FFmpeg Introduces Vulkan Accelerated Decoding For APV Video
…Separately, another developer also landed support in FFmpeg on Tuesday for animated WebP decoding support as another noteworthy addition.
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Ubuntu Looks Toward More Snap-Based Devpacks Moving Forward
…After outlining the developer-related changes made to Ubuntu Linux over the past two years between long-term support releases, there is a brief look at the Ubuntu plans ahead. In particular…
CMake Pursuing Tighter Integration With Package Managers, Other Improvements
…CMake developers continue working on that Common Package Specification and other enhancements for improving package manager integration. CMake developers are also pursuing integrated linting support and other features. For those curious about…
Mesa 26.1 Makes It Easier To "Fake" A GPU Reset Using LLVMpipe
…Wayland developer Robert Mader added support to LLVMpipe for being able to simulate a GPU reset. LLVMpipe provides a CPU-based a software OpenGL implementation and typically wouldn't need any "GPU…
KDE's KWin Continues Working On Vulkan Support, Other Improvements For Plasma 6.7
…On Vulkan Support, Other Improvements For Plasma 6.7 Written by Michael Larabel in KDE on 4 April 2026 at 06:11 AM EDT. 14 Comments KDE Plasma developers continue working on…
Zrythm 2.0 Alpha Released For Rewriting The Digital Audio Workstation In C++ & Qt/QML
…The developers also decided to drop their Meson build system support in favor of CMake. In addition there is JUCE plug-in support, native CLAP plug-in support, ASIO support on Windows…
Greg KH Calls For More Rust Linux Developers
Greg KH Calls For More Rust Linux Developers Written by Michael Larabel in Linux Kernel on 20 May 2026 at 08:29 AM EDT. 9 Comments Greg Kroah-Hartman took time away…
Rusticl Driver Ready To Go With OpenCL 3.1 Working On Radeon, Intel Iris & Zink/Vulkan
…As a very exciting development, Rusticl as Mesa's lead OpenCL driver implementation is ready to go with same-day OpenCL 3.1 support pending. Karol Herbst, Red Hat engineer and lead…
Sway 1.12 Released With HDR Support On Vulkan Renderer, New Protocols
Sway 1.12 Released With HDR Support On Vulkan Renderer, New Protocols Written by Michael Larabel in Wayland on 25 May 2026 at 12:20 PM EDT. 7 Comments Sway 1.12…
Cage 0.3 Released With New Wayland Protocol Support
…Wayland developer Simon Ser announced the release today of Cage 0.3. With this new version it has upgraded to wlroots 0.20 as the newest feature release of this Wayland support…