FFmpeg 8.0 is now available! FFmpeg 8.0 is a magnificent update to this widely-used open-source multimedia library and with this new version is the introduction of an OpenAI Whisper filter for automatic speech recognition, many Vulkan Video improvements for greater GPU-accelerated video handling, and a number of CPU performance optimizations.

FFmpeg 8.0 also now depends on NASM Rather than YASM, adds VVC VA-API decoding support, RealVideo 6.0 decoder, OpenMAX video encoders have been deprecated, VVC in

The Servo browser project has published a monthly status report to outline all of the interesting changes made to this interesting, Rust-based browser layout engine over the past several weeks. Development continues moving along with Servo as more critical functionality continues to be added as well as new performance optimizations and other features to make it a compelling option for future embedded web use and more.

First up, Servo now supports APNG and WebP animated images. This complements their existing GIF support and an important addition to properly handle more modern web content

FreeRDP as one of the leading open-source / free software implementations of Microsoft's Remote Desktop Protocol (RDP) is out with a new release. While FreeRDP 3.17 is primarily focused on shipping bug fixes, there is one noteworthy addition: fullchain support.

FreeRDP 3.17 merges fullchain support for full X.509 chain support for the client and server. RDP fullchain support is for being able to establish a complete and trusted chain of authority back to a root CA for encryption and

Earlier this month Intel released LLM-Scaler 1.0 as part of their Project Battlematrix initiative. This is a Docker container effort to deliver speedy AI inference performance with multi-GPU scaling and PCIe P2P support and more.

While there was the v1.0 announcement earlier this month, yesterday Intel software engineers released "0.9.0-b3" as a new beta release for the llm-scaler-vllm Docker build.

The updated LLM-Scaler vLLM beta enables Whisper model support,

In addition to this week seeing Apple SoC DT updates prepped for Linux 6.18 and Apple laptop lid events and power button driver patches posted for review for the mainline Linux kernel, published today on the Linux kernel mailing list are the request for comments (RFC) on patches for enabling USB3 support with Apple Silicon M1 / M2 SoCs.

These USB3 support patches have been carried by the downstream Asahi Linux for months while now Sven Peter has posted them as an RFC patch series for consideration for the

Following the recent Apple SMC driver upstreaming to handle rebooting Apple Silicon Macs under Linux, the latest code volleyed on the kernel mailing list for review is support for handling laptop lid events and power buttons. Plus Apple sensor monitoring driver support too.

Posted to the Linux kernel mailing list this week by James Calligeros were patches he along with Hector Martin and Sven Peter had worked on for Asahi Linux. These patches enable the RTC, HWMON, and HID sub-devices of the Apple System Management Controller (SMC).

The RTC

Released minutes ago was the newest monthly feature release to the Intel Compute Runtime providing open-source OpenCL and Level Zero capabilities on Intel graphics hardware.

The Intel Compute Runtime 25.31.34666.3 is mostly about preparing for upcoming Xe3 integrated graphics with Panther Lake as well as continuing to make adjustments and optimizations for the latest Battlemage discrete graphics processors. In digging through the Git change-log for the past month of Compute Runtime development, some of the v25.3

VKD3D 1.17 made its debut this morning as the newest version of this Direct3D 12 over Vulkan API implementation.

VKD3D 1.17 is the newest feature release for this Vulkan-powered Direct3D implementation developed by upstream Wine. VKD3D is bundled with Wine and the upstream effort compared to Valve's VKD3D-Proton downstream that is shipped by Steam Play (Proton).