Open-source News

Underwater PvP shooter Tidal Shock 1.0 out now with Linux / Steam Deck support - it's also now free to play  GamingOnLinux

Wine 10.6 released with improvements to Bcrypt, Command Processor and WindowsCodecs  GamingOnLinux

Ahead of its 10 year Steam anniversary, Black Mesa has a new beta with improved Linux support and many fixes  GamingOnLinux

Oracle releases Unbreakable Enterprise Kernel 8 (UEK 8)  Help Net Security

After missing its bi-weekly development release regiment this past Friday, Wine 10.6 was tagged on Sunday as the newest routine update to this open-source software that enables Windows applications and games to run on Linux and other platforms...

TrueNAS 25.04 ‘Fangtooth’ debuts with Linux foundation and unified SCALE and CORE codebase  BetaNews

# Linux bug fix recovers 30% performance, critical for cars using kernel-based infotainment (what Tesla competitors need to know)  Journée Mondiale

9to5Linux Weekly Roundup: April 20th, 2025  9to5Linux

Easter doesn't get in the way of Linus Torvalds' weekly kernel release regiment: Linux 6.15-rc3 is now available for testing the latest kernel fixes ahead of the stable Linux 6.15 kernel release coming around the end of May...

Linux 6.15-rc3 Released With GCC 15 Build Fixes, Intel Bartlett Lake & Zen 5 Check  Phoronix

Connected Car News: Panasonic, Linux Foundation, Zubie, Bosch & Toshiba  AUTO Connected Car News

Merged for the Linux 6.15 kernel were the very early boilerplate code around the NOVA driver as a new, open-source and Rust-written NVIDIA Linux kernel graphics/display driver. This successor to the Nouveau kernel driver is going to leverage the NVIDIA GPU System Processor (GSP) to make it easier to develop and maintain this open-source driver. But depending upon the GSP also means the NOVA driver will only work with RTX 20 class GPUs and newer. This driver is going to be built up gradually within the mainline Linux kernel and coming out this Easter were a new set of 16 patches for further laying the NOVA groundwork...

NVIDIA Engineer Posts New NOVA Driver Patches - Still Far From Doing Anything Useful  Phoronix

Linux Kernel 6.13 Reaches End of Life, It’s Time to Upgrade to Linux Kernel 6.14  9to5Linux

Sway 1.11-rc1 is out today as a test release ahead of this next Wayland compositor feature release. Sway 1.11 is bringing a number of new features for this i3-inspired Wayland compositor while also building off the new features laid out in the recent wlroots 0.19-rc1 library...

The FreeType library for rendering text onto bitmaps that is widely used by a variety of applications has landed a set of three patches today providing an important performance improvement to address a significant inefficiency within the existing FreeType codebase...

Greg Kroah-Hartman has released a few new Linux kernel stable point releases today for Easter and also capping off the Linux 6.13 kernel cycle in the process...

The long-in-development OpenVPN DCO kernel driver for providing data channel offloading (DCO) to yield faster OpenVPN performance looks like it's now in a state for upstreaming with the Linux 6.16 kernel...

OpenVPN DCO Driver Queued In Net-Next Ahead Of Linux 6.16  Phoronix

Just a few days ago there was talk of potentially removing the Apple HFS and HFS+ file-system drivers from the Linux kernel considering they had been orphaned for a decade and beginning to cause a maintenance burden. After briefly being marked for deprecation, it now looks like the drivers may be maintained with new maintainers alleging to step-up to the role...