Wild 0.8 is now available as this speedy linker focused on iterative development, a goal of incremental linking, and written in the Rust programming language.

Wild 0.8 adds support for the LoongArch64 CPU architecture, SFrame stack trace format support for debugging, and a variety of other new options and features.

Wild 0.8 also has more performance improvements including to parallelize copying data sections, heap allocation optimizations, and a number of other performance improvements.

This new linker also has a number of bug fixes

The GNOME 50 Alpha "50.alpha" release is now available for testing ahead of this open-source desktop's official release in March.

A big change affecting multiple components of the GNOME 50 desktop is the removal of the X11 session support. With GNOME 50, only the Wayland session support remains although via XWayland is still the ability to run X11 clients.

EndeavourOS 2026.01.12 "Ganymede Neo" is out as the first update of the year to this Arch Linux based distribution.

Endeavour OS has been back on track after their ISO refresh hiatus last year and got back into the swing of things in November. With today's ISO release they are now powered by the Linux 6.18.4 LTS kernel while also pulling in the Mesa 25.3.3 graphics drivers, X.Org Server 21.1

The upcoming Linux 6.20~7.0 kernel cycle will provide expanded GPU temperature reporting capabilities for Intel graphics cards. Additional temperature sensors will now be exposed under Linux with the Intel Xe driver using the hardware monitoring (HWMON) interface for easy consumption by different Linux user-space software.

Sent out today was the latest drm-xe-next pull request to DRM-Next ahead of the Linux 7.0 (or Linux 6.20, we'll see...) merge window

A significant update to Burn was released today, the MIT and Apache 2.0 licensed tensor library and deep learning framework written in the Rust programming language. Burn 0.20 brings some low-level changes as it continues to strive to deliver high performance AI across the diverse hardware ecosystem.

With Burn 0.20 they have introduced CubeK , which provides high performance multi-platform kernels written in CubeCL. CubeCL in turn is Tracel AI's multi-platform compute language extension for Rust. CubeCL is focused

Sent out today was the latest DRM-Misc-Next pull request of new material ahead of the next kernel cycle either Linux 6.20 or 7.0 depending upon what Linus Torvalds decides to call it.

With this latest DRM-Misc-Next code on its way to DRM-Next until the Linux 6.20~7.0 merge window in February, most notable is adding TI AM62P SoC support for its graphics within the Imagination PowerVR driver.

Whisper.cpp as the open-source high performance inference project built around OpenAI's Whisper and from the same developers as Llama.cpp / GGML is out with a big new release. Whisper.cpp 1.8.3 is capable of delivering a 12x performance boost for systems with integrated AMD and Intel graphics.

Whisper.cpp 1.8.3 is a very nice step forward for this AI-driven automatic speech recognition using OpenAI's Whisper model. With the 1.8.3

Started last year was D7VK as a project bringing Direct3D 7 implemented over the Vulkan API for enjoying better performance and support for legacy Windows games on Linux, akin to DXVK and VKD3D-Proton for newer versions of Direct3D over Vulkan that is used by Valve's Steam Play (Proton). Back in December D7VK added a Direct3D 6 front-end for allowing even older game titles to be accelerated using the modern Vulkan API. Today D7VK 1.