Stooplap v0.2 released today as this SQLite alternative for providing embedded SQL database needs while written in the Rust programming language. Stoolap supports both in-memory and persistent storage models.

Stoolap supports MVCC transactions and is fully ACID compliant while being written entirely in Rust. With Stoolap 0.2 there is more work on features like additional grouping sets, Volcano-style operator architecture, SEMI/ANTI join operators, query timeout support, keyset pagination, and other functionality.

GNOME's Glycin project as the Rust-based sandboxed and extendable image loading library now supports XPM and XBM images. This is notable since those formats were the last unsandboxed image loading formats used on Fedora Linux.

Released yesterday was Glycin 2.1 Alpha that brings a number of component updates and adds XPM and XBM support to the image-rs code. X PixMap (XPM) was for icon pixmaps under the X Window System and X BitMap (XBM) for cursor and icon bitmaps with X GUIs as the successor

Beyond Linux 6.19 switching old AMD GCN 1.0 and 1.1 GPUs to the AMDGPU kernel driver by default for better performance, RADV out-of-the-box, and more, there are still more improvements planned for these aging AMD graphics cards . Timur Kristóf of Valve's Linux graphics team has been leading the effort to enhance the old graphics card support and on Friday night merged a big improvement for the RADV Vulkan driver in Mesa 26.0.

For these original

KDE developer Nate Graham is out with the first issue of This Week in Plasma for 2026. Last week was a warning that This Week in Plasma could become less frequent without new volunteers to help takeover. Nate Graham announced that John Veness has stepped up to help co-author these weekly KDE development posts.

This week for enhancing accessibility support under Wayland, Plasma's Wayland session now supports the "slow keys" functionality. Also for improving accessibility the zoom effect now has a mode where the pointer never

The Aeryn OS Linux distribution formerly known as Serpent OS has published a 2025 retrospective to recap the project changes over the past year as well as a look ahead to 2026.

Besides changing the name of the Linux distribution in 2025, another change was project founder Ikey Doherty quietly stepping away from the project. Similar to when he stepped away from Solus Linux he founded and without any trace (ultimately Ikey writing an open letter on Phoronix later on about the change), he left

A patch is on the way to the Linux kernel and looks like it could be ready for the 6.20~7.0 kernel for addressing out-of-memory "OOM" killer inaccuracy behavior when dealing with large core count systems.

A patch by Linux developer Mathieu Desnoyers made it into Andrew Morton's "mm-everything" queue this week to fix out-of-memory killer inaccuracy on large many-core systems.

A new patch series that was posted this week allow for users to more easily replace the default kernel boot logo. While many of us are long accustomed to seeing the picture of Tux as the kernel boot logo, for those preferring to better customize your console boot experience these patches allow it to be easily manipulated via the kernel configuration "Kconfig" options.

Some already modify the Linux kernel boot logo themselves via patching the source code and Makefile. But a patch series sent out by Vincent Mailhol allow for more easily customizing the

Merged on New Year's Day was a set of 36 patches authored by well known AMD Mesa developer Marek Olšák for refactoring the NIR compilation code for the RadeonSI Gallium3D driver.

The month-old merge request was merged yesterday to Mesa 26.0-devel with the possibility of better performance and lower OpenGL Shading Language (GLSL) compilation times.

Marek summed up the highlights in the merge request as:

- shader-db GLSL compiler times reduced by real=1.7%

During the month of December on Phoronix there was new and original content each and every day, ending the month with 305 original news articles and 25 featured Linux hardware reviews / multi-page benchmark articles. Here is a look back at the most exciting Linux/open-source hardware content in ending out 2025.

In December there was a lot of excitement around Linux kernel improvements, Valve's continually exciting work in the Linux space, and many end-of-year comparison performance benchmarks