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https://www.phoronix.com/news/Mesa-Merges-Present-Timing
Vulkan VK_EXT_present_timing Merged To Mesa 26.1 For X11 & Wayland - Phoronix
The Vulkan EXT_present_timing was in development for years to help avoid game stuttering and released this past November with Vulkan 1.4.335
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https://www.phoronix.com/news/Godot-4.7-With-HDR
Godot 4.7 Will Finally Have HDR Output, Including On Linux With Wayland - Phoronix
The upcoming Godot 4.7 open-source, cross-platform game engine release is rolling out support for high dynamic range (HDR).
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https://www.phoronix.com/review/kde-plasma-6-amd-gaming
AMD Radeon Linux Gaming Performance At Parity Between KDE Plasma 6.0 X11 vs. Wayland - Phoronix
With a few weeks having passed since the KDE Plasma 6.0 desktop release along with some point releases for addressing initial fall-out, I've been meaning to...
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https://www.phoronix.com/news/Wayland-Experimental-Zones
Experimental Zones Protocol Merged To Wayland After 2+ Years, 620+ Comments - Phoronix
After the merge request was opened back in 2023 and after going through 628 comments/activity, merged now to Wayland Protocols is the experimental zones...
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https://www.phoronix.com/news/xx-fractional-scale-v2-MR-KWin
xx-fractional-scale-v2 Aims To Improve Wayland Fractional Scaling - Phoronix
A merge request for Wayland Protocols was opened today for introducing 'xx-fractional-scale-v2' as an experimental protocol to address current shortcomings...
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https://www.phoronix.com/news/SteamOS-3.8-Preview
SteamOS 3.8 Preview Preps For Steam Machine, KDE Plasma Desktop With Wayland By Default - Phoronix
In addition to last night's Steam client beta with Steam Runtime container support for the client and that SteamRT3 client now a 64-bit build, Valve also...
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https://www.phoronix.com/news/Wayland-1.25-RC1
Wayland 1.25 RC1 Released With Improved Documentation, Minor Changes - Phoronix
Simon Ser announced the release today of Wayland 1.25 RC1 (Wayland v1.24.91) in working toward this next stable release.
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https://www.phoronix.com/news/Top-Linux-News-2025
Valve's Linux Efforts, Kernel Improvements & KDE Plasma Wayland Advancements Topped 2025 - Phoronix
After looking yesterday at the most viewed Linux hardware reviews and benchmarks of 2025, today's look is at the most popular open-source/Linux news of the...
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https://www.phoronix.com/news/Xfce-Xfwl4-Wayland
Xfwl4 Being Developed As New Wayland Compositor For Xfce - Phoronix
Xfce developers are using their donations from the community to fund a longtime core developer to create Xfwl4, an entirely new Wayland compositor for Xfce.
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https://www.phoronix.com/news/AerynOS-2026.03
AerynOS 2026.03 Brings GNOME 50, Other Wayland Compositor Updates - Phoronix
AerynOS 2026.03 is now available as the newest release of this from-scratch Linux distribution originally known as Serpent OS
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https://www.phoronix.com/news/CachyOS-March-2026
CachyOS Handheld Edition Switches To Wayland, CachyOS Installer Drops Bcachefs - Phoronix
The March 2026 ISO refresh of the Arch Linux powered CachyOS distribution is now available for new installations and upgrading from existing CachyOS installs.
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https://www.phoronix.com/news/LXQt-2.4-Released
LXQt 2.4 Released With More Wayland Fixes/Improvements - Phoronix
The LXQt 2.4 desktop released today for joining the modern open-source desktop party alongside the likes of the recently debuted GNOME 50, KDE Plasma 6.6, and...
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https://www.phoronix.com/news/Budgie-10.10.2-Released
Budgie 10.10.2 Brings Improved Labwc Wayland Compositor Integration - Phoronix
Out today is Budgie 10.10.2 as the latest minor update to this open-source desktop environment that began as part of the Solus Linux project.
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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/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/Wayland-Protocols-1.48
Wayland Protocols 1.48 Released With XDG Session Management - Phoronix
Wayland Protocols 1.48 is out today with the long-awaited XDG Session Management protocol in tow as well as several new experimental protocols.
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https://www.phoronix.com/news/Raspberry-Pi-OS-2025-11-24
Raspberry Pi OS 2025-11-24 Brings HiDPI Improvements, Wayland Enhancements - Phoronix
In addition to debuting the Raspberry Pi OS Imager 2.0 app, Raspberry Pi today announced the latest version of their operating system.
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