Released on Friday were the Linux 6.16.1 and Linux 6.15.10 stable kernel point releases. Notable there is an Intel i915 kernel graphics driver performance regression fix with some users having reported as much as a 30% performance hit on prior Linux kernel versions.

Opened one month ago was a bug report over a performance regression observed for a Core Ultra 7 155H "Meteor Lake" laptop seeing a 13% performance hit for Unigine Superposition and other

In addition to yesterday's GNOME 49 beta release marking the 28th birthday of GNOME , a lot of other exciting GNOME developments materialized this week.

This Week in GNOME #212 was published on Friday as the latest weekly report around the week's GNOME developments.

First up, the latest code for the Rust port of GNOME Disks was merged. The disk image restore dialog for flashing ISOs to USB drives is now in Rust. The Rust-ification of GNOME continues.

Building off yesterday's Wine 10.13 release following the month-long summer release hiatus, Wine-Staging 10.13 is out today with some 300 patches atop the upstream codebase.

Wine-Staging continues to ship the very latest testing/experimental patches for those wanting to ride on the leading-edge of this open-source software for enjoying Windows games and applications on Linux. Aside from re-basing around 300 patches to the latest upstream code, there are new

KDE Plasma developers this week focused a lot on improving performance, fixing bugs, and enhancing the user interface. KDE developer Nate Graham is out with his usual weekly report to highlight all of these interesting Plasma changes for the week.

Highlights for KDE Plasma developments this week were still quite notable even with being focused more on bug fixing and polishing. Some of the KDE Plasma highlights this week included:

- Plasma 6.5's Ocean sound theme has updated its volume change feedback sound so it doesn't sound as

The GNOME 49 beta release is out this Friday evening as the next stepping stone on the path to GNOME 49 in September. Making the GNOME 49 Beta release even more notable is that it's the 28th birthday of GNOME.

It was on this day in 1997 that Miguel de Icaza announced the start of the GNOME desktop environment. GNOME 49 beta shipped today with many last minute feature changes in addition to countless bug fixes and translation updates.

- The GNOME Foundry is in

One month has passed since the Wine 10.12 release. While typically new Wine development releases are on a bi-weekly release cycle, summer holidays typically interfere for one release per year with the Wine project. Thankfully Wine 10.13 is out today to start the cycle anew.

Wine 10.13 brings a Windows Gaming Input configuration tab to the Joystick Control Panel, ECDSA_P521 and ECDH_P521 algorithms in BCrypt, generating OpenGL WoW64

While the Raspberry Pi 5 is a great and popular Arm single board computer, some elements of getting the hardware support upstream have lagged behind just as was also the case with prior generations of the Raspberry Pi SBC. One of the enablement bits now inching its way toward the mainline kernel is Ethernet support on the Raspberry Pi 5.

Stanimir Varbanov of SUSE posted a set of five patches today for enabling the RP1 Ethernet support as found on the Raspberry Pi 5 single board computer, plus the associated DeviceTree changes. The patches

The Ubuntu Release Management Team is pursuing a new concept called "Dangerous" Desktop Images that will ship leading-edge Snaps atop the latest Ubuntu daily development images.

The Ubuntu "Dangerous" Desktop Images will be daily desktop images from the current development series but with all of the included Snaps being from their respective edge channels, for shipping the very newest Snaps atop that otherwise latest Ubuntu desktop development ISO.

Canonical engineer Tim Andersson of the Ubuntu Release Management Team summarized the new "dangerous" desktop images as:

"‘dangerous