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| Some Broadcom V3D Graphics Support On Path For Removed Over Lack Of Testing | Hardware | 2026-06-07 |
| Linux 7.1 Fixes Audio For The Steam Deck OLED After Being Broken 2 Years On The Upstream Kernel | Valve | 2026-05-02 |
| Linux 7.2 To Set Default DRM Scheduler Priority To "Fair", New AIE4 Hardware In AMDXDNA | Linux Kernel | 2026-04-30 |
| Vulkan 1.4.348 Ships Four New Extensions - Including One To Help OpenGL Emulation | Vulkan | 2026-04-03 |
| Igalia Developing Moonforge As New Linux Distribution | Operating Systems | 2026-03-12 |
| Intel ANV Driver Sees Several Vulkan Video H.265 Encode Fixes | Intel | 2026-02-23 |
| Linux 7.0 Brings An EFI Framebuffer Quirk For Valve's Steam Deck | Valve | 2026-02-10 |
| Intel Driver Disabling Vulkan Video Encode On Newer Hardware Due To Insufficient Testing | Intel | 2026-02-04 |
| Meta Is Using The Linux Scheduler Designed For Valve's Steam Deck On Its Servers | Linux Kernel | 2025-12-23 |
| Igalia's Work Improving The Linux Kernel For Helping Steam Play Gaming On ARM64 | Linux Gaming | 2025-12-15 |
| The Opt-In Proactive & Crash Time Data Collection On Valve's Steam Deck | Valve | 2025-12-14 |
| Intel Graphics Score A Big Win With Linux 6.19: Color Management & Xe VFIO Driver Merged | Intel | 2025-12-05 |
| Valve-Backed Color Pipeline API For Linux Is Finally Ready For Upstream | Hardware | 2025-11-27 |
| Steam Frame Using Mesa's Turnip Vulkan Open-Source Driver | Valve | 2025-11-21 |
| Servo Announces Sponsorship Tiers To Get More Organizations Backing This Browser Engine | Free Software | 2025-11-21 |
| Vulkan 1.4.333 Released With New Ray-Tracing Extension | Vulkan | 2025-11-14 |
| Linux Fair DRM Scheduler Graduates Out Of The "RFC" Phase | Linux Kernel | 2025-10-08 |
| Case-Insensitive OverlayFS Support Merged For Linux 6.18 | Linux Storage | 2025-10-05 |
| The Former Lead For Apple Graphics Drivers On Linux Is Now Working At Intel | Intel | 2025-08-27 |
| AMD Posts 11th Iteration Of Color Pipeline API For Advanced Color Management On Linux | AMD | 2025-08-15 |
| Runtime PM For The V3D Raspberry Pi Driver Will Finally Lower The GPU Clock When Idle | Raspberry Pi | 2025-07-28 |
| Fair DRM Scheduler Looking Good For Better Fairness & Scheduling Of GPU Clients | Linux Kernel | 2025-06-23 |
| Intel Vulkan Linux Driver Lands Initial Support For VP9 Decoding | Vulkan | 2025-06-13 |
| Vulkan 1.4.315 With VK_EXT_zero_initialize_device_memory For VKD3D-Proton & More | Vulkan | 2025-05-15 |
| Intel ANV Driver Lands Fixes For AV1 Decoding With Vulkan Video | Intel | 2025-05-15 |
| Mesa 25.1-rc3 & Mesa 25.0.5 Deliver More Graphics Driver Fixes | Mesa | 2025-04-30 |
| Fair DRM Scheduler v4 Running Well On Steam Deck, "Looks Solid" | Linux Kernel | 2025-04-26 |
| Chromium Web Browser Lands Support For Wayland XDG-Session-Management | Google | 2025-03-30 |
| Mesa's Exciting Q1 With More Ray-Tracing, NVK Progress & Performance Optimizations | Mesa | 2025-03-30 |
| DRM Sync Object Optimizations Show Minor Benefit On The Steam Deck | Linux Kernel | 2025-03-19 |
| Vulkan Video Continues Making Inroads, VP9 Decode Planned For This Year | Vulkan | 2025-03-07 |
| Linux's New Way Of Informing User-Space Over Hung GPUs May Become More Useful | Linux Kernel | 2025-03-01 |
| Chromium Ozone Support For Wayland Continues Progressing In 2025 | Google | 2025-02-21 |
| Igalia's Optimizations Juicing More Graphics Performance Out Of The Raspberry Pi | Raspberry Pi | 2025-02-04 |
| Mesa 25.0 Gets A New Vulkan Layer For Limiting The Amount Of Reported vRAM | Mesa | 2025-01-26 |
| Vulkan 1.4.305 Published With Three New Extensions | Vulkan | 2025-01-17 |
| Intel Open-Source Vulkan Driver Merges Initial AV1 Decode Support | Intel | 2025-01-10 |
| Google & Linux Foundation Launch "Supporters of Chromium-Based Browsers" Fund | Google | 2025-01-09 |
| Deadline Scheduling Policy Being Experimented With For Linux Graphics Drivers | Linux Kernel | 2024-12-30 |
| Mesa's Terrific Year With Better Vulkan Ray-Tracing, NVK Progress & Same-Day Vulkan 1.4 | Mesa | 2024-12-30 |
| New Intel Mesa Driver Patches Implement AV1 Decode For Vulkan Video | Intel | 2024-12-25 |
| 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 |
| Raspberry Pi Driver Updated With Vulkan 1.3 Support | Vulkan | 2024-08-05 |
| Intel Vulkan Driver Merges H.264/H.265 Video Encode Support | Intel | 2024-08-02 |
| Kernel Optimizations, XZ, AMD ZLUDA, NOVA, EPYC 4004 & Other H1'2024 Highlights | Phoronix | 2024-06-30 |
| NUMA Emulation Yields "Significant Performance Uplift" To Raspberry Pi 5 | Arm | 2024-06-25 |
| KDE Making Good Progress On HDR, Better Gamescope Integration | KDE | 2024-05-11 |
| Raspberry Pi V3DV Vulkan Driver Implements Extended Dynamic State - Important For DXVK | Raspberry Pi | 2024-04-29 |
| Rust-Written LAVD Kernel Scheduler Shows Promising Results For Linux Gaming | Linux Gaming | 2024-04-18 |
| Raspberry Pi OS Now Shipping With Vulkan Support By Default | Raspberry Pi | 2024-04-08 |
| Raspberry Pi V3D Kernel Graphics Driver Prepares For Big & Super Pages To Boost Speed | Raspberry Pi | 2024-04-06 |
| Servo Web Engine Adds WOFF2 Web Fonts, HTML Tables By Default | Free Software | 2024-03-30 |
| Raspberry Pi "V3DV" Vulkan Driver Now Supports Dynamic Rendering | Mesa | 2024-03-21 |
| Raspberry Pi V3D Graphics Driver Preps For Super Pages To Boost Performance | Raspberry Pi | 2024-03-11 |
| Radeon Memory Visualizer Hooks Up With Qualcomm Adreno Vulkan Driver | Mesa | 2024-03-10 |
| WebKitGTK Moving To Skia For 2D Rendering To Yield Better Performance | GNOME | 2024-02-21 |
| Linux Developers To Meet Again To Work On HDR, Color Management & VRR | Hardware | 2024-02-18 |
| Intel Posts Patches For Plane Color Pipeline Support On Linux - Jiving With AMD's Design | Intel | 2024-02-15 |
| AMDGPU Driver Changes Begin For Linux 6.9: RAS ACA Framework, SEQ64 Infrastructure & Fixes | Radeon | 2024-02-11 |
| Cassia Aims To Pair Wine/DXVK/VKD3D-Proton/FEX For Windows Games On Android | Mesa | 2024-02-04 |
| Mesa Merge Request Opened For RADV Driver With VK_KHR_video_decode_av1 | Mesa | 2024-02-02 |
| Servo Engine Updates Bring CSS Tables & Its Browser Gets Back/Forward Buttons | Mozilla | 2024-01-26 |
| Mesa 24.0-rc3 Up For Testing, Mesa 23.3.4 Out As Stable | Mesa | 2024-01-24 |
| Servo Browser Engine Making Embedded App Progress With Tauri | Free Software | 2024-01-19 |
| Intel's New "Xe" Driver Submitted For Linux 6.8 Along With Imagination's PowerVR Driver | Linux Kernel | 2024-01-11 |
| Mesa 24.0 Feature Development Ends With Many OpenGL & Vulkan Driver Features | Mesa | 2024-01-11 |
| Linux 6.8 To Introduce New Intel Xe & PowerVR Graphics Drivers, Prepare For New AMD & Intel CPUs | Linux Kernel | 2024-01-07 |
| Freedreno Now Supports The Qualcomm Adreno 644 GPU | Mesa | 2023-12-31 |
| AMD Stages The Radeon Graphics Color Management Code For Linux 6.8 | Radeon | 2023-12-16 |
| Mesa 23.3 Released With Initial NVK Vulkan Driver, AMD RDNA3 Refresh & Raspberry Pi 5 | Mesa | 2023-11-29 |
| Servo Browser Engine Receives Funding To Work On HTML <table> Support | Free Software | 2023-11-07 |
| Btrfs Picks Up New Features For Linux 6.7 | Linux Storage | 2023-10-30 |
| Igalia Has Been Doing A Great Job On The Raspberry Pi Graphics Drivers | Raspberry Pi | 2023-10-19 |
| The State Of HDR On The Steam Deck With Valve's Gamescope Compositor | Valve | 2023-10-18 |
| Mesa Merges Initial OpenGL/Vulkan Support For Raspberry Pi 5's GPU | Mesa | 2023-10-14 |
| The Servo Browser Engine Has Been Making Great Progress In 2023 | Free Software | 2023-09-27 |
| Linux 6.7 Adding New Feature To Btrfs For The Steam Deck | Linux Storage | 2023-09-25 |
| Valve Is A Wonderful Upstream Contributor To Linux & The Open-Source Community | Valve | 2023-09-22 |
| XDC 2023 To Provide Update On AMD HDR For The Steam Deck, Rusticl & Wine Wayland | X.Org | 2023-09-20 |
| Raspberry Pi's V3D Kernel Driver Prepares For "CPU Jobs" To Assist Vulkan | Raspberry Pi | 2023-09-06 |
| AMD Color Management Improvements For Linux & The Steam Deck Continue | Radeon | 2023-08-21 |
| Raspberry Pi V3D Driver Gaining Per-Process GPU Usage Stats | Raspberry Pi | 2023-08-15 |
| Vulkan 1.3.254 Published With Another Extension Drafted By Valve | Vulkan | 2023-06-16 |
| Raspberry Pi V3D Driver Adds Native ASTC Texture Compression Support | Mesa | 2023-05-31 |
| Vulkan 1.3.251 Released With One New Extension Worked On By Valve, Nintendo & Others | Vulkan | 2023-05-28 |
| Updated AMD Linux Graphics Driver Patches For Color Management | Radeon | 2023-05-24 |
| Intel's Vulkan Linux Driver Adds H.265 Video Decoding Support | Intel | 2023-05-19 |
| Vulkan 1.3.250 Released With Another New Extension From Valve | Vulkan | 2023-05-04 |
| "Guilty" API Proposed For Better Communicating Why Radeon GPUs Hang/Reset | Radeon | 2023-05-02 |
| Red Hat's HDR Hackfest Sounds Like It Was A Success | Desktop | 2023-05-01 |
| Improved AMD Color Management Being Worked On For The Steam Deck | Valve | 2023-04-24 |
| WebKitGTK Working On Accelerated Composited Rendering With DMA-BUF | GNOME | 2023-04-03 |
| Linux VGEM Driver Rewritten In Rust Sent Out For Review | Linux Kernel | 2023-03-21 |
| Vulkan 1.3.241 Released With Another Extension To Help VKD3D / Direct3D 12 Emulation | Vulkan | 2023-02-16 |
| X.Org Developers Conference 2023 Returning To Spain | X.Org | 2023-02-12 |
| Vulkan 1.3.240 Brings New Extension To Help With DirectX Ray-Tracing Compatibility | Vulkan | 2023-01-26 |
| Running The Open-Source Upstream V3D Driver On The Raspberry Pi 4 & Newer | Raspberry Pi | 2022-11-13 |
| Mesa's Turnip Now Advertises Vulkan 1.3 Support | Mesa | 2022-09-22 |
| NUMA Interface For FUTEX2 Still Being Tackled For Linux | Linux Kernel | 2022-09-16 |
| Vulkan 1.3.224 Introduces Another New Extension To Help Valve's Steam Play | Vulkan | 2022-08-04 |
| Raspberry Pi V3DV Driver Now Exposes Vulkan 1.2 | Raspberry Pi | 2022-07-29 |
| Turnip Vulkan Driver Now Works With Zink For OpenGL 4.6, Approaching Vulkan 1.3 | Mesa | 2022-07-26 |
| Igalia Working Towards Faster 2D Rendering For Older Raspberry Pi Boards | Raspberry Pi | 2022-07-16 |
| FUTEX2 Begins Sorting Out NUMA Awareness | Linux Kernel | 2022-07-14 |
| NVIDIA 515.49.06 Linux Vulkan Beta Driver Released | NVIDIA | 2022-07-02 |
| Vulkan 1.3.219 Released With Two New Extensions | Vulkan | 2022-07-02 |
| Raspberry Pi's V3DV Driver Nearly Across The Finish Line For Vulkan 1.2 | Vulkan | 2022-06-16 |
| Raspberry Pi "V3DV" Open-Source Driver Closing In On Vulkan 1.2 | Raspberry Pi | 2022-05-23 |
| Raspberry Pi's Vulkan Driver Has Been Adding More Extensions, Multi-Sync Support | Raspberry Pi | 2022-05-16 |
| Improved Vulkan Profiling Support For Raspberry Pi's V3DV Driver | Raspberry Pi | 2022-05-09 |
| A Big Performance Fix Is Pending For WebKit / WPE On Wayland | Wayland | 2022-04-21 |
| Vulkan 1.3.211 Brings Another Extension To Help Zink OpenGL Implementation | Vulkan | 2022-04-05 |
| Raspberry Pi "V3D" OpenGL Driver Improving Performance With On-Disk Shader Cache | Mesa | 2022-03-18 |
| Mesa Shader Cache Environment Variable Controls Renamed | Mesa | 2022-03-17 |
| Raspberry Pi V3D Driver Enables Anisotropic Filtering | Mesa | 2022-03-06 |
| Raspberry Pi's Vulkan Driver Likely To See Better Performance This Year | Mesa | 2022-02-14 |
| Qualcomm Open-Source Vulkan Driver Aims To Run More Windows Games Via Wine / Proton | Mesa | 2022-02-09 |
| Igalia Developing Wolvic Browser To Succeed Firefox Reality | Mozilla | 2022-02-03 |
| Valve Is Sponsoring More CI Testing For The Open-Source Radeon Linux Graphics Driver | Valve | 2022-01-22 |
| Open-Source Raspberry Pi Graphics Drivers Add Double Buffer Mode | Mesa | 2022-01-14 |
| Google Has Been Quietly Developing "GFR" To Debug Vulkan GPU Hangs/Crashes | Vulkan | 2022-01-05 |
| Open-Source Qualcomm "Turnip" Driver Achieves Vulkan 1.1 Conformance, Fixes For DXVK Use | Mesa | 2021-12-03 |
| Vulkan 1.2.199 Released With New Extension To Help VKD3D-Proton | Vulkan | 2021-11-16 |
| Raspberry Pi 4 Granted Official Vulkan 1.1 Conformance | Vulkan | 2021-10-26 |
| V3DV Raspberry Pi Driver Now Exposes Vulkan 1.1 | Mesa | 2021-10-21 |
| Vulkan Video Decoding Still In The Early Stages For Open-Source | Vulkan | 2021-09-21 |
| Raspberry Pi V3DV Driver Still Working On Vulkan 1.1 Conformance, More Performance | Vulkan | 2021-09-15 |
| Chrome/Chromium's Ozone X11 Code Now Fully Enabled, Old Legacy X11 Code To Be Removed | Google | 2021-08-29 |
| Raspberry Pi V3DV Driver Nearing Vulkan 1.1 Support | Vulkan | 2021-08-11 |
| Raspberry Pi's V3DV Vulkan Driver Now Supports Geometry Shaders | Mesa | 2021-07-12 |
| GStreamer Making Progress On Vulkan Video Support | Vulkan | 2021-07-10 |
| Vulkan 1.2.182 Released With Some Prominent Extensions Added | Vulkan | 2021-06-21 |
| Intel's OpenGL Mesa Drivers Now In Good Shape For External Objects | Intel | 2021-05-27 |
| Turnip Vulkan Driver Continues Maturing, Correctly Rendering More Games | Mesa | 2021-05-06 |
| V3DV Pipeline Caching Work Leads To Greater Raspberry Pi Vulkan Performance | Mesa | 2021-03-23 |
| V3DV Vulkan Driver Enjoys More Optimizations To Help The Raspberry Pi 4 | Mesa | 2021-03-16 |
| Broadcom V3D Will See Slightly Higher Performance With Mesa 21.1 | Mesa | 2021-02-04 |
| Raspberry Pi's V3DV Vulkan Driver Has Been Picking Up More Extensions, Wayland WSI | Mesa | 2021-02-03 |
| Raspberry Pi V3DV Is Officially Vulkan Conformant, Lavapipe Also Nearing 1.0 Conformance | Vulkan | 2020-11-24 |
| Raspberry Pi's V3DV Vulkan Driver Can Now Run The Zink OpenGL Translation Layer | Vulkan | 2020-11-05 |
| The 2020 State Of Wayland Support For Chrome/Chromium - Aiming For H2'2021 Default | Wayland | 2020-10-27 |
| Raspberry Pi 4 Vulkan Driver "V3DV" Merged Into Mesa 20.3 | Mesa | 2020-10-13 |
| V3DV Developers Lay Out Plans For Upstreaming The Raspberry Pi 4 Vulkan Driver In Mesa | Mesa | 2020-09-17 |
| After Reaching Vulkan 1.0 Conformance, V3DV Raspberry Pi Vulkan To Pursue Mainline Mesa | Vulkan | 2020-09-16 |
| V3DV Driver For Raspberry Pi Closing In On Vulkan 1.0 | Vulkan | 2020-09-07 |
| Raspberry Pi 4 "V3DV" Vulkan Driver Begins Tackling MSAA, Other Improvements | Vulkan | 2020-07-31 |
| V3DV Vulkan Driver Now Running vkQuake On The Raspberry Pi | Vulkan | 2020-07-23 |
| Raspberry Pi 4's Vulkan Driver Is Now More Usable - Supporting More Features | Mesa | 2020-07-03 |
| Raspberry Pi Vulkan Driver Making Progress But Long Road Remains | Vulkan | 2020-06-09 |
