It's happening! The long-awaited HDMI 2.1 Fixed Rate Link "FRL" support for handling higher resolutions and higher refresh rates on modern AMD Radeon graphics cards with the upstream AMDGPU open-source driver has been submitted to DRM-Next ahead of this month's Linux 7.2 merge window!

Back in May -- and to much surprise -- AMD posted HDMI 2.1 FRL patches for their AMDGPU driver . It was also noted that they intend to provide a full HDMI 2.

While not as well known as the likes of the Godot or O3DE open-source game engines, Crown Engine continues advancing as an open-source, C++-based game engine.

Crown 0.63 adds a LOD Group component for optimizing the performance by dynamically choosing which mesh a unit should render based on its distance from the camera. There is also now OBJ mesh format support too in Crown 0.63. FBX import improvements, physics improvements, and other enhancements can also be found

The LLVM project will begin offering Zstd-compressed archives of their binaries in addition to the existing XZ-compressed releases. LLVM developers are finding Zstd working out great with "significantly reduced" download sizes.

Zstd sure is wonderful and LLVM is finally setting up Zstd-compressed binary archives to be published of their releases alongside the existing assets. In the issue ticket opened last year in seeing Zstd-compressed releases, the LLVM Linux x64 build as a XZ package was 1577MB but dropped to 1

Back in March Steam on Linux skyrocketed to 5.33% with more than double the Steam gaming marketshare of macOS. Then for April Steam on Linux pulled back to a still-great 4.52% , well above the times when Steam on Linux was at 2% or less for many years. Now the May 2026 figures have been published overnight by Valve.

With the start of the new month, Valve has now published their Steam Survey results for May after a slight delay..

The libinput input handling library used by both X.Org and Wayland environments on modern Linux desktops is out with a new security fix release. A new vulnerability is now public allowing for arbitrary root code execution.

Libinput maintainer Peter Hutterer announced the new libinput security advisory for the issue uncovered by Csome. Due to libinput's libinput-device-group udev helper handling, a malicious uinput or uhid device could set a PHYS sysattr containing a "\n" to cause the resulting output to be interpreted as two separate key

Following thr 3mdeb consulting firm's recent release of their Dasharo build of Coreboot and AMD openSIL for the Gigabyte MZ33-ARI1 EPYC 9005 series motherboard, the same engineers continue working on their port of Coreboot and the openSIL CPU silicon initialization library to a Ryzen 9000 series consumer motherboard.

Concurrent to their Gigabyte MZ33-ARI1 port, 3mdeb engineers have been bringing their Dasharo flavor of Coreboot and openSIL to the MSI PRO B850-P WiFi

COSMIC Epoch 1.0.15 was released today and while it doesn't yet contain the new "Frosted Glass" option for the desktop UI, COSMIC Epoch 1.0.15 does contain some other notable enhancements.

COSMIC Epoch 1.0.15's compositor now implements Wayland's pointer constraints protocol. This should notable fix some cursor issues in various games running on the COSMIC desktop. For first person shooters and third-person games the pointer constraints protocol is needed for proper mouse

Along with some GCC compiler tuning for Nova Lake and Diamond Rapids to deal with some new APX capabilities not proving beneficial for performance, new patch activity today is preparing GCC for function multi-versioning (FMV) for the AVX10.2 and APX instruction set extensions.

Function multi-versioning allows for the programmer to craft multiple versions of the same function that are then selected at run-time based upon the architecture extensions present on the CPU being executed. With a modern GCC toolchain this can be useful for developers