Red Hat's Karol Herbst who has done a remarkable job on Rusticl as a modern OpenCL implementation written in Rust for Mesa Gallium3D drivers has another achievement under his belt: OpenCL subgroups are now in place for Mesa.

OpenCL sub-groups (cl_khr_subgroups) are now in place for Rusticl with Mesa 23.2. OpenCL subgroups are for implementation-controlled groups of work items, similar in nature to OpenCL work-groups. OpenCL subgroups have been part of the core spec since OpenCL

Meta has published the Intermediate Graphics Library (IGL) as a new cross-platform library to provide a single low-level interface that works atop native graphics APIs from OpenGL and Vulkan to Apple's Metal.

IGL aims to encapsulate common GPU features into a low-level, cross-platform interface that works atop all the major graphics back-ends besides Direct3D. Metal 2+, OpenGL 2.x, OpenGL 3.1+, OpenGL ES 2.0+, Vulkan 1.1+

After being in development for more than one year, Perl 5.38 released today as the latest feature update to this programming language.

Perl 5.38 brings a new experimental syntax for defining object classes where per-instance data is stored in field variables that behave like lexicals:

In a move similar to GCC's implementation, LLVM Git landed this week initial support for fat LTO objects. This "-ffat-lto-objects" support will be found with the LLVM/Clang 17 release this autumn.

Enabling the compiler's fat LTO object support allows for the compiler IR to be saved along with the final object code. This allows these "fat" objects to be used for both development builds and production of optimized builds at the cost of increased object size and longer build times

Sound Open Firmware 2.6 was released on Thursday for this Intel-started open-source software project for having a fully open audio DSP firmware stack and related development tooling. While initially limited to Intel hardware support, SOF has since grown and seen support from the likes of Mediatek, Realtek, NXP, and even recent AMD SoCs.

Sound Open Firmware 2.6 most notably introduces support for the NXP i.MX93 as well as having initial support for Intel Lunar Lake. Lunar Lake is the generation after