Warzone 2100 as the real-time strategy/tactics game that first premiered in 1999 before becoming open-source in 2004 and then fully open-source with game data in 2008 is now evolving in 2020 with Vulkan graphics support.

The open-source Warzone 2100 game not only has a Vulkan back-end that was merged today but also OpenGL ES 2.0/3.0 support for those wanting to relive this late

While Debian 11 "Bullseye" is on the way for release next year, Debian 10.6 "Buster" is out this weekend as the latest stable installment for this GNU/Linux distribution.

As with all Debian point releases, Debian 10.6 is about shipping the latest stable bug/security fixes on the re-spun ISOs but no real changes otherwise.

Among the many security updates in 10.6 are for OpenJDK, Firefox ESR, Thunderbird, Nginx, X.Org Server,

Microsoft's work on Mesa continues with a Microsoft engineer reviving earlier work carried out by David Airlie for allowing SPIR-V binaries produced by LLVM's libclc library to work with Mesa OpenCL.

Libclc is the LLVM library around OpenCL C programming language support and goes along with Clang's OpenCL front-end. Jesse Natalie of Microsoft has seen his two month old merge request land on Friday for being able to make use of libclc SPIR-V binaries that can be used by Mesa OpenCL code. Ultimately this code

Following the recent Plasma 5.20 beta release, KDE developers have been landing many fixes for the Plasma 5.20 desktop ahead of its official release in October.

A lot of fixing on Plasma 5.20 continues, particularly on the Wayland side. Plasma 5.20 stands to offer a much better Wayland experience with many problems resolved but remains to be seen how many more Wayland issues they will uncover. Some of the fixes just over the past week for Plasma 5.20 include:

On Friday night patches began to appear for "RISC-V Bullet" in the LLVM compiler code-base.

The initial work is on the scheduler being added for the RISC-V Bullet. The initial scheduler is in place for the RISC-V Bullet microarchitecture and bullet-rv32 / bullet-rv64 naming.

The scheduler code does reveal some key bits such as the SiFive Bullet has dual pipelines. The first pipeline handles memory / integer ALU / vector operations while the second pipeline is for integer

Earlier this year Apple engineers announced Swift System as their new library for low-level system interfaces. They have now open-sourced Swift System while also introducing Linux support.

Swift supports accessing C interfaces but with Swift System it aims to provide idiomatic Swift interfaces to low-level system libraries. Swift System provides separate APIs and behaviors depending upon the platform and its capabilities. Swift in its current form while also adding Linux support doesn't yet support every system call. Besides expanding their coverage, Swift for Windows continues to

As a nice Friday afternoon patch series there is the 275k lines of code for wiring up the next-generation AMD Van Gogh APU support under Linux.

Earlier this week there were the Mesa patches for AMD Dimgrey Cavefish and Van Gogh while today the kernel-side portion for Van Gogh was sent out for the AMDGPU kernel driver.

The Van Gogh enablement does come in at 275k lines of new code, but fortunately the vast majority of that is auto-generated header files for the GPU registers

Wine 5.18 is out as the newest bi-weekly feature development release.

Wine 5.18 isn't the most exciting feature release in recent times but is notable in that Vulkan shader compilation is now done using the vkd3d-shader library. That library was introduced as part of this week's VKD3D 1.2 release for mapping Direct3D 12 over Vulkan. VKD3D 1.2 is much more capable than the prior v1.1 release from