Open Source

Mesa NVK Vulkan Driver Adds VK_KHR_fragment_shading_rate Support
Adding to the growing set of features for NVK as this open-source NVIDIA Vulkan driver within Mesa, the VK_KHR_fragment_shading_rate fragment shading rate extension is now supported...
2024-10-13 06:13
Microsoft's Azure Linux 2.0 Updated With Dozens Of Security Fixes
While Azure Linux 3.0 has been available since the late summer, for those continuing to rely on Azure Linux 2.0 in production there is a big update out this weekend. Azure Linux 2.0.20241006 brings dozens of security fixes to this Microsoft Linux distr...
2024-10-13 06:05
Secure Custom Fields
On behalf of the WordPress security team, I am announcing that we are invoking point 18 of the plugin directory guidelines and are forking Advanced Custom Fields (ACF) into a new plugin, Secure Custom Fields. SCF has been updated to remove commercial u...
2024-10-12 18:26
KDE neon 6.2 Is Out with KDE Plasma 6.2 Desktop, Based on Ubuntu 24.04 LTS
KDE neon 6.2 distribution is now available for download based on the latest Ubuntu 24.04 LTS (Noble Numbat) operating system series and featuring the KDE Plasma 6.2 desktop environment. The post KDE neon 6.2 Is Out with KDE Plasma 6.2 Desktop, Based on...
2024-10-12 11:20
Wayland Protocols 1.38 Brings System Bell, FIFO & Commit Timing Protocols
Wayland Protocols 1.38 is out with three new staging protocols...
2024-10-12 10:28
AMD XDNA Linux Driver Updated As It Nears The Upstream Kernel
Back in January AMD published an open-source XDNA Linux kernel driver for supporting their Ryzen AI NPUs. But it wasn't until July that the formal review process for the AMD XDNA driver began as the necessary prerequisite for getting picked up into the...
2024-10-12 09:21
BeOS-Inspired Haiku Enabling More Intel Hardware & Driving Kernel Optimizations
The Haiku open-source operating system project inspired by BeOS is out with their newest monthly development summary to highlight advancements made to this unique OS...
2024-10-12 09:02
Intel Panther Lake H EDAC Support Posted For Linux
With Intel Core Ultra Lunar Lake systems now shipping and the Linux support largely settled, Intel open-source software engineers have begun ramping up their support for Panther Lake due out in a year...
2024-10-12 06:53
AMD Job Posting Confirms More Details Around Their AI GPU Compute Stack Plans
A Friday evening job posting has confirmed and reinforced details around their future AI GPU compute stack, presumably what's been referred to as the Unified AI Software Stack...
2024-10-12 06:44
KDE Developers Fixing Initial Bugs From Plasma 6.2
Following this week's release of KDE Plasma 6.2, the KDE developers are busy addressing some of the initial fallout from this desktop update as well as more feature work aimed at Plasma 6.3...
2024-10-12 06:13
Ktor 3.0 switches to kotlinx.io library
Ktor 3.0, the latest version of the Kotlin-based framework for building asynchronous client- and server-side applications, is now available. Ktor 3.0 switches to the kotlinx.io library for handling data sources. The release also highlights support for...
2024-10-11 22:32
AMD To Integrate "Project Caliptra" Into Products Beginning In 2026
As another interesting AMD announcement this week following their Advancing AI event yesterday where they launched the EPYC 9005 series and other new hardware, they've continued with a few more soft announcements in the lead-up to the OCP Global Summit...
2024-10-11 20:50
Embedded developers face mounting pressure on security
Developers and software engineers face mounting pressure to balance rapid innovation with safety and security, says software provider BlackBerry Limited. The company released the results of its survey of 1,000 embedded software developers and engineer...
2024-10-11 17:37
KDE Frameworks 6.7 Released with Performance Optimizations and Improvements
KDE Frameworks 6.7 open-source software suite is now available with various improvements for the Plasma desktop and KDE applications. Here's what's changed! The post KDE Frameworks 6.7 Released with Performance Optimizations and Improvements appeared f...
2024-10-11 17:13
Haiku Activity & Contract Report, September 2024 (ft. packagefs memory usage optimization)
This report covers hrev58043 through hrev58187. We’re now back to development “as usual” after the release of R1/beta5 (though some of the changes in this report did make it in to the release itself.) packagefs memory usage optimization While wai...
2024-10-11 15:30
Spotify Controls GNOME Extension is Ideal for Music Addicts
GNOME Shell shows now playing info in the notification shade, out of view but there when you want to check in. Most users like this approach, but perhaps you don’t? Personally, I do like seeing media info (album art, artist name, track title) in the ...
2024-10-11 14:03
Spotify Controls: GNOME Shell Extension Ideal for Music Addicts
GNOME Shell shows now playing info in the notification shade, out of view but there when you want to check in. Most users like this approach, but perhaps you don’t? Personally, I do like seeing media info (album art, artist name, track title) in the ...
2024-10-11 14:03
Arm Exploring IO_uring For Graphics Drivers For Better Performance & Synchronization
The IO_uring asynchronous I/O API for Linux is quite novel and has proven performance benefits. With time IO_uring has been adapted to other areas of the kernel like networking and now with a proposal raised by an Arm graphics driver engineer, it could...
2024-10-11 13:45
AVX-512 Performance With 256-bit vs. 512-bit Data Path For AMD EPYC 9005 CPUs
Now past the launch day for the AMD EPYC 9005 series server processors and having delivered initial AMD EPYC Zen 5 benchmarks for the EPYC 9575F / EPYC 9755 / EPYC 9965 SKUs, it's onto one of my favorite areas of testing and that is the more focused be...
2024-10-11 10:40