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HarfBuzz 14.0 Released With New GPU Accelerated Text Rendering Library

Phoronix - Wed, 04/01/2026 - 23:19
HarfBuzz is the open-source text shaping engine originally born out of the FreeType project and now widely-used by GNOME, KDE, Java, Flutter, Godot, Chromium, LibreOffice, and countless other applications. HarfBuzz 14.0 released today and making this release quite exciting is introducing a GPU-accelerated text rendering library...

April 1 Linux Patches: Verified Birth Date For File Creation, Block Emacs From Running

Phoronix - Wed, 04/01/2026 - 22:00
What's more annoying: half-baked AI slop open-source patches or April Fools' Day with programmers trying to have some fun? This year, April 1 is seeming more patches than usual...

KDE Linux Hardening Their OS Against Updates Making Systems Unbootable

Phoronix - Wed, 04/01/2026 - 21:39
KDE Linux as the in-house, leading-edge Linux distribution for showcasing the latest KDE Plasma innovations has promoted itself as being an atomically updated Linux distribution. But these atomic updates didn't quite work out as planned recently with some users finding their system(s) unbootable. But improvements are being made now for better robustness moving forward...

The Linux Kernel's Minimum Rust Version Supported Prepares For Rust 1.85 Baseline

Phoronix - Wed, 04/01/2026 - 21:25
The Rust-For-Linux crew is preparing to raise the minimum supported Rust version for building the Linux kernel and and similarly also bumping the minimum supported version of bindgen, the tool for generating Rust FFI bindings for C code in the kernel...

Wayland Protocols 1.48 Released With XDG Session Management

Phoronix - Wed, 04/01/2026 - 20:30
Wayland Protocols 1.48 is out today with the long-awaited XDG Session Management protocol in tow as well as several new experimental protocols...

Dell XPS 13 Snapdragon Elite Laptop Sees New EC Linux Driver To Improve Support

Phoronix - Wed, 04/01/2026 - 18:30
Last month Dell upstreamed the firmware needed for their XPS 13 935 Snapdragon X1 Elite laptop. This makes the Linux outlook for this ARM-based Dell XPS laptop much better than before in not having to worry about extracting necessary firmware blobs from Windows 11. Now another step forward for the Dell XPS 13 9345 is being made with a new EC driver being posted to enhance the hardware support...

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