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KDE Plasma 6.6.4 Is Out to Reduce CPU and GPU Load for Full-Screen Windows:
https://9to5linux.com/kde-plasma-6-6-4-is-out-to-reduce-cpu-and-gpu-load-for-full-screen-windows

KDE 4’s Air Theme Making a Comeback, Oxygen Gets Major Revamp for Plasma 6.7:
https://9to5linux.com/kde-4s-air-theme-making-a-comeback-oxygen-gets-major-revamp-for-plasma-6-7

KDE Frameworks 6.25 Adds Support for Converting Momme Units in KRunner:
https://9to5linux.com/kde-frameworks-6-25-adds-support-for-converting-momme-units-in-krunner

GNOME-Aligned Amberol 2026.1 Music Player Released, Phosh Improves X11 Support:
https://www.phoronix.com/news/GNOME-Amberol-2026.1

Rust API and a new plugin system added to Miracle-WM:
https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2026/04/miracle-wm-rust-plugins

Phosh 0.54.0 released with status page for location quick setting, other smaller improvements:
https://phosh.mobi/releases/rel-0.54.0/

Ghostty terminal is now available in the Ubuntu repos:
https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2026/04/ghostty-terminal-ubuntu-26-04-apt-install

First Look at Shelly, a Modern Graphical Package Manager for Arch Linux:
https://9to5linux.com/first-look-at-shelly-a-modern-graphical-package-manager-for-arch-linux

Valve dev fixes up VRAM management on AMD GPUs to improve performance:
https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/04/valve-dev-fixes-up-vram-management-on-amd-gpus-to-improve-performance/

Proton Experimental brings fixes for classic Resident Evil 1 & 2, Dino Crisis 1 & 2 and more:
https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/04/proton-experimental-brings-fixes-for-classic-resident-evil-1-2-dino-crisis-1-2-and-more/

Wine Staging 11.6 Ships Big Patch Series For Working On DirectComposition:
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Wine-Staging-11.6

D7VK 1.7 Brings More Improvements For Legacy Direct3D On Vulkan:
https://www.phoronix.com/news/D7VK-1.7-Released

Flatpak 1.16.4 Linux App Sandboxing Framework Brings Important Security Fixes:
https://9to5linux.com/flatpak-1-16-4-linux-app-sandboxing-framework-brings-important-security-fixes

XDG-Desktop-Portal 1.20.4 Released To Protect Against Apps Trashing Arbitrary Host Files:
https://www.phoronix.com/news/XDG-Desktop-Portal-1.20.4

PipeWire 1.6.3 Improves RAOP Compatibility to Make It Work on More Devices:
https://9to5linux.com/pipewire-1-6-3-improves-raop-compatibility-to-make-it-work-on-more-devices

GStreamer 1.28.2 Adds Caching Support to NVCodec Plugin to Speed Up Initialization:
https://9to5linux.com/gstreamer-1-28-2-adds-caching-support-to-nvcodec-plugin-to-speed-up-initialization

Rust Coreutils 0.8 Brings Significant Performance Gains:
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Rust-Coreutils-0.8-Released

TUXEDO Laptops Will Enjoy More Features With The Upstream Linux 7.1 Kernel:
https://www.phoronix.com/news/TUXEDO-More-Uniwill-Linux-7.1

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Exclusive Preview Of System76's Completely Redesigned Thelio Desktop:
https://www.phoronix.com/review/system76-new-thelio

MSI PRO B850-P WiFi: A Special AMD Ryzen AM5 Motherboard For Linux / Open-Source Enthusiasts:
https://www.phoronix.com/review/msi-pro-b850p-wifi

Proton Experimental brings fixes for REDLauncher, HELLDIVERS 2, Atelier Yumia, KILLER INN and more:
https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/03/proton-experimental-brings-fixes-for-redlauncher-helldivers-2-atelier-yumia-killer-inn-and-more/

D7VK 1.5 Released With Direct3D 3 Now Implemented Over Vulkan:
https://www.phoronix.com/news/D7VK-1.5-Released

NVIDIA 580.142 Production-Ready Linux Graphics Driver Released with Bug Fixes:
https://9to5linux.com/nvidia-580-142-production-ready-linux-graphics-driver-released-with-bug-fixes

NVIDIA 595.44.03 Linux Driver Released With VK_KHR_device_address_commands:
https://www.phoronix.com/news/NVIDIA-595.44.03-Linux

NVIDIA Adds Official Support For RHEL-Compatible Distributions Like AlmaLinux With CUDA 13.2:
https://www.phoronix.com/news/NVIDIA-Official-RHEL-Compat

Open-Source "GreenBoost" Driver Aims To Augment NVIDIA GPUs vRAM With System RAM & NVMe To Handle Larger LLMs:
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Open-Source-GreenBoost-NVIDIA

Mesa 26.0.2 arrives with more bug-fixes for Linux graphics drivers:
https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/03/mesa-26-0-2-arrives-with-more-bug-fixes-for-linux-graphics-drivers/

Mesa driver developers discuss expanding profiles and driver tuning for specific apps and games:
https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/03/mesa-driver-developers-discuss-expanding-profiles-and-driver-tuning-for-specific-apps-and-games/

OpenRazer 3.12 Released With Support For Newer Razer Products On Linux:
https://www.phoronix.com/news/OpenRazer-3.12

Intel NPU Driver 1.30 Released For Linux:
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Intel-NPU-Driver-Linux-1.30

New Rust Driver Aims To Improve Upstream Linux On Synology NAS Devices:
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Synology-Microp-Linux-Driver

Rust Coreutils 0.7 Released With Many Performance Optimizations:
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Rust-Coreutils-uutils-0.7

Ubuntu's AppArmor Hit By Several Security Issues - Can Yield Local Privilege Escalation:
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Ubuntu-AppArmor-Security-Issues

systemd 260-rc3 Released With AI Agents Documentation Added:
https://www.phoronix.com/news/systemd-260-rc3

Fwupd 2.1.1 Linux Firmware Updater Released as a Massive Update:
https://9to5linux.com/fwupd-2-1-1-linux-firmware-updater-released-as-a-massive-update

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GNU Coreutils 9.10 Released With Many Improvements:
https://www.phoronix.com/news/GNU-Coreutils-9.10

Rust Coreutils 0.6 Brings Increased Compatibility, Removing Some Unsafe Code & More Perf:
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Rust-Coreutils-0.6

Resources 1.10 can now monitor AMD NPU usage on Linux:
https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2026/02/resources-amd-npu-monitoring-linux

CLI shell Fish 4.4 brings Vi mode improvements, new color themes, and other enhancements:
https://alternativeto.net/news/2026/2/cli-shell-fish-4-4-brings-vi-mode-improvements-new-color-themes-and-other-enhancements/

Reworked NTFS Linux Driver Posted With More Improvements & Fixes:
https://www.phoronix.com/news/NTFS-Remake-Linux-v6

Linux 6.19-rc8 Released Ahead Of Linux 6.19 Stable Next Week:
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-6.19-rc8

Framework 13 To See Fan Target & Fan Temperature Thresholds Support With Linux 7.0:
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Framework-13-Fan-Target

Linux's b4 Kernel Development Tool Now Dog-Feeding Its AI Agent Code Review Helper:
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-b4-Tool-Dog-Feeding-AI

ML-LIB: Machine Learning Library Proposed For The Linux Kernel:
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-Kernel-ML-LIB-RFC

X.Org Developers Conference 2026 Being Hosted By Arm In Toronto:
https://www.phoronix.com/news/XDC2026-Toronto

Mesa 25.3.5 Brings Vulkan Driver Fixes & Other Minor Changes -- Even For The Old R600g:
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Mesa-25.3.5-Released

Mesa 26.0-rc3 Released With More Graphics Driver Fixes:
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Mesa-26.0-rc3-Released

GTK Developers Working On Session Saving Support & Better Accessibility This Year:
https://www.phoronix.com/news/GTK-FOSDEM-2026-Hackfest

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Valve put up a release candidate for Proton 10.0-4 with lots more Linux / SteamOS gaming fixes:
https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2025/12/valve-put-up-a-release-candidate-for-proton-10-0-4-with-lots-more-linux-steamos-gaming-fixes/

Wine 11.0-rc3 Released With Another Week Of Bug Fixing:
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Wine-11.0-rc3-Released

Chrome/Chromium Add Support For Printing Via XDG Portal:
https://www.phoronix.com/news/XDG-Portal-Chrome-Printing

NVIDIA 590.48.01 Linux Driver Brings R590 Series To Stable:
https://www.phoronix.com/news/NVIDIA-590.48.01-Linux

Xorgproto 2025.1 Released To Recognize Newer Keyboard Keys:
https://www.phoronix.com/news/xorgproto-2025.1

Mesa 25.3.2 brings more bug fixes for open source Linux graphics drivers:
https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2025/12/mesa-25-3-2-brings-more-bug-fixes-for-open-source-linux-graphics-drivers/

Mesa 26.0 NVK Driver Lands Improvement For NVIDIA GeForce RTX 20 "Turing" GPUs:
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Mesa-26-NVK-Compute-Warp-Size

Systemd 259 Released With Experimental Musl libc Support, More Features:
https://www.phoronix.com/news/systemd-259

Wayland Protocols 1.47 Released With Updated Color Management Protocol:
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Wayland-Protocols-1.47

OpenZFS 2.4 Released With Faster Encryption Performance, Many Other Improvements:
https://www.phoronix.com/news/OpenZFS-2.4-Released

GNU Debugger 17.1 Released With CET Shadow Stack Support, New DAP Features:
https://www.phoronix.com/news/GNU-Debugger-GDB-17.1

Linux Exposing Support For Lenovo ThinkPads Being Able To Detect Hardware Damage
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Opus-1.6-Released

Rust Coreutils 0.5 Released - Inching Toward Full GNU Compatibility:
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Rust-Coreutils-0.5

Intel Quietly Discontinues Its Open-Source User-Space Gaudi Driver Code:
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Intel-SynapseAI-Stops

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Unfortunately this section is too long this time, because I included some longer personal comments to some of the news, I'd have to split it into too many posts, so I link the Odysee post here instead:
https://odysee.com/@fossery-tech:4/linux-foss-news-87:3

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Wine 10.19 released as we head towards Wine 11:
https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2025/11/wine-10-19-released-as-we-head-towards-wine-11/

Proton 10.0-3 released bringing lots of improvements for gaming on Linux, SteamOS, Steam Machine:
https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2025/11/proton-10-0-3-released-bringing-lots-of-improvements-for-gaming-on-linux-steamos-steam-machine/

You Can Play Classic D3D7 Games on Linux With This New Project, But Don’t Expect Perfection:
https://itsfoss.com/news/play-d3d7-games-on-linux/

Fish 4.2 adds multi-line autosuggestions, default UTF-8, and tab title control:
https://alternativeto.net/news/2025/11/fish-4-2-adds-multi-line-autosuggestions-default-utf-8-and-tab-title-control/

Linux Kernel 6.18 RC5 Released: Linus Says It is Small and Boring!:
https://ostechnix.com/linux-kernel-6-18-rc5-released/

Possible Setback For Linux x86_64 Laptops: Prominent Developer Joins Qualcomm:
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Hans-Joins-Qualcomm

GNU Coreutils 9.9 Brings Numerous Fixes:
https://www.phoronix.com/news/GNU-Coreutils-9.9

Rust Coreutils 0.4 Released With Better GNU Compatibility & Faster Performance:
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Rust-Coreutils-0.4

Linux open source graphics drivers Mesa 25.2.7 released:
https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2025/11/linux-open-source-graphics-drivers-mesa-25-2-7-released/

Mesa 25.3 Released With Many Open-Source Vulkan Driver Improvements:
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Mesa-25.3-Released

Nouveau Driver To Support Larger Pages & Compression Support With Linux 6.19:
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-6.19-Nouveau-Larger-Pages

Linux Proposal Aims To Overcome Kernel Limitation Affecting Various Gaming Peripherals:
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-Multi-Battery-HID-Devices

The Linux Kernel Looks To "Bite The Bullet" In Enabling Microsoft C Extensions:
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-6.19-Patch-Would-MS-Ext

Linux Looks To Remove SHA1 Support For Signing Kernel Modules:
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-Patch-Drop-SHA1-Mod-Sign

Lenovo IdeaPad Linux Driver Adding Support For Rapid Charge Mode:
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Lenovo-IdeaPad-Rapid-Charge

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Rust Coreutils 0.3 Released With Some Major Speed-Ups, Better GNU Compatibility:
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Rust-Coreutils-0.3-Released

GE-Proton 10-21 brings fixes for Blue Protocol, Black Desert, Battle.net, Ubisoft Connect:
https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2025/10/ge-proton-10-21-brings-fixes-for-blue-protocol-black-desert-battle-net-ubisoft-connect/

Proton Experimental brings fixes for Fellowship, Marvel Rivals, Assassin's Creed Shadows and more:
https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2025/10/proton-experimental-brings-fixes-for-fellowship-marvel-rivals-assassins-creed-shadows-and-more/

Linux Kernel 6.18 RC2 Released: Addressing Regressions, ARM64 KVM Fixes:
https://ostechnix.com/linux-kernel-6-18-rc2-released/

Linux's Kconfig Is No Longer Orphaned:
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Kconfig-No-Longer-Orphaned

Linux Looks To Orphan Its ISDN Subsystem:
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-2025-Orphan-ISDN-mISDN

GTK 4.22 To Natively Support SVG - Including Animations:
https://www.phoronix.com/news/GTK-4.22-Native-SVG

NTFSPLUS Announced: A New Linux Driver For NTFS With Better Performance, More Features:
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-NTFSPLUS-NTFS-Driver

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