It's been four years now since the Open 3D Engine was born out of Amazon's Lumberyard project and hosted by the Linux Foundation. Today marks the release of the Open 3D Engine "O3DE" 25.10 release with the newest features and fixes for this cross-platform game/graphics engine.

The Open 3D Engine 25.10 release has re-engineered the installation process to provide more efficient building of this engine, an improved debug experience with lower memory

In preparation for Panther Lake laptops shipping in early 2026 , after Intel appears to have largely wrapped up work on the Linux driver enablement they are now ensuring the necessary firmware bits are out in time.

The latest upstream Linux kernel appears to be in good shape for Intel Panther Lake laptops from the Xe3 integrated graphics to all of the other key functionality. But even with open-source drivers, as is the case with much of today's hardware, various firmware blobs are necessary for operation.

Apple today announced the M5 SoC as the newest in the Apple Silicon family and with claims of 4x the peak GPU compute performance for AI of the M4.

The Apple M5 brings more powerful CPU cores, a faster Neural Engine, and higher unified memory bandwidth, but their big focus was on the GPU performance for AI.

The Apple M5 is built on a third-generation 3nm process and features a next-gen 10-core GPU architecture with claims of being 4x the peak

Merged today to the Tinygrad deep learning framework is a Mesa NIR back-end to allow targeting that common intermediate representation used by these open-source Linux GPU drivers. Initially supported with this Tinygrad NIR back-end is the open-source NVIDIA Vulkan driver "NVK" with its Rust-based NAK compiler as well as the CPU-based LLVMpipe driver.

Tinygrad continues to serve as quite a versatile and open-source deep learning framework. Tinygrad already has back-ends for CPUs, OpenCL, Apple Metal, NVIDIA

AMD's HIP-RT is used by the Blender 3D modeling software for GPU-accelerated ray-tracing on Radeon GPUs. For Blender 5.0 the AMD HIP-RT support is expected to be declared "stable" but will not be enabled by default until Blender 5.1.

HIP-RT for Blender has been in the works for a few years and an experimental feature in recent releases . With Blender 5.0 coming out in mid-November, AMD HIP-RT support will finally be

While the open-source GCC and LLVM/Clang compilers saw Panther Lake support added in early 2024 , only overnight was support upstreamed to GCC and Clang for the similar Wildcat Lake target.

Wildcat Lake as the budget/low-power alternative to Panther Lake now has support added to the GCC and LLVM/Clang compilers. There's been a lot of work in recent months adding support for Intel Wildcat Lake to the Linux kernel drivers and other support in the open-source ecosystem -- mostly new

In development for around the past year was the cross-vendor mesh shading extension for OpenGL . Last week GL_EXT_mesh_shader was merged to the OpenGL Registry for this mesh shader support and first new GL extension in a while.

Prior to the GL_EXT_mesh_shader extension being finalized there was already early enablement work for the RadeonSI driver with an AMD engineer also being responsible for the new extension itself. Plus enablement work for the Zink OpenGL-on-Vulkan driver living within Mesa.

Overnight

David Rosca at AMD continues leading the efforts for improving the open-source Radeon video acceleration support under Linux with the Mesa Gallium3D code. This is especially important now that AMD is encouraging customers to no longer use the AMD Multimedia Framework (AMF) on Linux but resort to using VA-API and the Mesa multimedia capabilities instead.

Rosca merged to Mesa 25.3-devel a rework of the color conversion code for the Mesa Gallium3D video acceleration code. Notable is adding support for BT.2