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https://www.phoronix.com/news/FreeRDP-3.24-Released
FreeRDP 3.24 Released With Security Fixes & Improved X11 Client Support - Phoronix
FreeRDP as this open-source and cross-platform Remote Desktop Protocol (RDP) implementation is out with FreeRDP 3.24 to ship new security fixes as well as...
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https://www.phoronix.com/news/Fwupd-2.0.14-Released
Fwupd 2.0.14 Brings New Framework & SteelSeries Hardware Support - Phoronix
Fwupd 2.0.14 is out today as the newest version of this open-source firmware updating utility that is widely-used on Linux systems for BIOS/system firmware...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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https://www.phoronix.com/news/Cloud-Hypervisor-51
Cloud Hypervisor 51 Brings Performance Improvements, Better QCOW2 v3 Support - Phoronix
Cloud Hypervisor 51 is now available for this Rust-based VMM focused on secure cloud computing
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https://www.phoronix.com/news/Nginx-1.29.7-Multipath-TCP
Nginx 1.29.7 Delivers Multipath TCP Support - Phoronix
Released this week was Nginx 1.29.7 as the newest mainline version of this HTTP(S) web server
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https://www.phoronix.com/news/Google-Chrome-Dropping-Theora
Google Chrome To Remove Theora Video Codec Support - Phoronix
The Xiph.Org-developed Theora lossy video compression format was once popular for open-source video compression but in an era of VP9 and AV1 its usage has waned
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https://www.phoronix.com/news/Fwupd-2.1.1-Released
Fwupd 2.1.1 Released With Lots Of New Hardware Support - Phoronix
Richard Hughes of Red Hat just announced the release of Fwupd 2.1.1 as the newest feature update to this solution for deploying system firmware updates and...
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https://www.phoronix.com/news/QEMU-Patches-Drop-32-bit-Host
QEMU 11.0 Could Finish Removing 32-bit Host CPU Support - Phoronix
The QEMU emulator already deprecated 32-bit host CPU support while for the QEMU 11.0 release this year they could eliminate the 32-bit host support for good.
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https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-7.1-Sound
Linux 7.1 Sound Code Adds Bus Keepers: Aiming For Better Apple Silicon Support - Phoronix
The sound subsystem changes were merged this week for Linux 7.1 that include some new hardware support and other useful additions.
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https://www.phoronix.com/news/Chrome-145-Released
Google Chrome 145 Released With JPEG-XL Image Support - Phoronix
Back in 2022 Google deprecated and then removed JPEG-XL image support from the Chrome/Chromium browser codebase and now in 2026 it's back
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https://www.phoronix.com/news/Krita-6.0-Released
Krita 6.0 Released With Qt6 Port & Better Wayland Support - Phoronix
Krita 6.0 debuted today as the Qt6 port of this digital painting program aligned with KDE/Qt development
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https://www.phoronix.com/news/Fwupd-2.0.20
Fwupd 2.0.20 Brings New Hardware Support - Phoronix
Fwupd/LVFS lead developer Richard Hughes of Red Hat today released Fwupd 2.0.20 with continuing to advance firmware updating on Linux systems.
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https://www.phoronix.com/news/oneAPI-Construction-Kit-4.0
oneAPI Construction Kit 4.0 Brings RISC-V Host CPU Support - Phoronix
Last year the oneAPI Construction Kit was introduced by Intel-owned Codeplay Software for bringing SYCL to new hardware even for hardware outside of Intel's...
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https://www.phoronix.com/news/oVirt-4.5.7
oVirt 4.5.7 Released After Two Years With New OS & CPU Support - Phoronix
The oVirt 4.5.7 open-source virtualization management platform released this week after not seeing any new releases in two years
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https://www.phoronix.com/news/Plasma-6.6-Starts-2026
KDE Plasma 6.6 Fixes A Common Panel-Related Crash, Improves OpenBSD Support - Phoronix
KDE developer Nate Graham is out with the first issue of This Week in Plasma for 2026
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https://www.phoronix.com/news/Electron-Good-Wayland-Support
Electron's Investment Into Good Wayland Support - Phoronix
For years Electron apps were notorious for continuing to depend upon X11/XWayland and not jive well with the modern Wayland experience on modern Linux desktops
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https://www.phoronix.com/news/KDE-KWin-Vulkan-First-Step
KDE's KWin Compositor Lands First Step Toward Vulkan Support - Phoronix
Merged today was the very first step toward implementing Vulkan support within KDE's KWin compositor as an alternative to OpenGL rendering.
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https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-7.1-Input
Linux 7.1 Removes Drivers For Long Obsolete Input Hardware: Bye Bus Mouse Support - Phoronix
Beyond Linux looking to remove old drivers due to the surge of AI/LLM bug reports, the Linux 7.1 kernel is also removing some old hardware drivers simply on...
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https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-7.1-SoCs
Linux 7.1 Adds Support For 12 New SoCs, Other ARM & RISC-V Hardware - Phoronix
All of the SoC updates were recently merged for the ongoing Linux 7.1 kernel cycle
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https://www.phoronix.com/news/KTransformers-0.5.3
KTransformers Adds AVX2 MoE Support For Viable Performance On CPUs Without AMX/AVX-512 - Phoronix
KTransformers 0.5.3 released today for this framework for efficient inferencing and fine-tuning of large language models (LLMs) with a focus on CPU-GPU...
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https://www.phoronix.com/news/Plasma-6.7-Improvements
KDE's KWin Continues Working On Vulkan Support, Other Improvements For Plasma 6.7 - Phoronix
KDE Plasma developers continue working on new features for Plasma 6.7 while continuing to land more fixes and hardening for the current Plasma 6.6 stable...
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https://www.phoronix.com/news/Fedora-45-IPv6-Mostly
Fedora 45 Aims For IPv6-Mostly Support Out-Of-The-Box - Phoronix
One of the early features for Fedora 45 that was approved this week is enabling IPv6-mostly support within NetworkManager for a more modern out-of-the-box...
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