Rust Coreutils 0.0.30 Enhances GNU Compatibility, Uutils To Port More Common Unix Tools

([Programming] 8 March 10:02 AM EST uutils Coreutils 0.0.30)

The uutils project has released Rust Coreutils 0.0.30 as the newest version of this GNU Coreutils rewrite within the Rust programming language. Uutils developers will also be targeting more common Unix tools to port over to Rust too.

GTK On Android & macOS Seeing Improvements

([GNOME] 8 March 07:07 AM EST GNOME This Week)

In addition to Friday's very exciting GNOME 48 release candidate with some last minute features, there have also been some other GNOME-related changes this week to call out.

Mesa's Venus Driver Adds Vulkan Ray-Tracing Support For VMs

([Virtualization] 8 March 06:50 AM EST Vulkan Ray-Tracing Within VMs)

Mesa's Venus driver that allows for 3D graphics acceleration within virtual machines is now able to make use of the Vulkan ray-tracing extensions when using Mesa 25.1-devel along with updated Venus Protocol and Virglrenderer code.

Wine-Staging 10.3 Adds Patch For A 15 Year Old Bug

([WINE] 8 March 06:38 AM EST Wine-Staging 10.3)

Building off yesterday's release of Wine 10.3 is now Wine-Staging 10.3 for this more experimental version of Wine that is presently shipping 347 experimental/testing patches atop the upstream state.

KDE This Week Took Care Of "A Very Large Number Of Bugs"

([KDE] 8 March 06:22 AM EST KDE Bug Fixing)

KDE developer Nate Graham is out with the newest issue of This Week in Plasma to highlight all of the interesting KDE Plasma improvements merged for the week.

Wine 10.3 Wires Up Wayland Driver Clipboard Handling, Vulkan Video Decode Within WineD3D

([WINE] 7 March 04:40 PM EST Wine 10.3)

Wine 10.3 was just released as the newest bi-weekly development release for this open-source software to run Windows applications and games under Linux and other platforms.

GNOME 48 Release Candidate Brings Late Mutter Features & Other Changes

([GNOME] 7 March 04:22 PM EST GNOME 48.rc)

The GNOME 48 release candidate "48.rc" is out this evening as we approach the stable release of the GNOME 48 desktop in two weeks.

Vulkan Video Continues Making Inroads, VP9 Decode Planned For This Year

([Vulkan] 7 March 01:28 PM EST Vulkan Video 2025)

At the Vulkanised 2025 conference a few weeks back in Cambridge (UK) there were a few presentations concerning Vulkan Video for this cross-vendor, cross-platform video encode/decode interface.

Ubuntu To Revert "-O3" Optimizations, Continues Quest For Easier ARM64 Installations

([Ubuntu] 7 March 11:10 AM EST Ubuntu Foundations)

Canonical engineer Matthieu Clemenceau has posted a status update on the behalf of the Ubuntu Foundations engineers now half-way through the Ubuntu 25.04 development cycle. A number of notable package updates have landed as well as continued work on better ARM64 support and coming to a decision over "-O3" optimized packages.

AMD Officially Confirms Ryzen 9 9900X3D + Ryzen 9 9950X3D Pricing & Availability

([AMD] 7 March 10:41 AM EST Ryzen 9 9900X3D)

Back in January at CES was the Ryzen 9 9000X3D and Ryzen 9 9950X3D announcement while today AMD officially confirmed the release date and pricing on these new Zen 5 desktop CPUs with 3D V-Cache.

GCC 15 Now Enables AArch64 Early Scheduling For -O3/-Ofast Modes

([Arm] 7 March 10:13 AM EST Early Schedule)

The GCC "-fschedule-insns" option allows for reordering of instructions to eliminate execution stalls when required data is unavailable. This early scheduling option can be beneficial for systems with slow floating point performance or costly memory load instructions. With the upcoming GCC 15 release, AArch64 will be enabling this early scheduling optimization at the -O3 optimization level and higher.

Unofficial ROCm SDK Builder Expanded To Support More GPUs

([Radeon] 7 March 08:40 AM EST ROCm SDK Builder)

The community-based ROCm SDK Builder is an unofficial project leveraging the open-source AMD ROCm code and making it easy to build machine learning and GPU compute software across a range of environments and helping ensure proper integration with other machine learning tools and models. The ROCm SDK Builder takes special focus on the consumer Radeon iGPUs and dGPUs that typically aren't as much of a focus for the upstream AMD ROCm stack.

Intel Xe Driver Introducing SVM, EU Stall Sampling & Other New Features For Linux 6.15

([Intel] 7 March 06:55 AM EST Intel Xe)

Intel engineers today sent out their final drm-xe-next feature pull request to DRM-Next of the remaining features they are ready to land for the modern Intel Xe kernel graphics driver with the upcoming Linux 6.15 cycle. It's a big one.

Mesa Lands A Shader Statistics Framework For More Unification Across Drivers

([Mesa] 7 March 06:19 AM EST Shader Stats Framework)

The latest bit of increased driver code unification and decreasing code duplication among Mesa's OpenGL and Vulkan drivers is finally introducing a common shader statistic framework.

New Round Of Driver Optimizations For AMD RadeonSI In Mesa 25.1

([Mesa] 7 March 06:30 AM EST RadeonSI Optimizations)

Well known AMD Mesa driver developer Marek Olšák has been at it again working on some further performance optimizations to the open-source RadeonSI Gallium3D driver code.

Intel VSEC Driver Preps For Diamond Rapids In Linux 6.14

([Intel] 7 March 06:14 AM EST Intel VSEC + Diamond Rapids)

Sent out today was a batch of platform-drivers-x86 fixes for the ongoing Linux 6.14 kernel cycle. Notable among these fixes is introducing Intel Xeon "Diamond Rapids" support to the Intel VSEC driver.

Unexpected 2025 Flashback: New Linux Patches For AMD's ARM-Based Opteron A1100 "Seattle"

([AMD] 6 March 08:56 PM EST AMD Seattle ARM SoC)

A new set of patches hitting the Linux kernel mailing list today may cause some flashbacks and likely not on your 2025 bingo card... Some DeviceTree updates for AMD's short-lived Opteron A1100 "Seattle" ARM SoC that was cancelled shortly after being announced back in 2016.

Apple Touch Bar Display Drivers Slated For Introduction In Linux 6.15

([Apple] 6 March 04:54 PM EST Apple Touch Bar Display Drivers)

The upcoming Linux 6.15 kernel is expected to merge two new Direct Rendering Manager (DRM) display drivers for supporting the Apple Touch Bar displays on older Intel x86 Macs and a newer "ADP" driver for handling the Apple Touch Bar displays on the newer Apple M1/M2-powered MacBooks.

Ubuntu 25.10 Planning To Use Dracut By Default

([Ubuntu] 6 March 12:00 PM EST Ubuntu 25.10 + Dracut)

For the past number of months there has been talk in the Ubuntu developer space around replacing initramfs-tools with Dracut for handling initrd generation. While there has been progress in switching to Dracut, they aren't over the finish line yet and not until Ubuntu 25.10 are they planning to use Dracut by default.

Meta's eBPF-Powered Strobelight Software Reduced CPU Cycles By 20%

([Free Software] 6 March 11:41 AM EST eBPF Strobelight)

Adding to the excitement around the possibilities provided by the in-kernel eBPF Linux tech, Meta shared that their Strobelight software they are working on open-sourcing for profiling across servers has yielded a 20% reduction in CPU cycles and in turn a 10-20% reduction in the number of required servers for Meta’s top services.