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AMD has contributed support to Mesa's VA-API Gallium3D state tracker for supporting AV1 video encoding.

Vulkan 1.3.249 is out today as the latest spec update for this industry-standard high performance graphics and compute API

In addition to EXT4 seeing some performance optimizations and folio conversion for Linux 6.4, the Btrfs and Flash-Friendly File-System (F2FS) drivers are also seeing some nice enhancements with this next Linux kernel version.

There's a bit of Linux kernel code for AMD Zen 2 processors called the 'spectral chicken' and a call for cleaning up that code, which was originally written by an Intel Linux engineer, has been rejected.

GCC 13.1 has been released as the first stable version of GCC 13 as this annual feature release to the GNU Compiler Collection.

The hardware monitoring 'HWMON' subsystem updates have been pulled into the in-development Linux 6.4 kernel with ASUS Intel/AMD desktop motherboards being the big winners with these driver updates.

It's been one month already since the debut of GNOME 44 and out today is the first point release.

Released today was the first alpha release of the upcoming Weston 12.0 release, which continues to serve as the reference compositor for Wayland.

When carrying out the recent Windows 11 vs.

Intel's open-source 'ANV' Vulkan Linux driver has received another small but measurable performance improvement for various games.