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While Firefox 152+ already offers experimental JPEG-XL support, Mozilla formally announced today their plans for officially shipping JPEG-XL image format support in the Firefox web browser...
The feature is in alpha testing now and is set to bring 4K screensharing and picture-in-picture support.
Some distros are just better for different people.
It fills the security gaps that HA had for years.
Rhythmbox 3.5.1 is out with a fix for the ReplayGain plugin, improved dependency compatibility detection, and Bandcamp FLAC lyric support.
Being halfway through the Linux 7.3 kernel merge window and prior to wrapping up and sending back the HP Z4 G6i workstation powered by the Xeon 678X Granite Rapids WS processor, I decided to run some benchmarks to see how Linux 7.3 Git is performing relative to the prior stable kernel series. Here are the first benchmarks of this early state of Linux 7.3 with some performance improvements as well as some regressions.
GNU Emacs 31.1 is out today as the newest feature release to this popular text editor...
Manjaro 26.1.1 is out as the first point release in the 26.1 series, bringing Linux kernel 7.2, KDE Frameworks 6.29, Mesa 26.1.7, and more.
VKD3D 2.1 was released today by CodeWeavers' Henri Verbeet as the upstream Wine project for getting Direct3D 12 implemented over the Vulkan API...
Coincidentally just days after AMD posted their big UALink patch series for Linux, Intel engineers today announced a proposal called DRM Fabric...
9to5Linux Weekly Roundup for August 23rd, 2026, brings news about Mozilla Firefox 154, PorteuX 2.8, Garuda Linux “Temeraire”, GNU Linux-libre 7.2 kernel, RPM 6.1, Mozilla Thunderbird 154, VirtualBox 7.2.16, COSMIC 1.6, Proton 11.0-2, NetworkManager 1.58.1, KDE Gear 26.08, and more.
With the in-development Linux 7.3 is support for discovering and enumerating support for several newer RISC-V ISA extensions. Plus there are improvements to its control flow integrity Shadow Stack handling, CPU context switch support for QoS tagging, using UEFI runtime services for restart and powering off, and other improvements...
Merged last week for the Linux 7.3 kernel were all the hardware monitoring (HWMON) driver updates for Linux 7.3, which included supporting several more ASUS desktop motherboards, a few AIO liquid cooling products, more Lenovo system support, and per-CCD temperature monitoring on AMD EPYC 9005 server processors...
PorteuX 2.8 Linux distribution is now available for download with Linux kernel 7.2, KDE Plasma 6.7.4, GNOME 50.4, COSMIC 1.6, Cinnamon 6.6.9, new union filesystem, and more.
Catch up on the latest Linux news: kernel 7.2, AerynOS August update, Bazzite 44, COSMIC Desktop 1.6, VirtualBox 7.2.16, Firefox 154, and more.
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