GDB Linux & Open-Source News |
| Mold 2.41 Linker Released With New Features & Fixes | Programming | 2026-04-13 |
| NetBSD 11.0-RC2 Released For Testing | BSD | 2026-03-06 |
| Linux 7.0 Graphics Drivers See New AMD Hardware, Intel Xe SR-IOV + Multi-Device SVM | Linux Kernel | 2026-02-11 |
| GNU Binutils 2.46 Released With AMD Zen 6 Support, SFrame Version 3 | GNU | 2026-02-09 |
| NetBSD 11.0-RC1 Available For Testing With Enhanced Linux Emulation | BSD | 2026-02-07 |
| GNU Debugger 17.1 Released With CET Shadow Stack Support, New DAP Features | GNU | 2025-12-20 |
| Linux 6.19's Hung Task & System Lockup Detectors Can Provide Greater Insight | Linux Kernel | 2025-12-08 |
| MEMINSPECT Proposed For The Linux Kernel To Help In Memory Analysis / Debugging | Linux Kernel | 2025-11-19 |
| Plasma 6.6 Will Avoid Running Out Of RAM When Something Crashes In A Loop | KDE | 2025-11-15 |
| Microsoft's Azure Linux 3.0.20251021 Pulls In AppArmor & Other Updates | Microsoft | 2025-10-28 |
| Linux Lands Fix For "Serious Performance Regression" Affecting Some Intel Chromebooks | Hardware | 2025-10-24 |
| Linux 6.18 DRM Pull Includes New Tyr & Rocket Drivers, More AMD & Intel GPU Enhancements | Linux Kernel | 2025-10-05 |
| AMD ROCm 7.0 Officially Released With Many Significant Improvements | AMD | 2025-09-16 |
| GNU Binutils 2.45 Released With Continued Work Around SFrame Stack Tracing | GNU | 2025-07-27 |
| Zed Editor Introduces Built-In Debugger | Programming | 2025-06-18 |
| Kmemdump Proposed For The Linux Kernel To Help With Memory Dumping & Debugging | Linux Kernel | 2025-04-22 |
| Box64 0.3.4 Released: Faster & Steam Now Runs With Box32 On ARM64 | Linux Gaming | 2025-03-10 |
| GNU Binutils 2.44 Released With Gas Support For AVX10.2, New Diamond Rapids Instructions | GNU | 2025-02-02 |
| GNU Debugger GDB 16.1 Brings Better Intel PT Support, gstack Added | GNU | 2025-01-18 |
| Intel Engineers Adding GNU Debugger "GDB" Support For Intel GPUs | Intel | 2024-12-23 |
| Ubuntu Praises 5~7% PGO Compiler Optimization Performance Benefits | Ubuntu | 2024-11-18 |
| Linux Optimization Patches Significantly Speed-Up Debuggers Using /proc/kcore | Programming | 2024-11-10 |
| Microsoft Azure Linux 3.0 Update Pushes Additions For Intel, AMD & Arm | Microsoft | 2024-11-09 |
| Haiku R1 Beta 5 Released With Dark Mode Theme & Support For USB Audio | Operating Systems | 2024-09-13 |
| GNU DDD 3.4.1 Released As GUI Front-End To GDB | GNU | 2024-08-24 |
| Linux 6.11 To Allow Tightening Of /proc/[pid]/mem Access For Better Security | Linux Security | 2024-07-14 |
| GNU Debugger GDB 15.1 Brings Better Python Support | GNU | 2024-07-07 |
| Intel Improving NMI Source Reporting On Linux With FRED | Intel | 2024-05-30 |
| GCC 14 Compiler Adds AArch64 GNU/Hurd Support | GNU | 2024-04-11 |
| AOMP 19.0-0 Released For AMD's OpenMP Offloading Compiler | Radeon | 2024-03-22 |
| GDB 14.2 Brings A Few Fixes For The GNU Debugger | GNU | 2024-03-03 |
| AMD's Work On Upstreaming AMDGPU/ROCm Debugging Support Into GDB | AMD | 2024-02-04 |
| New Features Approved For Fedora 40, Renewed Debate Over Dropping KDE X11 Support | Fedora | 2024-02-01 |
| Microsoft Continued Advancing WSL2, Mesa & Its In-House Linux Distro In 2023 | Microsoft | 2024-01-03 |
| FEX 2312 Brings More Optimizations For Running x86_64 Games/Apps On AArch64 | Free Software | 2023-12-04 |
| GDB 14.1 Adds Support For DAP - Debugger Adapter Protocol | GNU | 2023-12-03 |
| GCC COBOL Compiler Support Continues To Be Worked On | GNU | 2023-11-15 |
| Mold 2.3 Linker Allows Removing Superfluous ENDBR64 Instructions | Programming | 2023-10-18 |
| GNU Binutils Lands Support For ARCv3 32-bit & 64-bit Architecture | GNU | 2023-10-03 |
| AMD Releases ROCm 5.7 GPU Compute Stack | Radeon | 2023-09-16 |
| GNU Assembler Starts Getting Ready For Intel AVX10.1 | GNU | 2023-09-14 |
| LoongArch With Linux 6.6 Adds KGDB/KDB, KFence, KASAN, LBT Binary Translation | Hardware | 2023-09-09 |
| Upgraded GNU Compiler Toolchain Approved For Fedora 39 | Fedora | 2023-08-11 |
| GnuCOBOL 3.2 Released After 2+ Years In Development | GNU | 2023-07-29 |
| GNU Assembler Adds Support For Intel's 2024~2025 ISA Extensions | Intel | 2023-07-27 |
| GNU Binutils 2.41 Coming With Intel AMX-COMPLEX + FRED/LKGS, New RISC-V & LoongArch Bits | GNU | 2023-07-03 |
| Wasmer 4.0 WebAssembly Implementation Brings WASIX Support | Programming | 2023-06-22 |
| GNU Binutils Prepares For Intel FRED/LKGS | GNU | 2023-05-23 |
| KDE Begins Laying The Groundwork For HDR Support, Wayland Color Management | KDE | 2023-05-20 |
| Sourceware Now Part Of The Software Freedom Conservancy | Free Software | 2023-05-15 |
| AMD ROCm 5.5 In The Process Of Being Released | Radeon | 2023-05-01 |
| Intel AMX-COMPLEX Support Added To GNU Binutils | GNU | 2023-04-07 |
| Arm Scalable Matrix Extension 2 "SME2" Support Lands In GNU Binutils | Arm | 2023-03-30 |
| GNU Debugger 13.1 Brings LoongArch & C-SKY Debugging On Linux, Zstd Debug Sections | GNU | 2023-02-19 |
| GNU Debugger Adds Support For Debugging AMD ROCm / HIP Code | GNU | 2023-02-02 |
| AMD Working To Upstream New AMDGPU/AMDKFD Compute Debugger API | Radeon | 2023-01-25 |
| Kalray Posts Initial Patches For Bringing Up Linux On Their KV3-1 "Coolidge" DPU SoC | Hardware | 2023-01-03 |
| GNU Debugger "GDB" Adds Support For Microsoft's Debug Adapter Protocol | GNU | 2023-01-02 |
| GNU Binutils 2.40 Branched With Zstd Support, Zen 4, New Intel Instructions | GNU | 2023-01-02 |
| Fedora 38 Plans For GCC 13, Binutils 2.39 & Glibc 2.37 Toolchain | Fedora | 2022-12-31 |
| NVIDIA 525.60.11 Linux Driver Released With Many Fixes, Vulkan Improvements | NVIDIA | 2022-11-28 |
| GNU Binutils Lands New "SFrame" Format Support For Simple Stack Unwinding | GNU | 2022-11-17 |
| AMD Zen 4 "znver4" Support Lands In GNU Binutils | AMD | 2022-11-16 |
| Intel, Microsoft & Arm Continue Advancing The Cloud-Hypervisor With v27 Released | Virtualization | 2022-09-30 |
| Ubuntu 22.10 Adds Debuginfod Integration | Ubuntu | 2022-09-12 |
| Software Freedom Conservancy Votes To Accept Sourceware.org | Free Software | 2022-09-09 |
| LLVM Adds An HTTP Server For Debuginfod | LLVM | 2022-07-11 |
| GNU Debugger 12.1 Released With Multi-Threaded Symbol Loading By Default | GNU | 2022-05-02 |
| FEX-Emu 2204 Released With Fixes For Running x86/x86_64 Binaries On AArch64 | Arm | 2022-04-19 |
| AmigaOS-Like MorphOS 3.16 Released With Better Performance | Operating Systems | 2022-03-10 |
| Cloud-Hypervisor 22.0 Released With New Features For This Open-Source VMM | Virtualization | 2022-03-04 |
| Arch Linux Now Provides Debug Packages, Debuginfod Integration | Arch Linux | 2022-02-03 |
| Wine 7.0-rc6 Released With Another 47 Fixes | WINE | 2022-01-14 |
| GDB Debugger Adds Native Support For OpenRISC On Linux | GNU | 2021-10-31 |
| GNU Toolchain Begins Landing LoongArch Support | Hardware | 2021-10-24 |
| GNU Toolchain Begins Landing RISC-V Bitmanip/Zbs Instructions Support | RISC-V | 2021-10-07 |
| Arm Begins Adding Armv9 Support To The GNU Compiler Toolchain | Arm | 2021-10-01 |
| Oracle's Next-Generation GNU Profiler "gprofng" Is Looking Great For Developers | GNU | 2021-09-21 |
| AMD Extending DWARF To Better Handle GPU Debugging, Continues Collaborating With GCC & LLVM | Radeon | 2021-09-21 |
| GNU Debugger 11.1 Released With MTE Support, Core File Debugging For 64-bit Cygwin Apps | GNU | 2021-09-13 |
| Haiku Upstreams Its GNU Binutils Support | GNU | 2021-09-03 |
| Fedora 35 Cleared For Golang 1.17, LLVM 13 | Fedora | 2021-08-17 |
| GNU Binutils 2.37 Is On The Way - Finally Drops ARM Symbian OS Support | GNU | 2021-07-04 |
| New + Updated Benchmarks For May 2021 - Now At 661 Tests, ~36d19h Average Total Runtime | Phoronix Test Suite | 2021-06-02 |
| Flatpak 1.11.1 Brings Changes For Steam, Better Support For Command Line Programs | Free Software | 2021-04-26 |
| Fedora 35 Looking To Make Use Of Debuginfod By Default | Fedora | 2021-04-08 |
| New AMD Zen 3 Fixes Published For The GCC 11 Compiler | AMD | 2021-03-25 |
| Debian Launches A Debuginfod Server For Smoother Debugging Experience | Debian | 2021-02-24 |
| FreeBSD Continues Work On Ridding Its Base Of GPL-Licensed Software | BSD | 2021-01-16 |
| POWER10 Adds New Instructions For Helping Fend Off ROP Exploits | Programming | 2021-01-11 |
| Wine 6.0 Release Preparations Begin In Two Weeks | WINE | 2020-11-23 |
| GNU Toolchain Begins Adding ARMv8.7-A Support | Arm | 2020-10-29 |
| GNU Debugger 10.1 Released With BPF Debugging, Debuginfod Support | GNU | 2020-10-24 |
| Arm Begins Bringing Up Neoverse N2, Neoverse V1 Support In The GNU Toolchain | Arm | 2020-09-24 |
| Intel Engineers Begin Landing Open-Source Support For TDX, Intel Key Locker | Intel | 2020-09-24 |
| AOMP 11.9 Released For OpenMP Offloading To Radeon GPUs | Radeon | 2020-09-12 |
| AMD Radeon GPU Offloading For GCC Still Maturing In 2020 | Radeon | 2020-08-27 |
| LLVM Backend In Development For China's C-SKY Embedded CPUs | Hardware | 2020-08-21 |
| GNU Debugger Adding eBPF Debugging Support | GNU | 2020-08-05 |
| AMD's ROCm AOMP Compiler 11.7-1 Brings OMPD Support, ROCgdb | Radeon | 2020-07-30 |
| Rust-Written Redox OS Now Supports GDB Debugging | Operating Systems | 2020-07-28 |
| GNU Toolchain Continues Phasing Out Native Client Support (NaCl) | Google | 2020-07-15 |
| Intel AMX Support Lands In The GNU Assembler | Intel | 2020-07-12 |
| GNU Binutils 2.35 Preparing For Release | GNU | 2020-07-05 |
| Intel Begins Volleying Open-Source Patches Around Intel AMX | Intel | 2020-06-27 |
| RISC-V For Linux 5.8 Finishes Bringing Up The Kendryte K210, Adds KGDB Support | RISC-V | 2020-06-07 |
| Radeon ROCm 3.5 Released With New Features But Still No Navi Support | Radeon | 2020-06-03 |
| Linux Developers Are Once Again Trying To Enable Intel FSGSBASE For Better Performance | Intel | 2020-04-14 |
| Wine 5.6 Continues Media Foundation Enablement | WINE | 2020-04-10 |
| Fedora 33 Plans To Ship With Latest MinGW For Best Experience In Compiling Software For Windows | Fedora | 2020-03-18 |
| GNU Debugger Lands Microsoft Windows Support Improvement | GNU | 2020-03-17 |
| GDB Debugger Adds Support For Debuginfod Web Server | GNU | 2020-02-27 |
| GDB 9.1 Released With Multi-Threaded Symbol Loading, Kills Off Solaris 10 | GNU | 2020-02-08 |
| Wine Debugger Improvements Are On The Way, Start Of LLVM LLDB Support | WINE | 2020-01-27 |
| GNU Binutils 2.34 Branched - Bringing With It "debuginfod" HTTP Server Support | GNU | 2020-01-18 |
| LLVM 10 Adds Option To Help Offset Intel JCC Microcode Performance Impact | Intel | 2020-01-16 |
| GNU's GDB Adds Multi-Target Debugging Support | GNU | 2020-01-11 |
| LLVM Begins Landing Preliminary Patches Around Intel's JCC Erratum, GAS Support Landed | Intel | 2019-12-22 |
| GDB Adds Multi-Threaded Symbol Loading For Faster Debugging Performance | GNU | 2019-12-01 |
| Oracle Solaris 11.4 SRU15 Has A Number Of Package Updates | Oracle | 2019-11-20 |
| GNU Binutils Adds Bits For AMD Zen 2's RDPRU + MCOMMIT Instructions | AMD | 2019-11-07 |
| GNU Toolchain Moves Ahead In Obsoleting Solaris 10 Support | GNU | 2019-11-04 |
| GDB Debugger Lands CTF Support | GNU | 2019-10-07 |
| Fedora 32 Planning To Ship With GNU Binutils 2.33 | Fedora | 2019-10-04 |
| Xfce 4.14 Desktop Officially Released | Desktop | 2019-08-12 |
| GNU Binutils Begins Landing eBPF Support | GNU | 2019-05-24 |
| Xfdesktop 4.13.4 Released On The Road To Xfce 4.14 Possibly This August | Desktop | 2019-05-18 |
| GDB 8.3 Debugger Brings RISC-V, Terminal Styling, C++ Injection, IPv6 Connections | GNU | 2019-05-11 |
| ARM Transactional Memory Extension Support Starts Being Plumbed For Linux | Arm | 2019-05-04 |
| GNU Gets Gas'ed Up For Intel BFloat16 Support | GNU | 2019-04-06 |
| GNU Debugger GDB 8.3 Is On Approach With Many Improvements | GNU | 2019-02-27 |
| NetBSD 9.0 Will Have Performance & Security Improvements | BSD | 2019-02-04 |
| GNU Binutils 2.32 Branched Ahead Of Release With New Features | GNU | 2019-01-19 |
| GNOME's Builder IDE Goes Through Its Biggest Code Refactoring Ever | GNOME | 2019-01-17 |
| ARM Tacks On Ares Server CPU Support To The GNU Assembler | GNU | 2019-01-07 |
| GNU Highlights Of 2018 From Hurd To GCC | GNU | 2018-12-27 |
| GDB 8.2.1 Debugger Brings Support For RISC-V ELF | GNU | 2018-12-23 |
| GDB Picks Up Support For OpenRISC Linux Debugging | GNU | 2018-12-15 |
| UPower 0.99.9 Released, Near v1.0 For this Linux Power Management Middleware | Free Software | 2018-10-25 |
| A Nice Overview Of The ROCm Linux Compute Stack | Radeon | 2018-09-28 |
| Slides From The GNU Tools Cauldron 2018 Conference | GNU | 2018-09-12 |
| GNU GDB 8.2 Debugger Adds RISC-V ELF Target, Improves Python API | GNU | 2018-09-05 |
| NetBSD 8.0 Officially Released With USB3 Support, Security Improvements & UEFI | BSD | 2018-07-21 |
| Synopsys ARC HS4x Processors Now Supported By GCC | GNU | 2018-07-16 |
| Ada Language Support For RISC-V With Latest GCC Patches | GNU | 2018-07-06 |
| KDE Frameworks 5.46 As The Latest Add-Ons Update | KDE | 2018-05-12 |
| Linux 4.17 Sees Port To Andes NDS32 CPU Architecture | Linux Kernel | 2018-04-02 |
| John Carmack Goes On Coding Retreat With OpenBSD | BSD | 2018-03-05 |
| GDB 8.1 Debugger Brings Better Rust Support, Improved Python Scripting | GNU | 2018-01-31 |
| GIMP Picks Up Better Debugging Support, Backtrace GUI | GNOME | 2018-01-28 |
