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Mesa 20.0's RADV Driver Deems Navi/GFX10 Stable, Vulkan 1.2 In Good Shape, ACO Fixes
With Mesa 20.0 scheduled for branching today (though that could be delayed a few days potentially depending upon last minute requests), there's been a flurry of Radeon Vulkan "RADV" driver activity to squeeze into this first Mesa release series of 2020...
GTK4 Data Transfer APIs Being Modernized Around Wayland
Red Hat's Matthias Clasen has provided an update on one of the latest areas the GTK developers are working on finishing up with the forthcoming GTK 4.0 tool-kit... Improving the data transfer interfaces around handling for copy/paste and drag-and-drop...
We Love Performance... So We Love LibreOffice 6.4 With This Office Suite Now Running Faster
LibreOffice 6.4 is out today as the latest feature update to this cross-platform, open-source office suite...
Godot 3.2 Open-Source Game Engine Released With Better Documentation, New Features
While developers are hard at work on Godot 4.0 with Vulkan support, that release won't be ready until mid-2020 so as a result Godot 3.2 is out today as their latest stable release and serving as a "long-term support" release until transitioning to Godot 4...
The Linux 5.6 x86 Platform Driver Changes Are Busy From Quirky Laptops To New Hardware Support
Intel's Andy Shevchenko sent in the x86 platform driver updates on Monday for the newly opened Linux 5.6 merge window. There is the never-ending work on dealing with quirky Windows-focused laptops to adding new Intel hardware support and other additions...
Clang 10 + Linux 5.6 Will Be Able To Build A Working s390 Kernel
With LLVM Clang 9.0 and Linux 5.3 together it became possible to build the mainline Linux kernel with this non-GCC compiler. The x86_64 Linux kernel Clang-based kernel builds has continued to improve through newer kernel releases. This follows the mainline AArch64 (64-bit ARM) Linux kernel mainline build by Clang too, which has been of much interest by different hardware/software vendors. There hasn't been much Clang'ing kernel efforts for other architectures, but it turns out with Clang 10 and Linux 5.6 will be another working combination, this time for IBM s390...
It's Finally Time: The Time Namespace Support Has Been Added To The Linux 5.6 Kernel
The Time Namespace, which was originally proposed back in 2018 for allowing per-namespace offsets to the system clocks, has finally entered the mainline kernel in early 2020 with the in-development Linux 5.6 kernel...
WireGuard + Multi-Path TCP Were Merged Tonight Into Linux 5.6
The very exciting networking subsystem updates have made it into the Linux 5.6 kernel...
Thunderbird Mail Client Now Being Pushed Along By "MZLA Technologies Corporation"
Mozilla's Thunderbird mail client has been rather neglected the past several years with all the focus on the Firefox web browser, but as the next step forward for this mail/RSS client is now placing it under the newly-formed MZLA Technologies Corporation...
Sony Now "Officially" Maintaining The Linux PlayStation Input Driver, But Leads To Interesting Problem
It turns out Sony is now maintaining the mainline Linux kernel's hid-sony input driver in an "official capacity now across various devices." This hid-sony driver is what traditionally has supported the various PlayStation controllers and other input devices for their hardware. But their newfound "official" support for this open-source input driver could lead to interesting predicaments...
Ubuntu's Zsys Tool For Enhancing The ZFS On Linux Experience Now Supports Snapshots
One of the work items we have been keen to monitor during the Ubuntu 20.04 LTS development cycle is tracking the happenings around Zsys, the Ubuntu/Canonical led utility for helping to administer ZFS On Linux systems. In ending out January, Zsys now has more functionality in tow...
Godot's Vulkan Renderer Is Already Picking Up New Features In 2020
We remain quite excited to see Godot 4.0 this year that most notably is working on Vulkan API support...
Mesa 19.3.3 Released With Many Fixes
While Mesa 20.0 will be entering its feature freeze this week and branching ahead of the stable release expected in about one month, for now the Mesa 19.3 series is the newest available for stable users...
The Big Set Of x86 Changes Hit The Linux 5.6 Kernel
As part of the Linux 5.6 development dance, Ingo Molnar began sending in all of the pull requests this morning for the different areas of the Linux kernel he oversees...
XCP-ng 8.1 Beta Rolls Out While Becoming Part Of The Xen Project
XCP-ng, the Xen-based enterprise-focused hypervisor offering a Xen Server Linux distribution, has released a beta of its next feature release while formally becoming part of the Linux Foundation hosted Xen Project...
Google Makes It Easier To Flash Android Open-Source Project On Phones
Flashing the Android Open-Source Project (AOSP) onto devices is now a lot easier thanks to the Android Flash Tool...
Red Hat vs. SUSE vs. Canonical Contributions To The Mainline Linux Kernel Over The 2010s
After last week looking at the AMD/Intel/NVIDIA contributions to the mainline Linux kernel over the past number of years, there were reader requests for seeing how some of the top distributions compare namely Red Hat, SUSE, and Canonical...
Many Linux 5.6 Sound Driver Updates Especially On The Intel / Sound Open Firmware Front
Linux sound subsystem maintainer Takashi Iwai of SUSE today sent in all of the sound driver updates for this next version of the Linux kernel...
Linux 5.6 Crypto Code Brings The New AMD TEE Driver
Herbert Xu sent in all of the crypto subsystem changes on Tuesday for the in-development Linux 5.6 kernel. Interesting us the most out of this crypto work is the AMD Trusted Execution Environment (TEE) driver...
Intel Makes Public Two More Data Leakage Disclosures
Intel last night made public two more data leakage disclosures, which tie back to Zombieload and November's TAA issue...