For Linux gamers relying on the X.Org Server, the SDL3 library that is widely-used by cross-platform games has landed support for precision/pixel scrolling.

Merged yesterday to the SDL3 library for the X.Org code path when using X Input 2 is support for precision scrolling for more precise scrolling than what's been available to this point.

The work stems from this three year old merge request for the Simple DirectMedia Layer to use pixel-level scrolling with X Input 2:

"This

FFmpeg developers are known for delivering some really wild performance gains from hand-optimized Assembly code especially around Intel/AMD AVX-512 optimizations for various features of this widely-used open-source multimedia library. Merged this week was enhancing the Bwdif deinterlacing video filter with a 23~28x speed-up over the basic C code path when using AVX-512.

Niklas Haas landed an AVX-512 implementation of the Bob Weaver deinterlacing video filter "vf_bwdif" for

Linus Torvalds yesterday merged a patch from SUSE's Petr Mladek introducing a new boot parameter option for the kernel to provide greater control over the behavior of hashing pointer values.

The default behavior of the Linux kernel continues to be that when a pointer is printed to the console that the pointer value is hashed. This pointer hashing is done so that unprivileged users won't know of the actual kernel addresses should they be trying to exploit the system. That though can obviously make system debugging more of a challenge with the hashed

Last year Intel's open-source Compute Runtime stack for OpenCL and oneAPI Level Zero support discontinued its support for Broadwell through Ice Lake integrated graphics to focus strictly on Tigerlake with Intel "Gen12" graphics and newer. Today though they issued an update to their legacy driver branch for helping with the graphics compute support on those older hardware platforms.

While the modern Intel Compute Runtime 25.xx.xxxxx driver stack is focused still on Tigerlake and newer up through current Battlemage and Lunar Lake hardware as well as

Working toward the stable openSUSE Leap 16.0 release in late 2025, the release candidate period has begun for this Linux distribution aligned with SUSE Linux Enterprise 16 sources.

The march is on for releasing openSUSE Leap 16.0 later this year and has graduated from its beta phase and onto release candidate quality builds. Meanwhile SUSE/openSUSE developers continue working on transitioning both Tumbleweed and Leap 16.0 from the OBS SCM to Git for source control as one underlying change still going on.

Sent out today for the Linux 6.17 merge window and already merged hours later were the Flash-Friendly File-System ( F2FS ) feature updates.

F2FS in Linux 6.17 lands the folio conversion work. F2FS has also finally adopted the Linux kernel's new mount API . The new mount API that took shape over the past few years avoids overloading a single system call and allows for greater control over the mount.

F2FS for Linux 6.17

Junio Hamano announced the release of Git 2.51-rc0 to kick off the new week and the first step toward Git 2.51 as the next milestone for this open-source distributed version control system.

Git 2.51 is notable in that it is making further preparations toward Git 3.0 where SHA-256 will be used by default rather than the less secure SHA-1 default that Git has used up to this point. It's been long known Git 3

Along with today's NVIDIA R580 Linux driver beta , the CUDA 13.0 toolkit is now available to download and depends upon the new R580 Linux driver series.

The GA release of the CUDA Toolkit 13.0 is now available and pairs with the new R580 driver series. CUDA 13.0 supports Turing through Blackwell GPUs with older GPUs now dropped .

With CUDA 13.0, Arm platform support is now unified in the CUDA toolkit so that