WireGuard has long been available as an app on the Google Play store for those wishing to use this cross-platform, open-source secure VPN tunnel solution on Google's mobile operating system. But for Android 12 it appears there will be a form of official support.

With WireGuard 1.0 marked by the kernel module being upstreamed in Linux 5.6 , it looks like Google is now more comfortable in shipping WireGuard for their Android kernel.

Merged today was the WireGuard secure network tunnel support into the kernel

CodeWeavers as the main contributor to the Wine code-base and employing many of the key developers thanks to the development of their Linux and macOS CrossOver software is working on a rebrand and promotion of their consulting services.

The two branded services being announced today are PortJump and ExecMode.

PortJump is CodeWeavers' Wine/CrossOver-based offering to help Windows software vendors bring their programs to macOS, Linux, and/or Chrome OS without the expensive and time consuming porting process with code changes.

ExecMode is CodeWeavers' branded consulting service

It's been a while since having any major news to report on the once promising mobile Linux software platform Sailfish OS from Finnish vendor Jolla, but today they issued a big update in the form of "Pallas-Yllästunturi" or more easily known as Sailfish OS 3.4.

Sailfish OS 3.4 has a number of new features like initial Rust support but also long overdue work like finally exploring 64-bit ARM (AArch64) support. But that AArch64 support is sadly

KDE's Plasma 5.20 is now available as a seriously great update to this open-source desktop environment.

KDE Plasma 5.20 has a crazy amount of polishing and refinements as well as some larger features. Some of the KDE Plasma 5.20 highlights include:

- Numerous fixes to the KWin window manager / compositor including a number of Wayland fixes. Among the Wayland work in Plasma 5.20 includes Klipper support and middle-click paste, mouse and touchpad support nearly on par

Krita 4.4 is out today as the latest release for this flagship open-source digital painting program.

Highlights of Krita 4.4 include:

- Multi-threading for fill layers to yield a lot faster performance.

- Support for patterns of fill layers and new screentone options for the fill layer. There is also a multigrid fill layer feature for penrose tilings.

- Support for Disney Animation's SeExpr expression language that is basically used as a tiny shader language for fill layers.

- Various brush engine improvements.

At the end of 2019 the lead developer of CUPS left Apple after he joined Apple and the company purchased the source code a decade prior for this long-standing open-source printing system used by not only macOS but also Linux and other Unix-like platforms. This unfortunately has not bode well for CUPS in 2020.

As was recently pointed out by a Phoronix reader, the open-source CUPS code-base is now at a stand-still. There was just one commit to

The hardware monitoring "hwmon" subsystem maintainer Guenter Roeck sent in the feature updates on Monday to Linux 5.10 .

Most notable with this round of hwmon updates is AMD Zen 3 CPU temperature monitoring is added to the existing k10temp driver. As outlined in that earlier piece when the code first hit hwmon-next, this is significant as it was contributed by an AMD engineer and ahead of launch. In the past it generally wasn't until after the CPU launch that Linux users could have temperature

New Intel and AMD hardware support headline the performance events work for Linux 5.10 as part of the "perf" subsystem.

Monday as the first full day of the Linux 5.10 merge window saw many Intel/AMD x86 changes and that continued with the performance events pull request sent out by Ingo Molnar later in the day.

New hardware coverage in the perf area includes:

- Support for Top-Down metrics on Ice Lake as new performance counters for CPU pipeline statistics around bottlenecks in the