In working toward the stable FreeBSD 15.1 release in early June, FreeBSD 15.1 Beta 3 is out this weekend as the latest weekly test candidate.

FreeBSD 15.1 is bringing a number of device driver updates for newer hardware support, continued virtualization enhancements, DTrace probes support on PowerPC architectures, the sched_ule scheduler is now implemented as a scheduler instance, removal of Oracle Cloud Infrastructure build targets, and a variety of packaged software updates. One of the much anticipated features for FreeBSD 1

The current GNOME System Monitor is on track to be replaced by the GNOME Resources app for as soon as the GNOME 51 desktop release.

GNOME Resources supports many extra features like NPU monitoring and GPU power monitoring and broader device support than the stagnate GNOME System Monitor. Many also favor the UI of GNOME Resources. Ubuntu Linux already changed its default from GNOME System Monitor to Resources.

Memtest86+ 8.10 is out today as a significant update to this legendary open-source RAM testing software.

With Memtest86+ there is now support for using x2APIC as found with newer x86_64 processors since xAPIC is soon to be deprecated. Memtest86+ now fully supports x2APIC to ensure the SMP support will continue working on the very latest and future CPUs. For now Memtest86+ continues defaulting to maximum 256 CPU threads but

Debian 13.5 is out today as the newest point release to Debian Trixie for incorporating all of the latest security fixes affecting the Linux kernel and dozens of user-space packages.

Beyond incorporating a number of Linux security fixes, Debian 13.5 fixes a privilege escalation issue with Bubblewrap, a code execution issue with Cockpit, various buffer overflow fixes for different packages, fixing an overly broad permission issue with the nano editor, possible denial of service issue affecting different PHP components, and various X.Org Server

It seems that Valve isn't done expanding their open-source Linux graphics driver team and securing top talent for enhancing the Linux GPU drivers for a better gaming experience. One of the foremost leading Mesa developers has left AMD to join Valve.

A sharp-eyed Phoronix reader noted that none other than Marek Olšák has joined Valve given his latest profile updates on the FreeDesktop.org GitLab.

Marek is a longtime open-source Linux GPU driver developer working on the AMD Mesa code, especially when it comes

Ahead of the Linux 7.1-rc4 kernel test release due out on Sunday, a new round of x86 platform driver fixes were submitted for the week.

As quite common for the "fixes" pull requests from the platform-drivers-x86 tree, a lot of the work revolves around handling device quirks for different laptops.

This week there is a keyboard fix for the ASUS Zenbook Duo UX8407AA so that the keyboard is properly handled under Linux for this interesting laptop

This week marked the release of the KDE Plasma 6.7 beta and even so there were some last-minute features being squeezed into this popular Linux desktop option. Plasma's built-in remote desktop server enhancements and improved Plasma notification effects are among the changes topping out this week.

This Week in Plasma is out with its latest issue to highlight the latest improvements for Plasma 6.7 ahead of its stable release in June. Some early Plasma 6.8 work is also getting underway.

Plasma 6.7

A few days ago the widely-used SDL library added support for the new Steam Controller without depending upon the Steam client . Now another improvement for the new Steam Controller has been merged to this widely-used library for cross-platform games/apps with software/hardware abstractions.

Overnight the Steam Controller (2026) mapping was merged to the Simple DirectMedia Layer so that all buttons are now properly mapped for the controller.

ROCm 7.13 was released today as the newest ROCm Core SDK Preview in working toward what will presumably be called ROCm 8.0 later in the year.

Last October ROCm 7.9 came as a technology preview paired with TheRock build system and beginning a series of newer tech preview releases compared to the current ROCm 7.0-7.2 stable releases. Those tech preview releases have continued with ROCm 7.13 debuting today and packing expanded hardware support and other improvements.

New hardware support in ROCm