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Wine 7.1 Released With Vulkan 1.3 Support, Theming Fixes

Phoronix - Sat, 01/29/2022 - 05:27
With Wine 7.0 having been released, the code freeze is over and we are now onto the Wine 7.x bi-weekly development releases that will then culminate with the Wine 8.0 stable release one year from now. In kicking off the new development series, Wine 7.1 is out today...

DXVK-NVAPI 0.5.2 Released With Entry Points For NVIDIA PhysX

Phoronix - Sat, 01/29/2022 - 04:15
DXVK-NVAPI as the open-source project implementing support for NVIDIA's NVAPI within the realm of DXVK is out with a new release, which is exciting for NVIDIA Linux gamers...

Wayland Testing New Protocol Extension To Handle Session Locking

Phoronix - Sat, 01/29/2022 - 02:43
Wayland Protocols 1.25 was released today as the collection of testing and stable Wayland protocols. New to Wayland Protocols 1.25 is the session-lock-v1 protocol being experimental and responsible to handle session locking...

GStreamer 1.20 RC1 Released With Many Exciting Improvements

Phoronix - Sat, 01/29/2022 - 02:30
The first release candidate of GStreamer 1.20 is now available for testing of this widely-used, open-source multimedia framework...

Intel Preparing Resizable BAR Support For Their Arc Graphics On Linux

Phoronix - Fri, 01/28/2022 - 22:11
Ahead of the Intel Arc "Alchemist" graphics cards shipping this year, Intel's open-source developers have continued ironing out the Linux driver support. The most recent kernel patches are for getting their Resizable BAR "ReBAR" support in order...

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