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Thunderbird Looks To Finalize Its Exchange Support, Refresh The Calendar UI

Phoronix | March 19, 2026, 3:42 p.m. | Original

Thunderbird announced today the availability of their public roadmaps where they are making it easier for end-users to comprehend what they are currently working on for this mail client not only for the desktop builds but also their Android and iOS versions too.

Thunderbird has launched a new roadmap site to make it easier to digest the current and planned development activities for the Thunderbird desktop and mobile products. They intend to communicate roadmap changes here as well as keeping them up to date moving forward.

Some of the current desktop roadmap items for Thunderbird

AMD Preps More GFX12.1 Enablement For Linux 7.1, Initial VCN 5.0.2 & JPEG 5.0.2 IP

Phoronix | March 19, 2026, 3:25 p.m. | Original

AMD today sent out another batch of AMDGPU kernel graphics driver and AMDKFD kernel compute driver changes to DRM-Next ahead of next month's Linux 7.1 merge window.

With Linux 7.0, AMD began sending patches for enabling the GFX12.1 graphics IP as some yet unreleased RDNA4 variant past GFX12.0 that represented the Radeon RX 9000 series hardware thus far and short of the GFX13 IP that is being enabled and presumably for RDNA5. With Linux

Wayland 1.25 Released With Color Management Now Fully Documented

Phoronix | March 19, 2026, 12:20 p.m. | Original

Simon Ser just released Wayland 1.25.

Following the 1.25 release candidate earlier this month, version 1.25 is now stable for this core code around Wayland.

This includes Wayland's documentation concerning its content update model and color management being fully documented. On a technical note they have converted documentation from DocBook format to mdBook.

Wayland 1.25 also adds a new "frozen" attribute for interfaces with multiple parent interfaces, a new wl_surface.get_release request for

Blender 5.1 Delivers Some Nice Gains For CPU Rendering Performance On Linux

Phoronix | March 19, 2026, 12:05 p.m. | Original

With this week's release of Blender 5.1 I have begun benchmarking it on different CPUs and GPUs. In this article is an initial look at the positive impact Blender 5.1 is having on CPU-based rendering performance on Linux.

GNUnet 0.27 Released For Those With "Some Reasonable Pain Tolerance"

Phoronix | March 19, 2026, 11:29 a.m. | Original

Version 0.27 of GNUnet is now available for this free software framework for constructing decentralized, peer-to-peer networking. But it comes with some big caveats before use.

GNUnet 0.27 is a major release that drops the GNUNET_CRYPTO_symmetric_derive_iv APIs as well as deprecating the GNUNET_CRYPTO_symmetric_* APIs and updating other APIs given it's a major version bump.

Mozilla Releases Llamafile 0.10 To Enhance Their AI Offering For Easy-To-Use LLMs

Phoronix | March 19, 2026, 8:21 a.m. | Original

The last release of Llamafile was back in May and it's led me recently to wonder if Mozilla was slowly abandoning this AI project like they had done in the past to DeepSpeech and other software projects. Fortunately, that's not the case and out today is Llamafile 0.10 with some big updates.

Llamafile is a Mozilla.ai project to distribute and run large language models as a single file. With a single Llamafile you can run the LLM across platforms and with varying hardware support. Their intentions

OpenGL Lands New Extension To Benefit Wine

Phoronix | March 19, 2026, 8:05 a.m. | Original

The OpenGL API is still seeing new extensions introduced in 2026. Merged today to the OpenGL Registry is a new extension intended to help Wine usage for 32-bit Windows games/apps on 64-bit Linux systems.

The new extension in the OpenGL Registry is MESA_map_buffer_client_pointer. The MESA_map_buffer_client_pointer extension lets the application specify pointer ranges within which buffers should be mapped. The extension was designed to help the Wine project with its

Opera GX Web Browser Released For Linux

Phoronix | March 19, 2026, 6:22 a.m. | Original

It's been a while since most of you probably thought about the Opera web browser, but these days they have been catering their "Opera GX" web browser to gamers. Today they have finally delivered this Opera GX gaming-focused browser for Linux users.

Opera GX is now natively available for Linux and promoted as offering peak performance, privacy enhanced, and being very customizable.

Linux 7.1 Should See Working HDMI Support For The Lichee Pi 4A RISC-V Board

Phoronix | March 19, 2026, 6:13 a.m. | Original

Drew Fustini sent out DeviceTree patches this past weekend for enabling the HDMI display controller on the T-Head TH1520 RISC-V SoC. Additionally, there's a patch for lighting up the HDMI display support on the LicheePi 4A RISC-V board.

The LicheePi 4A is one of the more affordable RISC_V single board computers in the sub-$200 space. The LicheePi 4A features the TH1520 RISC-V SoC with four C91

Canonical Collecting Wish List Ideas For Improving Mir

Phoronix | March 19, 2026, 6:04 a.m. | Original

With Ubuntu 26.04 LTS quickly approaching release next week, Canonical is beginning more of their road-mapping for Ubuntu 26.10 and beyond. To help in plotting future work, Canonical is interested in feedback for features or improvements that developers/users would like to see around their Mir project.

The Mir code in modern times is a set of libraries for helping to build Wayland-based shells. Mir has been used to bring some desktops to a Wayland-based world while it's

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