DMA-BUF Linux & Open-Source News |
| Wayland Protocols 1.49 Released With Improved Multi-GPU Support, Windows BT.2100 | Wayland | 2026-06-07 |
| GNOME 51 Retires Legacy NVIDIA Driver Support With Removing EGLStreams | NVIDIA | 2026-06-05 |
| NVIDIA 610.43.02 Linux Driver Released With Vulkan Improvements, DRM Color Pipeline API | NVIDIA | 2026-05-26 |
| KDE Plasma 6.7 To Provide A Much Better Experience For CPU-Based Rendering | KDE | 2026-05-07 |
| Wayland Developers Target June For Weston 16 Release | Wayland | 2026-04-29 |
| Sunshine Game Streaming Introduces Vulkan Video Encode Support | Linux Gaming | 2026-04-14 |
| Open-Source "GreenBoost" Driver Aims To Augment NVIDIA GPUs vRAM With System RAM & NVMe To Handle Larger LLMs | NVIDIA | 2026-03-14 |
| NVIDIA Releases New R595-Derived Vulkan Developer Beta For Linux With New Features | NVIDIA | 2026-03-09 |
| Mesa 26.0.1 Released With Important Security Fix For OOB Memory Access From WebGPU | Mesa | 2026-02-25 |
| Qualcomm Posts Patches For New DSP Accelerator Linux Driver | Hardware | 2026-02-23 |
| DAXFS Proposed As Newest Linux File-System | Linux Storage | 2026-01-24 |
| Intel Readies Multi-Queue Support For Linux 7.0 As New Feature For Crescent Island | Intel | 2025-12-20 |
| NVIDIA Plumbs DMA-BUF Support For VFIO PCI Devices In Linux 6.19 | Linux Kernel | 2025-12-07 |
| Intel Xe Driver Patches Allow For Mapping DMA-BUFs Via IOV Interconnects | Intel | 2025-10-27 |
| KDE Plasma 6.5's Overlay Planes Support Yields Significant Power Savings | KDE | 2025-10-23 |
| More Kernel Graphics Driver & Accelerator/NPU Driver Updates Ready For Linux 6.19 | Linux Kernel | 2025-10-21 |
| Initial Intel Xe3P Graphics Support To Be Submitted For Linux 6.19 | Intel | 2025-10-20 |
| AMD Continues Enhancing AMDGPU/AMDKFD Drivers For Checkpoint/Restore | AMD | 2025-09-15 |
| Pinned Device Memory Patches For Intel's Multi-GPU "Project Battlematrix" Linux Efforts | Intel | 2025-08-19 |
| Mesa 25.2 Released With Many Improvements For RADV, Intel & NVK Drivers | Mesa | 2025-08-06 |
| Linux 6.17 Preps Many Networking Changes From Broadcom 800G To More WiFi 7 | Linux Networking | 2025-07-28 |
| Mesa 25.2-rc1 Released: Faster RADV Ray-Tracing, NVK Blackwell & More Optimizations | Mesa | 2025-07-16 |
| Mesa 25.2 Drops Legacy DRI2 Code With A Bonfire To Pre-DMABUF Winsys Support | Mesa | 2025-07-09 |
| X.Org Server Lands Big Improvement For Using Zink With GLAMOR | X.Org | 2025-07-03 |
| DragonFlyBSD Updates Its Graphics Drivers With New GPU Support But Still Years Behind | BSD | 2025-06-11 |
| NVMe FDP Block Write Streams, IO_uring DMA-BUF Zero Copy Receive Land In Linux 6.16 | Linux Storage | 2025-06-03 |
| Linux 6.16 GPU Driver Changes Land: NVIDIA Blackwell, Asahi UAPI, Intel Xe Fan Speeds | Linux Kernel | 2025-05-28 |
| Linux 6.16 Features Include A Lot From Intel, NVIDIA Blackwell, AMDGPU User Mode Queues | Linux Kernel | 2025-05-25 |
| Device Memory TCP TX Support Queued Ahead Of Linux 6.16 | Linux Networking | 2025-05-19 |
| Direct I/O For DMA-BUF Can Yield A Big Performance Win | Hardware | 2025-05-16 |
| IO_uring Zero Copy Receive Seeing DMA-BUF Support Slated For Linux 6.16 | Linux Networking | 2025-05-05 |
| GNOME 49 Will Enjoy Better Performance With More Fullscreen Apps | GNOME | 2025-04-28 |
| Linux 6.15 Fixes Intel Graphics Flickering Issue, Adds AMDGPU DMEM Cgroups Support | Linux Kernel | 2025-04-11 |
| Graphics/Display Driver Changes Begin Queuing For Linux 6.16 This Summer | Linux Kernel | 2025-04-10 |
| MPV 0.40 Media Player Released With Wayland HDR Support | Multimedia | 2025-03-25 |
| GNOME Mutter 48.rc Released With Wayland Color Management, Dynamic Triple Buffering | GNOME | 2025-03-03 |
| NVIDIA 565.77 Linux Driver Released As First Stable R565 Build | NVIDIA | 2024-12-05 |
| AMDVLK 2024.Q4.2 Released With New Extensions, Other Changes | Radeon | 2024-12-04 |
| NVIDIA R565 Linux Driver Beta Brings Improvements For Wayland, DMA-BUF & VKD3D | NVIDIA | 2024-10-22 |
| FFmpeg Merges Implicit DRM Synchronization For Vulkan | Multimedia | 2024-09-23 |
| Device Memory TCP Included With The Networking Changes For Linux 6.12 | Linux Networking | 2024-09-17 |
| Wayland's Weston 14.0 Compositor Released | Wayland | 2024-09-04 |
| Weston 14.0 Alpha Brings New Wayland Compositor Features | Wayland | 2024-08-14 |
| GTK 4.16 To Feature More Graphics Offloading Improvements | GNOME | 2024-07-12 |
| Intel's VA-API 2.22 Library Adds VVC/H.266 Video Decode Interface | Intel | 2024-07-02 |
| PipeWire 1.2 Preps For Async Processing, Snap Support & Explicit Sync | PipeWire | 2024-05-16 |
| Mesa's Venus Vulkan Driver Updated To Allow QEMU Support | Virtualization | 2024-05-05 |
| GTK 4.15 Released With Vulkan Renderer By Default | GNOME | 2024-04-27 |
| GTK4 Continues Improving Graphics Offload & DMA-BUF Integration | GNOME | 2024-04-18 |
| More Efficient VirtIO DRM Driver To Import Scanout Buffers From Other Devices | Virtualization | 2024-03-28 |
| GNOME 46 Release Candidate Rolls Out Last Minute Fixes, VRR & Other Refinements | GNOME | 2024-03-09 |
| GStreamer 1.24 Released With Vulkan H.264/H.265 Decode & Many Enhancements | Multimedia | 2024-03-04 |
| GNOME Shell & Mutter 46 RC Brings Modifier-Aware Screencasting, VRR & X.Org Sync Fix | GNOME | 2024-03-03 |
| AMDGPU Driver Changes Begin For Linux 6.9: RAS ACA Framework, SEQ64 Infrastructure & Fixes | Radeon | 2024-02-11 |
| The Current State & Future Of GTK's New Unified Renderers | GNOME | 2024-01-29 |
| Linux Can Now Engage GFXOFF When Running ROCm Compute Apps On RDNA3 GPUs | Radeon | 2024-01-19 |
| Wayland Protocols 1.33 Released With DMA-BUF Stable, Adds Transient Seat Protocol | Wayland | 2024-01-19 |
| Intel's New "Xe" Driver Submitted For Linux 6.8 Along With Imagination's PowerVR Driver | Linux Kernel | 2024-01-11 |
| AMD Stages The Radeon Graphics Color Management Code For Linux 6.8 | Radeon | 2023-12-16 |
| Imagination PowerVR Open-Source GPU Driver To Be Introduced In Linux 6.8 | Linux Kernel | 2023-11-23 |
| Louvre Is A New C++ Library Helping To Build Wayland Compositors | Wayland | 2023-11-17 |
| GTK 4.14 Adding Graphics Offloading Capabilities Under Wayland | GNOME | 2023-11-15 |
| COSMIC Desktop Rolls Out Lock/Login Screen, More Wayland Protocols | Desktop | 2023-10-20 |
| AMD Posts Linux Patches For Better Graphics/Compute Interoperability & Other Benefits | AMD | 2023-10-17 |
| PipeWire 0.3.80 Released With Vulkan DMA-BUF Support, Tag Param | PipeWire | 2023-09-14 |
| AMD Readies "New Stuff" For Linux 6.6 Graphics Driver, AMDGPU DC For RISC-V | Radeon | 2023-07-28 |
| MPV Player 0.36 Released With Wayland Fractional Scaling, Vulkan Video Decode | Multimedia | 2023-07-23 |
| Open-Source Graphics Driver Updates Begin Queuing For Linux 6.6 | Linux Kernel | 2023-07-13 |
| Intel Compute Runtime 23.22.26516.18 Is A Big Update With New Level Zero APIs | Intel | 2023-07-13 |
| Mozilla Firefox 116 To Allow For Wayland-Only Builds | Mozilla | 2023-06-26 |
| Linux 6.4 Bringing Great Improvements From AMD G.A.M. To Early Apple M2 Code, More Rust | Linux Kernel | 2023-06-24 |
| NVIDIA 535.54.03 Linux Driver Released With Vulkan Updates, DMA-BUF v4 Wayland Protocol | NVIDIA | 2023-06-14 |
| Imagination PowerVR DRM Open-Source Driver Continues To Be Improved Upon | Linux Kernel | 2023-06-14 |
| NVIDIA R535 Linux Beta Brings New Vulkan Extensions, DMA-BUF v4 Wayland Protocol | NVIDIA | 2023-05-30 |
| Linux 6.4 Kernel Graphics Drivers Include More Meteor Lake Code, Rockchip 4K, QAIC | Linux Kernel | 2023-04-24 |
| An Early Look At Linux 6.4 Features: AMD CDX, AMD GAM, Intel LAM, Apple M2 & More | Linux Kernel | 2023-04-14 |
| WebKitGTK Working On Accelerated Composited Rendering With DMA-BUF | GNOME | 2023-04-03 |
| Linux 6.4 Preparing DRM Deadline Hints To Help Influence GPU Frequency/Performance | Linux Kernel | 2023-03-26 |
| XWayland 23.1 Released With High Resolution Scroll Wheel, DMA-BUF v4 Feedback | Wayland | 2023-03-22 |
| Linux 6.4 AMD Graphics Driver Picking Up New Power Features For The Steam Deck | Radeon | 2023-03-18 |
| XWayland 23.1 Aims For Release In March With New Features | Wayland | 2023-02-14 |
| MPV Player 0.35.1 Released With Wayland & PipeWire Fixes | Multimedia | 2023-01-28 |
| Intel Habana Labs AI Driver Moving To New "Accel" Subsystem For Linux 6.3 | Intel | 2023-01-27 |
| NVIDIA Contributes linux_dmabuf v4 Feedback Support To XWayland | X.Org | 2023-01-21 |
| Wine's Wayland Driver Is Becoming Mature, May Aim For Upstreaming Early Next Year | WINE | 2022-12-12 |
| Intel VPU Driver Adapted To Linux's New Accelerator Framework | Intel | 2022-12-08 |
| MPV 0.35 Media Player Released With PipeWire Backend, Wayland DMA-BUF Support | Multimedia | 2022-11-12 |
| Mesa Lands DMA-BUF Feedback Support For Vulkan On Wayland | Mesa | 2022-10-22 |
| More DRM-Misc-Next Driver Changes Queue Up For Linux 6.1 | Linux Kernel | 2022-09-06 |
| ASpeed DRM Driver Adding DMA-BUF/PRIME Sharing For Use With Servers Having dGPUs | Linux Kernel | 2022-08-29 |
| Imagination PowerVR Rogue DRM Linux Kernel Driver Out For Review | Linux Kernel | 2022-08-23 |
| Linux 6.0 Graphics Driver Changes Preparing For Intel DG2/Alchemist & AMD RDNA3 | Linux Kernel | 2022-08-03 |
| Firefox 103 Better Handles High Refresh Displays, WebGL Performance Fix On NVIDIA Driver | Mozilla | 2022-07-26 |
| WayVNC 0.5 VNC Server For wlroots-Based Wayland Compositors Released | Wayland | 2022-07-10 |
| Linux 5.19 Advances In Quest To Improve Explicit Synchronization For Graphics | Linux Kernel | 2022-06-10 |
| NVIDIA's List Of Known Wayland Issues From SLI To VDPAU, VR & More | NVIDIA | 2022-05-22 |
| VP9 Encoder & Other Media Functionality Of Tesla's FSD Chip To Be Upstreamed In Linux | Hardware | 2022-05-17 |
| GNOME 42 Released With Many Improvements From Wayland To GTK4 Porting | GNOME | 2022-03-23 |
| Mesa 22.0 Released With Vulkan 1.3, Many Open-Source Intel & AMD Driver Improvements | Mesa | 2022-03-09 |
| GNOME Shell & Mutter Prepare For GNOME 42 Beta With More Desktop Enhancements | GNOME | 2022-02-14 |
| GNOME Shell 42 Lands Redesigned OSD Notifications | GNOME | 2022-02-12 |
| Mesa 22.0-rc1 Released With Many Radeon & Intel Linux GPU Driver Features, Vulkan 1.3 | Mesa | 2022-02-02 |
| Wayland's Weston 10.0 Compositor Released With DMA-BUF Feedback, Libseat Support | Wayland | 2022-02-01 |
| Sway 1.7 Released With VR Headset DRM Leasing, Renames "--my-next-gpu-wont-be-nvidia" | Wayland | 2022-01-23 |
| GNOME Shell & Mutter Prepare For GNOME 42 Alpha With Exciting Improvements | GNOME | 2022-01-12 |
| GNOME On Wayland Lands Improved Handling For Direct Scanout Support | GNOME | 2022-01-08 |
| GNOME 42 Lands DMA-BUF Feedback Support For Better Multi-GPU, Proper Direct Scanout | GNOME | 2022-01-05 |
| Happy New Year & A Wrap On 2021 | Phoronix | 2021-12-31 |
| Mesa 22.0 Zink Lands macOS Build Fix For OpenGL On Vulkan Via MoltenVK On Metal | Mesa | 2021-12-29 |
| Sway 1.7-rc1 Has Better Zero-Copy Direct Scanout, Drops "--my-next-gpu-wont-be-nvidia" | Wayland | 2021-12-23 |
| NVIDIA NVDEC Video Decode Support Sent Out For Linux 5.17, Better Power Management | NVIDIA | 2021-12-17 |
| Wayland's Weston 10 Alpha Brings Early Color Management Work, More Zero-Copy Scanout | Wayland | 2021-12-14 |
| DMA-BUF Feedback Support For Wayland Lands In Mesa 22.0's EGL Code | Mesa | 2021-11-27 |
| Wayland Protocols 1.24 Released With Improvement To DMA-BUF Protocol For Multi-GPUs | Wayland | 2021-11-23 |
| Intel's Habana Labs Continues Improving Their AI Accelerator Driver Stack With Linux 5.16 | Linux Kernel | 2021-11-07 |
| Steam Beta Adds VA-API Acceleration For Remote Play | Valve | 2021-11-03 |
| Firefox 94 To Start Using EGL On Linux - Better Performance, Lower Power Use | Mozilla | 2021-10-30 |
| Linux 5.16 Will Be A Great Christmas Gift For Open-Source Fans With Many New Features | Linux Kernel | 2021-10-25 |
| Habana Labs For Linux 5.16 To Bring Peer-To-Peer Support With DMA-BUF | Intel | 2021-10-18 |
| NVIDIA Contributing Tegra NVDEC Support To Linux 5.16 | NVIDIA | 2021-10-10 |
| Chrome 96 To Feature Improved WebRTC Code, Better Wayland Screensharing | Google | 2021-10-06 |
| Linux 5.16 To Add Quirk For The Steam Deck, Other DRM-Misc-Next Changes | Linux Kernel | 2021-09-16 |
| Habana Labs AI Driver Updates Submitted For Linux 5.15 | Linux Kernel | 2021-09-10 |
| NVIDIA Confirms Sway Wayland Compositor Works Fine With Their New GBM Driver Support | NVIDIA | 2021-09-04 |
| Habana Labs' Linux AI Driver Causes More Concerns - Changes Dropped Ahead Of Linux 5.15 | Hardware | 2021-08-23 |
| DRM-Misc-Next Continues Prepping More Code Ahead Of Linux 5.15 | Linux Kernel | 2021-07-23 |
| Graphics Driver Changes Begin Queuing For Linux 5.15 | Linux Kernel | 2021-07-16 |
| Intel Discrete Graphics On Linux Nearing The Point Of A Working, Accelerated Desktop | Intel | 2021-07-01 |
| Linux 5.13 - Another Step In Prepping Intel Discrete Graphics, Preferring Local Memory | Intel | 2021-04-06 |
| Linux 5.12 Corruption, GNOME 40, AMD Milan, Rust In Linux-Next Made For An Exciting March | Phoronix | 2021-04-01 |
| OBS Studio Now Ready With Wayland Capture Support | Wayland | 2021-03-31 |
| NVIDIA Proposes Mesa Patches To Support Alternative GBM Back-Ends | NVIDIA | 2021-03-29 |
| NVIDIA 460.67 Linux Driver Brings A Few Fixes, 5.11 Kernel Compatibility | NVIDIA | 2021-03-18 |
| NVIDIA 470 Series Driver Looks Like It Will Bring OpenCL 3.0 Support | NVIDIA | 2021-03-09 |
| NVIDIA 470 Linux Driver Series To Be "Even More Wayland-Friendly" | NVIDIA | 2021-03-05 |
| More Open-Source Adreno 500 Series Support, A6xx Speedbin Sent In For Linux 5.12 | Linux Kernel | 2021-02-26 |
| RDMA Changes For Linux 5.12 Add DMA-BUF Support For Peer-To-Peer Transfers With GPUs | Hardware | 2021-02-22 |
| Mir 2.3.2 Released With Better XWayland HiDPI, Copy/Paste Between Wayland/XWayland | Ubuntu | 2021-02-11 |
| Intel Working On A VirtIO DMA-BUF Driver For Multi-GPUs, Virtualized Environments | Intel | 2021-02-03 |
| Ubuntu 21.04 Will Try To Use Wayland By Default | Ubuntu | 2021-01-28 |
| Vulkan Wayland Compositors Are Nearing Reality | Vulkan | 2021-01-20 |
| NVIDIA Prepares XWayland OpenGL/Vulkan Acceleration Support | NVIDIA | 2021-01-07 |
| Some Linux/Open-Source Letdowns Last For Years | Free Software | 2021-01-01 |
| The Most Popular NVIDIA Linux News + Milestones Of 2020 | NVIDIA | 2020-12-30 |
| Better WebRTC Support Is Coming To Chrome/Chromium For Benefiting Wayland Screen Sharing | Wayland | 2020-12-18 |
| NVIDIA Is Working On DMA-BUF Passing That Should Help Improve Their Wayland Support | NVIDIA | 2020-12-01 |
| NVIDIA Is Working On Vulkan Support With RDMA Memory | NVIDIA | 2020-11-20 |
| Mesa 21.0 RadeonSI Merges Buffer Modifier Support | Mesa | 2020-11-13 |
| KDE Plasma 5.21 To Bring Multi-GPU Support For Wayland | KDE | 2020-10-10 |
| Intel Continues Bringing Up DMA-BUF Support For RDMA | Intel | 2020-10-05 |
