KDE Plasma 6.7 development continues heating up following the Plasma 6.6 desktop release earlier this month.

This Week in Plasma is out with its newest issue to highlight all of the interesting work coming for Plasma 6.7 as well as continued refinements for future Plasma 6.6.x point releases. Some of this week's goodies include:

- The OpenVPN settings UI is being refreshed in Plasma 6.7 to include new settings offered by the underlying system.

- Merge for Plasma 6.7 is

If you are cloning from a GNOME repository on their GitLab and now finding your Git traffic being redirected to GitHub, you are not alone. GNOME's infrastructure team is now redirecting Git traffic from the GNOME.org GitLab over to GitHub mirrors for reducing bandwidth costs.

Over the past week have been bug reports with users now finding Git clones and similar being redirected to GitHub rather than the official GNOME.org GitLab repositories.

Catching me by surprise today was a new Intel CPU microcode drop "20260227" for Linux users/administrators outside of their typical Patch Tuesday alignment for CPU microcode releases.

Today's Intel CPU Microcode 20260227 update is just for addressing functional issues affecting Xeon 6 "Granite Rapids D" SoCs. Only the Xeon 6700P-B/6500P-B Series SoC with P-Cores (Granite Rapids D) processors

Hyprland 0.54 was released today as what's described as a " a massive update with no understatement " to this Wayland compositor.

Hyprland 0.54 introduces support for per-workspace layouts or for per-monitor layouts. Hyprland layouts are designed now to be simpler and easier to maintain. With the layout improvements, there is also a new "monocle" layout and the "hyprscrolling" plugin has been moved into core.

While at the end of February, today Intel released the Intel Media Driver 2025Q4 release as well as the latest VPL GPU Runtime for their media stack.

The 2025Q4 releases to the open-source Intel Media Driver and VPL (nee oneVPL) GPU Runtime are out today. With the Intel Media Driver 2025Q4 release they have upstreamed Nova Lake S support for video decoding and video processing for that next-generation platform. The Intel Media driver continues supporting

Canonical put out a new blog post today highlighting their RISC-V work over 2025 that included switching to the RVA23 profile baseline for Ubuntu 25.10 and moving forward. Now with RVA23-compatible RISC-V hardware coming to market this year, Canonical is talking up the RISC-V possibilities when paired with the upcoming Ubuntu 26.04 LTS release.

With Canonical having shifted Ubuntu 25.10 RISC-V requirements to RVA23, it

If all goes well, Mesa developers are hoping to reach a consensus or at least some common ground on an AI policy in March. Mesa is the latest open-source project making considerations around the growing activity around AI coding agents and the like and how to deal with them for this project that is crucial to the Linux desktop and open-source 3D graphics drivers at large.

Last year Mesa began making some movement around AI policies while this week Karol Herbst has been working on a more formalized AI policy for the

Sent out today were all of the DRM/accel driver fixes for the week, ahead of the Linux 7.0-rc2 kernel release due out on Sunday.

Standing out with this week's Direct Rendering Manager subsystem updates are many fixes to the AMDXDNA accelerator driver for AMD Ryzen AI NPUs. Typically it's the AMDGPU driver or Intel Xe leading the race each week for the most fixes, but this time around AMDXDNA has more than usual.

There are many different AMDXDNA fixes queued up including addressing a