Wine 11.4 is out today as the latest bi-weekly development release of this open-source software that powers Valve's Steam Play (Proton) and allows for Windows games and applications to run on Linux and macOS.

Wine 11.4 introduces new resampling optimizations to its DirectSound implementation. Wine 11.4 also begins working on a proper CFGMGR32 implementation. CFGMGR32 is a core Windows API component for the Configuration Manager for handling hardware device plug-and-play configurations and

Ahead of the GNOME 50 desktop release coming up in less than two weeks, GTK 4.22 is out today as the newest stable version of the GTK4 toolkit.

GTK 4.22 is now available with the latest fixes, Wayland improvements, better SVG support ( much better ), a "reduced motion" option for better accessibility , Gapless looping support for the GTK media code when built with GStreamer 1.28, profiling support for GSK, the new GtkPopoverBin widget, updated Emoji chooser,

A pull request sent out today and already merged to Linux Git ahead of Sunday's Linux 7.0-rc3 has some new hardware driver support additions for the likes of ASUS, HP, Dell, and OneXPlayer.

Ilpo Järvinen of Intel sent out the x86 platform driver fixes for the week that also include some new hardware support where it is just a matter of new device ID additions and thus safe to land post-merge-window.

When it comes to the ASUS Armoury driver that

Sent out today was this week's batch of Slab allocator fixes for the Linux 7.0 development kernel. Making this pull notable is fixing a "severe performance regression" with a ~64% performance drop having been noted in late February.

Today's slab fixes pull has a fix for a "severe performance regression" stemming from unnecessary sheaf refill restrictions exposed by the mempool allocatioan strategy. The regression was introduced to the mainline Linux kernel last month as part of the new slab material for the Linux 7

Patches were posted today to the Linux kernel mailing list for enabling a new feature called AMD CPPC Performance Priority as a new hardware feature being found with "future AMD processors".... Which given the timing of these patches, almost certainly means the upcoming Zen 6 processors.

AMD CPPC Performance Priority is being added to the AMD P-State Linux driver used for handling of the CPU performance states / frequency scaling as part of the Linux CPUFreq power management code. AMD CPPC Performance Priority is described as:

"This

Canonical engineer Serkan Uygungelen published a post outlining some of the Intel Xeon CPU features to be supported by the upcoming Ubuntu 26.04 LTS release, some Xeon features already supported by the existing Ubuntu 24.04 LTS, and some features only partially supported for still not having packaged user-space libraries/support within the Ubuntu archive.

For those wanting a quick rundown of the Ubuntu Linux support for recent Intel Xeon server CPU features, Uygungelen's post is useful for a quick primer -- especially

Four years ago Oracle announced Solaris CBE as the "Common Build Environment" version of Solaris 11.4. Oracle Solaris CBE is made available as free for open-source developers and other non-production use. Oracle this week released a new version of Solaris CBE for those wanting this free* version of Solaris.

In Oracle's eyes to better support developers and the FOSS community, they have published a new version of the Solaris Common Build Environment that better aligns to their recent Solaris 11.4 upstream

The big NetBSD 11.0 release continues on approach with NetBSD 11.0-RC2 having been released as the latest test candidate.

NetBSD 11.0 is shaping up to be a big milestone for the project. NetBSD 11.0 has initial 64-bit RISC-V CPU support, initial suppport for Qualcomm Snapdragon X SoCs, better support for Linux system call handling via compat_linux, enhanced POSIX.1-2024 compliance, and a new MICROVM kernel for