Back in 2022 DreamWorks Animation announced they were open-sourcing their MoonRay renderer and was then published in early 2023 for this renderer that has been used in a variety of featured animated films. Since then they have continued advancing this MoonRay code via the open-source OpenMoonRay project and this week published their newest feature update.

OpenMoonRay 2.40.0.1 was published this week and most notably introduces an experimental new GUI alternative to its existing one. The new GUI is relying on

With QEMU 10.2 that released at the end of last year is the new "MSHV" accelerator for allowing VMs to be created from a Microsoft Hyper-V guest without using nested virtualization. Last weekend at FOSDEM 2026 was a presentation on this MSHV accelerator for those interested.

Microsoft has been working on exposing Hyper-V capabilities to users with different virtualization toplogies and this is just the latest effort as part of Linux's leading presence on their Azure cloud platform. Magnus Kulke as a Microsoft

With the Linux 6.19 stable kernel expected to be released tomorrow (8 February), here is a reminder about the top features to expect from this next version of the Linux kernel.

There is a lot in store for Linux 6.19 as the first major kernel release of 2026. We covered all the prominent changes back during the merge window and provided an extensive Linux 6.19 feature summary but for those looking for a quick refresher with the imminent stable release, here is

The first release candidate of the big NetBSD 11.0 release is now available for testing.

NetBSD 11.0 had been aiming to release last October with their release candidate hoped for in September, but that didn't ultimately pan out. At least this weekend the NetBSD 11.0-RC1 binaries are now complete and the testing can proceed with NetBSD 11.0 stable hopefully being not too far away.

NetBSD 11.0 is headlined by better RISC-V support and improved

Merged overnight to the LLVM/Clang compiler's codebase was initial targeting for next-generation AMD Zen 6 processors using the znver6 target.

Back in December was the initial GNU Compiler Collection enablement with -march=znver6 support merged for GCC 16 . That GCC 16.1 stable release will be out in March~April with that initial AMD Zen 6 compiler support. Now overnight the similar enablement has landed within the LLVM/Clang Git codebase. The main Git code for LLVM is currently tracking for

Following the September release of the KDE LInux reference distribution for the KDE desktop in alpha form, KDE Linux developers have been working toward the beta release with more improvements to this open-source desktop distro.

KDE Linux as a reminder is KDE's reference platform while leveraging an immutable base OS and Arch Linux packages for the core platform. KDE Linux will ship with all the latest and greatest KDE software releases.

A Linux kernel engineer at Microsoft is working on a useful Linux desktop improvement. Hamza Mahfooz who previously worked for AMD on their AMDGPU Linux display driver code has been spearheading work on a KMS recovery mechanism to help kernel mode-setting display drivers recover in case of problems.

Hamza's work is trying to address the possibility of the display stalling indefinitely where a hard reset of the system is then needed to recover.

GNOME's Rust-based and sandboxed Glycin image loading library focused on safety now supports JPEG 2000 images by default.

Glycin 2.1 beta released this week and there is now JPEG 2000 image format support by default. This comes thanks to a new JPEG 2000 implementation written in Rust. This should be helpful particularly for PDF files where JPEG 2000 images are sometimes found.

This JPEG 2000 support was highlighted by This Week in GNOME . Also

Ahead of the planned Linux 6.19 stable kernel release tomorrow, there have been some last-minute fixes submitted for the scheduler code, including for performance regressions.

Linux 6.19 has been bumpy this cycle on the scheduler front. At the start of the Linux 6.19 cycle I pointed out some Linux 6.19 performance regressions bisected back to the scheduler code. In taking care at least some of those, in late January the NEXT_BUDDY feature was disabled due to performance regressions