Open-source News

Godot 4.5 Open-Source Game Engine Released With A Multitude Of Improvements

Phoronix - Tue, 09/16/2025 - 06:24
Godot 4.5 is out today as the latest update to this leading open-source and cross platform game engine...

AMD ABMC Expected To Go Upstream For Linux 6.18

Phoronix - Tue, 09/16/2025 - 05:00
After being in the works for the past two years and going through 18+ rounds of code review, AMD ABMC looks poised to be mainlined for the upcoming Linux 6.18 kernel...

AOMedia To Release AV2 Video Codec At Year's End

Phoronix - Tue, 09/16/2025 - 03:40
The Alliance for Open Media announced today that they will be launching the next-generation AV2 video codec at the end of 2025...

AMD Officially Confirms The End Of The AMDVLK Driver

Phoronix - Tue, 09/16/2025 - 03:28
To no real surprise given the happenings (or there the lack of) the past few months, AMD formally announced publicly today that their open-source AMDVLK driver has been discontinued in favor of the Mesa RADV driver for Vulkan needs on Linux...

libxml2 Maintainer Stepping Down - "More Or Less Unmaintained For Now"

Phoronix - Tue, 09/16/2025 - 00:38
The maintainer of the libxml2 project announced he is stepping down from this widely-used open-source library without any replacement maintainer yet determined...

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