Debuting this weekend was LuxCoreRender 2.4, the newest version of this impressive open-source physically based renderer...

Set to be formally introduced next quarter alongside Phoronix Test Suite 10.0 is the long-overdue overhaul of OpenBenchmarking.org -- the biggest upgrade to our public "cloud" platform for benchmark aggregation and result analytics since its debut nearly one decade ago. Before then, a public beta of OpenBenchmarking.org should get underway in the next few weeks while here is an early look at some of the changes...

With basically at the cut-off for new feature material wanting to get into DRM-Next for Linux 5.9, Nouveau DRM maintainer Ben Skeggs of Red Hat today sent in the primary feature pull...

Version 10.2 of the GNU Compiler Collection (GCC) is now available...

It was just at the start of July that the LLVMpipe software driver gained OpenGL 4.0 support at long last. Days after that milestone OpenGL 4.2 support was reached for this driver that offers OpenGL acceleration atop CPUs either for fallback purposes or a vendor-neutral debug path. Now just days before the Mesa 20.2 branching, OpenGL 4.3 support has been cleared!..

LLVM 10.0 released back in March and today marks the first point release finally shipping. Normally they try to be a bit more punctual in shipping the seldom point releases to LLVM but today marks LLVM 10.0.1 finally being available, just over one month out from the planned LLVM 11.0 debut...

AMD has just issued their first new open-source AMDVLK Vulkan driver release in several weeks...

A new version of the Eclipse OpenJ9 JVM implementation was released last week with many fixes and other improvements over its prior release...

Stanislav Kirdey , William High

Imagine having to go through 2.5GB of log entries from a failed software build — 3 million lines — to search for a bug or a regression that happened on line 1M. It’s probably not even doable manually! However, one smart approach to make it tractable might be to diff the lines against a recent successful build, with the hope that the bug produces unusual lines in the logs.

Standard md5 diff would run quickly but still produce at least hundreds of thousands

The Lutris open-source gaming platform manager that also makes it easier installing Windows games via Steam is now employing the Valve-backed VKD3D-Proton fork for Direct3D 12 over Vulkan...