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vkd3d-proton 3.0.1 Brings D3D12 View Instancing, FSR4 Ray Reconstruction Ops

vkd3d-proton 3.0.1 was released today, introducing several new features to the Direct3D 12 on Vulkan translation layer. This version adds experimental support for D3D12 view instancing, which is speci...

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Steam Sees 63 New Native Linux Titles in a Week, Representing 11.1% of Releases

Boiling Steam reported 63 new titles with native Linux builds were released on Steam between April 29 and May 6, 2026. These native Linux versions accounted for approximately "11.1 % of total released...

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NVIDIA Releases Vulkan Developer Beta Driver 595.44.07

NVIDIA released its Vulkan Developer Beta Driver version 595.44.07 three days ago, on May 7, 2026. This release is specifically aimed at Vulkan developers, focusing on incorporating experimental Vulka...

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Hyprland 0.55 Released With Lua Configuration and User-Defined Layouts

Hyprland 0.55, a Wayland-based compositor, was released today as a significant feature update. This version introduces Lua-based configuration, which now allows for ExpressionVec2 and table usage, alo...

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FEX 2605 Boosts x86_64 Emulation on ARM64, Adds Snapdragon X2 Elite Fixes

FEX 2605 was released this weekend as the latest monthly feature update to the open-source emulator for running Linux x86_64 binaries on ARM64 (AArch64) devices. This release brings general performanc...

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NVIDIA Labs Releases CUDA-Oxide 0.1 for Experimental Rust-To-CUDA Compiler

NVIDIA Labs today released CUDA-Oxide 0.1, an experimental project implementing a Rust-to-CUDA compiler. This new initiative is designed to improve the capabilities of using the Rust programming langu...

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Khronos Releases Vulkan SC 1.0.21 SDK with Unified Linux/Windows Toolchain

The Khronos Vulkan SC Working Group, in collaboration with RasterGrid, has released the Vulkan SC 1.0.21 SDK today. This new SDK provides a unified installer for both Linux and Windows, designed to st...

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KDE Plasma 6.7 To Add HDR ICC Profile Support, Direct Scan-Out Improvements

KDE developers are preparing features for the upcoming Plasma 6.7 desktop environment, with a stable release anticipated in mid-June. Among the key additions, Plasma 6.7 will introduce support for ICC...

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Collabora Details Mesa NIR Compiler Shader Memory Access Optimizations

Collabora yesterday published a detailed breakdown of how Mesa's NIR compiler optimizes shader memory access. The blog post explains that techniques such as SSA promotion, deref analysis, copy propaga...

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AMD & Samsung Partner on Vulkan DGF Geometry Compression Extension

AMD recently announced the Dense Geometry Format (DGF) and DGF SuperCompression (DGFS) initiatives, developed in partnership with Samsung. DGF is being introduced as a multivendor Vulkan extension aim...

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Linux 7.2 Integrates AMDGPU DC Power Module for Windows-Aligned Management

A batch of updates for the AMDGPU graphics and AMDKFD compute kernel drivers was sent out today, May 7, 2026, targeting the Linux 7.2 merge window in June. The most significant inclusion is the new AM...

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Goverlay 1.8.0 Delivers UI Modernization, System Status Card for Linux Gaming

Goverlay 1.8.0 was released today, focusing on a comprehensive visual overhaul and the implementation of highly requested features for Linux gamers. The update introduces a redesigned interface "from ...

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D7VK 1.9 Improves Direct3D 7/6/5/3 Performance via Vulkan

The D7VK project released version 1.9 today, bringing notable performance improvements to its Direct3D 7, 6, 5, and 3 implementation over Vulkan. Phoronix reported that D7VK 1.9 "brings some hefty per...

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Ollama v0.23.1 Accelerates Gemma 4 MLX Inference with MTP Speculative Decoding

Ollama has released version 0.23.1, introducing Gemma 4 Multi-token Processing (MTP) speculative decoding for its MLX runner. This update, primarily benefiting macOS users with Apple Silicon, can prov...

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Intel ANV Vulkan Driver Merges Experimental Descriptor Heap Support

The Intel ANV open-source Vulkan driver for Linux has integrated experimental support for descriptor heaps, utilizing the VK_EXT_descriptor_heap extension. This feature was merged after its developmen...

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