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KDE developer Nate Graham is out with his usual weekly recap highlighting all of the interesting accomplishments for this open-source desktop for the past week

With Mesa 24.0 the developers have switched from using Doxygen and Breathe for building documentation comments from source to instead use the newer but less heard of Hawkmoth.

Patches posted this week by SiFive for the Linux kernel provide cryptographic implementations of various functions inside the Linux kernel using the processor ISA's vector crypto extensions.

With Linux 6.6 expected to be released tomorrow as stable, the Linux 6.7 merge window in turn will be opened

A shiny feature landed on Friday for the Intel open-source OpenGL and Vulkan drivers within Mesa 24.0: Tile-Based Immediate Mode Rendering (TBIMR).

Tomorrow the Linux 6.6 kernel is expected to be released as stable unless Linus Torvalds has last minute reservations and decides to extend the cycle by an extra week

The Ubuntu 24.04 codename has been revealed as 'Noble Numbat' while kicking off this next development cycle that is all the more exciting due to being the next long-term support (LTS) release.

While Fedora 39 was aiming for an ideal 'early final' release on 18 October, that didn't happen, it was delayed, and then delayed again

Samuel Pitoiset on Valve's Linux graphics driver team has wired up VK_EXT_image_compression_control support to the Mesa Radeon Vulkan driver (RADV) in order to workaround same game bugs being encountered with Steam Play / VKD3D-Proton.

Back in August Google Cloud announced the C3D instances powered by AMD EPYC 9004 'Genoa' processors while only last week was C3D promoted to general availability.