CodeWeavers just announced CrossOver 26, the newest version of their commercial software built atop Wine for running Windows games and applications under Apple macOS and Linux.

While these days Valve's Steam Play (Proton) is the most popular choice for running Windows games on Linux -- which CodeWeavers is engaged with Valve on Proton's development -- CrossOver remains a long-term solution for Windows games on Linux as well as running the likes of Microsoft Office and other proprietary Windows applications. Plus CrossOver has a lot of customer

The open-source Redis 8.6 release is now available and this GA release has brought "substantial" performance improvements and to memory reduction too. Plus various new features like TLS certificate-based automatic client authentication, time series enhancements, and new eviction policies.

Among the performance improvements with Redis 8.6 are optimizing prefetching, ZRANK optimizations, using the hardware block by default on AArch64, optimizing user ACL permission verification, optimizing peak memory metric collection, reducing per-command system calls, and various vector

In addition to the BPF filtering support for IO_uring that was merged on Monday, the other block device changes and IO_uring updates were also merged for the newly-opened Linux 7.0 merge window.

The block and IO_uring updates were merged to Linux 7.0 alongside that (c)BPF filtering work sent in separately. The block merge landed:

- Batch I/O dispatch for ublk to provide greater performance for the user-space block device driver framework.

- Support for integirty data

After the merge request was opened back in 2023 and after going through 628 comments/activity, merged now to Wayland Protocols is the experimental zones "xx-zones" implementation for area-limited window positioning.

Matthias Klumpp spearheaded the work on the Zones protocol to Wayland for area-limited window positioning.

"This is a new attempt to resolve the issues plaguing multi-window applications on Wayland. Those applications want to give the compositor a hint where specifically a window should be placed (or sometimes

The wonderful IO_uring for the Linux kernel for high performance asnyc I/O has picked up a new capability with Linux 7.0: BPF filtering.

Linux I/O expert Jens Axboe implemented support for loading BPF programs with IO_uring for offering fine-grained filtering of SQE operations. This BPF filtering for IO_uring can inspect request attributes and make dynamic filtering decisions compared to existing facilities for filtering. Filters can allow or deny requests, allow multiple filters to be stacked per opcode and is done using

Microsoft overnight released Azure Linux 3.0.20260204 as the latest release of their in-house Linux distribution widely used within their Azure environment and elsewhere.

Azure Linux 3.0.20260204 continues making use of the Linux 6.6 LTS kernel by default that's increasingly showing its age with two Long Term Support kernels since then (Linux 6.12 and 6.18) plus Linux 7.0 now being in development

The many power management, thermal, and ACPI updates have been merged for the Linux 7.0 kernel. As usual there are many changes coming from fixes to new hardware support and more expansive thermal control capabilities under Linux.

On the power management front the changes include:

- Dropping the old and unused TI OMAP CPUFreq driver

- Various ARM CPUFreq driver fixes.

- The Intel Idle driver added a command line option to adjust the C-states table.

- Linux 7.0 will no longer flag the power management runtime

MythTV 36 is now available for this long-time open-source digital video recorder "DVR" software that has been around now for more than two decades as the leading choice for those wishing to watch and/or record live TV under Linux especially as an HTPC.

MythTV is out with its annual feature release. Even with all of the Internet streaming and video on-demand services these days, MythTV continues pushing forward for those desiring an open-source DVR/PVR solution. With MythTV 36 they have