Ahead of the stable release being planned for August, today marks the availability of LibreOffice 7.6 Beta 1 for those wanting to help in testing this leading open-source, cross-platform office suite.

LibreOffice continues to be one of the best free alternatives to Microsoft Office. With LibreOffice 7.6, this open-source office suite is becoming even better. LibreOffice 7.6 changes include bibliography improvements in LibreOffice Writer, improved keyboard navigation through LibreOffice Writer forms, improved formula input validation in LibreOffice Calc, support

Oracle has published the latest community edition releases of GraalVM targeting JDK17 and JDK20. GraalVM also continues to support a variety of other languages beyond Java as well.

GraalVM continues on as a high performance Java JVM/JDK that also supports additional programming languages and execution models. With the new GraalVM releases on Tuesday some of the changes include:

- Added support for the ZGC garbage collector in catering to workloads requiring low latency or a very large heap size.

- The Ideal Graph Visualizer "IGV" has been

Beyond launching Bergamo and Genoa-X , AMD's AI Day also showcased the new AMD-Pensando DPU offerings and also previewed more of their next-gen Instinct MI300 accelerator APU.

AMD's Victor Peng talked up AMD's open-source software offerings around AI and their software ecosystem at large under Linux. Victor talked up AMD's open-source software offerings and the advancements made with the ROCm stack. Though for frequent Phoronix readers keeping up with my ROCm update articles, it'

The convenient Mesa Matrix tracker that has long shown Vulkan and OpenGL versions and extensions supported by the different open-source drivers has also now begun reporting OpenCL support.

With Rusticl driving excitement into the Mesa OpenCL space in recent months for that Rust-written Gallium3D state tracker, MesaMatrix.net has added support for reporting available OpenCL extensions and versions exposed by the different Gallium3D drivers.

Besides the Rusticl OpenCL metrics exposed, the older Clover Gallium3D OpenCL information is reported too alongside the OpenGL, OpenGL ES