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| Flatpak 1.17.7 To Track The Age Of Configurations For Providing Much Better Performance | Free Software | 2026-05-05 |
| Sunshine Game Streaming Introduces Vulkan Video Encode Support | Linux Gaming | 2026-04-14 |
| KDE Plasma 6.7 Addresses 5 Year Old Request For Easier Microphone Testing | KDE | 2026-03-28 |
| XMMS Codebase Brought Back To Life By AI With GTK4 + GStreamer/PipeWire Port | AI | 2026-03-23 |
| KDE Plasma Saw A Lot Of Bug/Crash Fixing & UI Polishing This Week | KDE | 2026-03-06 |
| AerynOS 2026.02 Brings More Wayland Compositor Options, Other Improvements | Operating Systems | 2026-02-28 |
| PipeWire 1.6 Released With Many New Features | PipeWire | 2026-02-19 |
| GNOME 50 Lands Virtual Monitor / Remote Desktop Improvements - Including HiDPI | GNOME | 2026-02-03 |
| TigerVNC 1.16 Released With "w0vncserver" For Sharing Wayland Desktop Sessions | Wayland | 2026-01-27 |
| Fedora Games Lab Approved To Switch To KDE Plasma, Become A Better Linux Gaming Showcase | Fedora | 2026-01-14 |
| Mageia 10 Alpha Released - 32-bit ISOs Still Available | Operating Systems | 2026-01-10 |
| Raspberry Pi OS 2025-11-24 Brings HiDPI Improvements, Wayland Enhancements | Raspberry Pi | 2025-11-24 |
| EasyEffects 8.0 Released In Porting From GTK4 To Qt / QML / Kirigami | Desktop | 2025-11-10 |
| systemd-appd Is A New Component Being Planned By Flatpak Developers | Free Software | 2025-11-05 |
| AerynOS 2025.10 ISOs Released - GNOME 49, Switches Back To GNU libstdc++ | Operating Systems | 2025-10-31 |
| Qt 6.10 Released With PipeWire Audio Backend & Many Other Improvements | Qt | 2025-10-07 |
| Qt 6.10 RC Available For Testing With Native PipeWire Audio Back-End | Qt | 2025-09-23 |
| OBS Studio 32.0 Released With Plugin Manager, NVIDIA RTX Improvements | Multimedia | 2025-09-22 |
| PipeWire 1.4.8 Improves Compatibility With Apple Home Pod Mini Speakers | PipeWire | 2025-09-11 |
| Arch Linux's Archinstall No Longer Treating LVM-Based Installs As "Beta" | Arch Linux | 2025-09-02 |
| OBS Studio 31.1 Released With Explicit Sync For PipeWire Screen Capture | Multimedia | 2025-07-07 |
| Linux 6.16-rc3 Released: Various Bug Fixes While Bcachefs Changes Not Pulled | Linux Kernel | 2025-06-22 |
| Linux Delivering Driver Fix For 30 Year Old Creative SoundBlaster AWE32 ISA Sound Card | Multimedia | 2025-06-20 |
| Qt 6.10 Beta Released With Native PipeWire Audio Backend For Qt Multimedia | Qt | 2025-06-17 |
| OBS Studio 31.1 Bringing Multitrack Video Support To Linux | Multimedia | 2025-05-29 |
| PipeWire 1.4 Released With MIDI 2.0 Support & Other New Features | PipeWire | 2025-03-06 |
| SDL 3.2.6 Released With HiDPI Icons & Color Management On Wayland | Linux Gaming | 2025-03-02 |
| NVIDIA Blackwell, Continued AMD Zen 5 Benchmarking & Rust Drama Dominated February | Phoronix | 2025-03-01 |
| PipeWire Is Doing An Excellent Job Handling Audio/Video Streams On The Linux Desktop | PipeWire | 2025-02-06 |
| Red Hat Hiring To Continue Advancing The Linux Desktop In 2025 | Fedora | 2025-02-03 |
| SDL 3 Officially Released With New APIs, Better HiDPI & Improved Audio Handling | Linux Gaming | 2025-01-21 |
| GNOME Shell 48 Alpha Introduces Screen Time / Health Breaks, Mutter 48 Alpha Out Too | GNOME | 2025-01-13 |
| Niri 25.01 Scrollable-Tiling Wayland Compositor Brings More Features | Wayland | 2025-01-12 |
| GNOME Added Many New Features This Year Amid Foundation Woes | GNOME | 2024-12-27 |
| Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10 Enters Beta With Many New Features & Updates | Red Hat | 2024-11-14 |
| KDE Developers Fixing Initial Bugs From Plasma 6.2 | KDE | 2024-10-12 |
| SDL 3.1.3 Stable ABI Preview Release | Linux Gaming | 2024-10-05 |
| Wayland's Weston 14.0 Compositor Released | Wayland | 2024-09-04 |
| GNOME Mutter 47.rc Ships Experimental Color Management Protocol | GNOME | 2024-09-02 |
| NVIDIA 560.35.03 Linux Driver Released With More Wayland Fixes | NVIDIA | 2024-08-21 |
| Fedora 41 To Rely On PipeWire By Default For Firefox Camera Handling | PipeWire | 2024-08-19 |
| Weston 14.0 Alpha Brings New Wayland Compositor Features | Wayland | 2024-08-14 |
| Niri 0.1.8 Compositor Implements Gradient Borders, Output Management Protocol | Wayland | 2024-08-10 |
| NVIDIA 560.31.02 Linux Driver Delivers Various Fixes | NVIDIA | 2024-08-06 |
| Linux Mint 22 Released - Built Atop Ubuntu 24.04 With Latest Cinnamon Desktop | Operating Systems | 2024-07-25 |
| Fedora 41 Aims For Out-Of-The-Box Webcam Support For Newer Intel Laptops | Intel | 2024-07-25 |
| NVIDIA 560 Linux Driver Beta Released - Defaults To Open GPU Kernel Modules | NVIDIA | 2024-07-23 |
| Linux Mint 22 Aims To Be Out This Month After Fixing Many Bugs | Operating Systems | 2024-07-07 |
| Linux Mint 22 Enters Beta, Built Atop Ubuntu 24.04 LTS | Operating Systems | 2024-07-01 |
| PipeWire 1.2 Released With Async Processing, Explicit Sync & Other Features | PipeWire | 2024-06-27 |
| Chrome 127 Should Provide PipeWire Camera Capture Support | Google | 2024-05-28 |
| PipeWire 1.2 Can Stream To Snapcast Servers For Multi-Room Audio | PipeWire | 2024-05-24 |
| PipeWire 1.2 Preps For Async Processing, Snap Support & Explicit Sync | PipeWire | 2024-05-16 |
| SDL3 Adds PipeWire Camera Support | Linux Gaming | 2024-05-10 |
| SDL 3.1.2 Preview Prefers PipeWire Over PulseAudio, Fixes XWayland Mouse Warp | Linux Gaming | 2024-05-01 |
| KDE Plasma 6.0.4 Ships With Dozens Of Bug Fixes | KDE | 2024-04-16 |
| SDL 3.0 Will Now Prefer PipeWire Over PulseAudio | Linux Gaming | 2024-04-12 |
| Linux Mint 22 Will Use The PipeWire Sound Server, Support JPEG-XL Images | Operating Systems | 2024-04-01 |
| OBS Studio 30.1 Released With AV1 Support For VA-API & PipeWire Video Capture | Multimedia | 2024-03-12 |
| KDE Plasma 6.0.2 Delivers Another Week Worth Of Bug Fixes | KDE | 2024-03-12 |
| PipeWire To Work On Vulkan Converters & Processing Filters | PipeWire | 2024-02-05 |
| OBS Studio 30.1 Beta Released With AV1 For VA-API & AV1 For WebRTC/WHIP Output | Multimedia | 2024-02-02 |
| It's Becoming Possible To Use The Webcam On Newer Intel Laptops With Open-Source Linux | Intel | 2024-01-26 |
| GNOME Network Displays Adds Support For Chromecast & Miracast MICE Protocols | GNOME | 2024-01-25 |
| PulseAudio 17.0 Released With A Few New Features | Multimedia | 2024-01-12 |
| Solus Linux 4.5 Released With AMD ROCm Support, PipeWire Default & Calamares Installer | Operating Systems | 2024-01-08 |
| Wayland Enjoyed Many Successes In 2023 | Wayland | 2024-01-01 |
| KDE's Nate Graham On X11 Being A Bad Platform & The Wayland Future | KDE | 2023-12-27 |
| KDE Developers Prepare For Christmas With More Bug Fixes & Qt 6 Porting | KDE | 2023-12-23 |
| Manjaro 23.1 Released With Linux 6.6 LTS, Pipewire 1.0 & Desktop Updates | Arch Linux | 2023-12-16 |
| Pop!_OS COSMIC Desktop Improving Multi-Monitor & Multi-Window Support | Desktop | 2023-12-15 |
| OBS Studio 30.0.1 Released With Crash Fixes | Free Software | 2023-12-10 |
| Wayland's Weston 13.0 Released With Multi-Backend Support & Overlapping Outputs | Wayland | 2023-11-28 |
| PipeWire 1.0 Released For Managing Audio/Video Streams On The Linux Desktop | PipeWire | 2023-11-26 |
| GTK 4.14 Adding Graphics Offloading Capabilities Under Wayland | GNOME | 2023-11-15 |
| Weston 13 Alpha Released With New Backends, Other Improvements | Wayland | 2023-10-16 |
| PipeWire 1.0 RC2 Released With Fixes, Improved Rate Switching | PipeWire | 2023-10-13 |
| Raspberry Pi OS Now Based On Debian 12 "Bookworm" + Wayland | Raspberry Pi | 2023-10-11 |
| Wayland's Weston 13 Compositor Planned For Release Next Month | Wayland | 2023-10-10 |
| PipeWire 1.0 RC Available With Jackdbus By Default, Improved IRQ-Based Scheduling | PipeWire | 2023-10-06 |
| PipeWire 1.0 Planned For Release Later This Year | PipeWire | 2023-09-25 |
| Arch Linux Installer Update Allows More Control Over Parallel Downloads, Ly | Arch Linux | 2023-09-23 |
| XDG-Desktop-Portal 1.18 Released With Accent Color Support, New Clipboard & Input Capture Portals | Free Software | 2023-09-18 |
| PipeWire 0.3.80 Released With Vulkan DMA-BUF Support, Tag Param | PipeWire | 2023-09-14 |
| XDG-Desktop-Portal 1.17.1 Released With Accent Color Support | Desktop | 2023-08-29 |
| QEMU 8.1 Released With New PipeWire Audio Backend, Many CPU Improvements | Virtualization | 2023-08-22 |
| Firefox 116 Should Have Experimental PipeWire Camera Support | PipeWire | 2023-06-16 |
| Wayland's Weston 12.0 Released With Multi-GPU Support, PipeWire Backend, Tearing Control | Wayland | 2023-05-17 |
| PipeWire 0.3.71 Released With Performance Improvements, Zero Latency JACK D-Bus Bridge | PipeWire | 2023-05-17 |
| PipeWire Audio Backend Comes To QEMU | Virtualization | 2023-05-09 |
| System76-Scheduler 2.0.1: "Significant" Reduction In CPU/RAM Use, Gamescope Detection | Desktop | 2023-05-02 |
| Wayland's Weston 12 Alpha Brings Multi-GPU Support, PipeWire Backend, Tearing Control | Wayland | 2023-04-26 |
| System76-Scheduler 2.0 Released With PipeWire Integration, Performance Optimizations | Operating Systems | 2023-04-25 |
| PipeWire 0.3.68 Released With New RTP Session Module, Many Other Changes | PipeWire | 2023-04-06 |
| KDE XWayland Video Bridge Aims To Improve Linux Desktop Screen Sharing | KDE | 2023-03-22 |
| PipeWire 0.3.67 Fixes Stuttering For Some Bluetooth Devices | PipeWire | 2023-03-09 |
| Audacious 4.3 Beta Adds PipeWire Plugin, Restores GTK3 + Ships Mature Qt6 Support | Multimedia | 2023-02-11 |
| Microsoft CBL-Mariner 2.0 Update Adds New PipeWire, Other Changes | Microsoft | 2023-02-02 |
| MPV Player 0.35.1 Released With Wayland & PipeWire Fixes | Multimedia | 2023-01-28 |
| PipeWire 0.3.65 Adds New Combine-Stream Module, Bluetooth MIDI | Multimedia | 2023-01-26 |
| A Fix Is On The Way For AMD HDMI Audio Being Broken With Linux 6.1+ | Radeon | 2022-12-28 |
| PipeWire 0.3.62 Released With Bluetooth Offloading Support | PipeWire | 2022-12-09 |
| SDL Tries Again To Prefer Wayland Over X11 | Wayland | 2022-11-29 |
| SDL3 Begins Dumping A Lot Of Old Code: GLES1, OS/2, DirectFB, WinRT, NaCl & More | Linux Gaming | 2022-11-23 |
| Wayland Screen Sharing For Chrome/Chromium Improving - Enabled By Default Soon? | Wayland | 2022-11-22 |
| SDL 2.26 Released, SDL3 Development Now Underway | Linux Gaming | 2022-11-22 |
| SDL 2.26 RC1 Released While SDL3 Development Soon To Get Underway | Linux Gaming | 2022-11-17 |
| MPV 0.35 Media Player Released With PipeWire Backend, Wayland DMA-BUF Support | Multimedia | 2022-11-12 |
| PipeWire 0.3.60 Released With Many Fixes, Improvements | PipeWire | 2022-11-10 |
| Arc Graphics, Google KataOS, Python 3.11 & Linux 6.1 Excited Open-Source Enthusiasts | Phoronix | 2022-11-01 |
| sdl12-compat 1.2.60 Gets More Old Games Running Atop SDL2 For Modern Linux Gaming | Linux Gaming | 2022-10-25 |
| Ubuntu 22.10 Released With GNOME 43 Desktop, Raspberry Pi Improvements, PipeWire Audio | Ubuntu | 2022-10-20 |
| Debian To Carry Patches For GNOME Dynamic Triple Buffering | Debian | 2022-10-03 |
| Debian 12 Switches To PipeWire & WirePlumber By Default With The GNOME Desktop | Debian | 2022-10-01 |
| Ubuntu 22.10 Beta Released For Linux 5.19 + GNOME 43 Powered Linux Desktop | Ubuntu | 2022-09-30 |
| GNOME Shell & Mutter 43 Release Candidates Bring Last Minute Changes | GNOME | 2022-09-04 |
| PipeWire 0.3.57 Adds AAC Decoder, Opus For Bluetooth | PipeWire | 2022-09-03 |
| sdl12-compat 1.2.54 Pre-Release Gets More Games Running On This SDL2 Compatibility Layer | Linux Gaming | 2022-09-02 |
| Rust For Linux, -O3'ing The Kernel & Other Highlights From June | Phoronix | 2022-07-01 |
| EndeavourOS 22.6 "Artemis" Released With Improved Arm Support, WirePlumber In Use | Arch Linux | 2022-06-25 |
| PipeWire 0.3.52 Released To Continue Enhancing Linux Audio/Video Streams | PipeWire | 2022-06-09 |
| NVIDIA's Open-Source Kernel Driver, Graviton3 & Fedora 36 Made For An Exciting May | Phoronix | 2022-05-31 |
| PulseAudio 16.0 Released With A Variety Of Improvements | Multimedia | 2022-05-28 |
| SteamOS 3.2 Released With More Improvements For The Steam Deck | Valve | 2022-05-26 |
| Ubuntu 22.10 Switching To PipeWire For Linux Audio Handling | Ubuntu | 2022-05-21 |
| Arch Linux Temporarily Steps Back From WirePlumber After Snafu | Arch Linux | 2022-05-13 |
| WirePlumber 0.4.9 Fixes Surround Sound For Some Linux Games | Multimedia | 2022-03-27 |
| sdl-compat 1.2.52 Debuts As Initial SDL-1.2-Atop-SDL-2.0 Release | Linux Gaming | 2022-03-05 |
| PipeWire 0.3.46 Released With Critical Bug Fixes, Better Sound Sharing With Zoom | PipeWire | 2022-02-17 |
| GNOME Shell & Mutter Prepare For GNOME 42 Beta With More Desktop Enhancements | GNOME | 2022-02-14 |
| Chimera Linux Pushes Ahead For FreeBSD User-Space Atop Linux, Built Using LLVM | Operating Systems | 2022-02-08 |
| OpenMandriva Lx 4.3 Released With Completed Arm 64-bit Port, Sticks To Using LLVM | Operating Systems | 2022-02-07 |
| Zenwalk 15 Released For Slackware With Flatpak + AppImage Ready, Desktop Optimizations | Operating Systems | 2022-02-04 |
| Slackware 15.0 Released After Many Years In Development | Operating Systems | 2022-02-03 |
| PipeWire 0.3.45 Restores Sound Support For Zoom, Telegram | Multimedia | 2022-02-03 |
| PipeWire 0.3.44 Released With Latency Improvements, Minimal PW Server Support | PipeWire | 2022-01-27 |
| Archinstall 2.3.1 Released With PipeWire App Profile Added, Btrfs Install Improvements | Arch Linux | 2022-01-26 |
| JACK2 1.9.20 Released With Official FreeBSD Support | Multimedia | 2022-01-16 |
| Hyperscalers Have Been Making CentOS 9 Stream More Attractive With New Features | Red Hat | 2022-01-10 |
| WirePlumber 0.4.6 Released For Managing PipeWire | PipeWire | 2022-01-06 |
| PipeWire 0.3.43 Released With Many Fixes | PipeWire | 2022-01-05 |
| Fedora Had A Stellar 2021 & Continued Running At The Forefront Of Linux Innovations | Fedora | 2021-12-30 |
| PipeWire 0.3.41 Offers Improved Flatpak & JACK Compatibility, Apple AirPlay Streaming | PipeWire | 2021-12-13 |
| Arch-Based EndeavourOS 21.4 Released With FSTRIM, Btrfs Zstd, PipeWire By Default | Arch Linux | 2021-12-03 |
| Valve Shares New Steam Deck Details, Proton Update Available For Testing | Valve | 2021-11-12 |
| PipeWire 0.3.40 Released With Better JACK Compatibility | PipeWire | 2021-11-11 |
| It's Been 9 Years Since Valve Rolled Out The Steam Linux Beta | Valve | 2021-11-06 |
| Steam Beta Adds VA-API Acceleration For Remote Play | Valve | 2021-11-03 |
| Fedora Linux 35 Released As Another Exciting, Feature-Packed Update | Fedora | 2021-11-02 |
| Fedora 35 Cleared For Release Next Week | Fedora | 2021-10-28 |
