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https://www.phoronix.com/news/Wine-11.6-Released Wine 11.6 Begins Reviving Its Android Driver - Phoronix Wine 11.6 is out as the newest bi-weekly development release for this open-source software enabling Windows games and applications on Linux, macOS, and other... wine 11 6driver phoronixbeginsrevivingandroid https://www.phoronix.com/news/Steam-OS-Beta-NTSYNC Latest SteamOS Beta Now Includes NTSYNC Kernel Driver - Phoronix Valve released the SteamOS 3.7.20 beta overnight and with it they are finally building the NTSYNC kernel driver for helping accelerate Windows NT... kernel driverlateststeamosbetaincludes https://www.phoronix.com/news/NzEwMg Arch Linux Revolts Against ATI Catalyst Driver - Phoronix While AMD continues to improve the ATI Catalyst Linux driver from where they were at years ago by introducing new features like CrossFire and OpenGL 3.0... arch linuxdriver phoronixrevoltsaticatalyst https://www.phoronix.com/news/EndeavourOS-Titan EndeavourOS Titan Released With Linux 6.19, Improved GPU Driver Integration - Phoronix EndeavourOS Titan is out today as the latest ISO refresh for this Arch Linux powered distribution linux 6 19endeavouros titangpu driverintegration phoronixreleased https://www.phoronix.com/news/AMDXDNA-Per-Process-BO-Query AMDXDNA Driver Introducing Per-Process Memory Usage Queries In Linux 7.1 - Phoronix Sent out this week was another drm-misc-next pull heading to DRM-Next ahead of next month's Linux 7.1 merge window linux 7 1process memorydriverintroducingper https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-GD-ROM-Dreamcast-Fix Linux Sees Fixes For Its GD-ROM Driver In 2026 For Sega Dreamcast - Phoronix Seeing new Linux patches for benefiting Sega Dreamcast devices wasn't on my bingo card for 2026 sega dreamcastlinuxseesfixesgd https://www.phoronix.com/news/RADV-KHR_copy_memory_indirect Radeon "RADV" Vulkan Driver Finally Lands VK_KHR_copy_memory_indirect - Phoronix In Mesa 26.1 the Radeon Vulkan driver 'RADV' has finally landed support for the VK_KHR_copy_memory_indirect extension that was introduced to the Vulkan API... vulkan driverfinally landsvk khrradeonradv https://www.phoronix.com/news/NVIDIA-Preview-DRM-Color-Pipe NVIDIA Provides Preview Driver With DRM Color Pipeline API Support - Phoronix Following the DRM Color Pipeline API making it into the Linux 6.19 kernel, NVIDIA today released a preview Linux driver with their support for the DRM... api supportnvidiaprovidespreviewdriver https://www.phoronix.com/news/Loongson-DRM-Driver-No-Orphan Loongson Linux Display Driver No Longer Orphaned - Phoronix The Loongson Direct Rendering Manager driver for handling the display controller on LS7A/LS2K SoCs is no longer orphaned with new Loongson engineers stepping... display driverloongsonlinuxlongerorphaned https://www.phoronix.com/news/Microsoft-DXGKRNL-Linux-v4 Microsoft's DXGKRNL Driver Updated For Linux - Many Changes After Four Years - Phoronix Well, here's an unexpected surprise.. many changesfour yearsmicrosoftdriverupdated https://www.phoronix.com/news/AMDGPU-GCN-1.1-APUs-Default AMDGPU Driver Ready To Be The Default For Aging Kaveri / Kabini / Mullins APUs - Phoronix With Linux 6.19 AMD GCN 1.1 and GCN 1.1 dGPUs now default to the AMDGPU driver rather than the legacy Radeon Linux driver amdgpu driverreadydefaultagingkaveri https://www.phoronix.com/news/New-NTFS-Driver-Submitted-Linux New NTFS File-System Driver Submitted For Linux 7.1 - Phoronix Making today very exciting in Linux 7.1 merge window land was a pull request being sent out for introducing the new, modern NTFS file-system driver linux 7 1new ntfsfile systemdriversubmitted https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-Ham-Radio-MKISS-2026 Linux Ham Radio KISS Serial Driver Being Modernized In 2026 - Phoronix Here's something that wasn't on my bingo card for this year of the 'MKISS' driver for ham radio being modernized in 2026 as opposed to just being dropped ham radio2026 phoronixlinuxkissserial https://www.phoronix.com/news/Intel-SynapseAI-Stops Intel Quietly Discontinues Its Open-Source User-Space Gaudi Driver Code - Phoronix There's another setback to the open-source driver code around Intel's Gaudi accelerator support on Linux. open source usercode phoronixintelquietlydiscontinues https://www.phoronix.com/news/AMDGPU-Linux-7.1-Multi-SDMA AMD GPU Driver Sees DC Idle Manager & Multi-SDMA Engine Optimization For Linux 7.1 - Phoronix With Linux 7.0-rc6 having released on Sunday, we are hitting the point of the cut-off of new feature material being allowed into the Direct Rendering Manager's... linux 7 1amd gpuengine optimizationdriversees https://www.phoronix.com/news/Intel-Linux-7.1-Panel-Replay Intel Graphics Driver For Linux 7.1 Preps Workaround For Dell XPS Panther Lake Laptop - Phoronix Sent out today was the latest batch of drm-intel-next changes as feature work toward DRM-Next for Linux 7.1 winds down linux 7 1panther lake laptopintel graphicsdell xpsdriver https://www.phoronix.com/news/Intel-Xe-THP-For-Device-SVM Intel Xe Driver In Linux 7.1 Enabling THP For Device Pages As A Big SVM Win - Phoronix Sent out today was a new batch of 'drm-xe-next' material of Intel Xe kernel graphics driver improvements ready for the upcoming Linux 7.1 kernel cycle linux 7 1intel xedriverenablingthp https://www.phoronix.com/news/NXP-Neutron-NPU-User-Blob NXP Neutron NPU Kernel Driver Blocked For Now By A Closed-Source User-Space Blob - Phoronix Last month NXP posted open-source Linux kernel driver patches for their Neutron NPU accelerator kernel driverclosed sourceuser spacenxpneutron https://www.phoronix.com/news/Intel-NPU-Linux-Driver-1.32 Intel Linux NPU Driver 1.32 Adds Wildcat Lake Support - Phoronix Intel today released their Linux NPU Driver 1.32 as the user-space driver components that interacts with the upstream IVPU kernel accelerator driver for... driver 1wildcat lakesupport phoronixintellinux https://www.phoronix.com/news/Intel-Adaptive-Sync-SDP-Patches Intel Posts New Linux Graphics Driver Patches For Improved Adaptive Sync Support - Phoronix Posted today were new Intel kernel graphics driver patches for Linux to enable Adaptive Sync SDP (Secondary Data Packet) handling for Panel Replay and Auxless... posts newlinux graphicsadaptive syncsupport phoronixintel https://www.phoronix.com/news/Tyr-Begins-Handling-Work Rust-Based Arm GPU Kernel Driver "Tyr" Begins Running GNOME & Basic Games - Phoronix Initially upstreamed into the Linux 6.18 kernel is Tyr as a Rust-based GPU kernel driver for Arm Mali hardware rust basedgpu kernelrunning gnomebasic gamesarm https://www.phoronix.com/news/RadeonSI-EDuke32-Fixes RadeonSI Driver Lands Fixes For EDuke32 For Those Wanting To Enjoy Duke Nukem 3D In 2026 - Phoronix It's fairly rare for the RadeonSI Gallium3D driver to hit OpenGL rendering game bugs these days as besides more games going opting for Vulkan API use, RadeonSI... duke nukem2026 phoronixdriverlandsfixes https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-6.19-No-Gaudi-3-Driver Intel Gaudi 3 Driver Support Already Rejected For Linux 6.19 - Phoronix Last night Intel finally posted their Gaudi 3 accelerator open-source driver support for the mainline Linux kernel with hopes of getting that long-delayed AI... linux 6 19intel gaudi3 driveralready rejectedsupport https://www.phoronix.com/news/Arm-MPAM-LInux-6.19 Arm MPAM Driver Upstreamed To The Linux 6.19 Kernel - Phoronix The ARM64 code changes were merged last week into the in-development Linux 6.19 kernel linux 6 19kernel phoronixarmmpamdriver https://www.phoronix.com/news/NTFS3-Linux-7.1 While New NTFS Driver Merged, NTFS3 Driver Sees Fixes & Minor Changes For Linux 7.1 - Phoronix Last week saw the 'NTFS resurrection' as Linux Torvalds put it with the new/overhauled NTFS driver having been merged for Linux 7.1 new ntfs driverlinux 7 1minor changesmergedsees https://www.phoronix.com/news/hid-omg-detect-Malicious-HID hid-omg-detect: Linux Driver In Development To Detect Malicious HID Devices - Phoronix Zubeyr Almaho has been leading work on a new HID driver named hid-omg-detect with an intent on passive monitoring to watch out for any malicious HID devices... linux driverhidomgdetectdevelopment https://www.phoronix.com/news/Synology-Microp-Linux-Driver New Rust Driver Aims To Improve Upstream Linux On Synology NAS Devices - Phoronix A set of patches posted to the Linux kernel mailing list last week introduce a new driver for enhancing the upstream/mainline Linux kernel support for Synology... new rustsynology nasdriveraimsimprove https://www.phoronix.com/news/NVIDIA-595.58.03-Linux NVIDIA 595.58.03 Linux Driver Debuts As Stable R595 Build - Phoronix Building off the NVIDIA 595.45.04 Linux beta driver that brought DRI3 v1.2 support and new Vulkan capabilities, the NVIDIA 595.58.03 Linux driver released this... linux drivernvidia5955803 https://www.phoronix.com/news/DRBD-15-Years-Code-Changes DRBD Driver Working To Land ~15 Years Worth Of Changes Into The Linux Kernel - Phoronix Developers behind the Distributed Replicated Block Device 'DRBD' for mirroring block devices between multiple host systems are working to resync the upstream... linux kernel phoronix15 yearsdrbddriverworking https://www.phoronix.com/news/AMD-SBI-EPYC-Venice AMD SBI Driver Preps For EPYC Venice With Linux 7.1 - Phoronix The Linux kernel continues getting ready for AMD's upcoming Zen 6 processors. linux 7 1epyc veniceamdsbidriver https://www.phoronix.com/news/AMD-P-State-Linux-7.1 AMD P-State Driver Introducing New Features With Linux 7.1 - Phoronix A few Linux kernel releases have passed since there have been any new features to talk about for the AMD P-State driver for CPU frequency scaling / power... linux 7 1introducing newamdpstate https://www.phoronix.com/news/DX-Shader-Compiler-Better-VLK Microsoft Updates DirectX Shader Compiler With Improved Vulkan Driver Interoperability - Phoronix Microsoft has published a new version of its open-source DirectX Shader Compiler microsoft updatesshader compilervulkan driverdirectximproved https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-7.1-More-AMDGPU AMDGPU Driver For Linux 7.1 Preps Debug Improvements, New Hardware IP - Phoronix Another round of AMDGPU/AMDKFD kernel driver improvements were sent out this week as feature development for DRM-Next ahead of Linux 7.1 begins to wind down. linux 7 1amdgpu driverimprovements newprepsdebug https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-6.18-RDMA AMD-Pensando Ionic RDMA Driver Added To Linux 6.18, Intel IPU E2000 Hardware Too - Phoronix The past several months has seen AMD engineers working on a new RDMA driver for Ionic hardware through which they acquired Pensando a few years ago linux 6 18amdpensandoionicrdma https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-7.1-Graphics-Drivers Linux 7.1 Kernel Graphics Driver Changes Merged With Intel & AMD Leading The Way - Phoronix The Direct Rendering Manager (DRM) kernel graphics driver and accelerator driver changes for Linux 7.1 were recently merged to Git linux 7 1graphics driverintel amdkernelchanges https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-7.1-MFD Linux 7.1 Lands The Apple SMC Power Driver For Reporting Battery Metrics On MacBooks - Phoronix The Linux Multi-Function Device 'MFD' subsystem changes were merged this week for Linux 7.1 ahead of the merge window closing on Sunday. linux 7 1power driverlandsapplesmc https://www.phoronix.com/news/Intel-ANV-BTP-BTI-RCC-Keying Intel's Vulkan Linux Driver Lands New Feature To Boost DX12 Game Performance - Phoronix Intel's open-source 'ANV' Vulkan driver for Linux systems enabled a new feature called BTP+BTI RCC Keying linux driverlands newgame performanceintelvulkan https://www.phoronix.com/review/intel-xe-i915-linux-619 Intel Xe vs. i915 Driver Performance On Linux 6.19 For Arc Alchemist GPUs - Phoronix Similar to AMD GCN 1.0/1.1 GPUs where there was product overlap between the Radeon and AMDGPU kernel drivers (and now using AMDGPU by default for those aging... linux 6 19intel xedriver performancearc alchemistgpus phoronix https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-7.0-rc7-Released Linux 7.0-rc7 Released With Improved Docs For AI Agents, WiFi Driver Performance Fix - Phoronix Timed for Easter this year is the seventh weekly release candidate for the Linux 7.0 kernel linux 7 0ai agentswifi driverrc7released https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-7.1-Qualcomm-MSM Snapdragon X2's Adreno X2-85 GPU Sees Driver Improvements For Linux 7.1 - Phoronix Rob Clark on Thursday sent out the batch of MSM DRM driver feature changes targeting the upcoming Linux 7.1 merge window linux 7 1snapdragon x2adreno85gpu https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-Driver-Pulsar-Gaming-Mice Linux Driver Being Worked On For Pulsar Gaming Mice - Phoronix A Linux HID driver is being developed for Pulsar branded gaming mice to expose additional information and capabilities. linux driverpulsar gamingworkedmicephoronix https://www.phoronix.com/news/Rust-DRM-For-Linux-7.1 A Lot Of Rust Graphics Driver Changes For Linux 7.1, NVIDIA Nova Driver Additions - Phoronix Sent out yesterday were the DRM Rust feature changes for DRM-Next ahead of the Linux 7.1 merge window coming in April linux 7 1graphics driverlotrustchanges https://www.phoronix.com/news/OneXPlayer-Config-HID-Driver OneXPlayer Configuration HID Driver Posted For Linux By Valve Developer - Phoronix Open-source developer Derek Clark of Valve's Linux engineering team has been responsible for many improvements for gaming handheld devices valve developeronexplayerconfigurationhiddriver https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-7.0-Staging Linux Still Working To Clean Up The Realtek RTL8723BS 802.11b/g/n WiFi Driver In 2026 - Phoronix Introduced to the Linux 4.12 kernel's staging area back in 2017 was the Realtek RTL8723BS WiFi driver still workingwifi driver2026 phoronixlinuxclean https://www.phoronix.com/news/Mesa-20.0-Defaults-Intel-G3D Mesa 20.0 Now Defaults To The New Intel Gallium3D Driver For Faster OpenGL - Phoronix After missing their original target of transitioning to Intel Gallium3D by default for Mesa 19.3 as the preferred OpenGL Linux driver on Intel graphics... mesa 20 0new inteldefaultsdriverfaster https://www.phoronix.com/news/Intel-NPU-Driver-Linux-1.30 Intel NPU Driver 1.30 Released For Linux - Phoronix For going along with the Intel IVPU kernel accelerator driver in the mainline Linux kernel is the Intel NPU driver support in user-space driver 130 releasedlinux phoronixintelnpu