Cairo Linux & Open-Source News |
| FFmpeg 8.1 Preparing For Release With Vulkan Improvements, JPEG-XS & More | Multimedia | 2026-03-08 |
| Flowblade Video Editor May Go Wayland-Only As Part Of GTK4 Port | Multimedia | 2025-12-06 |
| Cairo-Dock 3.6 Released With Wayland Support & HiDPI | Desktop | 2025-10-04 |
| Pixman 0.46 Delivers Faster Performance On RISC-V With V Vector Extension | X.Org | 2025-04-30 |
| GNOME Now Has Refine As An Alternative To GNOME Tweaks, Phosh 0.44 Released | GNOME | 2025-01-04 |
| WebKitGTK 2.46 Uses Skia Rather Than Cairo, More CPU/GPU Optimizations To Come | GNOME | 2024-10-01 |
| Cairo 1.18.2 Collects A Year's Worth Of Fixes | Programming | 2024-09-07 |
| WebKitGTK Moving To Skia For 2D Rendering To Yield Better Performance | GNOME | 2024-02-21 |
| GNOME's VTE Seeing Improvements For Faster Terminal Performance | GNOME | 2023-10-04 |
| Cairo 1.18 Released - First Stable Release In Five Years | Free Software | 2023-09-23 |
| GNOME Mutter 45 Release Candidate Brings Meta Toolkit Library, Other Last Minute Work | GNOME | 2023-09-06 |
| Mozilla Firefox 116 To Allow For Wayland-Only Builds | Mozilla | 2023-06-26 |
| WebKitGTK Working On Accelerated Composited Rendering With DMA-BUF | GNOME | 2023-04-03 |
| HarfBuzz 7.0 Text Shaping Engine Released | Free Software | 2023-02-12 |
| Cairo 1.17.8 Released - OpenGL/GLES Drawing Removed, Better macOS & Windows Support | Free Software | 2023-02-05 |
| Cairo Graphics Library Drops OpenGL Support After A Decade Of Inactivity | Free Software | 2023-01-29 |
| HarfBuzz 4.0 Released For This Open-Source Text Shaping Library | Free Software | 2022-03-02 |
| Cairo Graphics Library Drops Many Old Backends | X.Org | 2022-02-27 |
| Cairo Graphics Sees Major Improvements To Its SVG Backend | Free Software | 2021-05-30 |
| GTK4 To Bring Better & Faster macOS Support | GNOME | 2020-12-15 |
| Intel mOS, Cachy, Mozilla Layoffs Were The Open-Source Buzz Of August | Phoronix | 2020-09-01 |
| GNU Emacs 27.1 Adds HarfBuzz Text Shaping, Native JSON Parsing | GNU | 2020-08-10 |
| LibreOffice 7.0 Released As The Open-Source, Vulkan-Accelerated Office Suite | LibreOffice | 2020-08-05 |
| LibreOffice 7.0 RC2 Released For This Vulkan-Supported Open-Source Office Suite | LibreOffice | 2020-07-18 |
| LibreOffice 7.0 RC1 Is Out For Testing This Skia+Vulkan Open-Source Office Suite | LibreOffice | 2020-07-06 |
| LibreOffice 7.0 Beta 2 Released For This Open-Source, Vulkan-Supported Office Suite | LibreOffice | 2020-06-22 |
| LibreOffice 7.0 Beta Available For Testing With Its Skia+Vulkan Support | LibreOffice | 2020-06-01 |
| LibreOffice 7.0 Alpha 1 Released With Its Skia + Vulkan Rendering | LibreOffice | 2020-05-14 |
| Pixman 0.40 Released As First Update In A Year For This Key Library For The Linux Desktop | X.Org | 2020-04-20 |
| Blend2D For 2D Rendering Now Has Multi-Threaded Support | Free Software | 2020-04-15 |
| LibreOffice 7.0 Git Adds Skia-Based Text Rendering Support | LibreOffice | 2020-03-18 |
| LibreOffice 7.0's Qt5 Support To Offer HiDPI Scaling | LibreOffice | 2020-03-10 |
| Linux 5.6, Threadripper 3990X, $199 AMD Laptop Topped Reader Interest In February | Phoronix | 2020-03-01 |
| GNOME 3.36 Lands Scaled/Transformed Hardware Cursors Support | GNOME | 2020-02-28 |
| LibreOffice 7 Continues Plumbing Its Vulkan Rendering Support | LibreOffice | 2020-02-19 |
| LibreOffice 7.0 Is The Version Now In Development With Its Skia + Vulkan Support | LibreOffice | 2020-01-23 |
| GIMP 2.99.x Development Releases Likely Starting Soon For GIMP 3.0 | Desktop | 2020-01-04 |
| Trying Out The Skia+Vulkan Powered LibreOffice 6.5 Development Build | LibreOffice | 2019-12-13 |
| LibreOffice Git Lands Its Skia Drawing Code - Leading To Vulkan-Accelerated Office Suite | LibreOffice | 2019-11-30 |
| GNOME's Pango 1.44 Released With Many Text Rendering Improvements | GNOME | 2019-07-28 |
| GTK4 Gets Smoother GPU-Accelerated Scrolling, Modern Cursor Blinking | GNOME | 2019-07-22 |
| Pango 1.44 Is Coming Thanks To The Revival By GNOME Developers | GNOME | 2019-07-19 |
| X.Org's XDC2019 Issues Call For Proposals On Wayland, Mesa, X.Org, Etc | X.Org | 2019-05-21 |
| Blend2D Reaches Beta As High Performance 2D Vector Graphics Engine | Free Software | 2019-04-02 |
| Redox OS 0.5 Released With New C Library Written In Rust | Operating Systems | 2019-03-24 |
| Pixman 0.38 Released With Meson Build System Support | Free Software | 2019-02-11 |
| KiCad Open-Source PCB Design Software Keeps Working Towards Its Next Big Release | Free Software | 2019-02-08 |
| LibreOffice 6.2 Branched, The Beta Dance Begins & x86 32-bit Builds Are Deprecated | LibreOffice | 2018-11-18 |
| LibreOffice Landing New Custom Widgets Theme, Powered By Cairo | LibreOffice | 2018-11-10 |
| Samsung Open-Source Group Reportedly Shuts Down | Free Software | 2018-10-27 |
| Cairo 1.16 Released With OpenGL ES 3.0 Support, Colored Emojis | Free Software | 2018-10-19 |
| GTK+ 4.0 Likely Being Released In Spring Of 2019 | GNOME | 2018-07-12 |
| Wayland's Weston Gets Optimizations For Its Pixman Renderer | Wayland | 2018-04-23 |
| Intel 2018Q1 Graphics Stack Recipe | Intel | 2018-04-22 |
| VKVG: Vulkan Vector Graphics With A Cairo-Like API | Vulkan | 2018-04-07 |
| Firefox 59 Prepped For Release: Nukes GTK2 Code, Still Prepping For Wayland | Mozilla | 2018-03-13 |
| A Call For Improving Cairo Rendering With Its Own Test Suite No Longer Even Passing | GNOME | 2018-03-07 |
| Intel 2017Q4 Graphics Stack Recipe Released | Intel | 2018-02-14 |
| Firefox 59 Might Ship With Working Wayland Support | Mozilla | 2018-01-25 |
| Samsung Improving Cairo's OpenGL ES 3.x Support, May Eye Vulkan In Future | X.Org | 2017-12-06 |
| Many Broadway HTML5 Backend Improvements Land In GTK4 | GNOME | 2017-11-23 |
| Intel 2017Q3 Graphics Stack Recipe Released | Intel | 2017-11-19 |
| Retro-GTK Has An Exciting Future Ahead With Many Improvements For Libretro Gaming | GNOME | 2017-10-24 |
| GTK4's Vulkan Renderer Is Close To Complete | GNOME | 2017-10-23 |
| Cairo Adds Support For OpenGL ES 3.0 | X.Org | 2017-09-14 |
| Cairo 1.15.8 Released With Support For Colored Emoji | X.Org | 2017-08-29 |
| Cairo 1.15.6 Released | Free Software | 2017-06-15 |
| Blend2D: Working Towards A New Software-Based 2D Renderer | Free Software | 2017-01-27 |
| GTK's Vulkan Renderer Now Working On Wayland | GNOME | 2017-01-04 |
| GNOME's GTK Vulkan Renderer Faster Than OpenGL, Now Working On Windows | GNOME | 2016-12-29 |
| GTK3 Work Towards EGL X11 Support, GTK4 Vulkan Merged | GNOME | 2016-12-12 |
| ToaruOS With Kernel Written From Scratch Is Still In Development | Operating Systems | 2016-11-06 |
| LibreOffice 5.3 Enables New Layout Engine By Default | LibreOffice | 2016-11-01 |
| Should GNOME Begin Replacing More C Code With Rust? | GNOME | 2016-10-31 |
| VC4 Gallium3D Driver Now Has Better Texture Upload Performance | Mesa | 2016-10-19 |
| Vim 8.0, macOS Sierra, Libreboot, & GCC Were Popular In September | Phoronix | 2016-10-01 |
| Intel's FastUIDraw Is Very Promising For Fast, GPU-Accelerated Drawing | Intel | 2016-09-22 |
| Emacs 25.1 Released With Cairo Drawing, Better Network Security | GNU | 2016-09-18 |
| Intel Has Been Working On A Fast 2D GPU Renderer Focused On Web Content | Intel | 2016-09-08 |
| GTK Scene Kit Continues Making Progress With New API, Offloading More Work To The GPU | GNOME | 2016-07-05 |
| The Widely-Used Cairo Library Has Problems Passing Its Own Tests | Free Software | 2016-07-03 |
| Firefox 46.0 Is Ready To Ship, GTK3 Support Appears Finally Baked | Mozilla | 2016-04-25 |
| Plymouth Gains HiDPI Support | Red Hat | 2016-03-04 |
| Firefox 43 Now Officially Available, But GTK3 Gets Disabled | Mozilla | 2015-12-15 |
| Firefox Nightlies Are Now Built with GTK+3, Coming For Firefox 42 | Mozilla | 2015-07-24 |
| F-Spot's Port To GTK3 Is Slowly Inching Ahead | GNOME | 2015-06-15 |
| Wine 1.7.45 Brings DirectWrite Work & Start Of MSVCIRT | WINE | 2015-06-12 |
| Daily Builds Of Wayland & Weston For Ubuntu Linux | Ubuntu | 2015-04-21 |
| Clutter Now Supports Quad-Buffer Stereo Displays, Mir Backend | GNOME | 2015-03-03 |
| Inkscape 0.91 Goes Through C++ Code Conversion, New Cairo Rendering, OpenMP Filters | Free Software | 2015-01-29 |
| The Most Viewed Phoronix Articles & Linux News In 2014 | Phoronix | 2014-12-31 |
| ToAruOS: A Hobby Kernel & User-Space, Runs Mesa & GCC | Operating Systems | 2014-11-06 |
| Cairo-Dock 3.4 Shows A Lot Of Progress, Works Toward EGL/Wayland Support | Desktop | 2014-10-22 |
| Wine 1.7.29 Is Still Implementing DirectWrite | WINE | 2014-10-17 |
| GTK+ Gains Native Support For OpenGL | GNOME | 2014-10-13 |
| Wine 1.7.28 Stubs Out DirectPlay Voice Support | WINE | 2014-10-03 |
| Eclipse IDE Starts Firing Up On Wayland's Weston | Free Software | 2014-09-17 |
| Wine 1.7.26 Implements More Of DirectWrite, C Runtime Improvements | WINE | 2014-09-05 |
| LinuxCon Is This Week In Chicago | Linux Events | 2014-08-18 |
| Wine 1.7.24 Starts Working On A DirectWrite Implementation | WINE | 2014-08-08 |
| GNOME's GTK+ Is Still Striving For A Scene Graph, Canvas API | GNOME | 2014-07-30 |
| Glx-Dock/Cairo-Dock Has Been Ported To Wayland | Wayland | 2014-06-22 |
| Cairo Has A Lengthy TODO List | Free Software | 2014-05-21 |
| Wine 1.7.19 Starts Work On Direct2D Support | WINE | 2014-05-16 |
| Intel Linux Graphics Installer 1.0.5 Has 2014Q1 Support | Intel | 2014-05-16 |
| Inkscape 0.91 Is Still Working Towards Its Major Feature Release | Free Software | 2014-04-28 |
| Linux Benchmarks Of Many Lightweight Window Managers | Desktop | 2014-04-13 |
| The Most Popular Linux Stories So Far In 2014 | Phoronix | 2014-03-30 |
| Valve Continues Dominating & Kaveri Excited Linux Users | Valve | 2014-01-31 |
| GTK3 Version Of Firefox Up For Fedora Testing | Mozilla | 2014-01-13 |
| Mono Developers Regret Doing Moonlight In C++ | Free Software | 2014-01-04 |
| Cairo Proposed To Become Part Of ISO C++ | Free Software | 2014-01-03 |
| The PlayStation 4 Does Use The FreeBSD Kernel, Mono | BSD | 2013-12-25 |
| Pixman 0.31.2 To Bring Performance Improvements | Free Software | 2013-11-04 |
| DirectFB Project Draws Up Plans For The Future | Free Software | 2013-10-09 |
| LibreOffice OpenGL Canvas Merged | LibreOffice | 2013-10-07 |
| DirectFB's Ilixi Fast & Featureful Toolkit Reached v1.0 | Free Software | 2013-10-04 |
| GLAMOR'ized Radeon Driver Shows Hope Over EXA | Radeon | 2013-10-03 |
| SNA Continues To Be Far Better Than UXA, GLAMOR | Intel | 2013-10-01 |
| AMD Puts Catalyst 13.10 GPU Driver Into Beta State | AMD | 2013-09-30 |
| Cairo 1.12.16 Takes Care A Whole Lot Of Bugs | Intel | 2013-08-26 |
| "Mega Drivers" Being Proposed For A Faster Mesa | Intel | 2013-08-08 |
| GNOME's GTK+ 3.10 Irons Out HiDPI, Wayland Support | GNOME | 2013-08-07 |
| Intel Updates Its Linux Graphics Driver Installer | Intel | 2013-07-31 |
| Samsung Ramps Up Linux Hiring, Development Efforts | Linux Kernel | 2013-07-22 |
| GNOME 3.10 Gets Photos App, Clutter On Wayland | Google | 2013-07-12 |
| XWayland 2D Performance Appears Better Than XMir | Wayland | 2013-06-30 |
| Reasons For Losing Motivation In Wayland | Wayland | 2013-06-12 |
| PHP Slowly Progresses For GLib, Cairo, Pango | GNOME | 2013-04-07 |
| Cairo-Dock 3.2 Improves Multi-Screen Support | Free Software | 2013-03-25 |
| Intel Comes Up With A Linux Graphics Driver Installer | Intel | 2013-03-11 |
| AMD Radeon 2D Performance On Linux Remains Mixed | Radeon | 2013-02-13 |
| Intel's Mesa Driver Gets A Small Performance Boost | Intel | 2013-01-28 |
| Multi-Threading Cairo-Image For Better Performance | Intel | 2013-01-26 |
| Nouveau Can Beat NVIDIA With Cairo In Select Cases | Intel | 2013-01-22 |
| Consort Desktop: A New Fork Of GNOME Classic | GNOME | 2013-01-17 |
| A Software-Based Pixman Renderer For Wayland's Weston | Wayland | 2013-01-06 |
| Views Expressed Over The Health Of GTK+ | GNOME | 2012-12-29 |
| Intel 2012Q4 Graphics Driver Is Good For Valve | Valve | 2012-11-27 |
| The Wayland Linux Live CD Gets Updated | Wayland | 2012-10-28 |
| GLX-Dock 3.1 Brings Better Unity Integration | Free Software | 2012-10-20 |
| Cairo 1.12.4 Brings Worthwhile Changes | X.Org | 2012-10-05 |
| GLAMOR 0.5 Acceleration Library Released | Free Software | 2012-08-10 |
| NVIDIA 304.30 Supports FXAA, X Server 1.13, K10 | NVIDIA | 2012-07-30 |
| Running The Radeon Driver With GLAMOR | Radeon | 2012-07-22 |
| GLAMOR Radeon Shows 2D Acceleration Promise | Radeon | 2012-07-12 |
| SNA Is Doing Well For Vintage Intel Hardware | Intel | 2012-06-02 |
| Wayland's Weston Running On Android | Wayland | 2012-05-24 |
| First Signs Of Wayland Running On Android | Wayland | 2012-04-27 |
| Running The OMAPDRM On Ubuntu 12.04 LTS | Hardware | 2012-04-22 |
