Mozilla Firefox 140 release binaries are available today as what's going to be the web browser project's next Extended Support Release (ESR) version.

Firefox 140 downloads are now available and with this version comes the "Unload Tab" option when right-clicking on a browser tab. Now you can easily unload desired tabs to help reduce Firefox memory use and conserve CPU resources by unloading tabs that don't need to be loaded at that moment.

Firefox 140 also finally supports the

GIMP 3.1.2 was just released as the first development version on the road toward GIMP 3.2 stable.

GIMP 3.2 is to be the next feature release following the long-in-development GIMP 3.0 release that happened back in March after being a decade in development in porting to GTK3 and many other improvements to this open-source image editing program that is one of the few viable alternatives to Adobe Photoshop.

GIMP 3.1.2 brings theme colors for Brush / Font

Being worked on for a while has been a "Fair" DRM scheduler inspired by Linux's CFS scheduler and aiming for better performance and scheduling behavior between multiple GPU interactive clients sharing GPU resources.

The DRM scheduler is currently used by multiple Direct Rendering Manager (DRM) drivers for what originally began as just the AMDGPU scheduler. Tvrtko Ursulin of Igalia has been leading the effort on a Fair DRM scheduler for better fairness and scheduling heuristics around multiple interacrive clients running in parallel for heavy GPU workloads.

The emphasis with the DRM

Support for UEFI Secure Boot Advanced Targeting "SBAT" looks like it could be buttoned up in the mainline kernel for the upcoming Linux 6.17 cycle.

UEFI SBAT is for enabling a new mechanism for dealing with UEFI SecureBoot revocations of UEFI binaries. UEFI SBAT aims to better handle vulnerabilities and other issues as part of the boot chain by having each component declare an SBAT generation. When a vulnerability or other fundamental issue is fixed, that generation version can be bumped. In turn systems can increase the minimum SBAT generation

The Mesa Radeon Vulkan driver "RADV" is now the first Mesa in-tree driver supporting 8-bit floating point use within shaders via the new VK_EXT_shader_float8 extension.

VK_EXT_shader_float8 was introduced earlier this month with the Vulkan 1.4.317 spec update. VK_EXT_shader_float8 enables support for 8-bit floating point operations within shaders in order to support more AI / machine learning workloads with the Vulkan API.

Over the past three days the new AMD "GFX1250" GPU target has started being built out within the upstream LLVM compiler codebase for the AMDGPU LLVM shader compiler back-end.

What AMD GFX1250 will correlate to remains to be seen. Based on prior AMD GFX1250 reference leaks there was some speculation that it could be for their upcoming UDNA architecture but that more likely will be for GFX13. AMD GFX1250 if following the convention used by

For those preferring an X11-based desktop experience on Linux, IceWM 3.8 released on Sunday as the newest version of this lightweight X11 window manager focused on speed and simplicity.

IceWM 3.8 now presents the theme minimize button as a preview icon within the Themes menu. IceWM 3.8 also brings various performance optimizations and other changes, including less LLVM Clang compiler warnings on OpenBSD:

Features

- Show the theme minimize button as a preview icon in the Themes menu.

Changes

- Optimize the

Linus Torvalds just announced the release of Linux 6.16-rc3 in marching toward the Linux 6.16 kernel release due out around late July.

Linux 6.16-rc3 pulls in a number of bug fixes for the week. Linux 6.16-rc3 introduces some late Intel TDX changes , a fix for the three decade old Creative SoundBlaster AWE32 ISA sound card so it can work without freezing Linux systems using a modern desktop with PipeWire, reverting Alienware G-