DXVK 1.7 Released - Makes Use Of New Vulkan Extensions, Game Fixes
DXVK 1.7 is out this weekend as the important library translating Direct3D 9/10/11 usage into Vulkan API and is leveraged by the likes of Steam Play for running modern Windows games on Linux...
LibreOffice 7.0 Alpha 1 Released With Its Skia + Vulkan Rendering
The first alpha release of LibreOffice 7.0 is out this week for testing ahead of the planned official release of this big open-source office suite update in August...
BFloat16 Support About To Land Within LLVM
The LLVM compiler stack is about to merge its support for the BFloat16 floating-point format, including the BF16 C language support...
Intel's Load Hardening Mitigation Merged Into LLVM 11 For LVI Protection
Intel's Load Value Injection mitigation has finally been merged into mainline LLVM...
Zink GL-Over-Vulkan Now Supports Conditional Rendering - Stepping Towards OpenGL 3.0
The Zink Gallium3D driver project that is layering OpenGL over Vulkan is one step closer to exposing OpenGL 3.0 capabilities...
Linux 5.7-rc5 Released With More Changes But Not Worrying Torvalds
Linus Torvalds did his usual Sunday release dance and shipped Linux 5.7-rc5 as the latest kernel test release...
FreeType 2.10.2 Released With Support For WOFF 2 Fonts
The FreeType library that is used by many open-source projects for font rendering and other font operations, is out with their first release of the year...
LibreOffice On Windows Will Now Hard Require Clang For Performance Reasons
Last month we reported on LibreOffice now preferring its new rendering code be built with LLVM Clang over alternative compilers. When falling back to CPU-based software rasterization, the Clang-generated code performs much better than alternative compilers given Google's own emphasis with Skia on being Clang-focused. LibreOffice 7.0 is now beginning a hard requirement on Clang when building for Windows...
Mesa's LLVMpipe Driver Adds 4x MSAA Support
David Airlie's "multi-sample support extravaganza" for the LLVMpipe software driver has been merged into Mesa 20.2-devel...
OpenIndiana Hipster 2020.04 Released To Phase Out Python 2, GCC7 As Base Compiler
OpenIndiana, the open-source operating system built off Illumos and the former open-source Solaris code, is out with version 2020.04 as its newest feature release...