found in vintage laptops...
Raspberry Pi 5, Steam Deck & New AMD CPUs Dominated Q3
During the third quarter on Phoronix were 689 original Linux/open-source news articles and another 50 Linux hardware reviews / benchmark articles. Here's a look back at what excited Linux enthusiasts this quarter...
Canonical's Snap Store Hit By Malicious Apps
Stemming from reports of several fake crypto apps appearing in Canonical's Snap Store that aimed to steal user funds, temporary restrictions have been put in place while Canonical investigates the security matter...
Milk-V Duo Linux Kernel Patches Submitted For This $9 RISC-V Board
Patches have been posted to the Linux kernel mailing list in an effort to mainline support for the Milk-V Duo RISC-V development platform with the basic board retailing for $9...
Wine-Staging 8.17 Released With Fix For Eight Year Old Bug Report
Building off yesterday's Wine 8.17 release, Wine-Staging 8.17 is now available that consists of 494 extra patches atop the upstream Wine code-base...
wlroots Merges Wayland Tearing Control Support
The wlroots Wayland compositor library used by Sway and other Wayland compositors to help with the heavy lifting has merged support for the tearing control protocol...
KDE Plasma 6.0 Ends September With Many New Features & Enhancements
Plasma 6 development is ending September on a high note with a number of new features and enhancements to this desktop now merged...
VP8/VP9's libvpx 1.13.1 Released Due To A High Severity Vulnerability
Google on Friday released libvpx 1.13.1 as the newest update to this open-source reference encoder for the VP8 and VP9 video codecs. This release is coming due to CVE-2023-5217, which is a "high" severity vulnerability that's been exploited within at least the Google Chrome web browser...
Wine 8.17 Released With VKD3D 1.9 Upgrade, Initial Window Management For Wayland Driver
Wine 8.17 is out today as the newest bi-weekly development release for this open-source software that allows Windows games and applications to run on Linux as well as serving as the basis for Valve's Proton that powers Steam Play...
Linux's modprobe Adds The Ability To Load A Module From Anywhere On The File-System
With today's release of kmod 31, Linux's modprobe utility for loading kernel modules can finally allow arbitrary paths to allow loading new kernel modules from anywhere on the file-system...
Linux 6.7 To Support New Intel DG2-G12 Stepping, More Raptor Lake IDs
Intel's Linux graphics driver engineers have begun submitting their feature changes to DRM-Next of new i915 kernel driver feature material they are preparing for the Linux 6.7 cycle this winter...
Intel Arrow Lake NPU Support Slides Into Linux 6.6 IVPU Driver
With the Intel Arrow Lake NPU being very similar to Meteor Lake for this neural processing unit, the patches enabling that NPU for next-gen Intel Core CPUs was submitted as a "fix" for the ongoing Linux 6.6 cycle...
AMD FSR 3 Now Available - Open-Source Code To Come Soon
AMD announced today that the Windows games Immortals of Aveum and Forspoken are available today with their FidelityFX Super Resolution 3 (FSR 3) upscaling technology. More games making use of FSR 3 are on the way and the open-source code drop of FSR 3 is coming at a later date...
AMDVLK 2023.Q3.3 Released With Radeon RX 7700 / 7800 Series Support
After a month and a half delay from AMDVLK 2023.Q3.1 to AMDVLK 2023.Q3.2, the AMDVLK 2023.Q3.3 driver is out today after just one week. This AMD Vulkan driver update finally enables Radeon RX 7700 / RX 7800 series support and delivers on other improvements...
openSUSE Tumbleweed Adds systemd-boot Support
For those using the rolling-release openSUSE Tumbleweed Linux distribution, there is now experimental support for booting it using systemd-boot...
Sound Open Firmware 2.7 Released With AMD Van Gogh Support
Sound Open Firmware 2.7 released overnight and adds AMD Van Gogh platform support, presumably to be used by the Valve Steam Deck or some future refresh of the device or related platform like for VR hardware...