Darktable 5.4 is out today as the newest feature release to this open-source RAW photography software. Besides improving camera support, UI enhancements, and more the Wayland support has been improved with Darktable. With today's Darktable 5.4 release, the Wayland support should be on par with the X11 support.

Today's Darktable 5.4 release notes mention:

"Many GNU/Linux distributions have dropped support for X11 leaving only Wayland. Darktable has received many fixes to work properly

The Swedish VPN service Mullvad announced this week GotaTun, an open-source Rust-based WireGuard implementation that is forked from Cloudflare's BoringTun.

BoringTun was open-sourced by Cloudflare back in 2019 as a Rust-written, user-space WireGuard implementation for Linux and other platforms. GotaTun integrates additional functionality like DAITA and Multihop compared to Cloudflare's BoringTun code, thus the fork. There is also "first class" Android support and other differences with GotaTun. Previously Mullvad was relying on a Go

In addition to this week's drm-intel-next pull request to DRM-Next adding Nova Lake display support , a drm-xe-next pull request was also sent out on Friday that prepares a new multi-queue feature for Xe3P_XPC -- initially just the " Crescent Island " AI inference accelerator card. Plus other new features too for this Xe kernel driver in the upcoming Linux 7.0~6.20 kernel version.

Multi-queue in the context of Intel graphics

With the Arch Linux packages for the NVIDIA official graphics driver moving to the now-stable NVIDIA 590 driver series that drops the GeForce GTX 900 and GTX 1000 series GPU support , Arch Linux users with those old Maxwell and Pascal graphics cards will need to transition to using the NVIDIA legacy driver packages from the Arch Linux AUR. Meanwhile for those on Turing and newer with the NVIDIA 590 driver will enjoy the open-source kernel modules by default being used.

It's been

The GNU Debugger "GDB" 17.1 is out today with a number of new features for enhancing the open-source debugging experience.

GDB 17.1 adds support for Control-flow Enforcement Technology (CET) Shadow Stack support on x86_64 Intel/AMD processors. GDB 17.1 can also now handle debugging Linux programs that use the AArch64 Guarded Control Stacks (GCS) functionality.

The beta release of Linux Mint 22.3 "Zena" is now available for testing ahead of the holidays for this latest incremental update to this desktop OS built atop an Ubuntu 24.04 LTS base.

Linux Mint 22.3 continues to be based on the existing Ubuntu 24.04 LTS base while pulling in Linux Mint's newly-released Cinnamon 6.6 desktop. Cinnamon 6.6 brings a redesigned application menu with a new layout, a template manager for Nemo,

A few weeks ago it was mentioned by a Canonical engineer how trying to use AI to modernize the Ubuntu Error Tracker yielded some code that was "plain wrong" and other issues raised by that Microsoft GitHub Copilot code. The same Ubuntu developer shifted to trying Gemini AI to generate a helper script to assist in Ubuntu's monthly ISO snapshot releases. Google's Gemini AI also generated some sloppy code for a Python script to assist in those Ubuntu releases.

After the GitHub Copilot experience with the Ubuntu Error Tracker, Ubuntu

In addition to the open-source NVIDIA "NVK" Vulkan driver in Mesa merging compression support for big performance wins , another performance optimization was merged earlier in the week that stand to benefit GeForce RTX 20 "Turing" graphics processors.

The NVK driver's NAK compiler saw an improvement merged that stands to benefit Turing GPUs the most. The nak: Use the hardware's max warps_per_sm value should help Turing GPUs with games running lots of compute work on the GPU.

Two years and a few months after LoongArch 64-bit "Loong64" was added to Debian Ports , it's now been promoted to being an official architecture for Debian Linux.

LoongArch 64-bit is now an official architecture of Debian and will be part of the next Debian 14 "Forky" release. The announcement came down today that Loong64 is now an official architecture for Debian:

"I am happy to announce that a little more than two years after the initial bootstrap in