The Document Foundation is now soliciting bids from developers / third-party firms to finish up the ODF 1.3 document support in LibreOffice.
LibreOffice already has quite a bit of ODF 1.3 implemented but there is approximately another month worth
The Document Foundation Is Looking To Finish ODF 1.3 Support In LibreOffice
The Document Foundation is now soliciting bids from developers / third-party firms to finish up the ODF 1.3 document support in LibreOffice.
LibreOffice already has quite a bit of ODF 1.3 implemented but there is approximately another month worth
System76 Launches The Thelio Mega With Threadripper + Four GPUs
The System76 Thelio Mega is what the Colorado company calls "the world's smallest quad-GPU deep learning system". The Thelio Mega pairs the latest-generation AMD Ryzen Threadripper platform with up to four NVIDIA Quadro RTX GPUs to make for an incredibly powerful system.
Firefox 82 Released With Performance Improvements, Video Playback Enhancements
Performance work in Firefox 82.0 includes faster page loads and start-up times. Websites using Flexbox-based layouts should see around a 20% speedup, session restoration should be about 17% quicker, and Windows users see new windows about 10% quicker. WebRender also continues rolling out to more Firefox users.
Firefox 82 also brings multiple picture-in
Linux 5.10 Xen Brings Security Updates - Includes Fixing ARM Guests With KPTI
Last week brought the initial Xen updates for the Linux 5.10 merge window which primarily consisted of fixes. The main change to point out though was a temporary fix for allowing Xen guests on ARM to work with Kernel Page Table Isolation (KPTI) enabled. A more long-term fix is still being worked on for Xen support in KPTI-enabled ARM environments.
The fix is around the VCPUOP_register_runstate_memory
AMDVLK 2020.Q4.1 Released With Various Game Fixes
The main changes of AMDVLK 2020.Q4.1 are updating against the Vulkan API 1.2.156 revision and enabling support for VK_EXT_shader_image_atomic_int64. VK_EXT_shader_image_atomic_int64 allows for 64-bit integer atomic operations to work on images.
XFS Lands More Code For Linux 5.10 - "Even More Monumental"
XFS maintainer Darrick Wong describes this week's file-system changes as "even more monumental than last week!"
XFS developers are announcing that in the Year 2030 they intend to deprecate their Version Four (V4) file-
Qt 6.0 Beta Released For This Big Toolkit Update
Qt 6.0 Alpha had been running about one month behind schedule but in aiming to get Qt 6.0.0 out the door before Christmas, the Qt 6.0 beta was expedited and managing to come just two weeks after the alpha and putting it rightly in line with their mid-October target.
Qt 6 drops Qt Script,
FreeType 2.10.4 Rushed Out As Emergency Security Release
Public entries on the CVE-2020-15999 vulnerability aren't yet loading but it's in regards to a heap buffer overflow in FreeType's handling of PNG bitmaps. The vulnerability has been around since FreeType 2.6.
The FreeType.org project site simply reads, " This is an emergency release, fixing a severe vulnerability in embedded PNG bitmap handling
Initial Support For Booting RISC-V Hardware Via EFI Sent In For Linux 5.10
After months of working towards RISC-V UEFI support led by Western Digital engineers, the initial working support is landing with Linux 5.10.
Prior kernel releases have been cleaning up UEFI code for further improving the architecture portability and making changes in advance of RISC-V support landing but with this current kernel cycle everything is in place. We've been expecting RISC-V EFI support in
Intel Lands A Hefty Tiger Lake Graphics Optimization
For Tiger Lake (and theoretically Rocket Lake as well), a new and significant optimization landed today in Mesa 20.