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      Linus Torvalds Confirms The Next Kernel Is Linux 7.0

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 21:25

    Following Linus Torvalds releasing Linux 6.19 stable, Linus Torvalds is now out with his customary release announcement. Notably he officially confirmed that the next kernel version is Linux 7.0 as the successor to Linux 6.19...
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      Linux 6.19 Released With Better Support For Older AMD GPUs, DRM Color Pipeline API

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 21:11

    As anticipated due to the extra week for the cycle given end of year holidays, Linus Torvalds today released the Linux 6.19 stable kernel as the first major release of 2026. There is a lot in store with this early 2026 kernel release...
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      Intel Recently Shelved Numerous Open-Source Projects

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 19:06

    After discovering this morning that Intel archived/discontinued its On Demand "SDSi" GitHub project around that controversial feature, it was a slippery slope in noticing Intel recently archived around two dozen other open-source projects they previously maintained...
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      D7VK 1.3 Brings Support For Direct3D 5 On Vulkan

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 15:33

    D7VK is a fork of the DXVK project that is an important part of Valve's Steam Play (Proton) for Direct3D 8 / 9 / 10 / 11 support atop Vulkan. With D7VK the original goal was a Direct3D 7 implementation on Vulkan. D7VK 1.1 brought experimental Direct3D 6 support and now with today's release of D7VK 1.3 is support for Direct3D 5...
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      A Lot Of Exciting Changes To Look Forward To With Linux 6.20 -- Or Linux 7.0

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 14:00

    With Linux 6.19 due for release later today it then opens up the next kernel merge window. It could be Linux 6.20 but more than likely the next kernel version will be called Linux 7.0 with Linus Torvalds' past tradition of bumping the major version number after X.19. Whatever it ends up being called, here is a look at various "-next" changes that have been queuing up ahead of the merge window...
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      Intel Appears To Have Quietly Sunset "On Demand" Software Defined Silicon

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 12:20

    Back in 2021 on Phoronix was first to report on Intel preparing Linux patches for a "Software Defined Silicon" feature for activating extra licensed hardware features. That Software Defined Silicon support continued moving forward and was then announced as Intel On Demand with a focus on users being able to pay to activate additional accelerators found on select SKUs but not enabled by default...
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      Wine-Staging 11.2 Brings More Patches To Help Adobe Photoshop On Linux

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 12:02

    Building off Friday's release of Wine 11.2 is now Wine-Staging 11.2 as this experimental/testing version of Wine with hundreds of extra patches that have yet to be introduced in upstream proper for this open-source software enabling Windows games and applications on Linux. Notable in this bi-weekly update are more patches for continuing to improve the Adobe Photoshop installer support on Linux...
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      Intel Releases QATlib 26.02 With New APIs For Zero-Copy DMA

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 11:50

    Of Intel's different CPU accelerator IPs, the arguably most useful and with the greatest customer interest remains around QuickAssist Technology (QAT). Intel QAT allows offloading various compression and encryption tasks for better performance. Intel this week released QATlib 26.02 as the newest version of their user-space library for leveraging QuickAssist Technology on capable hardware...
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      DreamWorks' OpenMoonRay 2.40 Introduces New GUI, Light Path Visualizer

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 11:42

    Back in 2022 DreamWorks Animation announced they were open-sourcing their MoonRay renderer and was then published in early 2023 for this renderer that has been used in a variety of featured animated films. Since then they have continued advancing this MoonRay code via the open-source OpenMoonRay project and this week published their newest feature update...