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Týden v GNOME nejen o portování aplikací pro GTK 4, dílčí aktualizace OpenRazer 3.10.1 s podporou dalších zařízení, digiKam 8.6 s radikálně vylepšenými AI modely pro rozpoznáváním tváří a objektů.

The much anticipated GNOME 48 is releasing this coming week as a big step forward for this popular Linux desktop environment. In addition there are a lot of other interesting projects continuing in tandem around GNOME. This Week in GNOME is out with its latest issue to highlight some of these most recent GNOME-related changes...

It's been a while since having any news to share on ReactOS as the open-source operating system working to re-implement the Microsoft Windows APIs/ABIs for enjoying Windows apps/games and drivers on this platform. Today though they are celebrating a new milestone of being able to boot with the Windows audio stack...

The Linux 6.14 stable kernel is likely to be released in just over one week and thus leading to Bcachefs file-system developers racing to track down a new bug that's been reported by a user on upgrading to the new kernel...

OpenRazer 3.10 released last month with support for new Razer devices and a wealth of other enhancements for these open-source, community-developed Razer kernel drivers for Linux. Out today is OpenRazer 3.10.1 with some fixes as well as supporting a few more Razer products...

The KDE-aligned digiKam photo management software is out today with its version 8.6 release. With digiKam 8.6 the open-source photo manager has been working on better enhancing its artificial intelligence (AI) integration...

KDE developer Nate Graham is out with his traditional weekend update to highlight all of the interesting Plasma desktop changes to have been merged over the past week...

Intel engineers today released Compute Runtime 25.09.32961.5 as their newest update to this open-source compute stack for Windows and Linux systems providing OpenCL and oneAPI Level Zero GPU compute support. Most notable in this release is rolling out initial "pre-release" support for next-gen Core Ultra "Panther Lake" SoCs with integrated Xe3 graphics...

Additional AMDGPU and AMDKFD kernel driver updates were sent out today for collecting ahead of the upcoming Linux 6.15 merge window. As we are late in the cycle, most of the new AMDGPU kernel graphics driver and AMDKFD compute driver changes are fixes, but there are some minor feature changes particularly for the new RDNA4 GPUs...

Git 2.49 is out today as the latest feature update for this widely-used distributed version control system...

On top of the big features for the Intel graphics driver code and new AMD hardware support coming for Linux 6.15 along with the initial NOVA driver stub, the smaller Direct Rendering Manager (DRM) drivers have also been lining up their changes for this next kernel version. With the Mediatek DRM driver for Linux 6.15 it's set to add MT8365 SoC support, perhaps better known as the Genio 350...

In addition to the COBOL language front-end being merged this week for the upcoming GCC 15 compiler release, another notable change also landed this week... Deprecating ESA/390 architecture support in preparation for its eventual removal...

Arm software engineer Peter Waller has shared some insightful benchmarks of the impact of PGO, Context Sensitive PGO (CSPGO), and BOLT optimizations across various classes of Neoverse processor designs...

The GNU C Library's tanh and other hyperbolic functions are now as much as 14~17% faster on modern Intel and AMD CPUs with the FMA instruction support for fused multiply-add operations...

Landing in Mesa 25.1 today for the RADV Vulkan and RadeonSI OpenGL drivers is Radeon GPU Profiler "RGP" integration for RDNA4/GFX12 GPUs with the newly-launched Radeon RX 9070 series...

While ReactOS is widely known as the open-source operating system working on maintaining software and driver compatibility with Microsoft Windows, there's another new one in the field and it's Free95. The Free95 project is working to become an open-source, Windows-compatible operating system. Version 0.2 Alpha of Free95 was released today for testing...

IGT GPU Tools began as a set of tools by Intel for working on their Linux Direct Rendering Manager (DRM) kernel driver but with time has been broadened by the open-source community to support non-Intel drivers/hardware. IGT GPU Tools 2.0 was released on Thursday with new enhancements for these tests and other tools incorporated into the project...

The Zstandard (Zstd) compression code sadly hasn't been regularly synced with the latest upstream Linux kernel sources but a patch posted this evening goes ahead and syncs the in-kernel Zstd code against the Zstd 1.5.7 state...

Shotcut 25.03 Beta is out today as the newest test release for this open-source video editing solution...

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