Meson Linux & Open-Source News |
| Git 2.55-rc0 Released With Rust Enabled By Default | Programming | 2026-06-11 |
| New "KRAID" Compiler Merged To Mesa For Panfrost/PanVK Drivers | Mesa | 2026-06-03 |
| Zrythm 2.0 Alpha Released For Rewriting The Digital Audio Workstation In C++ & Qt/QML | Multimedia | 2026-05-31 |
| KRAID Being Developed As New Compiler For Modern Arm Mali Graphics | Mesa | 2026-05-28 |
| Libcamera 0.7.1 Released With Improved Software ISP | Multimedia | 2026-04-29 |
| Legacy NVIDIA xf86-video-nv Driver Sees First Release In Years | NVIDIA | 2026-04-26 |
| CMake Pursuing Tighter Integration With Package Managers, Other Improvements | Programming | 2026-04-12 |
| GNOME-Aligned Amberol 2026.1 Music Player Released, Phosh Improves X11 Support | GNOME | 2026-04-11 |
| Mesa Will Now Prevent Compiling With LTO Due To "Random Impossible-To-Debug Bugs" | Mesa | 2026-02-04 |
| Git 2.53 Released With More Optimizations, One Step Closer To Making Rust Mandatory | Programming | 2026-02-02 |
| Several New X.Org Libraries See 2026 Releases | X.Org | 2026-01-25 |
| GNOME 50 Alpha Released With The X11 Code Gutted | GNOME | 2026-01-15 |
| Debian's Bug Tracker With No Web UI For Editing Bugs Is Very Obscure For 2026 | Debian | 2026-01-02 |
| X.Org IMAKE Updated For Those Not Yet Transitioned To Autoconf/Automake Or Meson | X.Org | 2025-12-30 |
| Meson 1.10 Build System Adds OS/2 Support, Experimental C++ "import std" | Programming | 2025-12-08 |
| X.Org Server's xkbcomp Updated For Four Security Issues Dating Back Years | X.Org | 2025-12-03 |
| libinput 1.30-rc1 Released With Lua Plugin Support | X.Org | 2025-11-04 |
| Meson 1.9 Released With New Rust Features, Adds Swift/C++ Interoperability | Programming | 2025-08-25 |
| Mesa 25.2 Released With Many Improvements For RADV, Intel & NVK Drivers | Mesa | 2025-08-06 |
| Xtraceroute Ported To GTK4 + Vulkan For Demonstrating The Open-Source Potential For AI | Fedora | 2025-07-29 |
| xf86-video-amdgpu 25.0.0 Released With Two Years Worth Of Fixes | Radeon | 2025-07-29 |
| Mesa 25.3 Merges Vulkan AMD Anti-Lag Support | Mesa | 2025-07-24 |
| Mesa 25.2-rc2 Released With Intel Wildcat Lake Enablement, Legacy-X11 Option Deprecated | Mesa | 2025-07-23 |
| GNOME Help & Documentation Are In Need Of Help | GNOME | 2025-05-23 |
| Mesa Will Stop Building Gallium-XA By Default | Mesa | 2025-05-23 |
| Meson 1.8 Build System Released - Wayland Module Declared Stable | Programming | 2025-04-28 |
| Rusticl Wins: Mesa Officially Deprecates Clover OpenCL | Mesa | 2025-03-13 |
| Git 2.49-rc0 Released With "git backfill", zlib-ng Preparations & Rust Interface | Programming | 2025-02-26 |
| GNOME Image Viewer Now Editing JPEGs, Other GNOME 48 Progress | GNOME | 2025-01-11 |
| Git 2.48 Released With Initial Support For The Meson Build System | Programming | 2025-01-10 |
| Git 2.48-rc0 Released With git-fsck Warning Over "Curiously Formatted" Ref Contents | Programming | 2024-12-16 |
| Meson 1.6 Build System Adds Support For Flang & OpenXL Compilers | Programming | 2024-10-21 |
| Mesa 24.3 Allows Rusticl On Asahi Gallium3D By Default | Mesa | 2024-10-13 |
| Zrythm Digital Audio Workstation Abandoning GTK For Qt6 | Free Software | 2024-10-04 |
| NetworkManager 1.50 Released - Now Ensures Offensive Terms Don't Appear In Settings | Linux Networking | 2024-10-03 |
| GNOME Session & GDM Can Now Be Built Without X11 Support | GNOME | 2024-08-17 |
| Mesa 24.3 Adds "Legacy X11" Build Option To Carve Out DRI2 | Mesa | 2024-07-28 |
| Building Mesa On POWER Now Presents A Default Set Of OpenGL & Vulkan Drivers | Mesa | 2024-06-21 |
| udev-hid-bpf To Help Enable HID-BPF Use Rather Than Kernel Drivers To Fix HID Hardware | Hardware | 2024-04-22 |
| Autodafe 0.2 Released For Freeing Your Project From Autotools | Programming | 2024-04-18 |
| Dbus-Broker 36 Released For This Fastest D-Bus Implementation | Free Software | 2024-04-12 |
| Flatpak 1.15.7 Will Now Automatically Remove Obsolete Driver Versions | Programming | 2024-03-28 |
| Mesa NVK Vulkan Driver Now Declared Vulkan 1.3 Conformant, Mesa 24.1 To Build By Default | Nouveau | 2024-02-28 |
| X.Org Server Clears Out Remnants For Supporting Old Compilers | X.Org | 2024-02-20 |
| Autoconf 2.72 Released With C23 Support, New Year 2038 Safety Option | Programming | 2023-12-23 |
| Plymouth Boot Splash Screen Sees First Update In Nearly Two Years | Free Software | 2023-12-22 |
| Mesa 23.3-rc2 Released With Fixes For Zink, Rusticl, RADV & Other Drivers | Mesa | 2023-11-01 |
| GNOME 45.rc Brings GDM Wayland Multi-Seat, More libadwaita Adoption | GNOME | 2023-09-09 |
| XDG-Desktop-Portal 1.17.1 Released With Accent Color Support | Desktop | 2023-08-29 |
| Meson 1.2 Build System Released | Free Software | 2023-07-17 |
| libei 1.0 Released For Better Supporting Emulated Input On Wayland | Wayland | 2023-06-08 |
| Linux 6.5 VirtIO GPU DRM Driver Adding Sync Object uAPI For Vulkan | Virtualization | 2023-06-07 |
| Opus 1.4 Royalty-Free Audio Codec Released | Multimedia | 2023-04-20 |
| GTK3 Port Of GIMP Is "Officially Finished" | Free Software | 2023-04-19 |
| Meson 1.1 Build System Released With Numerous Additions | Free Software | 2023-04-10 |
| NVIDIA VA-API Driver 0.0.9 Released With YUV444 Support | NVIDIA | 2023-03-12 |
| Mesa 23.1 Gets Basic LoongArch Support | Mesa | 2023-02-27 |
| systemd 253 Released With Ukify Tool, systemd-cryptenroll Unlocking Via FIDO2 Tokens | systemd | 2023-02-15 |
| Audacious 4.3 Beta Adds PipeWire Plugin, Restores GTK3 + Ships Mature Qt6 Support | Multimedia | 2023-02-11 |
| systemd 253 Is Near With RC3 Out For Testing | systemd | 2023-02-10 |
| Cairo 1.17.8 Released - OpenGL/GLES Drawing Removed, Better macOS & Windows Support | Free Software | 2023-02-05 |
| systemd 253-rc2 Released With More Changes To This System & Service Manager | systemd | 2023-02-02 |
| GIMP 3.0 Aiming To Release In 2023 | Free Software | 2023-01-30 |
| MPV Player 0.35.1 Released With Wayland & PipeWire Fixes | Multimedia | 2023-01-28 |
| VA-API 2.17 Released With Basic X11 DRI3 Support, Enabling VA-API On Windows | Multimedia | 2023-01-17 |
| Meson 1.0 Build System Released | Programming | 2022-12-23 |
| Meson 1.0 Build System Nears With Stable Rust Module, Other Improvements | Free Software | 2022-12-10 |
| MPV 0.35 Media Player Released With PipeWire Backend, Wayland DMA-BUF Support | Multimedia | 2022-11-12 |
| Meson 0.64 Build System Released With Intel oneAPI Compiler Support, Incremental ThinLTO | Programming | 2022-11-07 |
| Flatpak 1.15 Released With Initial Meson Build System Support | Free Software | 2022-10-25 |
| NVIDIA-VAAPI-Driver 0.0.7 Released For Enjoying VA-API With NVIDIA's Proprietary Driver | NVIDIA | 2022-10-14 |
| VA-API Library 2.16 Released With Various Improvements | Multimedia | 2022-10-08 |
| Xfce's Xfwm4 Sees Wayland Port With Wlroots | Wayland | 2022-07-15 |
| Intel Releases libva 2.15 Video Acceleration Library | Intel | 2022-07-01 |
| Meson 0.63.0rc1 Brings Support For Mold, Improvements For Windows Cross-Compiling | Programming | 2022-06-20 |
| The Bizarre Case Of Zstd's Very Slow Performance On Arch Linux | Arch Linux | 2022-06-18 |
| GNOME's Mutter Moving Closer To Pure Wayland-Only Build Option | GNOME | 2022-05-31 |
| Dbus-Broker 30 Released For High Performance Linux Message Bus | Free Software | 2022-05-10 |
| Mesa Can Now Be Built With Select Video Codecs Disabled For Software Patent Concerns | Mesa | 2022-04-29 |
| Cairo Graphics Library Drops Many Old Backends | X.Org | 2022-02-27 |
| VA-API Library 2.14 Released With AV1 Encode Interface | Multimedia | 2022-02-22 |
| DirectFB2 Is Modernizing DirectFB With Meson, Modularizing The Sources | Desktop | 2022-02-10 |
| DirectFB2 Aims To Resurrect DirectFB For Embedded Systems | Free Software | 2022-01-27 |
| Systemd 250 Piles On Yet More Features With New Release Candidate | systemd | 2021-12-20 |
| Wayland 1.20 Released With Proper FreeBSD Support, Protocol Additions | Wayland | 2021-12-09 |
| Wayland Protocols 1.24 Released With Improvement To DMA-BUF Protocol For Multi-GPUs | Wayland | 2021-11-23 |
| Picolibc 1.7.4 Brings Improved Meson Support, Restructured Math Code | Programming | 2021-11-20 |
| Wayland 1.20 Alpha Released With Upstreamed FreeBSD Support, Autotools Nuked | Wayland | 2021-11-05 |
| X.Org Server Bids Farewell To Autotools | X.Org | 2021-10-29 |
| Wayland 1.20 Planned For Release In December | Wayland | 2021-10-29 |
| X.Org Server 21.1 Released With Variable Rate Refresh In Modesetting Driver, Other Work | X.Org | 2021-10-27 |
| Meson v0.60 Build System Brings Numerous Improvements | Programming | 2021-10-24 |
| X.Org Server 21.1 RC2 Brings Fix For Mixed VRR/Non-VRR Multi-Monitor Setups | X.Org | 2021-10-14 |
| X.Org Server 21.1 RC1 Released With VRR Support For Modesetting Driver, Other Features | X.Org | 2021-09-21 |
| MATE 1.26 Desktop Released With Some Wayland Support, Other Improvements | Desktop | 2021-08-18 |
| Mesa 21.2-rc3 Offered For Testing, Mesa 21.1.6 Reaches Stable | Mesa | 2021-07-28 |
| PulseAudio 15 Released With Bluetooth Improvements, Better Hardware Support | Multimedia | 2021-07-28 |
| FreeType 2.11 Released With New Rendering Module, Smooth Rasterizer Is Faster | Free Software | 2021-07-19 |
| Meson 0.59 Build System Adds First Class Cython, Wine Resource Compiler Support | Programming | 2021-07-19 |
| China's Alternative To GSoC Is Seeing Some Interesting Summer Open-Source Projects | Free Software | 2021-07-11 |
| X.Org Server 21.1 Development Snapshot Released | X.Org | 2021-07-05 |
| Wayland-Protocols 1.21 Released With XDG_Activation, Staging Replaces Unstable | Wayland | 2021-05-03 |
| X.Org Server 1.20.11 Released Due To New Security Advisory | X.Org | 2021-04-13 |
| CentOS Hyperscale SIG Backported Newer Systemd, Preps For Experimental Repo | Operating Systems | 2021-04-05 |
| Proposal Raised For Dropping Mesa's Classic OpenGL Drivers From Mainline This Year | Mesa | 2021-03-22 |
| Wayland 1.19 Released With Small Protocol Updates, Fixes | Wayland | 2021-01-27 |
| PulseAudio Lands Much Better Support For FreeBSD - Audio Now Plays Correctly | BSD | 2021-01-18 |
| Wayland 1.19 Alpha Released | Wayland | 2020-12-21 |
| XWayland 21.1 Proposed In Splitting Off Releases From The X.Org Server | X.Org | 2020-12-18 |
| Wayland 1.19 Is Set To Come Soon As First Update In Nearly One Year | Wayland | 2020-12-17 |
| Allwinner "Cedrus" Media Driver Finally Sees Support For VP8 Decode | Multimedia | 2020-12-14 |
| QEMU 5.2 Released For Improving The Linux Open-Source Virtualization Stack | Virtualization | 2020-12-09 |
| Mesa To Drop Support For Ancient Drivers | Mesa | 2020-11-20 |
| Mesa 20.2.1 Released With Initial Batch Of Fixes | Mesa | 2020-10-14 |
| Mesa 20.1.7 Brings OpenBSD Fixes, New RadeonSI Workaround | Mesa | 2020-09-02 |
| Qt Creator 4.13 Release Brings Initial Meson Support, Updates C++ Code Model | Qt | 2020-08-26 |
| GStreamer 1.18 RC1 Released For This Leading Open-Source Multimedia Framework | Multimedia | 2020-08-22 |
| Qt Creator 4.13 RC Released With Initial Meson Integration, Updated C++ Code Model | Qt | 2020-08-13 |
| Open-Source GPU Driver Updates Sent In For Linux 5.9 From Sienna Cichlid To Rocket Lake | Linux Kernel | 2020-08-06 |
| The Small DRM Drivers See Another Round Of Updates For Linux 5.9 | Linux Kernel | 2020-07-19 |
| Qt Creator 4.13 Beta Released - Finally Offers Meson Build System Integration | Qt | 2020-07-13 |
| GNU Linux-Libre 5.7 Released - Drops Intel iGPU Security Fix Over Arrays Of Numbers | Linux Kernel | 2020-06-04 |
| Mesa 20.1 Adds A Vulkan Device Selection Layer For Better Handling Multi-GPU Setups | Mesa | 2020-04-28 |
| Pixman 0.40 Released As First Update In A Year For This Key Library For The Linux Desktop | X.Org | 2020-04-20 |
| Linux 5.7 Changes So Far: New exFAT Driver, Tiger Lake Graphics By Default, Apple Fast Charge, Etc | Linux Kernel | 2020-04-06 |
| Plenty Of New Sound Hardware Support, Continued Sound Open Firmware Work For Linux 5.7 | Hardware | 2020-04-03 |
| Linux 5.7 Media Updates Add H.264 / H.265 / VP9 Decode To The Meson Driver | Multimedia | 2020-03-31 |
| XMMS-Inspired Audacious 4.0 Released With Move From GTK To Qt5 Toolkit | Multimedia | 2020-03-22 |
| It's 2020 - Oracle Adds Meson Build System To Solaris | Oracle | 2020-03-17 |
| MetaInfo Creator - Easily Creating AppStream Metadata For Software | Standards | 2020-03-08 |
| Wayland 1.18 Released With Meson Support, Other Minor Changes | Wayland | 2020-02-12 |
| Linus Torvalds Just Made A Big Optimization To Help Code Compilation Times On Big CPUs | Linux Kernel | 2020-02-08 |
| Linux 5.6 Media Updates Bring Improvements For Rockchip Users | Multimedia | 2020-02-01 |
| Wayland 1.18 Alpha Released With Meson Support, Connection Sharing | Wayland | 2020-01-21 |
| Wayland 1.18 Planned For Release Next Month | Wayland | 2020-01-15 |
| Goals: Red Hat Developer Working On New Tool To Improve Upon Make | Red Hat | 2020-01-14 |
| Wayland Adds Meson Build System Support | Wayland | 2020-01-14 |
| Linux 5.5 Lands Broadcom BCM2711 / Raspberry Pi 4 Bits | Arm | 2019-12-06 |
| Mesa Adds Option For Changing Intel's OpenGL Driver Default | Mesa | 2019-12-02 |
| Mesa 19.3-RC1 Released With OpenGL 4.6 For Intel, Many Vulkan Driver Improvements | Mesa | 2019-10-30 |
| Mesa 19.2.2 Brings Fixes For Solaris/Illumos, Continued Fixes For Intel ANV + Radeon RADV | Mesa | 2019-10-25 |
| Valve's SteamOS Compositor Has Begun Seeing Some Activity Recently | Valve | 2019-10-23 |
| Mesa 19.1.8 Released To End Out The Series | Mesa | 2019-10-22 |
| Arch Linux's Pacman 5.2 Released - Drops Support For Delta Packages, Adds Zstd Support | Arch Linux | 2019-10-21 |
| GNOME 3.35.1 Released As The First Step Towards GNOME 3.36 | GNOME | 2019-10-20 |
| Google Releases Bazel 1.0 Build System With Faster Build Performance | Google | 2019-10-17 |
| Libdrm 2.4.100 Released With Bits For Intel Elkhart Lake, Tiger Lake Graphics | Mesa | 2019-10-17 |
| Amlogic Video Decode Driver Nearly Ready With H.264 Support | Hardware | 2019-10-09 |
| Meson 0.52 Released With Better Support For Solaris/Illumos | Programming | 2019-10-07 |
| Picolibc 1.0 Released - A New C Library For Embedded Systems | Programming | 2019-09-24 |
