In addition to the release this week of OpenShot 3.4 , released today is a major update to another popular open-source video editing application: Kdenlive. The Kdenlive 25.12 release brings many improvements to help with editing of any year-end / holiday videos.

Kdenlive 25.12 released today with a new docking system to better manage the video editing experience. This release also adds a welcome screen to help new users to this KDE/Qt-aligned free software video editor.

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Merged today to the Mesa 26.0-devel code for the open-source NVIDIA "NVK" Vulkan driver is compression support for helping to deliver better performance.

Coincidentally just hours after our latest NVK vs. NVIDIA (and AMD Radeon) graphics benchmarks , the NVK compression support has been merged to Mesa Git for helping to deliver better performance.

Merged for the Nouveau kernel graphics driver in Linux 6.19 is compression support and enabling larger pages . The compression support merged today to the Mesa NVK driver makes

NVIDIA has promoted their R590 driver series to stable with the release today of the NVIDIA 590.48.01 Linux driver as their latest new feature branch version.

Earlier this month NVIDIA published the 590.44.01 Linux driver beta that brought Wayland improvements, Vulkan driver fixes, and other mostly low-level changes. The NVIDIA 590 driver series is also what's dropping the aging GeForce GTX 900 / GTX 1000 series

Beyond the Firefox browser to see more changes under its new CEO , the Thunderbird mail client is also expected to see some big changes in the new year.

Thunderbid today published their 2025 year in review while also offering a look ahead to 2026.

This year brought Thunderbird 140 as their newest Extended Support Release (ESR), native Microsoft Exchange email support in Thunderbird 145, continued work on their mobile story, and also the introduction of Thundermail and Thunderbird Pro.

Qt 6.11 Beta 1 is out on-schedule with the code having entered its feature freeze and code branching earlier this month. This toolkit is working toward the stable Qt 6.11 stable debut in March.

Qt 6.11 Beta 1 is out today with three new modules: Qt Canvas Painter, Qt OpenAPI, and Qt TaskTree. The Qt Canvas Painter module provides accelerated 2D painting for Qt Quick and QRhi render targets. Qt OpenAPI provides an extension of the upstream Open API generator to

Intel ISPC 1.29 released on Wednesday as the newest feature update to this Implicit SPMD Program Compiler as a C variant able to target Intel hardware from their CPUs to GPUs for SIMD programming.

Intel ISPC 1.29 adds support for enabling Stack Smash Protection for ISPC functions, a new flag to enable sample-based profile guided optimizations (PGO), and Intel's gen9-x8 and gen9-x16 targets have been removed for the old Intel Skylake era graphics and its derivatives

AMD Ryzen AI Max+ " Strix Halo " is beautifully awesome. Probably my favorite hardware of 2025 whether it's in desktop form with the likes of the Framework Desktop or for very powerful laptops between the Zen 5 CPU cores and very capable Radeon 8060S Graphics within devices like the HP ZBook Ultra G1a. If you are interested by Strix Halo too and looking for a way to obtain one without the high price, AMD is running a holiday special of those contributing PyTorch and

Announced one year ago was KDE Internet of Things "Kiot" with an emphasis on providing nice integration between the KDE Plasma desktop and Home Assistant for handling open-source home automation. Development on Kiot sadly fell through the cracks for most of the year but development on it recently restarted.

KDE developer David Edmundson shared that Kiot development has recently been restarted thanks to contributions from new developer Odd Østlie. Odd has been working on new features around Bluetooth, audio device handling, battery state handling for different devices, media mplayer