XDG-Desktop-Portal 1.18 Released With Accent Color Support, New Clipboard & Input Capture Portals (www.phoronix.com)
PipeWire 0.3.80 Released With Vulkan DMA-BUF Support, Tag Param (www.phoronix.com)
This is a bugfix release that is API and ABI compatible with previous 0.3.x releases....
Bcachefs Merged Into Linux-Next (www.phoronix.com)
Bcachefs making progress towards getting included in the kernel. My dream of having a Linux native RAID5 capable filesystem is getting closer to reality.
Mesa Adds GPUVis Integration - GPU Trace Visualizer (www.phoronix.com)
Mold 2.0 High Speed Linker Released: Moves From AGPL To MIT License (www.phoronix.com)
Intel Details APX - Advanced Performance Extensions (www.phoronix.com)
Following Advanced Vector Extensions (AVX) and more recently Advanced Matrix Extensions (AMX) for furthering the x86_64 CPU compute potential, Intel has now published initial details on APX: Advanced Performance Extensions....
Debian 12.1 Released With Many Bug Fixes (www.phoronix.com)
Fake Sparse Support Being Worked On For Intel's Open-Source Vulkan Driver (www.phoronix.com)
For support of some D3D12 games that request sparse resource support but don’t actually need it.
Mesa RADV Driver Re-Enables Ray-Tracing Pipelines For AMD VanGogh APUs / Steam Deck (www.phoronix.com)
Last month The RADV ray-tracing pipelines support was enabled by default but then later disabled for VanGogh APUs, notably the Steam Deck. Now though with the latest ray-tracing code in Mesa 23.2-devel the RADV driver is no longer blocking the support for VanGogh.
Wine Begins Preparations For Reorganizing & Cleaning Up Its Direct3D Code (www.phoronix.com)
Wayland Protocols 1.32 Brings Three New Staging Protocols (www.phoronix.com)
"Honeykrisp" Is A New Vulkan Driver For Apple M1 On Linux - Derived From The NVK Driver (www.phoronix.com)
GNOME Shares Update On Sovereign Tech Fund & Other Development Funding (www.phoronix.com)
Valve Working On Explicit Sync Support For "NVK" NVIDIA Vulkan Driver (www.phoronix.com)
Former Nouveau Lead Developer Joins NVIDIA, Continues Working On Open-Source Driver (www.phoronix.com)
APT 2.9 Released: Debian's APT 3.0 To Have A New UI With Colors, Columnar Display & More (www.phoronix.com)
Oracle Releases DTrace 2.0.0-1.14 For Linux Systems (www.phoronix.com)
Linux 6.8-rc7 Released With The Stable Kernel Potentially Coming Next Week (www.phoronix.com)
Linus Torvalds just issued Linux 6.8-rc7 as we close in on the Linux 6.8 stable release in the next week or two....