Linux Graphics & Gaming News
A fix is being incorporated into Linux 7.1 to address a long-standing audio issue affecting the Steam Deck OLED handheld when running the mainline Linux kernel. The audio functionality for the Steam D...
Read more →AMD today posted official patches to the Linux kernel mailing list, introducing HDMI Fixed Rate Link (FRL) support for its open-source AMDGPU kernel graphics driver. These patches implement a crucial ...
Read more →NVIDIA today released version 580.159.03 of its Open GPU Kernel Modules for Linux. This new driver introduces initial support for the NVIDIA Blackwell architecture, enabling developers and users to op...
Read more →Development for the upcoming Linux 7.2 kernel has begun, with the initial "drm-misc-next" pull request submitted to DRM-Next in April. This occurred while the Linux 7.1 merge window was still active. ...
Read more →NVIDIA has released version 595.71.05 of its open GPU kernel modules today. This update is part of the broader NVIDIA 595.71.05 driver package, which continues to integrate these open-source component...
Read more →Linux 7.1-rc1 was released today, April 27, 2026, marking the conclusion of the merge window for the upcoming kernel version. This release introduces a new NTFS driver and enables FRED (Flexible Retur...
Read more →Ubuntu 26.04 LTS "Resolute Raccoon" has been officially released today, April 24, 2026. This long-term support release marks a significant architectural shift as "the first LTS in Ubuntu's history to ...
Read more →The in-development Linux 7.1 kernel this week saw the integration of significant updates to its Human Interface Device (HID) and PCI subsystems. The HID subsystem changes introduce new hardware suppor...
Read more →A pull request introducing a new, modern NTFS filesystem driver was submitted today for the Linux 7.1 kernel merge window. This new driver aims to provide an improved Linux NTFS experience compared to...
Read more →AMD is integrating a new "power module" into the AMDGPU kernel graphics driver's Display Core (DC) component for Linux. This development, which recently appeared in a set of patches, aims to bring Lin...
Read more →Linux kernel 7.0 has been released, incorporating significant hardware enablement and performance updates. Collabora announced its contributions, totaling 227 patches from 24 developers, detailing the...
Read more →Collabora announced today that mainline Linux now officially supports the Rockchip RK3588 system-on-chip's video capture and camera hardware. This development follows over five years of collaborative ...
Read more →A critical out-of-bounds access vulnerability within the Linux kernel has been patched. This flaw has been present in the kernel's mainline development for the past three years, posing a significant s...
Read more →The stable Linux 7.0 kernel was released today, April 13, 2026, by Linus Torvalds. This new version includes a standardized filesystem error reporting system, faster swap performance, and hardware vid...
Read more →The Linux 7.0 kernel, currently nearing its stable release, today gained support for three additional standardized keycodes designed for AI agent interactions on future PC hardware. This merge expands...
Read more →An Amazon/AWS engineer reported yesterday that the current Linux 7.0 development kernel leads to PostgreSQL database server throughput being "around half that of prior kernel versions." The engineer r...
Read more →Intel today released Linux NPU Driver 1.32, providing updated user-space driver components for its Neural Processing Units. This release is engineered to interact with the upstream IVPU kernel acceler...
Read more →NVIDIA today, April 02, 2026, released a preview Linux driver introducing support for the DRM Color Pipeline API. This development follows the API's integration into the Linux 6.19 kernel. The inclusi...
Read more →The beta release of Ubuntu 26.04 LTS, codenamed 'Resolute Raccoon', is now available for download. This release precedes its planned stable launch on April 23, 2026, by approximately one month. It int...
Read more →Linux 7.0-rc6 was released today, moving the kernel closer to its anticipated stable Linux 7.0 release in mid-April. This marks another significant step in the development cycle, with a focus on resol...
Read more →New code for the AMD XD/DNA driver was submitted this week as part of a drm-misc-next pull, targeting the upcoming Linux 7.1 merge window. These Direct Rendering Manager (DRM) changes introduce suppor...
Read more →Intel developers have submitted a new round of updates for the Intel Xe kernel graphics driver, aimed at enhancing its ability to manage video memory pressure and out-of-memory situations for vRAM. Th...
Read more →Phoronix recently published a new round of benchmarks evaluating the performance of the fully open-source NVIDIA Linux driver stack. The testing utilized the Nouveau kernel driver, the Mesa NVK Vulkan...
Read more →The Fedora project has recently approved a new feature slated for Fedora 45, which is expected to be released late in 2026. This plan introduces a web frontend for the Linux kernel's DRM Panic functio...
Read more →NVIDIA today released version 595.58.03 of its open GPU kernel modules. This update focuses on enhancing stability and compatibility for NVIDIA GPUs within the Linux operating system environment. Upda...
Read more →An Intel Linux kernel engineer recently posted a patch to enable Flexible Return and Event Delivery (FRED) by default. This change is intended to improve performance on Linux, particularly for Intel C...
Read more →Google's agentic AI code review service, Sashiko, has expanded its monitoring to include submissions on the Rust-For-Linux mailing list. Unveiled by Google engineers a few days ago, Sashiko is powered...
Read more →A fix for a long-standing bug affecting AMD GCN 1.0 "Hainan" GPU models has been merged into the Linux 7.0 kernel overnight. This addresses a bug report from 2021 concerning GPU hangs on these aging g...
Read more →Microsoft has today posted a new version of its Linux kernel patches for the WSL.">DXGKRNL driver. This update comes exactly four years after the prior version, addressing the DirectX kernel driver's role i...
Read more →AMD today submitted a new set of kernel graphics and compute driver changes to DRM-Next. These updates, sent ahead of the Linux 7.1 merge window next month, include further enablement for the GFX12.1 ...
Read more →AMD engineers are actively prototyping a Shared Virtual Memory (SVM) implementation for the AMDGPU driver on Linux. This proof-of-concept leverages the kernel's existing DRM_GPUSVM framework, which is...
Read more →The Linux kernel's extensible scheduler class, BPF programs.">sched_ext, is set to receive a new capability, SCX_ENQ_IMMED, in the upcoming Linux 7.1 release. This functionality is currently queued in the sched_ext ...
Read more →Linux 7.0-rc4 was released today, bringing the kernel closer to its stable debut, anticipated in approximately one month. This latest release candidate integrates critical scheduler updates, which wer...
Read more →Kent Overstreet today released Bcachefs 1.37, the newest feature release for this out-of-tree file-system driver and its user-space tooling. This update brings support for Linux kernel 7.0. A signific...
Read more →NVIDIA today released its 580.142 production branch driver for Linux. This update is noteworthy as it includes the open GPU kernel modules, an ongoing initiative by NVIDIA to enhance integration and t...
Read more →An independently developed open-source Linux kernel module called GreenBoost has been reported today. It aims to augment the dedicated video memory (vRAM) on NVIDIA discrete GPUs by utilizing both sys...
Read more →The upcoming Linux 7.0 kernel will include a new minor performance optimization targeting its event poll "epoll" code. This change, merged today, refines the mechanism for efficient I/O multiplexing a...
Read more →NVIDIA today released its 595.45.04 proprietary driver for Linux systems. This new driver version is now available for download from NVIDIA's official driver portal. Concurrently, the company's open-g...
Read more →AMD today submitted a request for comments (RFC) patch series to the Linux kernel mailing list (LKML) introducing the Dynamic Power and Thermal Configuration Interface (DPTCi) driver. This new driver ...
Read more →The upcoming Linux 7.1 kernel will introduce a new default behavior for handling fatal Advanced Configuration and Power Interface (ACPI) errors. As reported by Phoronix, systems encountering such erro...
Read more →The second weekly release candidate for Linux 7.0, designated 7.0-rc2, was made available for testing recently. Linus Torvalds commented on the current state of the development cycle, noting, "So I'm ...
Read more →The first DRM-Misc-Next pull request for the upcoming Linux 7.1 kernel was submitted this week, initiating the queue for new kernel graphics and display driver features. This early submission includes...
Read more →Collabora recently announced that support for Rockchip's VDPU381 and VDPU383 video decoders has been merged into the upstream Linux kernel. This integration brings mainline H.264 and HEVC decode capab...
Read more →NVIDIA has released version 580.126.20 of its open GPU kernel modules, providing an update to the open-source component of its Linux GPU drivers. This release builds upon the development of the 580 se...
Read more →Linus Torvalds announced the release of Linux 7.0-rc1 today, marking the conclusion of the kernel's merge window for the upcoming stable release. This version bump to 7.0 follows Torvalds' practice of...
Read more →The performance "perf" subsystem tooling for Linux 7.0 received updates last Saturday, February 21, 2026. These changes were merged as the Linux 7.0 merge window is nearing its close, ahead of the 7.0...
Read more →Last week, the Linux 7.0 kernel merge window saw the main feature pull for Rust programming language updates. This officially concluded Rust's "experimental" phase for Linux kernel and driver programm...
Read more →The Linux 7.0 kernel recently received its initial round of fixes for its Direct Rendering Manager (DRM) graphics drivers. Merged into Linux 7.0 Git yesterday, on February 21, 2026, these updates prim...
Read more →Linux block maintainer and IO_uring lead developer Jens Axboe recently utilized Claude AI to debug performance issues within the AHCI/SCSI code when using IO_uring. This collaboration led to the devel...
Read more →Phoronix has reported early performance regressions for Intel Core Ultra Series 3 "Panther Lake" processors when tested with development builds of Linux 7.0. Benchmarking was conducted ahead of the up...
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