The oVirt 4.5.7 open-source virtualization management platform released this week after not seeing any new releases in two years. While Red Hat had started the oVirt open-source project for which their Red Hat Virtualization platform is based, since they shifted that to maintenance mode to focus on the Red Hat OpenShift platform and stopped contributing to oVirt, it's been up to the open-source community to keep it going.

The oVirt 4.5.7 release adds support for CentOS 10 and AlmaLinux

In late 2024 the folks at Raspberry Pi announced the Raspberry Pi AI HAT+ as an AI accelerator capable of 26 TOPS and costing $110 for pairing with Raspberry Pi single board computers. Today they announced the much more capable Raspberry Pi AI HAT+ 2 that can begin to take on some generative AI "GenAI" models.

The Raspberry Pi AI HAT+ 2 employs the Hailo-10H neural network accelerator that is now rated for 40 TOPS of INT4. There is

Separate from the Mesa merge request talked about earlier today for new RADV code that can deliver 10x faster ray-tracing pipeline compilation for this open-source Radeon Vulkan driver, another merge request landed today in Mesa 26.0 that was also carried out by Valve contractor Natalie Vock. That second merge request now in Mesa 26.0 delivers some additional gains for at least some ray-tracing games on RDNA3 and RDNA4 GPUs.

Natalie Vock opened a merge request two days ago to switch to

More than two years after the release of GRUB 2.12 , GRUB 2.14 shipped today as the newest feature release of this widely-used bootloader on Linux systems and elsewhere.

GRUB 2.14 adds support for the EROFS read-only file-system, LVM support enhancements, NX support for EFI platforms, shim loader protocol support, Argon2 KDF support, supporting dates beyond Year 2038, Zstdio decompression support, EFI improvements, and more. GRUB 2.14 is

A new merge request opened today for Mesa's Radeon Vulkan driver "RADV" by Valve contractor Natalie Vock provides another significant boost for the Vulkan ray-tracing performance in multiple titles.

Over the past year RADV ray-tracing performance improved a lot as one of the lingering areas where RADV remained behind the now defunct AMDVLK driver and where NVIDIA has long had a performance advantage with ray-traced games. Already this year there have been some nice performance improvements while another exciting merge request is pending for bringing more gains.

Last year GlobalFoundries acquired MIPS while an interesting new development announced today is that GlobalFoundries has acquired the ARC Processor IP and its solutions business from Synopsys. The Synopsys ARC Processor IP will be brought into the MIPS umbrella.

GlobalFoundries just annoucned on the wire that they are acquiring the ARC and ARC-V Processor IP Solutions business from Synopsys. As part of it, the engineers and designers will be joining GlobalFoundries under the MIPS organization.

Back in December we reported on drafted plans for revitalizing Fedora Games Lab to be a modern Linux gaming showcase . This Fedora Labs initiative has featured some open-source games paired with an Xfce desktop while moving forward they are looking to better position it as a modern Linux gaming showcase.

The Fedora Engineering and Steering Committee (FESCo) signed off this week on the Fedora 44 change proposal for overhauling Fedora Games Lab. Rather than the Xfce desktop, the KDE Plasma 6.6 desktop will be in use. Going with