Libcamera 0.7.1 released on Tuesday as the newest feature release for this open-source library for camera image signal processors (ISPs) that has grown of importance for the likes of Raspberry Pi and Chrome OS and modern desktop Linux distributions with modern laptop hardware like recent Intel Core (Ultra) laptops.

The libcamera 0.7.1 release is now making use of C++20 by default as its C++ dialect set with its Meson build system. The new release also revamps its configuration

Weston 16.0 could ship by the end of June with good color management and HDR support along with other new features for this reference Wayland compositor.

Marius Vlad of Collabora announced a tentative release schedule for Weston 16. The plan would be a feature freeze in early June and then work through the alpha / beta / RC test releases over the month of June. If all goes according to the drafted plans, Weston 16.0 stable could be out around the end of June.

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A Devuan developer, the Linux distribution that provides a Debian-based operating system without dependence on systemd, is working on "gtk2-ng" for providing modern fixes and improvements to the old GTK2 toolkit.

While there isn't much upstream software still left on the GTK2 toolkit after the likes of Inkscape and GIMP transitioned over to GTK3, a Devuan developer has taken to enhancing the GTK2 toolkit in 2026 that hasn't been maintained by upstream GTK since it was declared end

AMD CEO Lisa Su back at CES 2026 showed off the Ryzen AI Halo box as a mini PC built around their excellent Strix Halo SoC. The Ryzen AI halo box is to serve as an AI development platform to compete with the likes of NVIDIA's DGX Spark and Dell GB10 . This week is the first time I am seeing new Linux driver activity specifically referencing this exciting AMD "Halo Box" system.

The AMD Ryzen AI Halo box shown off at CES is basically to be an exciting

Back in 2018, Valve open-sourced their Steam networking sockets library as a basic network transport layer for games. This library is used by games from Counter-Strike to Dota 2 and since its public open-source drop has been picked up elsewhere. Finally after going nearly four years without a new version, GameNetworkingSockets v1.5 dropped today.

GameNetworkingSockets serves reliable and unreliable message types and provides a connection-oriented API for games/engines that is message-oriented like UDP. GameNetworkingSockets supports IPv

At the start of April was the peculiar announcement of IBM collaborating with Arm on "dual architecture" hardware . The initial fruits of that collaboration at least are Linux kernel patches for enabling ARM64 virtualization acceleration on IBM Z servers . As we approach the end of the month, IBM has now posted a second iteration of those patches for enabling AArch64 software to run on IBM s390 via the Kernel-based Virtual Machine (KVM).

IBM engineers today posted the second version of patches for ARM

Lemonade as the open-source local AI server backed by AMD and supported across AMD CPUs / GPUs / NPUs on Windows and Linux is out with a big update.

Lemonade 10.3 shipped with a number of enhancements today, including OmniRouter to unify the best back-end engines for a "true omni-modal" LLM experience. Using this router aims to make it a much more natural and seamless experience interacting with Lemonade.

On a low-level and something that many Phoronix readers will be excited for is