The Linux kernel's port to the DEC Alpha processors remains alive over 30 years after these processors first appeared.

Sent out yesterday was a pull request for the DEC Alpha code with the sole change of introducing another maintainer for the Alpha port. That change is now merged for Linux 6.18 with having another recognized maintainer of the Alpha code within the Linux kernel.

Magnus Lindholm is the newest maintainer for the Linux kernel's Alpha port. Magnus Lindholm joins Richard Henderson and Matt Turner as the others continuing

Recently when Intel contributed Nova Lake support for LLVM/Clang and the GCC compiler support there was not any AVX10 or APX support contrary to rumors and expectations. Intel has now published a new programming reference manual where they now confirm Nova Lake will in fact support AVX10.2 and APX.

Intel published their latest Intel Architecture Instruction Set Extensions and Future Features programming reference manual for November 2025. Most exciting is confirming some additional Nova Lake features.

The updated documentation now confirms Nova Lake as supporting

Canonical announced today the expansion of the legacy add-on for Ubuntu Pro to provide total coverage of Ubuntu LTS releases up to 15 years.

For commercial customers wanting to stick to legacy Ubuntu Long Term Support (LTS) releases, Canonical will now provide the paid support for up to 15 years. This 15 year support window goes into effect with Ubuntu 14.04 LTS and newer LTS versions.

Miracle-WM 0.8 was released on Wednesday as another step forward for this tiling Wayland compositor built atop Canonical's Mir software. Canonical engineer Matthew Kosarek continues driving new features into Miracle-WM as it works toward its v1.0 milestone.

Miracle-WM 0.8 supports a number of accessibility features that are in turn provided by Mir. Some of these new accessibility features include hover click, simulated secondary click, slow keys, sticky keys, and magnifier functionality.

Back in April PostgreSQL added AVX-512 support for CRC32 computations . At the time the gains for CRC32 computations with this popular open-source database server were reported to be 50% to 3x faster for x86_64 CPUs able to leverage AVX-512. That AVX-512 support is found with PostgreSQL 18.0 that released in September and now Intel is praising this addition to PostgreSQL for which their developers also had a part in

Eric Engestrom today released Mesa 25.2.7 as the newest bi-weekly point release for this stable set of open-source (predominantly) OpenGL and Vulkan drivers for Linux systems.

Some of the fixes to be included with Mesa 25.2.7 consist of:

- More RADV Vulkan Video driver fixes, including around AV1 content.

- The NVK driver code has added support for NVIDIA Blackwell's 8 and 16-bit modifiers.

- Fixing multi-plane imports for the Asahi

Just hours ago Valve announced the new Steam Controller along with the Steam Frame VR headset and new Steam Machine . While these new Steam hardware products won't be available until early 2026, Valve has just-now upstreamed support for the new Steam Controller to the SDL3 library.

The Simple DirectMedia Library (SDL) is important to Valve's Steam runtime and used by many games for cross-platform hardware/software abstractions. In ensuring good support ahead of the new Steam Controller's retail availability

Valve just sent over the press release announcing three new Steam Hardware devices.

The recent leaks have panned out and Valve just announced a new Steam Controller, the return to Steam Machine as a Linux-powered living room gaming console, and Steam Frame as their long rumored VR headset.

With the upcoming release of Weston 15.0, this Wayland reference compositor will finally feature a Vulkan renderer. For those curious about its potential, a presentation recently outlined the current state of this Vulkan code path.

Erico Nunes of Red Hat led the work on this Vulkan renderer for Weston that was based on the existing OpenGL renderer. This renderer targets the basic Vulkan 1.0 specification so that it can work on as many Vulkan implementations as possible. The renderer was merged a few months back and will be part