Linux Graphics & Gaming News
The OpenCL Working Group today published a draft extension, cl_khr_cooperative_matrix, which introduces cooperative matrix operations to OpenCL. Developed in collaboration with Arm, Intel, and Qualcom...
Read more →The open-source PanVK Vulkan driver and Panfrost Gallium3D driver now support the Arm Mali G1-Pro GPU. This development brings open-source graphics capabilities to Arm's latest "v14" generation of Mal...
Read more →The Cemu development team announced that specific Linux builds of their Wii U emulator, Cemu 2.6, were compromised with malware. This affects AppImage and ZIP downloads retrieved directly from the pro...
Read more →Wine's native Wayland driver recently received an update, merging support for the wp_pointer_warp_v1 protocol. This integration allows the Wayland driver to correctly handle pointer warping, a critica...
Read more →The Vulkan SDK 1.4.350.0 has been released today, simultaneously available for Linux, macOS, and Windows. This update focuses on maintenance and brings several tooling and platform-specific improvemen...
Read more →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...
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