Kristian Articles & Reviews |
| MeeGo Tablet UX 1.3 May Use Wayland This Year | Software | 2011-05-27 |
| The State Of The Wayland Display Server | Software | 2009-05-20 |
| Wayland: A New X Server For Linux | Software | 2008-11-03 |
Kristian Linux & Open-Source News |
| VKD3D-Proton Merges Vulkan Descriptor Heap Support | Valve | 2026-05-27 |
| Vulkan 1.4.351 Brings Six New Extensions, Including A Ray-Tracing Improvement | Vulkan | 2026-05-11 |
| VKD3D-Proton 3.0.1 Brings More Improvements For Direct3D 12 On Vulkan | Vulkan | 2026-05-06 |
| Vulkan 1.4.350 Released With Three New Extensions | Vulkan | 2026-05-01 |
| Mesa 26.1 RADV Driver Merges Vulkan Descriptor Heap As Big Improvement For Steam Play | Radeon | 2026-04-14 |
| Vulkan VK_EXT_present_timing Merged To Mesa 26.1 For X11 & Wayland | Vulkan | 2026-01-27 |
| Mesa's "Present Timing" Vulkan Driver Support Now Feature Complete | Mesa | 2025-12-11 |
| VKD3D-Proton 3.0 Released: Big Update To Direct3D 12 On Vulkan With FSR4 Support | Valve | 2025-11-17 |
| Vulkan 1.4.330 Released With Five New Extensions | Vulkan | 2025-10-24 |
| Vulkan 1.4.317 Introduces VP9 Video Decode, ARM Tensors & 8-bit Floating Point | Vulkan | 2025-06-07 |
| Vulkan 1.4.315 With VK_EXT_zero_initialize_device_memory For VKD3D-Proton & More | Vulkan | 2025-05-15 |
| VKD3D-Proton 2.14.1 Brings A Few Fixes For Direct3D 12 On Vulkan | Valve | 2025-01-10 |
| Zlib-ng 2.2.3 Rings In The New Year With ~17.8% Faster Inflate For AVX2 | Free Software | 2025-01-01 |
| VKD3D-Proton 2.14 Released With New Features For D3D12 On Vulkan | Valve | 2024-12-13 |
| VKD3D-Proton Has Been Working On Emulating D3D12 Work Graphs, But The Tech Disappoints | Valve | 2024-10-15 |
| Vulkan 1.3.295 Released With Compute Shader Derivatives Extension | Vulkan | 2024-08-30 |
| Vulkan 1.3.294 Introduces New Pipeline Binary Extension | Vulkan | 2024-08-23 |
| Vulkan 1.3.289 Further Helps Out With Layered Driver Implementations | Vulkan | 2024-07-02 |
| VKD3D-Proton 2.13 Brings OpenVR/OpenXR Interop & Performance Improvements | Valve | 2024-06-21 |
| Vulkan 1.3.285 Released With New Extension From Valve VKD3D-Proton Developer | Vulkan | 2024-05-10 |
| Intel Vulkan Driver Wires Up Image Compression Control For VKD3D-Proton | Intel | 2024-04-16 |
| VKD3D-Proton 2.12 Released With Initial Support For NVIDIA Reflex | Valve | 2024-03-15 |
| Vulkan 1.3.279 Brings New NVIDIA Extension Co-Engineered By Valve | Vulkan | 2024-03-02 |
| VKD3D-Proton 2.11 Released With DXR Now Enabled By Default & DirectX Ultimate | Vulkan | 2023-11-24 |
| VKD3D-Proton 2.10 Released With More Performance Improvements, Game/Driver Workarounds | Valve | 2023-09-11 |
| RADV Implements NVIDIA DGC Compute Extension | Mesa | 2023-08-23 |
| Vulkan 1.3.258 Released With New Host Image Copy Extension, NVIDIA DGC Compute | Vulkan | 2023-07-21 |
| Vulkan 1.3.254 Published With Another Extension Drafted By Valve | Vulkan | 2023-06-16 |
| Vulkan 1.3.251 Released With One New Extension Worked On By Valve, Nintendo & Others | Vulkan | 2023-05-28 |
| VKD3D-Proton 2.9 Released With Performance Improvements | Linux Gaming | 2023-05-19 |
| Wayland's Weston 12.0 Released With Multi-GPU Support, PipeWire Backend, Tearing Control | Wayland | 2023-05-17 |
| Mesa Vulkan KHR_present_wait Support Extended To Wayland | Mesa | 2023-05-03 |
| Valve Lands Another Radeon Vulkan Performance Optimization For An "Upcoming Game" | Radeon | 2023-04-21 |
| RADV Optimized By Valve For An Upcoming Game - Nearly Matching The Windows Performance | Valve | 2023-04-20 |
| RADV Working Toward D3D12 FL 12.2 Support With VKD3D-Proton | Mesa | 2023-02-27 |
| Mesa Adds Compute Shader Decoding For ASTC | Mesa | 2023-02-17 |
| Vulkan 1.3.241 Released With Another Extension To Help VKD3D / Direct3D 12 Emulation | Vulkan | 2023-02-16 |
| NVIDIA Vulkan Beta Adds Group Handles Extension To Help VKD3D-Proton DXR | NVIDIA | 2023-02-04 |
| RADV Graphics Pipeline Library Support Becoming Speedy, Aims For Mesa 23.1 Promotion | Radeon | 2023-01-29 |
| Vulkan 1.3.240 Brings New Extension To Help With DirectX Ray-Tracing Compatibility | Vulkan | 2023-01-26 |
| VKD3D-Proton's Hans-Kristian Arntzen Experimenting With Vulkan Video | Vulkan | 2023-01-07 |
| VKD3D-Proton 2.8 Brings Many Improvements For Direct3D 12 On Vulkan | Valve | 2022-12-15 |
| Valve Implements Opt-In VK_KHR_present_wait For Mesa Vulkan Drivers | Mesa | 2022-11-24 |
| RADV Wires Up VK_EXT_descriptor_buffer, VKD3D-Proton Usage Pending | Mesa | 2022-11-21 |
| Vulkan 1.3.235 Released With New VK_EXT_descriptor_buffer Extension | Vulkan | 2022-11-17 |
| VKD3D-Proton 2.7 Released With Eight Months Worth Of Changes | Vulkan | 2022-10-27 |
| Vulkan 1.3.228 Promotes One Of Valve's Extensions Used For Efficient D3D12 Emulation | Vulkan | 2022-09-15 |
| Intel's ANV Driver Lands VK_EXT_shader_module_identifier - Important For VKD3D-Proton | Intel | 2022-07-09 |
| RADV Lands VK_EXT_shader_module_identifier, VKD3D-Proton Prepares Usage | Valve | 2022-07-06 |
| RADV Driver Adds Support For Valve's New VKD3D-Proton Focused Vulkan Extension | Radeon | 2022-03-15 |
| Vulkan 1.3.207 Brings Another New Extension From Valve | Vulkan | 2022-03-08 |
| VKD3D-Proton 2.6 Released With Many Fixes, Shader Model 6.6 & Optimizations | Vulkan | 2022-03-04 |
| Mesa's RADV Driver Lands Workaround For Flickering Issue With F1 2021 | Linux Gaming | 2022-01-01 |
| Intel's Lead Developer Of Their Linux Vulkan Driver Has Left The Company | Intel | 2021-12-19 |
| Vulkan 1.2.199 Released With New Extension To Help VKD3D-Proton | Vulkan | 2021-11-16 |
| VKD3D-Proton 2.5 Released With Experimental DXR 1.1, More Games Working | Valve | 2021-10-18 |
| Vulkan 1.2.191 Released With New Extension To Make Wiser Memory Decisions | Vulkan | 2021-09-07 |
| VKD3D-Proton 2.4 Released With Better Performance, Sparse 3D Textures | Valve | 2021-07-08 |
| VKD3D-Proton 2.3 Released With Early DXR Support, Performance Improvements | Valve | 2021-04-22 |
| Proton Experimental Updated, VKD3D-Proton Moving Closer With Ray-Tracing | Valve | 2021-03-11 |
| VKD3D-Proton 2.2 Released With Tier 1 Variable Rate Shading, Preps For DXR Ray-Tracing | Vulkan | 2021-02-19 |
| VKD3D-Proton Working On Variable Rate Shading | Linux Gaming | 2021-02-04 |
| VKD3D-Proton Begins Working On DirectX 12 Ray-Tracing Atop Vulkan | Vulkan | 2021-01-25 |
| VKD3D-Proton 2.1 Released With Improved GPU-Bound Performance, More Games Working | Valve | 2020-12-14 |
| Vulkan 1.2.164 Released With Valve's Extension For Helping Direct3D 12 Implementation | Vulkan | 2020-12-07 |
| Valve Is Working On Another Extension To Help In Direct3D-Over-Vulkan | Valve | 2020-11-10 |
| VKD3D-Proton 2.0 Released With More Direct3D 12 Games Now Running On Vulkan | Vulkan | 2020-11-06 |
| TURNIP Vulkan Driver Up And Running On Qualcomm's KGSL | Mesa | 2020-09-22 |
| Valve Working On A VKD3D Fork For Getting Direct3D 12 Advanced For Proton / Steam Play | WINE | 2020-07-06 |
| There Is Experimental Patches Providing Support For DXIL Shaders With VKD3D | WINE | 2020-01-29 |
| Wayland's Wild Decade From v1.0 Release To Usable GNOME/KDE Desktop Support | Wayland | 2019-12-29 |
| Google Hired Another Linux Graphics Veteran To Work On Open-Source GPU Drivers | Google | 2019-05-28 |
| Wayland's Current Release Manager Is Stepping Down, Following Samsung's Open-Source Drama | Wayland | 2019-04-05 |
| Fossilize Is Valve's Latest Open-Source Vulkan Project | Valve | 2019-03-25 |
| Freedreno Gallium3D Lands MSAA Support For Qualcomm Adreno 600 Series | Mesa | 2018-12-09 |
| Mesa Gets Patches For EXT_multisampled_render_to_texture, Freedreno A6xx MSAA | Mesa | 2018-11-07 |
| Adreno 600 Series Support Lands In Mesa 18.3 Gallium3D | Mesa | 2018-08-18 |
| Qualcomm Adreno 600 Series Support Proposed For Linux 4.19 Kernel | Linux Kernel | 2018-08-11 |
| Adreno A6xx Gallium3D Support Coming Together | Mesa | 2018-08-04 |
| Google Developers Working On Gaming Protocol For Wayland | Wayland | 2017-01-17 |
| The Wayland Highlights Of 2016 | Wayland | 2016-12-28 |
| Intel's Vulkan Linux Driver Gets ~30% Performance Boost, Now Faster Than OpenGL | Intel | 2016-11-01 |
| XDC2017 X.Org/Mesa/Wayland Conference To Be Hosted By Google | X.Org | 2016-09-22 |
| Intel Lost Another Open-Source Driver Developer To Google Earlier This Summer | Intel | 2016-08-27 |
| Google Developers Improve Mesa's Android EGL Support | Google | 2016-07-15 |
| The Founder Of Wayland Has Joined Google | Google | 2016-07-14 |
| Wayland Founder Kristian Høgsberg Is The Latest Open-Source Developer Leaving Intel | Intel | 2016-07-08 |
| OpenGL 4.5 For The Intel Mesa Driver May Be Imminent | Intel | 2016-05-25 |
| Intel's i965 Mesa Driver Finishes Off Another OpenGL 4.5 Extension (ARB_cull_distance) | Intel | 2016-05-15 |
| Intel's Vulkan Driver Adds Present Extension Support | Vulkan | 2016-03-12 |
| Mesa Vulkan Branch Published For Intel Linux Support | Intel | 2016-02-16 |
| Wayland & Weston Compositor Ported To DragonFlyBSD | Wayland | 2015-10-13 |
| Intel Continues To Divest In Wayland | Intel | 2015-08-23 |
| Wayland 1.9 Proposed For Release Next Month | Wayland | 2015-08-12 |
| Wayland's MIT License To Be Updated/Corrected | Wayland | 2015-06-10 |
| Confusion Mounts Over Wayland's Actual License | Wayland | 2015-05-29 |
| New Mesa Patch To Improve CPU-Bound Applications | Mesa | 2015-01-29 |
| Wayland 1.7 Enters Planning For Release In One Month | Wayland | 2015-01-13 |
| Wayland & Weston Saw Fewer Commits In 2014 | Wayland | 2015-01-04 |
| X.Org & Wayland Can Both Co-Exist & Continue Marching Forward | Wayland | 2014-12-28 |
| The Future Direction & Purpose Of Wayland's Weston Is Being Revisited | Wayland | 2014-12-08 |
| There's New In-Fighting Over The Future Of Compiz | Desktop | 2014-11-24 |
| SIMD8 Vertex Shaders For Broadwell | Mesa | 2014-10-29 |
| XDC 2014 Kicked Off This Morning In Bordeaux | X.Org | 2014-10-08 |
| Intel Skylake Support Rolls Out To Mesa's DRM | Intel | 2014-09-30 |
| Intel Publishes Open-Source "Skylake" Mesa Graphics Driver Support | Intel | 2014-09-24 |
| Wayland & Weston 1.6 Released | Wayland | 2014-09-19 |
| Wayland/Weston 1.6 RC2 Released | Wayland | 2014-09-12 |
| The Developers Leading Wayland This Year | Wayland | 2014-09-10 |
| Wayland/Weston 1.6 Release Candidate 1 Is Out | Wayland | 2014-09-05 |
| Wayland & Weston 1.6 Alpha Released | Wayland | 2014-08-22 |
| Wayland 1.6 Is Under Planning For Release | Wayland | 2014-08-18 |
| XWayland GLAMOR & DRI3 Support Added In Mainline X.Org Server | Wayland | 2014-06-25 |
| Wayland 1.6 Planned For September With Better Work-Flow | Wayland | 2014-05-20 |
| Wayland & Weston 1.5 Officially Released | Wayland | 2014-05-20 |
| Wayland's Weston Is Past 90,000 Lines | Wayland | 2014-05-19 |
| Wayland 1.5 With Weston 1.5 Is Coming In A Few Days | Wayland | 2014-05-13 |
| Wayland 1.5 Appears To Be In Great Shape | Wayland | 2014-05-08 |
| Wayland 1.5 Release Candidate Is Out There | Wayland | 2014-05-01 |
| X.Org Server 1.16 Merge Window Closes, Pre-Release Issued | X.Org | 2014-04-08 |
| Wayland & Weston 1.5 Gear Up To Be Released | Wayland | 2014-04-08 |
| Weston Gains Support For Using The New XWayland DDX | Wayland | 2014-04-07 |
| Initial XWayland Support Looks To Land In X.Org Server 1.16 | X.Org | 2014-03-26 |
| Wayland/Weston 1.4 Release Candidate Announced | Wayland | 2014-01-20 |
| Alt-Tab Will Return To Wayland's Weston 1.5 | Wayland | 2014-01-09 |
| XWayland Rebased, Fixed Up For X Server 1.15 | Wayland | 2014-01-03 |
| Wayland's Weston Was Rapidly On The Rise This Year | Wayland | 2013-12-27 |
| Wayland & Weston 1.4 Alpha Released | Wayland | 2013-12-17 |
| XDG-Shell Protocol Added For Wayland | Wayland | 2013-12-03 |
| Wayland Weston 1.3.1 Released With Many Fixes | Wayland | 2013-11-01 |
| Wayland & Weston 1.3 Have Been Released | Wayland | 2013-10-10 |
| Wayland 1.3 Release Candidate 2 Arrives For Testing | Wayland | 2013-10-03 |
| The State Of Wayland, Weston (September 2013) | Wayland | 2013-09-28 |
| Wayland 1.3 Release Candidates Are Now Out | Wayland | 2013-09-23 |
| Intel Reverts Plans, Will Not Support Ubuntu's XMir | Intel | 2013-09-07 |
| Wayland's Weston 1.2.2 Incorporates Some Bug Fixes | Wayland | 2013-08-30 |
| Wayland & Weston 1.2.1 Released | Wayland | 2013-08-22 |
| SDL2 Plans With Wayland, SDL3 Already On The Mind | Linux Gaming | 2013-08-14 |
| GNOME & Intel Developers Plan The Wayland Future | GNOME | 2013-07-30 |
| Wayland, Weston 1.2 Development Statistics | Wayland | 2013-07-24 |
| Wayland, Weston 1.2 Release Candidate Are Out | Wayland | 2013-07-10 |
| Weston 1.1.1 Release Brings Bug-Fixes | Wayland | 2013-06-07 |
| Sub-Surfaces Support Merged Into Wayland | Wayland | 2013-05-13 |
| Wayland 1.2 Release Planned For June, XWayland | Wayland | 2013-04-29 |
| The Focus Of Wayland's Weston Compositor | Wayland | 2013-04-19 |
| Wayland 1.1 Officially Released With Weston 1.1 | Wayland | 2013-04-16 |
| Wayland 1.1, Weston 1.1 Pack Lots Of New Features | Wayland | 2013-04-09 |
| Wayland/Weston Fork Now Called Northfield/Norwood | Wayland | 2013-03-25 |
| GTK+ Support Merged For Wayland CSD | GNOME | 2013-03-17 |
| GNOME Will Move Full-Speed With Wayland Support | GNOME | 2013-03-13 |
