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Accessibility features and the work that goes into developing those features often tend to be overlooked and are poorly understood by all but the people who actually depend on such features. At Fedora's annual developer conference, Flock, Lukáš Tyrychtr sought to improve understanding and raise awareness about accessibility with his session on accessibility barriers and screen-reader functionality in GNOME. His talk provided rare insight into the world of using and developing open-source software for visually-impaired users—including landing important accessibility improvements in the latest GNOME release.

The X.Org Server 21.1.17 and XWayland 24.1.7 point releases were issued today to fix the latest batch of security issues...

NVIDIA today released a new version of their R575 series stable Linux driver to provide a few additional fixes for customers...

Git 2.50 distributed revision control tool removes the legacy recursive merge engine

Arch Linux transitions wine & wine-staging to pure WoW64 builds

Security updates have been issued by AlmaLinux (.NET 8.0, .NET 9.0, buildah, containernetworking-plugins, firefox, gstreamer1-plugins-bad-free, libsoup3, podman, skopeo, sqlite, thunderbird, unbound, valkey, varnish, and xz), Debian (webkit2gtk), Fedora (fido-device-onboard, python-django4.2, rust-git-interactive-rebase-tool, and thunderbird), Red Hat (libsoup), Slackware (libxml2), SUSE (java-11-openjdk, kernel, and wireshark), and Ubuntu (c3p0, dojo, python-django, python3.13, python3.12, python3.11, python3.10, python3.9, python3.8, python3.7, python3.6, and requests).

AMD's Advancing AI 2025 event last week was very busy with announcing the Instinct MI350X and MI355X, the ROCm 7.0 preview, and debuting the AMD Developer Cloud. In addition, they held pre-briefs around the Ryzen Threadripper 9000 series and buried in as part of that was another new disclosure: Radeon Test Drive. Radeon Test Drive was brought up as something that's coming later this summer from AMD partnering with different hardware vendors to make it easier for developers/customers to try out ROCm on Radeon GPUs...

Prior to the AMD Advancing AI 2025 event last week, AMD shared additional details on their forthcoming Ryzen Threadripper 9000 series processors.

Qt 6.10 Beta 1 released today as the next stepping stone for this open-source, cross-platform toolkit. Qt 6.10 isn't bringing any new modules but is deprecating the Qt Charts and Qt Data Visualization code...

KDE Plasma 6.4 is out today with many fantastic improvements for this open-source desktop...

Merged recently for the Linux 6.16 kernel was initial support for Intel QAT Gen6 hardware. A new qat_6xxx driver was added for supporting the next-gen QuickAssist Technology accelerator IP being found with upcoming Intel Xeon processors. Patches being prepared now for the Linux 6.17 kernel are building out a new decompression service for that next-generation hardware...

Merged for Linux 6.14 at the beginning of the year were the Intel THC drivers for supporting the Touch Host Controller IP found in modern Intel Core Ultra laptops for dealing with the touchpad, touchscreen, and related touch-control functionality. This open-source driver is still being built-out ahead of next-generation Core Ultra laptops hitting the market...

The Dbus-Broker project from the BUS1/systemd developers is out with its first update in more than one year for this D-Bus implementation that aims to be more reliable and higher performing than D-Bus itself...

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