D7VK is the open-source project that began implementing the Direct3D 7 APIs atop Vulkan and with time the scope expanded to include Direct3D 6 support as well as Direct3D 5 support . Out today is D7VK 1.4 for continuing to enhance the support for these older D3D versions on Vulkan under Linux.

D7VK 1.4 has continued improving the Direct3D D3D6 / D3D5 game compatibility with more games now working correctly under

A change merged to upstream LLVM Git yesterday for LLVM 23 is moving AMD's HIP to using the new/modern offload driver by default. This aligns with a prior change for NVIDIA CUDA and already in place for OpenMP offloading too.

LLVM's "new" offloading driver provides a unified interface to use from single-source languages like NVIDIA CUDA or OpenMP by default and now AMD HIP is using it too by default. HIP up to now supported the new offloading driver already but only when using the "

Following various Intel open-source projects recently being archived with Intel formally discontinuing their development, another wave of Intel open-source projects were formally sunset on Monday.

This latest round of Intel open-source projects being archived were focused on various codebases targeting Google's Go programming language. These Intel Go projects weren't exactly popular or widely-used as far as I know so not necessarily a big impact besides those programmers that are fans of the Go system programming language as an alternative to the likes of C or

LLVM/Clang 22.1 was released overnight as the first stable release of the LLVM 22 series. This is a nice, feature-packaged half-year update to this prominent open-source compiler stack with many great refinements.

This is the first feature update to LLVM for 2026 and just in time for incorporating into various spring software releases. Some of the LLVM/Clang 22 feature highlights include:

- Clang now supports Named Loops for C2y, among other early C2

Following last week's Plasma 6.6 release, KDE developers today shipped Plasma 6.6.1 as the first point release with an assortment of different bug fixes.

Plasma 6.6.1 brings dozens of bug fixes over last week's release with most of the fixes affecting the KWin compositor as well as the Plasma Desktop and Plasma Workspace components. Plasma 6.6.1 fixes include addressing some possible crashes such as KWin going out when seeing intensive input method usage, KWin crashing when waking the

Jason Donenfeld of WireGuard and Linux cryptography fame has taken a break from that to release a new version of CGIT, the lightweight web interface for Git repositories. CGIT 1.3 is the first new release in six years and comes with a lot of changes.

For those not needing to manage pull requests or other features from your Git web interface but simply needing a web-based viewer for reading Git repositories, CGIT remains one of the best options around. CGIT is lightweight, doesn't depend upon JavaScript and is

The open-source PanVK driver providing Vulkan support for modern Arm Mali graphics hardware is seeing big speed-ups in the multi-sample anti-aliasing (MSAA) performance in Vulkan tests as a result of new code merged today to Mesa 26.1.

Faith Ekstrand has been working on adapting the Arm Mali PanVK driver to using a new frame-buffer abstraction and ultimately helping out the multi-sample anti-aliasing performance around properly handling MSAA resolves.

The exciting takeaway from the now-merged code is:

Following yesterday's Linux 7.0-rc1 release, Linus Torvalds authored and merged a patch to get rid of the Linux kernel's WARN_ALL_UNSEEDED_RANDOM Kconfig option. While that option was added with good intentions, on some systems it can yield a lot of unnecessary kernel log spam.

The WARN_ALL_UNSEEDED_RANDOM option has for many years been part of the Linux kernel and enabling it will provide a warning whenever there is a use of unseeded randomness within the kernel.