After being delayed by three months to allow additional time for new features to land, Weston 15.0 Alpha 1 is out today as a big feature release for this reference Wayland compositor.

Weston 15.0 Alpha 1 is out this morning as the latest and greatest reference Wayland compositor implementation. Weston 15 brings improved high dynamic range (HDR) support and the color-representation protocol, other new protocols like the FIFO and commit-timing work, a brand new Lua-based shell, and an experimental

Intel engineers as part of the OPEA Project today released the Generative AI Examples v1.5 update. This "GenAIExamples" open-source project is a collection of GenAI examples as part of showing the capabilities of the Open Platform for Enterprise AI (OPEA) and also highlighting Intel's hardware strengths for generative AI.

Some of the highlights for the GenAIExamples v1.5 release include:

- For their browser-use agent there is now a new use-case to automate repetitive web tasks. This can be

Intel today released libva 2.23 as the newest feature release for this Video Acceleration API "VA-API" reference library implementation. Most significant with libva 2.23 is adding AV1 Profile 2 support.

The libva 2.23 release brings AV1 Profile 2 support to this VA-API library. AV1 Profile 2 is the "Professional Profile" that supports 4:2:2 chroma subsampling and 12-bit color depth compared to the Main (0) or High (1

The second weekly release candidate of Linux 6.19 is now available for testing in leading up to the stable release in early February.

Linux 6.19-rc2 is now available with a week's worth of early bug/regression fixes following the closure of the Linux 6.19 merge window. There is a fix/workaround for a particular Seagate Barracuda hard drive where it's problematic for the SATA bus with Link Power Management (LPM) enabled. Not a fix but a safe

MPV 0.41 is out today as the newest feature release for this MPlayer/mplayer2-derived open-source video player. With MPV 0.41 there is a big focus on improving Wayland support as well as now preferring Vulkan Video acceleration over alternative video decode APIs.

On the Vulkan side, MPV 0.41 now prefers Vulkan Video hardware decoding where available instead of other video APIs. Other alternatives like VA-API remain available for scenarios where Vulkan Video driver or GPU hardware support isn'

One of the features that sadly didn't make it into the recent Linux 6.19 merge window was the long-awaited AMD ISP4 driver for supporting the web camera found with the high-end HP ZBook Ultra G1a and also expected to be used by future flagship AMD Ryzen laptops.

The AMD ISP4 image signal processing driver is the last piece of the software puzzle for getting the web camera working on the ZBook Ultra G1a and other future hardware for this superior web camera solution complete

Since Linux 6.16 the Intel APX support has been ready for the kernel infrastructure and goes along with the compiler toolchain support for Advanced Performance Extensions with the likes of GCC and LLVM/Clang. The latest element being worked on for APX enablement in the open-source/Linux world is for allowing KVM guest virtual machines (VMs) to make use of APX.

Intel engineers on Sunday sent out their first post-RFC (request for comments) patches for enabling APX support for KVM guests, which is important

Most notable with the input subsystem updates sent out today ahead of the Linux 6.19-rc2 release is some new hardware support. New this week is adding support for CRKD Guitars for those into musical gaming/apps.

To be merged today with the Linux 6.19-rc2 input updates is adding support for several CRKD brand guitar controllers. This is the first time CRKD controllers is being added to the Linux kernel's XPad driver for supporting various Xbox gaming peripherals.

The guitar controllers being

Open-source developer Armin Wolf has been working most recently on marshalling support for the Windows Management Instrumentation (WMI) platform code within the Linux kernel. This WMI marshalling support is to better match the behavior of Microsoft Windows' WMI ACPI driver and ultimately to allow for better compatibility with some ACPI firmware and enhancing some WMI drivers.

The WMI marshalling support is up to its second post-RFC revision for this effort to better match the handling of Windows' WMI ACPI driver. Wolf explained in this weekend's v2