Over the past two years AMD has developed the AMDXDNA accelerator driver in the mainline Linux kernel for supporting the AMD Ryzen AI NPUs. But when it comes to user-space software on Linux actually able to leave the Ryzen AI NPUs it's been... extremely limited with nothing really useful besides some niche bits of code. Even AMD's own software like their GAIA on Linux has used Vulkan with their iGPUs rather than any NPU support . But finally today there is a significant shift with the Ryzen AI NPUs

The open-source D7VK project began to implement Direct3D 7 over Vulkan similar to DXVK and VKD3D-Proton providing support for newer Direct3D APIs atop Vulkan. With succeeding releases D7VK was extended to Direct3D 6 too and then Direct3D 5 support . Now with today's D7VK 1.5 release, Direct3D 3 is implemented for faster acceleration using Vulkan.

Direct3D 4.0 was cancelled and never released with it having jumped from

Posted today were new Intel kernel graphics driver patches for Linux to enable Adaptive Sync SDP (Secondary Data Packet) handling for Panel Replay and Auxless Adaptive Link Power Management (ALPM) modes.

Going back to early 2024 was a prior incarnation of patches working on Adaptive Sync SDP support that is important particularly around Adaptive Sync / Variable Refresh Rate support when using DisplayPort adapters / protocol converters.

Currently the Linux IPv6 networking stack can be built into the Linux kernel, built as a loadable kernel module, or not built at all. With proposed patches from a SUSE engineer, the IPv6 networking stack would be limited to being a kernel built-in or not at all. In doing away with IPv6 as a loadable kernel module would allow simplifying some code and lowering the Linux networking maintenance burden.

IPv6 support in the Linux kernel would continue to be optional, but the ability to have IPv6

Developers behind AlmaLinux as this popular community alternative to Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) have drafted some new goals for 2026.

AlmaLinux stakeholders met last month face-to-face in working through different challenges and establishing objectives for the calendar year.

Among their goals for 2026 are increasing transparency, greater diversity in active contributors, increased testing, more engagement from sponsors, embracing efficiency, building relationships with other open-source projects, and expanding the language support of AlmaLinux documentation.

Intel's Advanced Performance Extensions (APX) debuting with Nova Lake and Diamond Rapids is ready with Linux 6.16+ and recent open-source compilers . One piece of the support puzzle still coming together though that will be especially important for Xeon Diamond Rapids is the KVM virtualization support. New patches there were posted this week.

Sean Christopherson of Google posted a set of seven new patches this week in preparing Linux's Kernel-based Virtual Machine (KVM) for supporting Intel APX. A particular focus with

Microsoft on Tuesday released Azure Linux 3.0.20260304 as the newest monhtly update to their in-house Linux platform.

This March 2026 update to Azure Linux 3.0 adds OpenSSL FIPS provider integration, enables additional tracing options in its MSHV virtualization kernel configuration, now enables "SCHED_CORE" for CPU core scheduling support in its default kernel, enables the "LWTUNNEL_BPF" BPF lightweight tunnel kernel option, and initial FIPS boot support for its Linux 6

Fedora Project Leader Jef Spaleta announced a new proposal for " A Technology Innovation Lifecycle Process for Fedora ." With the help of Google's Gemini AI, Spaleta laid out a proposal to help Fedora make greater accommodations for experimental concepts and building more interest around innovative ideas without a firm commitment to integrate them into Fedora proper until they can be assured of sustainability.

It's a lengthy proposal and ultimately around fostering more innovations in the Fedora space without commiting to shipping and maintaining said features. Spaleta mentioned that this idea came