There is less than two weeks to go until the official KDE Plasma 6.6 desktop release. Plasma 6.6 is still seeing bug fixes in this final stretch of development while KDE developers are also busy already on Plasma 6.7 feature work.

This Week in Plasma is out with its latest highlights as Plasma 6.6 work winds down and Plasma 6.7 feature work continues heating up. Some of this week's KDE Plasma highlights include:

- Plasma 6.7 will allow the Window List widget

Wine 11.2 is out as the latest bi-weekly development release in the road toward the Wine 12.0 stable release next January.

Wine 11.1 kicked off the new development cycle in late January following the Wine 11.0 stable debut. With Wine 11.2 there is more early feature work plus 32 bug fixes, which is on the heavier side for the past two weeks.

Wine 11.2 brings more optimizations in PDB loading, support for MSVC constructors

Sent out today as a request for comments (RFC) by a Linux kernel engineer employed by IBM is a machine learning library for the Linux kernel. The intent is on plugging in running ML models to the Linux kernel that could be used for system performance optimizations and various other purposes.

Viacheslav Dubeyko who is employed by IBM as a Linux kernel developer sent out an RFC patch series today that aims to introduce a machine learning library for the Linux kernel. Dubeyko explains of the problem statement leading to the creation of this machine

Well, here's an unexpected combination... Toyota's Toyota Connected North America unit is developing a console-grade open-source game engine. Making it even more unusual is their engineering choices of building around the Flutter toolkit and in turn the Dart programming language. This new game engine creation is called Fluorite.

Toyota Connected North America is Toyota Motor Corporation's subsidiary founded in collaboration with Microsoft for working on in-vehicle software, AI, and related tech initiatives. Toyota Connected developers announced at FOSDEM

While just missing out on the recent Mutter 50 beta release , merged today to Mutter Git ahead of next month's GNOME 50 desktop release are some improvements to the Variable Refresh Rate (VRR) support.

As covered last week, GNOME 50 is promoting VRR to no longer be an experimental feature . Rather than being hidden by default, Variable Refresh Rate support will appear on capable systems out-of-the-box within GNOME Settings for those wanting to activate it. VRR support allows dynamically adjusting the

In addition to their ongoing AMDGPU LLVM compiler back-end work for upcoming GFX1250 and recently the GFX13 target for their graphics IP, today AMD compiler engineers introduced a new "GFX1170" target to the LLVM codebase that is also called RDNA 4m.

GFX1170 is presumably some re-refresh of RDNA3. The AMDGPU GFX1150 series was for the RDNA3.5 / RDNA3 refresh graphics found with the likes of Strix Point

A nice, overdue usability improvement is on the way for those using Apple Macs under Linux. Finally there will be the ability to preserve the same backlight brightness across reboots under Linux.

Currently when rebooting a Mac with adjustable display brightness under Linux, the brightness level is not saved and thus reboots and ends up being set to whatever was the last brightness value set by macOS. But two small patches to the Linux EFI code will allow saving the brightness on Macs under Linux.

Sent out today as a request for comments is a new patch series for Dynamic Housekeeping and Enhanced Isolation (DHEI). DHEI aims to provide run-time adjustments to kernel behavior around CPU isolation for helping with latency-sensitive tasks. The expressed goal is for helping cloud-native orchestrators and high frequency trading platforms dynamically re-partition CPU resources without downtime.

Qiliang Yuan of China Telecom sent out the patches today for Dynamic Housekeeping & Enhanced Isolation. Ultimately it's about features like isolcpus and nohz_full of the