The third weekly release candidate of Wine 6.0 ahead of the stable release expected in January.

With the Wine 6.0 feature freeze in effect since earlier this month, Wine 6.0-RC3 is just about continuing to provide bug fixes. Over the past week there are 19 known bug fixes. Wine 6.0-RC3 brings fixes for Autodesk 3ds Max, Crysis, and an assortment of other applications and games.

More details on the fixes with Wine 6.0-RC

With no new X.Org Server releases on the horizon but Red Hat / Fedora wanting to ship updated XWayland support that is developed as part of the X.Org Server code-base, Red Hat engineers are now stepping up to carry out such XWayland-only releases derived from the same source tree but stripping out the code not relevant to XWayland support.

As previously noted, Fedora is looking to provide standalone XWayland packages that would be tracking the X.Org Server Git state but without going through and actually updating the

In recent years Red Hat engineers have been contributing to WebRTC in Chromium and related projects as part of Wayland screen sharing support that also works with the likes of PipeWire and XDG-Desktop-Portal. Looking forward to 2021, more WebRTC improvements in Chromium/Chrome are on the way.

Red Hat developer Jan Grulich shared that support for PipeWire 0.3 is coming while retaining compatibility with PipeWire 0.2, window sharing support has also been figured out rather than having to always share the entire desktop screen

The OpenRISC and RISC-V processor architecture updates have both been submitted for the ongoing Linux 5.11 merge window.

OpenRISC, the open-source RISC-based ISA now in the works for two decades but still without any dedicated open-source ASIC in the wild, is seeing new platform support with Linux 5.11. The OpenRISC pull brings a LiteX SoC controller driver and other support around LiteX for OpenRISC. LiteX is a Migen/MiSoC CPU/SoC builder for deployments on FPGAs. LiteX already

Following last week's release of Qt 6.0 , The Qt Company has now released Qt Creator 4.14 and Qt Design Studio 2.0 as accompanying assets.

Qt Design Studio 2.0 is the firm's UI design and development tool for rapidly creating Qt-based user interfaces. Qt Design Studio 2.0 brings Telemetry and Crashpad support, automatic thumbnail generation, a technical preview of a Qt bridge for the Figma interface design application, 2D effects improvements, Qt for MCU support,

The ACPI / power management and thermal pull requests were all sent out and merged this week for the ongoing Linux 5.11 development.

The power management and thermal updates to the Linux kernel for 5.11 aren't the most exciting in recent time but there still are a few additions worth calling attention to for what will be the first major kernel release of 2021.

Power management updates for Linux 5.11 include:

- AMD Zen 1 through Zen 3 support in the RAPL PowerCapping

It's been seven years since Intel last provided a stable release of their "xf86-video-intel" X.Org driver and nearly six years to the day since they even provided their last development snapshot of what was to be xf86-video-intel 3.0 . But there still are the occasional commits to this Intel DDX driver such as this week enabling the " TearFree " functionality by default.

Most users and Linux distributions have transitioned to using the xf86-video-

Kent Overstreet who developed the Bcachefs file-system out of the Linux kernel's block cache code has sent out the latest patches for review and to also serve as a possible pull request for mainlining the code.

Overstreet began this week's patch series with " Since last posting: The main change for upstreaming is that I've added deadlock avoidance code for the page cache coherency lock, and moved all of that code into fs/bcachefs/ for now - besides adding faults_disabled_mapping to task struct

For the past several months we've seen Intel Key Locker support being worked on for Linux as a new feature coming to future processors for better securing AES keys. That initial Key Locker support was initially focused on the open-source compilers with the new instructions while now the Linux kernel patches have been published in preliminary form.

Intel Key Locker is for Tiger Lake and beyond to allow encrypting/decrypting data without the raw AES key but instead relying on a key handle that is in place until revoked by the system.