Not only is GNOME 51 working to replace GNOME System Monitor with its new replacement , but over in System76's COSMIC space they have been baking their own new system monitor too.

This week's release of COSMIC Epoch 1.1 introduces the COSMIC-Monitor as their own replacement to GNOME System Monitor as well.

Shotcut 26.6 is out today as the newest major feature release for this popular cross-platform, open-source video editing solution.

Shotcut 26.6 continues improving its high dynamic range (HDR) display support and dealing with HDR content from cameras to video game captures. There is now a HDR preview window with Shotcut 26.6, dynamic range data in the timeline properties, converting to HDR using its GPU processing mode, added support for HDR to Export, and other improvements.

The Shotcut

One of the limitations of the Intel Linux driver's high dynamic range (HDR) display support is that it currently doesn't work for any DisplayPort Multi-Stream Transport "DP MST" connections, such as for daisy chaining monitors or multi-monitor docking stations. But the good news is patches are being worked on to address this Intel Linux kernel display driver shortcoming.

Gil Dekel of Google has been posting patches this week to get HDR over DP MST working for the Intel driver. Today is already a second

The many x86 platform driver changes have now been merged for the in-development Linux 7.2 kernel. As usual it's mostly made up of driver enhancements for benefiting modern AMD Ryzen (AI) and Intel Core (Ultra) laptops.

Starting things off with the AMD changes, there is now support for version three of the ranking tables for the AMD Hardware Feedback Interface "HFI" driver. The new ranking table version is used by upcoming AMD CPUs and supports dynamic rankings. Presumably this is for

One of the limitations of GNOME's current multi-monitor handling is that the same background is used across the displays. For those that want to enjoy per-monitor background selection, some experimental / proof-of-concept code is now working to allow such per-monitor backgrounds to work with the modern GNOME desktop.

Open-source developer and Phoronix reader Gianluca Masci wrote in to share his proof-of-concept work for allowing per-monitor wallpapers with the GNOME Shell. This brings the needed architectural changes

Back in early May was the experimental enabling of Vulkan descriptor heaps for the Intel ANV open-source driver . After nearly two months of continued testing and improvements, the VK_EXT_descriptor_heap support for Intel graphics on Linux is now enabled by default.

Intel's ANV Vulkan driver for Mesa 26.2, due for a stable release in August, has flipped on descriptor heap support by default. VK_EXT_descriptor_heap is no longer hidden by an environment variable in now being deemed

The PCI/PCIe subsystem changes have been merged this week as we approach the end of the Linux 7.2 merge window.

The PCI code has lifted a 2.5GT/s speed restriction in the PCIe failed-link retraining code to avoid a situation where a link could be restricted to 2.5GT/s after hot-plug changes to the PCIe device.

Maciej Rozycki explained of the possible 2.5GT/s restriction going awry in ths patch :

"Discard Vendor:Device ID matching

Intel engineers on Thursday released the newest version of the Intel Implicit SPMD Program Compiler, ISPC. The ISPC 1.31 supports their variant of the C programming language with extensions for Single Program, Multiple Data programming for leveraging their range of CPU and GPU hardware.

Intel ISPC 1.31 introduces new avx10.2nvl-x4, avx10.2nvl-x8, avx10.2nvl-x16, avx10.2nvl-x32