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For users of Apache's CouchDB document-oriented NoSQL database system, version 2.0 was announced today...

If all goes well, GNOME 3.22 will be officially released tomorrow, 21 September. Here is a recap of some of the new features and improvements made over this past six month development cycle plus some screenshots of the near-final desktop that will power the upcoming Fedora 25 Workstation.

Those wishing to use Coreboot on a modern Intel system (albeit with the closed-source FSP) will soon have another option to consider with an open-source, physically secure computer powered by a Skylake-Y SoC moving ahead with a port to Coreboot...

The various components of the GNOME2 desktop forked MATE code were checked in as version 1.16 today in preparation for announcing this next release...

XDC2016 begins tomorrow in Helsinki, Finland as the annual X.Org / Wayland / Mesa conference. For those not able to enjoy the event in person, a livestream is planned...

Besides Mozilla Firefox 49 being available, so is the latest stable update to the Opera browser powered by Chromium's Blink engine...

Following the Unigine 2.3.1 engine update I was able to get confirmation from Unigine Corp they do have a new technology demo / benchmark coming out!..

While being delayed one week due to last-minute bugs, Firefox 49.0 is now available this morning...

It's been a while since last having anything to talk about with regard to Bcachefs as a file-system aiming for speed while having ZFS/Btrfs-like capabilities and being spun out of the Bcache caching code. This file-system now has tentative patches for complete encryption support...

Android developers announced the release today of the Android Studio 2.2 integrated development environment with many changes...

Version 1.0 of GNOME's GUPnP has been released after about a decade in development along with the associated GSSDP project...

Unigine Engine developers have announced the latest version of their advanced multi-platform game engine and virtual reality system...

The first release candidate of the X.Org Server 1.19 is now available along with some last-minute API/ABI breaks...

The past few weeks I've been testing out the MSI X99A Workstation motherboard courtesy of MSI Computer and it's been working out very well across a spectrum of open-source Linux (as well as BSD) use-cases for those in need of a LGA-2011 v3 motherboard.

Wine-Staging 1.9.19 was released this weekend as the latest experimental patch-set atop of the newest bi-weekly Wine release...

Eric Anholt has been working at Broadcom for more than two years to develop the "VC4" open-source Linux graphics driver stack consisting of the DRM/KMS kernel driver and VC4 Gallium3D driver in user-space. While there's been 2+ years of work and tons of progress made, it's still not feature-complete compared to the older proprietary driver and as an interim solution Eric has hacked up a firmware-based KMS path...

Coreboot has mainlined a months-old patch to make the Ada programming language "a first class citizen" in this low-level open-source project...

It's been a while since last talking about the discussions among LLVM developers about re-licensing the project. The re-licensing is moving forward and they are settling on the Apache 2.0 license plus explicitly stating compatibility with GPLv2...

Qt developer Laszlo Agocs has written a thorough walkthrough for the official Qt blog about the different Qt graphics options with multiple displays on embedded Linux...

Ubuntu OTA-13 has been released this Monday morning for Ubuntu phone/tablet users...

For Linux 4.9 we already saw some Intel DRM changes in early August, a second batch of feature changes in late August for DRM-Next, and out this morning is another batch of i915 DRM driver changes being queued for the upcoming Linux 4.9 kernel merge window...

Linux input developer Peter Hutterer of Red Hat has provided a look at the evdev protocol for those wondering about its design...

Linus Torvalds announced the release of Linux 4.8-rc7 a few minutes ago and it's looking like this release cycle will likely drag on with a 4.8-rc8 release being likely next week...

The Git development community has launched a survey seeking feedback from users of this leading, open-source revision control system...

The third release candidate to FreeBSD 11.0 is now available with this release cycle running now a few weeks behind schedule...

The libdrm support was merged this weekend for Etnaviv, the open-source, reverse-engineered support around Vivante graphics cores. With the libdrm support in mainline, merging the Gallium3D driver into Mesa shouldn't be far behind...

For those of you making use of Kodi as your PVR/DVR/HTPC software, the second beta of "Krypton" is available for weekend testing...

While Android 7 "Nougat" is available as the latest upstream from Google, the Android-x86 folks have finally put out their first stable release of Android-x86 6.0 Marshmallow...

For those not running the new, feature-packed Vim 8.0, GNU Emacs 25.1 was released on Saturday with several new features and improvements...

Similar to last year, unfortunately there is no Phoronix Oktoberfest meet-up in 2016 unlike in a number of years prior, as unfortunately I am missing the yearly pilgrimage/holiday...

The latest installment of Debian "Jessie" is now available...

Con Kolivas announced this week BFS 497, a major new release of his scheduler that's now fitted for the Linux 4.7 kernel...

LLVM/GPGPU expert Tom Stellard has landed a seemingly big change in Mesa for benefiting the RadeonSI driver and step-by-step still advancing the open-source AMD GPU compute support...

The release candidate for X.Org Server 1.19 should be cut today and that will imply the feature freeze for this latest major update to the long-standing X Server...

Thursday night we wrote about Libreboot leaving the GNU and denouncing the GNU and FSF with rather harsh words. That thread generated more than 120 comments with differing views while now the Free Software Foundation issued a statement as well as Richard M Stallman...

One month after the first AMDGPU feature pull of new functionality for DRM-Next to in turn land in Linux 4.9, the second feature pull request has now been sent out and it presents experimental Southern Islands (GCN 1.0) support for AMDGPU...

Wine 1.9.19 is available today as the latest bi-weekly Wine development release leading up to this winter's Wine 2.0 stable debut...

For those looking to live on the edge of Mesa development, there are some new patch series out this morning, particularly of interest if you are using the AMD RadeonSI Gallium3D driver for GCN GPUs...

Besides the Greybus subsystem being right around the corner for the mainline Linux kernel, it might not be too much longer before the TEE subsystem is ready. TEE is now up to its 12th patch revision and is about trusted computing...

In continuation of yesterday's article about Mesa Gets Improved For Running On Windows With Cygwin, the Windows-DRI extension has landed in the X.Org Server code-base...

The embargo expired this morning on the Nextcloud Box, a device from the cooperation of Canonical, Nextcloud, and WDLabs for making it easy to deploy your own Ubuntu-powered personal cloud...

The Intel Mesa OpenGL driver now exposes the ARB_ES3_2_compatibility extension...

It was only in May that Libreboot became an official GNU project but now this free software Coreboot downstream has parted ways...

Google's latest open-source project is ETC2Comp and should be quite exciting for game developers and indirectly will benefit gamers too -- especially mobile gamers and those interested in VR...

Facebook developers have announced the release of their HHVM HipHop Virtual Machine as their speed-oriented PHP interpreter. HHVM 3.15 is the project's latest Long-Term Support release...

Jon Turney has landed his big "Windows-DRI" patch-set in Mesa for improving the support when running GLX applications under under Cygwin. The patches provide direct-to-native-OpenGL for GLX clients running on Cygwin...

GNU Bash 4.4 was released today with a wide variety of new features and changes...

Google today is rolling out the Chromium/Chrome 54 web-browser beta, which incorporates several new features for web developers plus media platform improvements for Chrome on Android...

CryENGINE 5.3 had been planning to ship in mid-October with a number of new features -- including Vulkan support -- but now it's delayed at least one month...

The beta of the upcoming KDE Plasma 5.8 -- the first Plasma 5 long-term support release -- is now available for early testing...