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Merged to Mesa 26.1-devel this week is a minor improvement to the Intel "ANV" Vulkan driver providing some slight enhancements to DirectX 12 games running on Linux by way of Valve's Steam Play with VKD3D-Proton...
AlmaLinux as one of the leading, modern and community-minded alternatives to Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) continues enjoying very nice growth. In their 2025 Year In Review they provided a look at their growth with now having more than two million systems per week checking in for software updates...
Building off January's GStreamer 1.28 release with many new features, GStreamer 1.28.1 was released today as a point release bringing various fixes and minor additions to this open-source multimedia framework...
GStreamer 1.28.1 open-source multimedia framework is now available for download with a new Whisper-based speech-to-text transcription element and many other changes.
Wireshark 4.6.4 open-source network protocol analyzer is now available for download with updated protocol and capture file support, as well as various bug fixes.
The forecast is looking Qt for fans of open-source weather app Typhoon, the latest update to which swaps its GTK3 backend for a more modern Qt 6. Most interesting about the change is that it doesn’t have any impact on the UI. Typhoon still shows a colourful, borderless window with transparency, and conveys weather forecast data using stark white text and glyphs. Archisman Panigrahi, Typhoon’s developer, says the Qt port means the app is no longer using the deprecated GTK3 toolkit, but that moving to GTK4 was a non-starter as it ‘does not play well with simultaneously borderless and draggable […]
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Those testing Ubuntu 26.04 daily builds or monthly snapshots may have noticed that Showtime, GNOME’s spiffy new video player, is not preinstalled in the ‘extended selection’, despite being announced as a replacement for Totem. It’s especially confusing since Resources system monitor, announced as a software swap the same time as Showtime, has been on the ISO for a while. Credits need not roll on hope yet, as Showtime could be making its debut soon. Its latest package upload to the resolute archives includes a change that goes some way to explaining why it’s not been present sooner. It reads: “Depend […]
You get a range of improvements across the other editors too.
Wireshark 4.6.4 network protocol analyzer resolves three security vulnerabilities, including a USB HID memory exhaustion flaw.
The Linux kernel project has extended support for several active LTS branches, with new projected end-of-life dates through 2027 and 2028.
Caddy 2.11.1 introduces six security patches, automatic ECH key rotation, enhanced reverse proxy behavior, and additional improvements.
Meta has contributed React, React Native, and JSX to the newly formed React Foundation.
A small community project is building immutable Fedora images for tablets and phones.
Following the Firefox 148 release with the new AI controls, Mozilla promoted Firefox 149 to beta today...
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