The Apache Software Foundation's long-used a feather logo over the past three decades. This was their prior logo:
Apache Software Foundation Unveils Its Branding Overhaul With New Logo & "The ASF" Name
The Apache Software Foundation's long-used a feather logo over the past three decades. This was their prior logo:
Linux Patched For New "VMSCAPE" Vulnerability Affecting Intel & AMD CPUs
VMSCAPE is an issue around indirect branch predictor flushes. VMSCAPE is described as:
"vmscape is a vulnerability that essentially takes Spectre-v2 and attacks host userspace from a guest. It particularly affects hypervisors like QEMU.
Even if a hypervisor may not have any sensitive data like disk encryption keys, guest-userspace may be able to attack the guest-kernel using the hypervisor as
CUPS 2.4.13 Print Server Released With "Important" Security Fix
CUPS 2.4.13 is out to bring a fix for CVE-2025-58060, which is described in the release announcement as an "important" security issue. Details on CVE-2025-5
AMD EPYC 9575F CPUs For GPU/AI Servers Show Leading Performance In Benchmarks
Since the launch of the AMD EPYC 9005 series nearly one year ago, I have performed hundreds of different benchmarks on these EPYC "Turin" processors across a wide range of workloads/disciplines to really terrific performance, power efficiency, and value. AMD EPYC 9005 performs exceptionally well compared to the competition from Intel and ARM CPU vendors. One area though I hadn't explored to this point was how well the AMD EPYC 9005 series performs for serving as the host CPU for
PipeWire 1.4.8 Improves Compatibility With Apple Home Pod Mini Speakers
With PipeWire 1.4.8 there is improved compatibility with Apple Home Pod Mini smart speakers. Besides better compatibility with the Apple Home Pod Minis, PipeWire 1.4.8 also adds support for low-latency Firewire devices using ALSA drivers.
GCC Rust Compiler Continues Quest To Compile The Linux Kernel Crate
Gccrs developers have published their August 2025 monthly status report. The gccrs developers along with two GSoC interns were busy working through issues in their compiler and getting additional functionality lined up. The Linux kernel crate remains their primary focus due to it not needing to compile the entire Rust standard library.
Firefox Finally Introducing Matroska / MKV Playback Support
Enabled just within the Firefox Nightly builds for now or opting in within the media.mkv.enabled preference is the ability to support MKV playback. Initially just AVC/H.264 and AAC within MKV containers are supported but other codec support will be expanded over time.
For the past eight years there has been this feature request for supporting Matroska/MKV playback support. This has been a
Linux 6.18 To Introduce Pixpaper DRM Driver, boot_display DRM Attribute
Today's drm-misc-next pull request brings a new DRM display driver: Pixpaper. The Pixpaper DRM display driver is for supporting the Mayqueen Pixpaper e-ink panel. This e-ink display panel features a 122x250 resolution and XRGB8888 format while communicating via
Mesa Drops VDPAU Video Acceleration In Favor Of VA-API
AMD engineer David Rosca landed the video acceleration changes to Gallium3D today for removing VDPAU from the Mesa source tree.
Fwupd 2.0.15 Released With Support For Newer NVIDIA ConnectX NICs
Fwupd 2.0.15 adds support for child devices to use the parent name as a prefix plus has a number of bug fixes compared to prior Fwupd releases. The FreeBSD build is working again as one of the fixes found in this update.
As for new hardware supported by Fwupd 2.0.