Open-source News

Last month I wrote about the V3D kernel graphics driver preparing for 1MB "super pages" support to help boost the performance for this open-source Broadcom DRM driver most notably used by the latest Raspberry Pi single board computers. The latest iteration of these patches have now been posted for supporting both super pages and big pages...

With the recent Mesa 24.1 support for Wayland explicit sync with Vulkan drivers, GNOME merging explicit sync support, Wayland-Protocols 1.34 introducing linux-drm-syncobj, and XWayland explicit sync also nearing the state of being merged, there's been much talk recently about Wayland explicit sync. KDE KWin developer Xaver Hugl has written a detailed blog post for those interested in the topic...

KDE On The Importance Of Wayland Explicit Sync  Phoronix

In addition to KDE's busy week of development work, GNOME developers have also been busy working on features like improving the systemd-homed integration and beginning to work on mock-ups for an OS installer...

KDE developers have had another busy week working on fixes for Plasma 6.0 while simultaneously preparing new features for Plasma 6.1...

Kodi 21.0 “Omega” Open-Source Media Center Is Here with Major Changes  9to5Linux

Canonical Announces Netplan 1.0 with Simultaneous WPA2 and WPA3 Support  9to5Linux

Linux Foundation unveils Redis alternative, 'Valkey', with backing from AWS, Google Cloud, and Oracle  ITPro

German state gov. ditching Windows for Linux, 30K workers migrating  Ars Technica

Back in 2022 Cloudflare began talking about replacing Nginx with their own in-house, Rust-written code called Pingora, talked about Pingora more in 2023, and then this past February made this Pingora framework open-source for creating reliable and fast networked systems. Today marks the first official release of Pingora with the v0.1 tag...

This backdoor almost infected Linux everywhere: The XZ Utils close call  ZDNet

Wine 9.6 has just been issued as the newest bi-weekly development release for this open-source software to enjoy Windows games and applications under Linux...

Wine 9.6 released with more Direct2D effects work, support for RSA OAEP padding in BCrypt  GamingOnLinux

Veteran Linux kernel developer Peter Zijlstra is working to wrap-up feature work around the EEVDF kernel scheduler code...

New EEVDF Linux Scheduler Patches Make It Functionally "Complete"  Phoronix

Linux backdoor was a long con, possibly with nation-state support, experts say  Nextgov/FCW

The OpenZFS file-system has merged support for using multiple task queues (TaskQs) to enhance performance for multi-core systems...

OpenZFS Merges Support For Using Multiple Task Queues To Increase Performance  Phoronix

OpenBLAS 0.3.27 is out as the newest version of this prominent open-source Basic Linear Algebra Subprograms (BLAS) library...

Richard Hughes of Red Hat has published Fwupd 1.9.16 as the newest update to this open-source firmware updating solution for Linux systems that pairs with the Linux Vendor Firmware Service (LVFS) for easy firmware redistribution...