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PipeWire 0.3.32 Released With Numerous Fixes

Phoronix - Wed, 07/21/2021 - 12:00
A new release of PipeWire was made on Tuesday for this audio/video stream management solution for Linux that can replace the likes of JACK and PulseAudio...

Chrome 92 Released With crypto.randomUUID, Security Fixes

Phoronix - Wed, 07/21/2021 - 06:36
Google today released Chrome 92 as their newest release on the browser's four-week release regiment...

Wine 6.13 Released With Proper Scrollbar Theming, More PE Conversion

Phoronix - Wed, 07/21/2021 - 04:20
The Wine project usually puts out new open-source development releases reliably every other week, but as is sometimes the case during the summer months, last Friday's was missed due to summer holidays. That update -- Wine 6.13 -- has now shipped today...

Arm Mali "Valhall" Reverse-Engineering Started

Phoronix - Wed, 07/21/2021 - 03:00
The Panfrost open-source Linux graphics driver stack has matured nicely for Arm Mali Midgard and Bifrost generations but for the past two years now there has been Valhall as the latest-generation Arm Mali microarchitecture. There is now work underway on reverse-engineering Valhall for ultimately wiring up with open-source graphics driver support...

AMD Posts Linux Graphics Driver Patches For "Cyan Skillfish"

Phoronix - Wed, 07/21/2021 - 01:45
AMD posted a new patch series bringing up a new graphics processor, Cyan Skillfish...

DXVK-NVAPI 0.4 Released For Improving NVIDIA Integration Atop DXVK

Phoronix - Wed, 07/21/2021 - 00:53
DXVK-NVAPI as the effort for exposing more NVIDIA driver/GPU features within DXVK for Steam Play (Proton) usage is out with a new feature release...

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