WebAssembly Linux & Open-Source News |
| GCC Steering Committee Supports Inclusion Of WebAssembly Backend | GNU | 2026-06-15 |
| Rust Coreutils 0.9 Released With Additional Security Hardening, Zero-Copy I/O | Free Software | 2026-05-30 |
| Rust-Based Wild Linker 0.9 Brings New Platform Coverage, Linker Plugin API | Programming | 2026-05-23 |
| New GCC Back-End Proposed For WebAssembly | GNU | 2026-05-07 |
| OpenBLAS 0.3.33 Released With Automatic "BIGNUMA" For More Than 256 CPU Cores | Programming | 2026-04-23 |
| Mir-Based Miracle-WM 0.9 Introduces A WebAssembly Plugin System | Wayland | 2026-04-09 |
| Rust Coreutils 0.8 Brings Significant Performance Gains | Programming | 2026-04-06 |
| SolveSpace 3.2 3D CAD Tool Adds Qt Frontend, Experimental Web Version | Free Software | 2026-03-30 |
| OpenBLAS 0.3.32 Brings Improved Detection Of Newer Intel CPUs | Intel | 2026-03-24 |
| GNU Binutils 2.46 Released With AMD Zen 6 Support, SFrame Version 3 | GNU | 2026-02-09 |
| Wasmer 7.0 Released For Advancing WebAssembly On The Desktop & Anywhere | Programming | 2026-01-28 |
| Linux Kernel Highlights For 2025: Schedulers, Rust & Torvalds' Commentary | Linux Kernel | 2025-12-27 |
| Steam Machine, Continued Open-Source Rust Usage & Linux Kernel Happenings In November | Phoronix | 2025-12-01 |
| libinput 1.30-rc1 Released With Lua Plugin Support | X.Org | 2025-11-04 |
| Linux Kernel Ported To WebAssembly - Demo Lets You Run It In Your Web Browser | Linux Kernel | 2025-11-01 |
| Oracle's GraalVM To Shift Focus To Non-Java Languages Like Python & JavaScript | Oracle | 2025-09-28 |
| Godot 4.5 Open-Source Game Engine Released With A Multitude Of Improvements | Linux Gaming | 2025-09-15 |
| QEMU 10.1 Released With Intel TDX Improvements, Support For Compiling To WASM | Virtualization | 2025-08-27 |
| Firefox 142 Now Available - Allows Browser Extensions/Add-Ons To Use AI LLMs | Mozilla | 2025-08-18 |
| Microsoft Announces Open-Source "Wassette" Using Rust + WebAssembly To Help AI Agents | Microsoft | 2025-08-06 |
| LLVM 22 Eliminates The Final Support For Google Native Client "NaCl" | LLVM | 2025-07-16 |
| Linux Kernel Developments, AMD RX 9070 GIMP 3.0 & Other March Highlights | Phoronix | 2025-04-01 |
| AMD's Latest Wares, NVIDIA RTX 50 & Kernel Changes Excited Linux Users So Far In 2025 | Phoronix | 2025-03-31 |
| Microsoft Announces Open-Source "Hyperlight Wasm" Project | Microsoft | 2025-03-26 |
| BLAKE3 1.7 Turns To Intel's oneTBB For Parallelizing C Code - Similar Perf To Rust+Rayon | Programming | 2025-03-18 |
| GraalVM Updated For Java 24, Adds Graal Neural Network Profiler For Better Performance | Programming | 2025-03-18 |
| Wasmer 6.0 Wires Up Support For Multiple Heterogeneous Backends | Programming | 2025-02-18 |
| Go 1.24 Brings Performance Improvements, Better WebAssembly Support | Programming | 2025-02-14 |
| Apple CPUs Affected By New SLAP & FLOP Side-Channel Attacks | Apple | 2025-01-28 |
| HipScript Allows NVIDIA CUDA & AMD HIP Code To Run Within Web Browsers | Programming | 2025-01-07 |
| Bottles Software For Easily Running Windows Games/Apps On Linux To Leverage Rust | WINE | 2024-12-27 |
| Wasmer 5.0 WebAssembly Runtime Released With V8, WAMR & WASMI Backends | Programming | 2024-10-30 |
| Wasmer 5.0-rc1 Adds Experimental Support For WASMI, Interpreter Mode Support | Programming | 2024-10-22 |
| Wasmer 4.4 Released To Continue Pushing Universal Apps With WebAssembly | Programming | 2024-10-06 |
| Meta Releases IGL 1.0 As Intermediate Graphics Library Built Atop Vulkan & OpenGL | Free Software | 2024-07-11 |
| LPython 0.22 Released For Ahead-Of-Time Compiler For Python | Programming | 2024-07-10 |
| Wasmer 4.3 Released: WebAssembly Runtime 25% Faster On Cold Startups | Programming | 2024-05-11 |
| Firefox 125 Adds AV1 Support In Encrypted Media Extensions, Other New Features | Mozilla | 2024-04-15 |
| Qt 6.7 Released With Many Improvements For This Cross-Platform Toolkit | Qt | 2024-04-02 |
| The Greenfield In-Browser Wayland Compositor Is Fast Enough For Gaming | Wayland | 2024-02-06 |
| Firefox 121 Now Available With Wayland Enabled By Default | Mozilla | 2023-12-18 |
| Threadripper 7000 Series, Wayland, Linux 6.7 & Other November Highlights | Phoronix | 2023-12-01 |
| Firefox 120 Ready With Global Privacy Control, WebAssembly GC On By Default | Mozilla | 2023-11-20 |
| Firefox 117 Beta 8 vs. Google Chrome 116 Linux Browser Performance | Free Software | 2023-08-18 |
| LPython Is The Latest Python Implementation Aiming To Be Very Fast, Multiple Backends | Programming | 2023-07-29 |
| HarfBuzz 8.0 Released - Introduces Shaper For WebAssembly Within Font Files | Desktop | 2023-07-09 |
| Wasmer 4.0 WebAssembly Implementation Brings WASIX Support | Programming | 2023-06-22 |
| Go 1.21 Enabling PGO For Faster Performance, Tuned Garbage Collector | Programming | 2023-06-21 |
| Chrome 114 Released With CHIPS, Popover API | Google | 2023-05-30 |
| Chrome 114 Beta Brings CSS Headline Balancing, CHIPS, Popover API | Google | 2023-05-04 |
| Wasmer 3.2 Released With WebAssembly On RISC-V Support, New WCGI Feature | Programming | 2023-04-18 |
| Chrome 112 Released With WASM Garbage Collection Trial, CSS Nesting | Google | 2023-04-04 |
| Slint 1.0 Released As Rust-Focused Graphical Toolkit | Free Software | 2023-04-03 |
| Qt 6.5 LTS Released With Many Improvements | Qt | 2023-04-03 |
| Still Have A Use For Adobe Flash? Ruffle Is Working To Safely Emulate It In Rust | Free Software | 2023-03-17 |
| Chrome 112 Beta Released With CSS Nesting, WebAssembly Tail Call | Google | 2023-03-10 |
| Firefox 109 vs. Chrome 109 Browser Benchmarks On Ubuntu Linux + Core i9 13900K | Desktop | 2023-01-22 |
| Updated WebKit Adds Experimental WebCodecs AV1, dav1d Decoder | Free Software | 2023-01-13 |
| Radeon RX 7900 XT/XTX, EPYC Genoa & Linux 6.2 Developments Made For An Exciting Month | Phoronix | 2023-01-01 |
| Ruby 3.2 Released With WebAssembly Support, Production-Grade YJIT | Free Software | 2022-12-25 |
| Wasmer 3.0 Released As The Latest "Universal WebAssembly Runtime" | Programming | 2022-11-21 |
| SQLite 3.40 Released With WASM Support For Web Browsers, Recovery Extension | Programming | 2022-11-16 |
| Qt 6.4 Released With WebAssembly Promotion, Qt HTTP Server | Qt | 2022-09-29 |
| Wasmtime 1.0 Released - Bytecode Alliance Declares It Production Ready | Programming | 2022-09-20 |
| Bytecode Alliance Preparing For Wasmtime 1.0 Releasing Later This Month | Programming | 2022-09-07 |
| Wasmer 3.0 Alpha Released With WASIX Implementation, More Improvements For This WebAssembly Stack | Programming | 2022-07-30 |
| Oracle's GraalVM 22.2 Brings More Performance Optimizations | Programming | 2022-07-26 |
| Qt 6.4 Beta Released With HTTP Server & 3D Physics Modules | Qt | 2022-06-17 |
| OpenJPH 0.9 Released For Further Speeding Up Open-Source High-Throughput JPEG 2000 | Free Software | 2022-05-30 |
| W3C Posts Initial WebAssembly 2.0 Working Drafts | Standards | 2022-04-19 |
| Qt 6.3 Released With Improved Wayland Support, Qt Language Server Module | Qt | 2022-04-12 |
| The Qt Company Planning For Many Qt6 Enhancements This Year | Qt | 2022-03-07 |
| Wasmer 2.2 Released With AArch64 Improvements, SSE 4.2 Support For Singlepass | Programming | 2022-03-01 |
| Wasmer 2.2 Bringing Its WebAssembly "Singlepass" Compiler To AArch64 | Programming | 2022-01-28 |
| Oracle Releases GraalVM 22.0 With New Features | Oracle | 2022-01-25 |
| LibreOffice Sees New Activity For Compiling To WebAssembly | LibreOffice | 2022-01-19 |
| Firefox 95 vs. Chrome 97 Browser Performance On Linux | Desktop | 2022-01-06 |
| SuperTux 0.6.3 Brings In-Game Improvements, WebAssembly Support | Linux Gaming | 2021-12-22 |
| LLVM Now Has "Official" Support For Targeting NEC's Vector Engine (VE) | LLVM | 2021-12-07 |
| Firefox 95 Ready With RLBox Sandboxing Across All Platforms | Mozilla | 2021-12-06 |
| Wasmer 2.1 WebAssembly Implementation Adds Virtual Filesystem, Lisp + Crystal Support | Programming | 2021-12-01 |
| Google Releases Chrome 96 With Back-Forward Cache Enabled For The Desktop | Google | 2021-11-15 |
| Chrome 96 Beta Begins Preparing For Chrome 100, Adds Priority Hints Feature | Google | 2021-10-21 |
| Oracle Releases GraalVM 21.3 With Java 17 Support, Other Enhancements | Oracle | 2021-10-19 |
| Chrome 95 Released With FTP Support Completely Removed, New Developer Additions | Google | 2021-10-19 |
| Qt 6.2 LTS Released With Qt6 Now Aiming To Be Ready For Widespread Adoption | Qt | 2021-09-30 |
| Firefox 92 vs. Chrome 94 Browser Benchmarks On Ubuntu Linux | Desktop | 2021-09-26 |
| Chrome 95 Beta Completely Removes Deprecated FTP Support, Reduced User Agent Info Trial | Google | 2021-09-24 |
| Chrome 94 Released With WebGPU For Testing, WebCodecs API Now Official | Google | 2021-09-21 |
| Chrome 94 Beta Released With WebCodecs API Promoted, WebGPU Origin Trial | Google | 2021-08-26 |
| LibreOffice 7.2 Community Released For This Leading Open-Source Office Suite | LibreOffice | 2021-08-19 |
| LibreOffice 7.2 RC2 Up For Testing With Its Initial GTK4 Work, Command Pop-Up / HUD | Linux Kernel | 2021-08-01 |
| LibreOffice 7.2 RC1 Released Ahead Of Official Debut Next Month | LibreOffice | 2021-07-13 |
| LibreOffice 7.2 Beta Arrives With Initial Command Pop-Up HUD, Better Performance | LibreOffice | 2021-06-18 |
| Wasmer 2.0 Released With Significantly Faster Runtime Performance, Quicker Deserialization | Programming | 2021-06-16 |
| Wasmtime 0.28 Released With C++ Embedding Support | Programming | 2021-06-13 |
| Wasmer 2.0 WebAssembly Runtime Is Near With Much Faster Performance | Programming | 2021-06-04 |
| WASM3 v0.5 Released With Claims To Be The Fastest WebAssembly Interpreter | Programming | 2021-06-03 |
| Windows vs. Linux, 5.13 Kernel, FreeBSD 13, Other May Excitement | Free Software | 2021-06-01 |
| Chrome 91 Benchmarks On Linux Showing Off Even Better Performance | Google | 2021-05-28 |
| Chrome 91 Released With Gravity Sensor API, JSON Modules, WebAssembly SIMD | Google | 2021-05-25 |
| LibreOffice 7.2 Alpha 1 Released For This Open-Source Office Suite | LibreOffice | 2021-05-25 |
| Daemon Engine 0.52 Beta Continues Advancing The id Tech 3 Open-Source Code In 2021 | Linux Gaming | 2021-05-11 |
| LibreOffice Merges Initial Support For Compiling To WebAssembly | LibreOffice | 2021-05-06 |
| Chrome 91 Beta Brings Experimental WebTransport, WebAssembly SIMD By Default | Google | 2021-04-22 |
| GraalVM 21.1 Released With Experimental Java 16 Support, Many Performance Improvements | Oracle | 2021-04-21 |
| Chrome 90 Released With AV1 Encode, New APIs | Google | 2021-04-14 |
| Many New/Updated Benchmarks For March With New SDR/Radio Tests, More Code Compilation | Phoronix Test Suite | 2021-03-28 |
| Chrome 90 Beta Released With New Origin Trials, AV1 Encode | Google | 2021-03-12 |
| Developers Continue New Push With LibreOffice In The Web Browser Via WebAssembly | LibreOffice | 2021-02-10 |
| Wasmer 1.0 Released As The Universal WebAssembly Runtime Outside The Browser | Programming | 2021-01-05 |
| 2020 Was Another Interesting Year For Microsoft Around Open-Source/Linux | Microsoft | 2020-12-28 |
| Wasmer 1.0 RC1 Released For Running WebAssembly On The Desktop Or Anywhere | Programming | 2020-12-25 |
| Wasmer 1.0 Beta Released For Running WebAssembly Code Anywhere | Programming | 2020-12-05 |
| Microsoft Releases .NET 5.0 With Many Performance Improvements, Continued Linux Work | Microsoft | 2020-11-11 |
| Wasmer 1.0 Alpha 5, Wasmtime 0.21 Released For Advancing WebAssembly On The Desktop | Programming | 2020-11-07 |
| Rust Lands Experimental Cranelift-Based Code Generator - Much Faster Debug Build Times | Programming | 2020-10-27 |
| Apache's TVM Deep Learning Compiler Picks Up WebAssembly, Better Rust Support | Programming | 2020-10-03 |
| GraalPHP Is A PHP JIT Implementation Built On GraalVM | Programming | 2020-09-25 |
| LLVM 11.0-RC3 Released For This Big LLVM/Clang Update | LLVM | 2020-09-22 |
| Wasmer 1.0 Is Approaching For Running WebAssembly Anywhere | Programming | 2020-09-12 |
| Qt 6.0 Development Host/Target Changes Announced | Qt | 2020-09-11 |
| Wine-Mono Won't Bother With .NET 5.0 - The Official Microsoft Binaries Should Work Fine | Microsoft | 2020-08-26 |
| Firefox 80 Available With VA-API On X11, WebGL Parallel Shader Compile Support | Mozilla | 2020-08-24 |
| Firefox 79 Is Ready To Ship With Safeguard On "_blank" Links, More Wayland VA-API Work | Mozilla | 2020-07-27 |
| LLVM 11 Feature Development Is Over With Many Changes | LLVM | 2020-07-15 |
| GNU Toolchain Continues Phasing Out Native Client Support (NaCl) | Google | 2020-07-15 |
| GNU Binutils 2.35 Preparing For Release | GNU | 2020-07-05 |
| Firefox 78.0 Released - Also Serves As The Newest ESR Version | Mozilla | 2020-06-30 |
| QML Online Now Hosted By The KDE Project For Qt/QML On The Web | KDE | 2020-06-16 |
| Mozilla Sponsored The Godot Game Engine To Port Their Editor As An HTML5 Web App | Linux Gaming | 2020-05-29 |
| Chrome 84 Beta Brings Better Web Animations API, Experimental WebAssembly SIMD | Google | 2020-05-28 |
| Firefox 76 + 77 Beta Web Browser Benchmarks On Ubuntu Linux | Mozilla | 2020-05-11 |
| There Are Many Interesting Google Summer of Code 2020 Open-Source Projects | Google | 2020-05-07 |
| Wasmtime Now Offering Go Bindings For WebAssembly On The Desktop | Programming | 2020-04-11 |
| Chrome 80 Against Firefox 74/75 Performance On Linux | Desktop | 2020-03-15 |
| Google Bringing WebAssembly Extensions To Network Proxies | Programming | 2020-03-12 |
| Wasmer 0.16 Released For Running WebAssembly Programs Anywhere | Programming | 2020-03-12 |
| The New Compiler Features Of LLVM 10.0 / Clang 10.0 | LLVM | 2020-03-08 |
| LLVM 10.0-RC3 Released With The Final Expected Soon For This Big Compiler Update | LLVM | 2020-03-05 |
| Miguel de Icaza Talks Up WebAssembly Greatness | Programming | 2020-03-03 |
| WASMtime 0.12 Released For The JIT-Style WebAssembly Runtime | Programming | 2020-02-26 |
| Rav1e 0.3 Is Releasing Soon For Faster Rust-Based AV1 Encoding | Multimedia | 2020-02-04 |
| Godot 3.2 Open-Source Game Engine Released With Better Documentation, New Features | Linux Gaming | 2020-01-29 |
| Red Hat Developer's MIR Is A Lightweight JIT Compiler | Programming | 2020-01-20 |
| Fedora 32 Aiming To Ship With The Latest Mono 6 For Microsoft .NET On Linux | Fedora | 2020-01-07 |
| Firefox 71 + WebRender vs. Chrome 79 Browser Benchmarks On Ubuntu Linux | Desktop | 2019-12-15 |
| Chrome 79 Released With WebXR Improvements, Other Developer Additions | Google | 2019-12-10 |
| Firefox 71 Linux Performance Isn't Looking All That Great | Mozilla | 2019-12-04 |
| Khronos + W3C Collaborating On SPIR-V Potentially Being The Shading Language For The Web | Desktop | 2019-11-28 |
