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Firefox 139 Beta Delivers Faster HTTP/3 Upload Performance

news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 30 April

Firefox 138 was released yesterday and wasn't particularly exciting besides enhanced profile management and Tab Groups support... Aside from that it was a pretty basic release. In turn Firefox 139 is now in beta and that release does bring some items worth mentioning like faster HTTP/3 upload performance...

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AMDVLK 2025.Q2.1 Released With More Vulkan Extensions, Hawk Point 1 & 2 Support

news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 30 April

AMDVLK 2025.Q2.1 was released today as the first update to this official open-source AMD Vulkan driver since the previous release in mid-March. AMDVLK 2025.Q2.1 brings new hardware support, new Vulkan API extensions, and other new features...

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Pixman 0.46 Delivers Faster Performance On RISC-V With V Vector Extension

news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 30 April

Pixman as the open-source pixel manipulation library used by the X.Org Server and Cairo graphics library is out today with Pixman 0.46 as the newest feature release...

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Valve's Proton 10.0 Beta Released With More Windows Games Now Playable On Linux

news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 29 April

Valve and CodeWeavers today announced the much anticipated beta release of Proton 10.0 as the newest version of their downstream version of Wine that powers Steam Play for running Windows games on Linux...

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Intel's Open-Source Vulkan Driver Lands BFloat16 Support In Mesa 25.2

news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 29 April

Introduced last month in the Vulkan 1.4.311 spec was VK_KHR_shader_bfloat16 for supporting BF16 types within SPIR-V shaders. Merged today for Mesa 25.2 is that BFloat16 support for Intel's open-source Vulkan Linux driver...

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Ubuntu 25.04 & Fedora 42 Hit A Long Sought Milestone With HDR Support Working Well On The Linux Desktop

news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 29 April

It's almost majestic: HDR display support working on the Linux desktop. If you asked me at the start of the calendar year if I'd expect to see modern Linux distributions shipping with working HDR display support in H1'2025, I would have been doubtful. But after a lot of miraculous work that landed across numerous upstream repositories over the past two months or so, everything has come together just in time for the likes of Ubuntu 25.04 and Fedora Workstation 42. There still are apps not supporting HDR and the like, but the core infrastructure is in place and working. The past two weeks I've begun testing out the Linux HDR desktop experience with the ASUS ROG Swift OLED PG27UCDM 27-inch 4K display. Between the ASUS PG27UCDM's QD-OLED display and HDR support enabled under Linux, it delivers a very beautiful Linux desktop experience.

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DRM Code For Linux 6.16 Hides The "Disgusting Turds" & Adds TI AM68 GPU Support

news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 29 April

Sent out today was a batch of drm-misc-next patches for queuing ahead of the Linux 6.16 merge window. There are a few notable changes here as part of the Direct Rendering Manager updates for the core code and smaller kernel drivers...

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Mutter Merges Wayland Toplevel Tag Protocol For GNOME 49

news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 29 April

In addition to the recent merge to Mutter for improving fullscreen apps with direct scanout enhancements for GNOME 49, another early addition also landed today in Mutter: support for Wayland's toplevel tag protocol...

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3dfx Voodoo 5 Graphics Driver Can Work On Open-Source React OS

news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 29 April

For nostalgic open-source fans, React OS as the "open-source Windows" operating system striving for binary compatibility with Windows drivers and applications can now work with the 3dfx Voodoo 5 driver...