Mesa 25.3-rc4 is out rather than going straight to Mesa 25.3.0 as there remain two outstanding blocker issues still being resolved. We'll see if Mesa 25.3.0 in turn is released next week or if a -rc5 ends up being warranted.
Mesa 25.3-rc4 Brings Fix For Many Steam Play Games To Properly Run On Intel Linux Driver
Mesa 25.3-rc4 is out rather than going straight to Mesa 25.3.0 as there remain two outstanding blocker issues still being resolved. We'll see if Mesa 25.3.0 in turn is released next week or if a -rc5 ends up being warranted.
Hyprland 0.52 Released With New Features For This Wayland Compositor
Hyprland 0.52 brings a new "forceidle" dispatcher, support for setting a rotation for each input device supporting it, a new "modal" property for window rules, and various other changes.
Hyprland 0.52 isn't the biggest feature release in recent times but it's noted that much of their focus has been working on the Hyprtoolkit that will end up powering all of the Hyprland GUI
IncusOS Announced As Immutable Linux OS With ZFS For Running Containers
Incus lead developer Stéphane Graber announced today IncusOS as what's been in the works the past year. IncusOS is described by the project as:
"IncusOS is a modern immutable OS image that’s specifically designed to run Incus.
It provides
D7VK Aims To Deliver Direct3D 7 Atop Vulkan
D7VK is being worked on independently as a Vulkan
Intel's Rewrite Of Linux MM CID Code Showing Some Nice Gains For AMD
Posted last month were new Linux kernel scheduler-related patches rewriting the MM CID management code. The main takeaway for end-users from this set of 19 Linux kernel patches from an Intel engineer was seeing 14~18% improvement in a PostgreSQL database benchmark but that more benchmarks were needed. Curiosity got the best of me and I recently tested these patches on an AMD EPYC server to seeing some very enticing results for this in-development code.
Those interested in all the low-level technical details of
Linux To Gain ML-DSA/Dilithium Post-Quantum Cryptography For Module Signing
Red Hat engineer David Howells yesterday queued up the initial ML-DSA/Dilithium work into a linux-fs.git Git branch ahead of the Linux 6.19 merge window opening in early December. The code within the linux-fs.git "keys-pqc" branch include a big patch adding 5k+
Microsoft Contributing "RAMDAX" Driver For Upcoming Linux 6.19 Kernel
Linux engineer Mike Rapoport at Microsoft has been working on "RAMDAX" as a driver to allow creating persistent memory interfaces on RAM carveouts. These persistent memory interfaces are exposed as NVDIMM DIMM devices.
Vulkan 1.4.332 Brings A New Qualcomm Extension For AI / ML
This week's new Vulkan API extension is a Qualcomm vendor extension: VK_QCOM_data_graph_model. The VK_QCOM_data_graph_model is for enhancing their machine learning capabilities with the Vulkan API. Vulkan for AI
Mesa Lands Fixes For HDR With Vulkan Drivers
Mario Kleiner sent out what he says are three important bug fixes to the HDR support for Mesa's Vulkan drivers with the WSI/display back-end. These fixes, which were tested with the AMD RADV driver, include:
- Enable HDR
Ubuntu Server 25.10 Performance On AMD EPYC With "amd64v3" Optimized Packages
