In addition to Weston 16 nearing release and its release candidate out today, the Wayland 1.26 release candidate was just issued with a few notable changes on top of the more typical bug fixing.

New to Wayland 1.26 is the wl_pointer.warp event. The wl_pointer.warp event addition intends to address a shortcoming where with Wayland right now in some situations the Wayland client cannot obtain the correct position information for the pointer. Open-source developer YaNing Lu explained of the issue

Going back to February there was a bug report around the xHCI controller dieing on resume from s2idle when using an AMD Ryzen AI Max+ "Strix Halo" Framework Desktop. In turn all USB devices behind the xHCI controller are lost on resume, but unbinding and binding the driver can restore the functionality without a reboot. After months of back and forth communication, it looks like a solution has been figured out and comes down to a nuance of the PCI spec with needing a brief wait.

Framework Computer originally reported

Newer Lenovo ThinkPad systems feature a security feature called USB-C Security Restricted Mode that is in the process of being wired up for reporting under Linux.

When USB-C Security Restricted Mode is enabled, power delivery is enabled but the USB-C data connections are disabled. Thus preserving USB charging capabilities while not allowing any USB data transfers to take place. The intent here is for kiosk-type deployments or physically-secured environments where not wanting to permit any USB data transfers or protecting against potential malicious USB-C

With the Linux 7.2 kernel there is initial support for booting the Apple M3 SoC on Linux but it's not yet functional for end users with just booting to a simple console. There are now Device Tree files posted for booting the Apple M4 on Linux but also not yet useful for any typical Apple Mac/MacBook usage on Linux.

Open-source developer Yureka Lilian posted the patches this week for the initial Device Trees and bindings for the Apple Silicon M4 SoC on Linux. With not too

The AMD Ryzen AI Halo mini PC powered by Ryzen AI Max+ "Strix Halo" began shipping this week. It features very nice Linux support out-of-the-box with the Debian-based Ryzen AI Developer Platform operating system. For those wishing to run their own x86_64 Linux distribution, one of the only caveats in the Linux support is quite small... No mainline kernel support yet for controlled the RGB LED light strip on the driver. But that driver is coming and

Zlib-rs 0.6.6 was just released by the Trifecta Tech Foundation. Just weeks after the prior release with a fix for Intel Raptor Lake and bringing new SIMD optimizations , zlib-rs 0.6.6 is about delivering updated Zlib API compatibility.

Zlib-rs 0.6.6 provides support for the upstream Zlib 1.3.2 API. Zlib-rs now exposes the deflateUsed and additional symbols with the _z suffix that use usize for lengths.

The open-source, Rust-based Redox OS platform had a very eventful June with many new features implemented and more software ported over to run on this from-scratch operating system.

Redox OS today published their monthly status report around new changes and updates to find with this innovative open-source OS. Some of the June highlights include:

- Redox is receiving a grant from the NGI Zero Commons fund and NLNet to work on virtualized Redox support. The effort is focused on allowing Redox OS to work as a web

The Document Foundation today announced the first beta release of the LibreOffice 26.8 open-source office suite set for its stable debut in August.

Some of the highlights of new changes coming with LibreOffice 26.8 include:

- Infrastructure to support comparing documents side-by-side in LibreOffice Writer.

- Writer can now more quickly open large documents with images.

- Calc adds a shuffle command to randomize the order of cells in a range.

- LibreOffice Draw now supports swapping mouse wheel zoom and scroll.