Back in 2022 it was announced DreamWorks Animation was open-sourcing their MoonRay renderer that has been used in production feature films. It ended up being published as open-source in March 2023 as OpenMoonRay and since then has continued advancing with new feature releases and improvements. Now it's being contributed to the Academy Software Foundation as the newest project.

MoonRay is now the newest hosted project at the Academy Software Foundation alongside other projects like OpenColorIO, OpenEXR, OpenVDB, and the Open Shading Language

In addition to the recent influx of Linux security vulnerabilities affecting Linux, FreeBSD has also begun receiving security reports via AI/LLM-driven discovery tools. FreeBSD 15.1-RC1 is out today ahead of the planned official release in June and it brings a handful of security fixes out of this new AI-driven security research space.

FreeBSD 15.1-RC1 ships with security mitigations for security advisories FreeBSD-SA-26:19 through FreeBSD-SA-26:2

GNOME Commander, the orthodox file manager for the GNOME desktop that was inspired by Norton Commander, has been rewritten in the Rust programming language and also now using the GTK4 toolkit.

GNOME Commander was in C++ but with this week's GNOME Commander 2.0 release is now largely comprised of Rust code and also transitioning to GTK4 toolkit usage.

GNOME Commander 2.0 also adds an embedded terminal to display output of commands run by GNOME Commander, the quick search functionality was redesigned, improvements to the

Merged today for Linux 7.1 was this week's power management fixes with a few notable fixes for both AMD and Intel platforms.

Last week I reported on AMD's Dynamic EPP feature for the P-State driver causing some issues for that functionality introduced during the Linux 7.1 merge window. Dynamic Energy Performance Preference (EPP) allows changing the performance profile depending upon whether the Ryzen laptop is running on AC or DC power. EPP values are dynamically adjusted based on the power state and adjust based on

Released earlier this month was the OpenCL 3.1 specification with a focus on enhancing AI and HPC workloads for this long-time Khronos specification. Out today is OpenCL 3.1.1 as a point release with an emphasis on addressing a possible performance regression of OpenCL 3.1.

OpenCL 3.1.1 reverts the short-lived OpenCL 3.1 behavior of clGetEventInfo returning CL_COMPLETE as a host synchronization point. Those wanting a host synchronization point should instead call a function waiting on the OpenCL event

The first release candidate of systemd 261 is out today and it includes yet more features for this Linux init system and service manager.

Systemd 261 brings new features including systemd-sysinstall as a Linux OS installer of sorts for modern environments, the Instance Metadata Service "IMDS" for expanded systemd functionality on cloud VMs, a new storagectl command, and many other additions and improvements to existing features.

For those with a new Core Ultra Series 3 " Panther Lake " laptop from HP or considering one of these new systems, the Intel ISH firmware has now been upstreamed to linux-firmware.git for enhancing the out-of-the-box support.

The firmware needed for enabling the Intel Integrated Sensor Hub "ISH" on Panther Lake powered HP systems is now upstreamed to linux-firmware.git. The ISH is the co-processor in modern Intel systems for handling various input hardware and sensors offloaded from the

The AMD SoC Power Management Controller Driver is the latest seeing patch activity now in preparing for next-gen Zen 6 processors.

Sent out on Thursday were a set of five patches for the Power Management Controller (PMC) driver with necessary changes for supporting Family 1Ah Model 80h processors that will be part of the Zen 6 processor line-up.

These patches add a new ACPI ID "AMDI000C", address SMU changes with these upcoming processors, and ultimately make the needed preparations for s