It was another exciting week in the GNOME space to kick off July.

This Week in GNOME is out with their latest issue to highlight all of the interesting GNOME desktop developments. Some of this week's highlights include:

- With GNOME 49, GNOME Papers is replacing Evince as the preferred document viewer . Papers brings GTK4 toolkit support and other modern features over Evince.

- Continued work phasing out GdkPixbuf for image loading directly in favor of using the modern Glycin that is written in Rust. Glycin is safer,

KDE developer Nate Graham is out with his usual weekly summary to highlight all of the interesting Plasma desktop developments for the past week.

Some of the improvements merged around KDE Plasma for this first week of July include:

- KDE Plasma 6.4.3 is bringing a change to KWin to not auto-generate low-but-not-1 scaling factors. The scale factors close to 1 but not precisely 1 end up producing a lot of blurriness that end up providing a very degraded user experience. Now just a

Building off Coreboot 25.03 is now the availability of Coreboot 25.06 for further enhancing this open-source system firmware project that continues to see new hardware improvements -- predominantly for Google Chromebook devices but also more Intel platforms and other hardware -- as well as new capabilities to further rival proprietary BIOS solutions.

Coreboot 25.06 brings an improved boot splash screen framework to open up new possibilities for better branding / vendor logo options and other styling enhancements. Bluetooth and WiFi wireless devices

The Vulkan working group is celebrating the US Independence Day with graphics API independence in today publishing Vulkan 1.4.321 that comes with several new extensions.

Beyond the usual maintenance changes in Vulkan 1.4.321, there are a number of new extensions with today's update:

VK_KHR_present_mode_fifo_latest_ready - An extension from NVIDIA and Google engineers based on VK_EXT_present_mode_fifo_latest_ready with equivalent functionality.

A handful of Bcachefs file-system fixes were submitted yesterday to Linus Torvalds for merging ahead of the Linux 6.16-rc5 release due out on Sunday. Today they were merged.

While the future of Bcachefs in the mainline Linux kernel is uncertain for Linux 6.17+, Bcachefs is remaining in the kernel for the Linux 6.16 cycle contrary to some saying it was already removed... With yesterday's Bcachefs pull request containing just bug fixes and not any new feature code

The Rust-written Redox OS open-source operating system project just published their June 2025 status report to outline recent progress on this innovative platform.

Redox OS developers have continued moving forward on their Wayland support plans. As part of that they have been working on the ability to send file descriptors over Unix Domain Sockets. The Unix Domain Sockets support by Redox OS will also be important for other features but for the immediate term needed for Wayland. Some of this work is being carried out via Redox Summer of

Sent in today for the ongoing Linux 6.16 kernel cycle as part of the input subsystem fixes is enabling support for the Acer Nitro Gaming Controller (NGR200).

The Acer Nitro Gaming Controller is an Xbox 360 style gaming controller for Windows and Android gaming. And with Linux 6.16 -- and potentially for back-porting to prior kernel versions -- is mainline kernel support. The Acer Nitro Gaming Controller NGR200 retails for just about $35 USD or

Intel today sent out a batch of new kernel graphics/display driver code for queuing ahead of the Linux 6.17 merge window opening in a few weeks. There is now DRM Panic support for the Intel i915 and Xe kernel drivers, Wildcat Lake "WCL" display enablement, and experimental flip queue support for Lunar Lake and Panther Lake hardware, among other changes coming for the Intel drivers in Linux 6.17.

In addition to this week's Intel GT Next material for Linux 6

The Debian project is hoping to address challenges of mentoring newcomers to contribute to the Debian Linux distribution as well as making it more known that open-source contributors can do more than just work on Debian packaging but that help is needed for documentation writing, web page creation, sorting out licensing issues, finding project sponsors, and more. Debian is also looking to attain OpenAI sponsorship or open-source funds from other large language model (LLM) / AI providers to help Debian developers for those wanting to use AI to help