Linux Graphics & Gaming News
The official Godot Asset Store is now open, coinciding with the recent release of Godot 4.7. The store's initial offerings focus on extended reality (XR) development, featuring the OpenXR vendors plug...
Read more →Godot 4.7, the latest feature release for the open-source, cross-platform game engine, was released today. This update introduces High Dynamic Range (HDR) output support, enabling developers to produc...
Read more →The Linux kernel 7.1 has been released, bringing a range of updates across various subsystems. Key improvements in this version include significant enhancements to graphics capabilities, further integ...
Read more →A significant set of storage-related changes, including enhancements to IO_uring, NVMe, and general block device code, have been merged into the Linux 7.2 kernel. These updates span various components...
Read more →In an April 22 blog post, Collabora detailed its collaboration with environmental nonprofit SOMAR to develop an open source extended reality (XR) experience. This application immerses users in an unde...
Read more →Wine-Staging 11.11 has been released today, June 14, 2026. This experimental testing derivative includes 289 patches atop the upstream Wine 11.11 codebase. The upstream Wine 11.11 release, which occur...
Read more →Hyprland, the Wayland compositor, released version 0.55.3 today. This patch release backports several fixes from the main development branch to the 0.55.2 stable branch. Key updates include a fix for ...
Read more →KDE developers are applying final bug and regression fixes to the upcoming Plasma 6.7 desktop environment, which is expected to be released next week. This pre-release activity ensures stability and a...
Read more →AMD today announced the opening of pre-orders for its Ryzen AI Halo developer platform. This petite PC is powered by the AMD Ryzen AI Max+ "Strix Halo" processor and is designed to operate with both M...
Read more →The Khronos 3D Formats Working Group announced today plans for glTF 2.1, a backward-compatible revision of the core specification. This update is specifically designed to improve the format's handling...
Read more →AMD GPUOpen recently announced an update to its Radeon Developer Tool Suite. The release delivers RGP 2.7, which now includes "shader source code viewing" and instruction-level divergence metrics. The...
Read more →Khronos' Frederic Plourde was interviewed by Thomas Bedenk on the Spatial Realities podcast, released today, discussing the current state and future direction of OpenXR. Plourde provided an update on ...
Read more →Intel released Open Image Denoise (OID) version 2.5 last week. This open-source project provides a high-performance denoising library essential for ray-tracing applications, used in rendering software...
Read more →Khronos Group President Neil Trevett recently announced the new glTF extension that standardizes the integration of 3D Gaussian splats into the format.">KHR_gaussian_splatting extension for glTF. This extension integrates 3D Gaussian splats into the royalty-free open format, aiming to sta...
Read more →The open-source developers at Georgia Tech have released Vortex 3.0 today, a major update to their OpenCL-compatible RISC-V GPGPU implementation. This new version incorporates a complete 3D pipeline, ...
Read more →The UHD World Association (UWA), in technical coordination with the Khronos Group's 3D Formats Working Group, announced today the release of the industry's first spatial imaging standard for 3D Gaussi...
Read more →Simon Ser just published Wayland Protocols 1.49, the latest version of the core Wayland protocol definitions. This release introduces improved multi-GPU support, which is intended to enhance how multi...
Read more →A third iteration of "flatten the pick" Linux kernel patches was recently posted, continuing efforts to enhance cgroup scheduling. This ongoing work is designed to improve gaming performance, particul...
Read more →Mozilla Firefox has recently merged initial support for Vulkan Video decoding, enabling GPU-accelerated video processing within the web browser. This integration leverages the Vulkan API to offload vi...
Read more →The Khronos Vulkan SC Working Group, in collaboration with RasterGrid, recently released the Vulkan SC 1.0.21 SDK. This new SDK provides a unified installer for both Linux and Windows, combining essen...
Read more →The GNOME Sushi file previewer, a component of the GNOME Files (Nautilus) file manager, has recently been updated to utilize GTK4. This adaptation introduces a series of enhancements aimed at improvin...
Read more →Vulkan 1.4.353 was released today, June 06, 2026, marking the first API specification update in three weeks. This release includes the latest documentation updates for the high-performance graphics an...
Read more →Canonical's VP of Engineering Jon Seager announced at the Ubuntu Summit that Ubuntu 26.10 will introduce AI-powered voice input capabilities for all text fields. Users will be able to "press a button ...
Read more →PCSX2 has seen multiple development releases this week, from v2.7.382 through v2.7.393, introducing several graphics and settings enhancements. A key feature is the integration of Raster Order Views (...
Read more →Flathub, the primary distribution platform for Flatpak applications, announced a policy change regarding software developed using artificial intelligence tools. Effective today, June 6, 2026, the stor...
Read more →Ollama, the framework for running large language models locally, recently released version 0.30.5. This update primarily addresses a "gemma4:12b floating point exception crash" that affected the newly...
Read more →The upcoming Linux 7.2 mainline kernel is expected to include initial support enabling it to boot on Apple M3 devices, such as the M3-powered iMac and MacBook products. This development marks a founda...
Read more →The new KRAID compiler for modern Arm Mali graphics has been merged into Mesa 26.2. This integration will benefit the open-source Panfrost and PanVK drivers, which provide OpenGL ES and Vulkan support...
Read more →Intel released new versions of its open-source XPU Manager and Linux NPU driver software this week. The updated XPU Manager now includes support for the Intel Arc Pro B65 and Arc Pro B70 discrete grap...
Read more →As of early June, the X.Org Server and its XWayland component have been found to contain nine new security vulnerabilities. These flaws were reportedly discovered through the use of artificial intelli...
Read more →The Khronos OpenCL Working Group today released OpenCL 3.1, elevating several previously optional capabilities into the core specification. Conformant OpenCL 3.1 implementations are now required to co...
Read more →Boiling Steam reported last week that 75 new Steam games received native Linux builds between May 20 and May 27, 2026. This number constitutes approximately 10.6% of the 708 Windows titles released on...
Read more →KhronosGroup has released SPIRV-Tools v2026.2 today, bringing expanded SPIR-V extension support and optimizer enhancements. The update introduces support for SPV_KHR_abort and SPV_KHR_constant_data, e...
Read more →Bottles 64.0 was released today, introducing NTSYNC support to enhance Windows application compatibility and performance on Linux. This new feature, contributed by Tid0lla, is crucial for improving sy...
Read more →O3DE (Open 3D Engine) version 26.05 was released this week, featuring a new Open Particle System and other engine enhancements. This update continues the development of the cross-platform game engine,...
Read more →MangoHud v0.8.4 has been released, addressing several issues primarily related to Vulkan layer functionality and DirectX API detection. A significant fix resolves problems with Steam Overlay coexisten...
Read more →The Vulkan SDK 1.4.350.0 was released today by LunarG, simultaneously for Linux, macOS, and Windows. This update is described as "maintenance-focused" and includes "tooling and platform-specific impro...
Read more →Ubuntu 26.04 LTS upgrades are now officially available for users of Ubuntu 25.10. With support for Ubuntu 25.10 ending in July, users are encouraged to upgrade soon. Ubuntu 26.04 LTS, codenamed 'Resol...
Read more →NVIDIA released its Vulkan Developer Beta Driver version 595.44.08 for Linux three days ago on May 14, 2026. This driver, available via the open-gpu-kernel-modules GitHub repository, primarily focuses...
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 →The Khronos OpenCL Working Group has today released OpenCL 3.1, moving several previously optional capabilities into the core specification. Conformant implementations are now required to consume SPIR...
Read more →The OpenVX Working Group at Khronos today released two new extensions, Target Kernel and Node Command, aimed at improving computer vision and AI applications on modern heterogeneous Systems on a Chip....
Read more →WGPU, a Rust WebGPU implementation, released version 29.0.3 today, following the immediate yanking of the prior v29.0.2 release. Version 29.0.2 was pulled because it "Fixes compilation error when cfg(...
Read more →PCSX2, the PlayStation 2 emulator, released version 2.7.314 today, following version 2.7.309 released yesterday. This latest update primarily addresses a specific user interface issue, correcting a bu...
Read more →KhronosGroup has released HLSL into SPIR-V.">glslang version 16.3.0 today. This update notably deprecates the HLSL front-end, with the project advising developers to "See issue #4210 for details" regarding the change. B...
Read more →RenderDoc v1.44 has recently been released, bringing a series of bugfixes and consistency improvements to the GPU debugging tool. The release notes highlight known issues that developers should be awa...
Read more →PCSX2, the PlayStation 2 emulator, saw the release of version 2.7.309 today as a new development update. This release specifically targets improvements in hardware rendering accuracy and stability. Th...
Read more →Ollama v0.23.0 was released today, introducing official support for the Claude Desktop application. This integration allows users to run both Claude Cowork and Claude Code directly within the Claude D...
Read more →The Khronos OpenXR working group has expanded its Extension Matrix to include self-reported support data from various middleware providers. This update, announced today, integrates information from Go...
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