HiDPI Linux & Open-Source News |
| FreeRDP 3.23 Addresses 11 CVEs, Improved SDL Client | Free Software | 2026-02-25 |
| Vim 9.2 Released With Experimental Wayland Support, Better HiDPI Display Support | Free Software | 2026-02-14 |
| GNOME 50 Beta Released With Stable VRR, GDM Improvements | GNOME | 2026-02-13 |
| GNOME Shell & Mutter 50 Beta Releases Bring Stable VRR, Improved Frame Scheduling | GNOME | 2026-02-04 |
| GNOME 50 Lands Virtual Monitor / Remote Desktop Improvements - Including HiDPI | GNOME | 2026-02-03 |
| FreeRDP 3.22 Released With Overhauled SDL-Based Client UI | Desktop | 2026-01-28 |
| Radeon Linux Driver Enhancements, Linux 6.19 Activity & Other December Highlights | Phoronix | 2026-01-02 |
| Linux 6.19 Adds New Console Font To Better Handle Modern Laptops With HiDPI Displays | Linux Kernel | 2025-12-06 |
| Raspberry Pi OS 2025-11-24 Brings HiDPI Improvements, Wayland Enhancements | Raspberry Pi | 2025-11-24 |
| Cairo-Dock 3.6 Released With Wayland Support & HiDPI | Desktop | 2025-10-04 |
| Kdenlive 25.08 Preps For Future Hardware Acceleration Features | KDE | 2025-08-18 |
| Haiku OS Sees Work On Better App HiDPI Scaling, Better Intel WiFI Driver From OpenBSD | Operating Systems | 2025-07-13 |
| Canonical Confirms Ubuntu 25.10 Will Drop Support For GNOME On X.Org | GNOME | 2025-06-10 |
| Servo Browser Engine Now Rendering Gmail & Google Chat, Decides Against AI Contributions | Free Software | 2025-05-10 |
| Wayland Is On Track For A Very Exciting 2025 | Wayland | 2025-03-31 |
| SDL 3.2.6 Released With HiDPI Icons & Color Management On Wayland | Linux Gaming | 2025-03-02 |
| GNOME 48 Beta Released With HDR Bits, gdctl, Adwaita Fonts Default & More | GNOME | 2025-02-16 |
| SDL 3 Officially Released With New APIs, Better HiDPI & Improved Audio Handling | Linux Gaming | 2025-01-21 |
| Wine 10.0 Released With Native Wayland Support, Better HiDPI | WINE | 2025-01-21 |
| Wine 10.0 Expected This Week For Improving Windows Software On Linux | WINE | 2025-01-20 |
| Fedora 42 Boot Splash Screen Looks To Workaround GPU Drivers Taking Too Long To Load | Fedora | 2025-01-17 |
| Linux 6.14 To Introduce New DRM Boot Logger For Kernel Messages | Linux Kernel | 2024-12-16 |
| FLTK 1.4 Released With Wayland & HiDPI Display Support | Programming | 2024-11-19 |
| DRM_Log Continues To Be Worked On As New Boot Logger For Kernel Messages | Linux Kernel | 2024-10-11 |
| SDL 3.1.3 Stable ABI Preview Release | Linux Gaming | 2024-10-05 |
| Servo Browser Adds Android Downloads, Improved Tabbing & More | Mozilla | 2024-10-04 |
| WebKitGTK 2.46 Uses Skia Rather Than Cairo, More CPU/GPU Optimizations To Come | GNOME | 2024-10-01 |
| Hangover 9.17 Ships With Wine Wayland Support, Ubuntu 24.10 Packages | WINE | 2024-09-07 |
| Wine 9.17 Released With Better ARM64 CPU Detection, HiDPI Window Surface Scaling | WINE | 2024-09-06 |
| Haiku OS R1 Beta 5 Approaching Soon, New Performance Improvements | Operating Systems | 2024-08-14 |
| Radeon Developer Tool Suite Migrates To Qt6 | Radeon | 2024-07-01 |
| Linux Mint 22 Enters Beta, Built Atop Ubuntu 24.04 LTS | Operating Systems | 2024-07-01 |
| OpenShot 3.2 Released With Better Performance For This Open-Source Video Editor | Free Software | 2024-06-25 |
| Wine 9.11 Released With More Monitor DPI Awareness Improvements | WINE | 2024-06-15 |
| Wine 9.10 Released With Upgrade To VKD3D 1.12, Brings DPI Awareness Improvements | WINE | 2024-05-31 |
| XWayland 24.1 Released With Explicit Sync, Better Rootful Experience | Wayland | 2024-05-15 |
| XWayland 24.1 RC Released With Explicit Sync, Improved Rootful & GLAMOR Optimizations | Wayland | 2024-04-17 |
| XWayland 24.1 Planned For Release Next Month With Explicit Sync & Other Features | Wayland | 2024-04-12 |
| XWayland Rootful Lands HiDPI / Fractional Scaling Support | Wayland | 2024-03-20 |
| Niri Debuts As A Scrollable-Tiling Wayland Compositor Inspired By PaperWM | Wayland | 2024-01-27 |
| XWayland Adds "-Output" Option For Better Rootful Fullscreen Control | Wayland | 2024-01-11 |
| Wayland Enjoyed Many Successes In 2023 | Wayland | 2024-01-01 |
| Red Hat Developing New xwayland-run & wlheadless-run Utilities | Wayland | 2023-11-29 |
| Wine 8.21 Released With HiDPI Scaling & Initial Vulkan Code For The Wayland Driver | WINE | 2023-11-24 |
| Vulkan Support Begins Landing For Wine's Wayland Driver | WINE | 2023-11-17 |
| Wine Wayland Driver Lands Improved HiDPI Support | WINE | 2023-11-15 |
| Firefox Is Going To Try And Ship With Wayland Enabled By Default | Mozilla | 2023-11-13 |
| XWayland Rootful HiDPI Support Under Review | Wayland | 2023-11-13 |
| JetBrains Enabling Wayland Support For IntelliJ-Based IDEs | Wayland | 2023-08-30 |
| Steam Client Beta Fixes NVIDIA HiDPI Scaling, GPU Hardware Acceleration | Valve | 2023-05-18 |
| Lutris 0.5.13 Released - More Responsive & Restores Ability To Run Games Via Proton | Linux Gaming | 2023-05-16 |
| Lutris 0.5.13 Beta 2 Released For Managing Your Games On Linux | Linux Gaming | 2023-04-20 |
| Wayland 1.22 Released With New Preferred Buffer Scale & Transform Protocol | Wayland | 2023-04-04 |
| Mesa 23.1 Provides Improved EGL Implementation For Haiku | Mesa | 2023-03-02 |
| labwc 0.6.1 Released For Window-Stacking Wayland Compositor | Wayland | 2023-01-30 |
| Wine 8.0 Released With PE Conversion Complete, Progress On WoW64 Support | WINE | 2023-01-24 |
| Fedora 38 Features Approved For Unified Kernel, mdadm BIOS RAID, Xfce 4.18 | Fedora | 2023-01-10 |
| Haiku R1 Beta 4 Released With Improved HiDPI, WiFi Updates, Wayland Compatibility Layer | Operating Systems | 2022-12-23 |
| Xfce 4.18 Released - Much Improved File Manager, Better HiDPI, Adaptive Vsync With GLX | Desktop | 2022-12-15 |
| OpenShot 3.0 Released With Many Open-Source Video Editing Enhancements | Multimedia | 2022-12-10 |
| SuperTuxKart 1.4 Released With Initial Vulkan Renderer | Linux Gaming | 2022-11-01 |
| KDE Starts More Feature Work On Plasma 5.27, Fixes For Plasma 5.26 | KDE | 2022-10-22 |
| Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10 Is Eliminating GTK 2 Support | Red Hat | 2022-08-26 |
| Canonical Continues Working To Improve Its Steam Snap | Linux Gaming | 2022-07-28 |
| wxWidgets 3.2 Released After 15k+ Commits, HiDPI, Initial Wayland Support | Free Software | 2022-07-07 |
| KDE Plasma 5.26 To Allow Crisper XWayland Apps With New Scaling Option | KDE | 2022-06-18 |
| New Wayland Protocol Proposed For Fractional Scaling | Wayland | 2022-04-06 |
| Wine 7.0 Released With Improved Theming, New WoW64 & Much More | WINE | 2022-01-18 |
| Wine 7.0's Many Features From Better Theming To Improved HiDPI To New Joystick Driver | WINE | 2022-01-07 |
| Wine's Wayland Driver Continues Maturing, Aims To Go Through Wine-Staging | WINE | 2021-12-10 |
| X.Org Server 21.1 RC2 Brings Fix For Mixed VRR/Non-VRR Multi-Monitor Setups | X.Org | 2021-10-14 |
| Krita 5.0 Beta 2 Reworks Its GPU Accelerated Canvas | KDE | 2021-10-11 |
| X.Org Server 21.1 RC1 Released With VRR Support For Modesetting Driver, Other Features | X.Org | 2021-09-21 |
| Wine 6.17 Released With Better HiDPI Support For Built-In Apps | WINE | 2021-09-10 |
| Wine 6.16 Released With Better HiDPI Theming, Initial HID-Based Joystick Backend | WINE | 2021-08-27 |
| KDE's HiDPI Scaling Support For X11 Is Getting Into Better Shape | KDE | 2021-07-31 |
| China's Alternative To GSoC Is Seeing Some Interesting Summer Open-Source Projects | Free Software | 2021-07-11 |
| KDE Kicks Off July With More Plasma Wayland Fixes | KDE | 2021-07-09 |
| KDE Pushes More Plasma Wayland Improvements, Plug-in System For The Konsole | KDE | 2021-06-26 |
| Left 4 Dead 2 Updated With Vulkan Rendering Via DXVK, Many Other Improvements | Linux Gaming | 2021-06-15 |
| Experimental Wayland Driver For Wine Now Supports Vulkan, Other Features | WINE | 2021-06-07 |
| KDE Introduces "Quick Settings" Page, Lands More Wayland Fixes | KDE | 2021-03-27 |
| LABWC Is The Newest Stacking Wayland Compositor | Wayland | 2021-03-06 |
| Zrythm DAW Sees New Release And Should Have "Almost No Crashes" | Multimedia | 2021-02-28 |
| Portal 2 Sees A Vulkan Renderer Added Via DXVK | Valve | 2021-02-19 |
| Mir 2.3.2 Released With Better XWayland HiDPI, Copy/Paste Between Wayland/XWayland | Ubuntu | 2021-02-11 |
| DXVK 1.7.3 Released With Fixes, Support For New DXGI Interfaces | Linux Gaming | 2020-12-02 |
| KDE Has Another Week Worth Of Wayland Fixes | KDE | 2020-11-21 |
| GIMP 2.99.2 Released With GTK3 UI, Working Wayland Support, Other Big Changes | Desktop | 2020-11-06 |
| NetBSD Changes Its Default X11 Window Manager After Two Decades | BSD | 2020-09-28 |
| Many Linux Developers Are Ecstatic Over Fedora On Lenovo Systems | Hardware | 2020-08-31 |
| 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 |
| KDE Plasma 5.20 Seeing More Wayland Fixes | KDE | 2020-07-11 |
| KDE Seeing Fresh Improvements For HiDPI Support | KDE | 2020-07-09 |
| LibreOffice 7.0 RC1 Is Out For Testing This Skia+Vulkan Open-Source Office Suite | LibreOffice | 2020-07-06 |
| KDE Starts July With More Fixes, More QML'ing In The System Settings Area | KDE | 2020-07-04 |
| LibreOffice 7.0 Beta 2 Released For This Open-Source, Vulkan-Supported Office Suite | LibreOffice | 2020-06-22 |
| KDE Developers Begin Working More On Plasma 5.20 Changes | KDE | 2020-06-13 |
| LibreOffice 7.0 Beta Available For Testing With Its Skia+Vulkan Support | LibreOffice | 2020-06-01 |
| Ardour 6.0 Digital Audio Workstation Released | Multimedia | 2020-05-24 |
| LibreOffice 7.0 Alpha 1 Released With Its Skia + Vulkan Rendering | LibreOffice | 2020-05-14 |
| The Latest Pango + HarfBuzz Is Leading To A Messy Font Rendering Situation For Some | Desktop | 2020-05-09 |
| Inkscape 1.0 Released For This Wildly Successful Vector Graphics Program | Free Software | 2020-05-04 |
| KDE Saw More Wayland Improvements This Week, Other Enhancements | KDE | 2020-04-25 |
| Ardour 6.0-RC1 Digital Audio Workstation Released With Experimental Web Interface | Multimedia | 2020-04-19 |
| Mir 1.8 Released With HiDPI Improvements, Better Compatibility Outside Of Ubuntu | Wayland | 2020-04-16 |
| Inkscape 1.0 Release Candidate Emerges For This Excellent Vector Graphics Editor | Free Software | 2020-04-13 |
| Ardour 6.0 Digital Audio Workstation Sees First Pre-Release | Multimedia | 2020-03-27 |
| 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 |
| GNOME 3.36 Lands Scaled/Transformed Hardware Cursors Support | GNOME | 2020-02-28 |
| MATE 1.24 Released For Letting GNOME 2 Continuation Live On In 2020 | GNOME | 2020-02-10 |
| Linux Mint Debian 4 Coming - Rebased Against Debian 10, Adds "Boot With NVIDIA" Option | Operating Systems | 2020-01-31 |
| Mir 1.7 Released With Improvements For Running X11 Software | Ubuntu | 2020-01-16 |
| GNOME 3.35.3 Released As Another Step To GNOME 3.36 | GNOME | 2020-01-10 |
| GNOME 3.34.3 Released To Offer Up More Fixes Ahead Of GNOME 3.36 | GNOME | 2020-01-09 |
| GNOME Shell 3.35.3 Released With NVIDIA Driver Offloading, Fixes To Shell + Mutter | GNOME | 2020-01-05 |
| The 2010s Were Very Successful For Wine Thanks To CodeWeavers + Valve's Steam Play | WINE | 2019-12-26 |
| Linux Mint 19.3 "Tricia" Released With Better HiDPI Support, App Changes | Operating Systems | 2019-12-18 |
| Qt 5.14 Released With Better HiDPI, Lots Of 3D Work Ahead Of Qt 6 Next Year | Qt | 2019-12-12 |
| Debian Installer Bullseye Alpha 1 Released | Debian | 2019-12-05 |
| Qt 5.14 On Track For Releasing Next Week With New Scenegraph Renderer, Better HiDPI | Qt | 2019-12-04 |
| Linux Mint 19.3 Enters Beta With HiDPI Support Finally Nearing Completion, New Default Apps | Operating Systems | 2019-12-03 |
| KDE Got More Polishing Ahead Of The Holidays While First KDE Frameworks 6 Sprint Started | KDE | 2019-11-24 |
| Debian 10.2 Released With The Latest Security Fixes | Debian | 2019-11-16 |
| Linux Mint Pulling In MPV-Based Celluloid Media Player + Dropping Last Mono Dependency | Operating Systems | 2019-10-31 |
| Qt 5.14 Beta 2 Released As Another Chance To Test The Big Toolkit Update | Qt | 2019-10-24 |
| KDE Plasma 5.17 Released With Wayland Improvements, Better HiDPI | KDE | 2019-10-15 |
| Qt 5.14 Rolls To Beta Stage With Graphics API Independent Scenegraph Renderer | Qt | 2019-10-09 |
| KDE Kicked Off October With Dolphin Improvements, Continued HiDPI Work | KDE | 2019-10-06 |
| Qt 5.14 Hits Alpha With Major Renderer Work, Better HiDPI Support | Qt | 2019-09-25 |
| KDE Plasma 5.17 Beta Rolls Out With Wayland Improvements, Overhauled Settings | KDE | 2019-09-19 |
| The State Of Qt Quick Vulkan Support With Qt 5.14 | Qt | 2019-09-16 |
| KDE's KWin Options UI Improved, Various Other Enhancements During Akademy Week | KDE | 2019-09-15 |
| Qt 5.14 Is Bringing Significantly Better HiDPI Support | Qt | 2019-09-13 |
| KDE Now Supports Fractional Scaling On Wayland | Wayland | 2019-09-08 |
| Linux Mint 19.3 To Further Enhance Its HiDPI Support | Operating Systems | 2019-09-03 |
| Xfce 4.14 Desktop Officially Released | Desktop | 2019-08-12 |
| GNOME Shell + Mutter 3.33.4 Released | GNOME | 2019-07-20 |
| KDE's kstart5 Now Works On Wayland, No More HiDPI Screen Flickering At Start-Up | KDE | 2019-07-14 |
| Xfce 4.14 "Pre2" Brings Bug Fixes, GLX Compositing Improvements & More | Desktop | 2019-07-01 |
| SDL2 Adds Wayland HiDPI Support | Wayland | 2019-06-12 |
| KDE's KWin Now Correctly Shows Emojis In Titlebars, Wayland Fixes | KDE | 2019-05-05 |
| Wio: Plan 9's Rio Windowing System Re-Implemented As A Wayland Compositor | Wayland | 2019-05-01 |
| KDE Plasma 5.16 Will Stop Resetting Your HiDPI Scaling When Changing Displays | KDE | 2019-04-28 |
| Ubuntu 19.04 Released As A Big Linux Desktop Improvement Thanks To GNOME 3.32 | Ubuntu | 2019-04-18 |
| GLFW 3.3 Adds Vulkan macOS Support Via MoltenVK, Better HiDPI & Scaling | Free Software | 2019-04-16 |
| KDE Plasma 5.16 & KDE Frameworks 5.57 Development Remains Quite Busy | KDE | 2019-04-07 |
| A Look At The Many Improvements & New Features In GNOME 3.32 | GNOME | 2019-03-13 |
