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Fwupd 2.0.20 Brings New Hardware Support

Phoronix | Feb. 26, 2026, 7:27 a.m. | Original

Fwupd/LVFS lead developer Richard Hughes of Red Hat today released Fwupd 2.0.20 with continuing to advance firmware updating on Linux systems.

New hardware support in Fwupd 2.0.20 includes the ability now to update firmware on the HP Engage One G2 Advanced Hub, the PixArt PJP274 found in the Framework Laptop, and several new Jabra GNP audio devices. The PJP274 is used by both the latest Framework Laptop 13 and Framework Laptop 16 models.

ZCULL Support For Nouveau + NVK Brings Some Small Performance Gains

Phoronix | Feb. 26, 2026, 6:10 a.m. | Original

Merged yesterday to Mesa 26.1 for the open-source NVIDIA Vulkan driver "NVK" is ZCULL support for more efficient rendering and bringing some small performance gains to this open-source NVIDIA driver stack.

Merged yesterday for next quarter's Mesa 26.1 release is ZCULL support for NVK. While merged, this does depend upon some Nouveau kernel driver patches too that have yet to reach the mainline Linux kernel. The Nouveau patches allow using the ZCULL hardware of NVIDIA GPUs for improving the memory bandwidth thanks

Intel Vulkan Driver Sees Some Minor Optimizations For DX12 Games On Linux

Phoronix | Feb. 26, 2026, 5:57 a.m. | Original

Merged to Mesa 26.1-devel this week is a minor improvement to the Intel "ANV" Vulkan driver providing some slight enhancements to DirectX 12 games running on Linux by way of Valve's Steam Play with VKD3D-Proton.

A one month old merge request for inline parameter promotion from push constant data is now merged for Intel's Vulkan Linux driver. The new code tries to pack all push constant data into inline parameters where possible.

Intel Linux graphics driver engineer Lionel Landwerlin describes the

AlmaLinux Showing Nice Growth With More Than 2M System Update Check-Ins Per Week

Phoronix | Feb. 26, 2026, 5:44 a.m. | Original

AlmaLinux as one of the leading, modern and community-minded alternatives to Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) continues enjoying very nice growth. In their 2025 Year In Review they provided a look at their growth with now having more than two million systems per week checking in for software updates.

AlmaLinux published their 2025 Year In Review where they recapped their AlmaLinux OS 10.0 / 10.1 and other software releases, adding x86-64-v2 support

GStreamer 1.28.1 Adds Whisper-Based Speech-To-Text, AV1 Stateful V4L2 Decoder Support

Phoronix | Feb. 26, 2026, 5:30 a.m. | Original

Building off January's GStreamer 1.28 release with many new features, GStreamer 1.28.1 was released today as a point release bringing various fixes and minor additions to this open-source multimedia framework.

GStreamer 1.28.1 is mostly about shipping the fixes that have accumulated over the past month but there are also some minor new features found in today's update:

- A new Whisper-based Speech To Text transcription element.

- Fix scaling and resizing the UIView On EAGL

Firefox 149 Beta Released With Convenient Split-View Mode

Phoronix | Feb. 25, 2026, 8:17 p.m. | Original

Following the Firefox 148 release with the new AI controls , Mozilla promoted Firefox 149 to beta today.

Most notable for end-users with the Firefox 149 Beta is now having the new split view mode option by default . Split view mode has been riding on by default in Firefox Nightly the past month and now it's in the Firefox 149 Beta 1 milestone.

b4's Review TUI With AI Integration Nearing Pre-Alpha Release

Phoronix | Feb. 25, 2026, 7:41 p.m. | Original

The b4 tool used for managing patch workflows to the Linux kernel has been seeing a lot of work recently on b4 review as the text user interface (TUI) to help expedite the patch review process for the Linux kernel. The b4 review TUI has been integrating AI agent code review helpers powered by the likes of Claude Code too for trying to help enhance the efficiency for Linux kernel patch reviews. That b4 review work is quickly approaching a pre-alpha state.

The AI-assisted code review handling

Linux 6.18 LTS / 6.12 LTS / 6.6 LTS Support Periods Extended

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

Greg Kroah-Hartman today extended the planned maintenance periods of the latest Linux 6.18 , Linux 6.12, and Linux 6.6 Long Term Support (LTS) kernel series.

Today's move extends the Linux 6.18 LTS period by one year in the current end-of-life (EOL) being set for December 2027, but it's possible that will be extended further if there is sufficient interest/demand. Linux 6.12 LTS is

LLVM Clang 22 Compiler Performance Largely Unchanged Over Clang 21 On AMD Zen 5

Phoronix | Feb. 25, 2026, 3:05 p.m. | Original

With yesterday's stable release of the LLVM Clang 22 compiler it didn't take long for Phoronix readers to begin asking about the performance of this half-year feature update to this prominent open-source C/C++ compiler. What I am seeing so far are no big surprises with the performance largely being similar to Clang 21 across various open-source C/C++ workloads in the testing thus far. This initial round of reference benchmark results between LLVM Clang 22 , Clang 2

Mesa 26.0.1 Released With Important Security Fix For OOB Memory Access From WebGPU

Phoronix | Feb. 25, 2026, 11:56 a.m. | Original

Mesa 26.0.1 is now available as the first point release of this quarter's Mesa 26.0 series. Besides the usual bug fixing, Mesa 26.0.1 is more pressing than usual since it contains a security fix for possible out-of-bounds memory access in WebGPU contexts from web browsers.

Eric Engestrom wrote in today's Mesa 26.0.1 announcement :

"This release and 25.3.6 (already out) contain a security

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