Linux Graphics & Gaming News
Valve has released the 2026 Steam Controller, marking a return to the hardware segment ten years after the original device debuted in 2015. Boiling Steam reports that the new controller aims to addres...
Read more →GNOME's help viewer, Yelp, has received an update to version 49.1. This release addresses a newly identified security vulnerability described as "a possible Flatpak sandbox escape vector." The fix is ...
Read more →AMD has updated its AMDGPU kernel driver patches to include support for HDMI 2.1 Display Stream Compression (DSC) alongside the previously introduced Fixed Rate Link (FRL) functionality. The initial H...
Read more →The Xemu original Xbox emulator has released a new development build with several notable improvements to its Vulkan backend and user interface. Key changes include specific optimizations for the nv2a...
Read more →The PCSX2 project has recently released version 2.7.330 of its PlayStation 2 emulator. This update specifically targets emulation improvements for the game Samurai Complete Edition, identified by its ...
Read more →Jens Axboe, lead developer of IO_uring and Linux block maintainer, has introduced new Linux kernel patches aimed at significantly improving per-core I/O performance. This effort follows a presentation...
Read more →Ubuntu community member Muqtxdir recently recreated the Unity desktop shell, leveraging the Wayfire compositor, gtk4-layer-shell, and Libadwaita. This experimental project visualizes a modern evolutio...
Read more →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...
Read more →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...
Read more →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...
Read more →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...
Read more →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...
Read more →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...
Read more →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...
Read more →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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