Mesa 20.0 Released With Big Improvements For Intel, AMD Radeon Vulkan/OpenGL

Mesa 20.0 is now released as the first quarter 2020 update to the Mesa 3D open-source graphics driver stack...


LLVM Adds MLIR-Vulkan-Runner To Run MLIR On Vulkan-Enabled GPUs

Added to the LLVM source tree today is mlir-vulkan-runner as a new utility for testing with some interesting possibilities...


Android 11 Developer Preview Shows Off New 5G APIs, Security Hardening, HDMI Low-Latency

Google has made their first public developer preview release of the forthcoming Android 11...


GNOME 3.34.4 Released With Many Bug Fixes

While GNOME 3.36 will be released in just a few weeks, GNOME 3.34.4 is out today as the latest stable update in the current series...


Mesa 20.0 Is Imminent With New Intel OpenGL Default, Intel + RADV Vulkan 1.2, OpenGL 4.6 For RadeonSI

With the release of Mesa 20.0 being imminent, here is a look at all of the new features for this first quarter update to the Mesa 3D stack for open-source OpenGL/Vulkan drivers.


Open Source LLM

Oracle Ships Solaris 11.4 SRU18 - Finally Mitigates The SWAPGS Vulnerability

Oracle today has released Solaris 11.4 SRU18 as the newest version of the long-running Solaris 11.4 series...


Intel

AMD Announces EPYC 7532 + EPYC 7662 As Newest Rome Processors

AMD has expanded their 7002 series "Rome" family with the availability today of the EPYC 7662 as their latest 64-core / 128-thread offering and the EPYC 7532 as a new 32-core part but with a full 256MB cache to offer more per-core L3 cache than other 32-core processors...


LibreOffice 7 Continues Plumbing Its Vulkan Rendering Support

Landing last November in the LibreOffice development code was Skia drawing support to replace Cairo and in turn that opens up for Vulkan rendering of this cross-platform, open-source office suite...


LLVM Clang 11 Adds -std=c++20 Support

With C++20 now being deemed complete from the recent ISO C++ meeting in Prague, the GNU Compiler Collection went ahead and added the -std=c++20 flag where as up until that change this weekend relied upon the -std=c++2a switch. LLVM's Clang compiler now has similar treatment on its codebase...


RADV Driver Adds VK_EXT_line_rasterization In Preparing For Eventual Vulkan CAD Apps

Added to the Vulkan API last summer was VK_EXT_line_rasterization for line rasterization like employed by CAD applications. The open-source Mesa Radeon Vulkan "RADV" driver is now supporting this extension...