Hyprland 0.55 is out today as a big feature update for this Wayland-based compositor.

Hyprland 0.55 completes the transition to the compositor's configuration all being managed by Lua. Compatibility with older Hyprland configurations is being maintained for a few releases until users transition to the new Lua-based configurations.

As part of the Lua-based configuration, there is now a Layout API that allows users to define their own window layouts directly on the configuration. Layouts can be managed globally, per-

FEX 2605 is out this weekend as the newest monthly feature release to this emulator for running Linux x86_64 binaries on ARM64 (AArch64) devices. This is the open-source project sponsored by Valve and planned for use with the upcoming Steam Frame as well as being relevant to Linux gaming on other 64-bit ARM laptops and other devices.

This month brings a number of fixes to its just-in-time (JIT) code as well as further

Ubuntu Touch 24.04-1.3 is out this week as the latest maintenance release for this tablet/smartphone-focused Ubuntu distribution.

Ubuntu Touch 24.04-1.3 improves handling of desktop apps, which now includes the ability to launch X11 apps outside of the Lomiri environment. In particular, it should help with launching GUI apps from the likes of OpenStore and Snapz0r. There is also a fix for launching GTK4-based apps with this Ubuntu Touch

The open-source, community-developed NVIDIA-VAAPI-Driver that provides a Video Acceleration API (VA-API) implementation built atop NVIDIA's NVDEC video decode interface is out with a new release. This is the open-source project that's motivated by getting accelerated video decoding to work within Mozilla Firefox and other apps when running with NVIDIA's packaged Linux driver.

The notable change with today's NVIDIA-VAAPI-Driver 0.0.17 release is fixing the back-end

Merged as part of the perf subsystem fixes overnight is enabling Auto Counter Reload (ACR) functionality for upcoming Intel Xeon Diamond Rapids processors. This ACR enabling for Diamond Rapids "DMR" is happening in time for Linux 7.1-rc3 on Sunday while the work is also marked for back-porting to existing stable kernels.

Auto Counter Reload is a new low-overhead, performance monitoring capability for automatically reloading of performance counters when specific event conditions occur. Auto Count(er) Reload is initially present on Clearwater

KDE developers continue to be quite busy in preparing additional Plasma 6.7 desktop features ahead of the stable release due out in mid-June.

This Week in Plasma is out with its newest issue to outline the latest changes merged ahead of Plasma 6.7 as well as some notable fixes benefiting the current Plasma 6.6 stable series.

One of the big features this week is support for ICC color management profiles for displays/monitors when running in the KWin's high dynamic range (HDR) mode. Plasma

FreeBSD 15.1 continues working its way toward a stable release in June. Out today is FreeBSD 15.1 Beta 2.

Following last week's FreeBSD 15.1 Beta 1 milestone, a second weekly test release is now available for evaluation. Fixed over the past week is updating against Zstd 1.5.7 upstream for the latest standard compression support, bsdinstall now consistently using pkg.freebsd.org for package bootstrap operations, manual page updates, and other fixes.

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A new NVIDIA Labs project is greatly improving the capabilities of using the Rust programming language for developing CUDA kernels for NVIDIA GPUs.

CUDA-Oxide 0.1 released on Thursday as the inaugural release of this experimental Rust-to-CUDA compiler for writing SIMT GPU kernels in a "safe(ish)" manner using the Rust programming language. CUDA-Oxide takes standard Rust code and emits directly to the NVIDIA PTX format.

CUDA-Oxide is designed by NVIDIA engineers for single-source compilation, device-side abstractions