In addition to Proton 8.0-3 being released today for Steam Play, Wine 8.13 is out today as the latest bi-weekly release of this software for running Windows games and applications on Linux and other platforms.

Following the annual Akademy KDE developer conference, more Plasma 6.0 changes have been landing for this major desktop environment release that will likely come in H1'2024. Among the very latest changes to the Plasma 6.0 desktop and related KDE applications…

Last month saw the first release candidate of OpenZFS 2.2 that introduces Linux container support, BLAKE3 checksums, and block cloning capabilities

WineConf as what had been the regularly hosted Wine developer conference for this open-source project devoted to running Windows games/applications on Linux and other platforms is likely over

Red Hat engineers are looking at making it more evident on Fedora IoT, CoreOS, and Server editions when firmware updates become available for the hardware in use.

Debian GNU/Linux 12.1 "Bookworm" is now available for download with 89 miscellaneous bug fixes and 26 security updates.

Building off last month's release of Debian 12.0, Debian 12.1 is out today to ship dozens of bug fixes.

Automatic IBRS is a new feature with AMD Zen 4 processors akin to Intel's Enhanced IBRS functionality

Shotwell 0.32.2 open-source image viewer is now available for download with support for HEIF image files with the .HIF extension.

MPV 0.36 is out today as the newest version of this open-source media player that was originally forked from the MPlayer/mplayer2 code and leveraging the FFmpeg library.

Inkscape 1.3 open-source scalable vector graphics editor is now available for download with new Shape Builder Tool and many improvements.

Neptune 8.0 distribution is now available for download based on Debian GNU/Linux 12 "Bookworm" and featuring the KDE Plasma 5.27 LTS desktop.

Inkscape 1.3 is now available as the newest feature release ot this open-source software focused on being a vector graphics editor that can rival the likes of Adobe Illustrator.

The Debian GNU/Linux operating system is now officially supported on the RISC-V 64 (riscv64) hardware architecture.

Merged back in 2021 with Linux 5.16 was the FUTEX2 code to help with Linux gaming needs particularly around Steam Play

Qiang Yu continues leading the charge on integrating the ACO compiler back-end into the RadeonSI Gallium3D driver as an optional alternative to the AMDGPU LLVM shader compiler back-end.

Both new AMD Zen CPU and Radeon GPU microcode/firmware have been published today to the linux-firmware.git tree.

It looks like the updated Family 17h microcode this morning isin relation to a new Zen 2 CPU security vulnerability being disclosed

9to5Linux Weekly Roundup for July 23rd, 2023, brings news about Firefox HW video decoding for Raspberry Pi 4, Debian 12.1, and Inkscape 1.3.