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FFmpeg Merges A Number Of Vulkan Improvements To Start 2026
Jan 13, 2026 1:15 PMFFmpeg developer Lynne has landed a number of Vulkan-related imporvements to this widely-used open-source multimedia library. Over the past year FFmpeg saw Vulkan shader-based decoding for more video formats, AV1 and VP9 extension work, performance improvements, and other work around Vulkan Video. It will be very exciting to see how FFmpeg delivers in 2026 with Vulkan Video and how the software ecosystem as a whole begins taking up this cross-platform, open industry standard for video encode/decode...Bcachefs Ships Latest User-Space Utilities With bcachefs-tools 1.35
Jan 13, 2026 11:21 AMKent Overstreet has shipped the latest version of bcachefs-tools, the user-space code complementing the Bcachefs file-system kernel driver. There are a number of improvements present in this latest version with Overstreet remaining committed to advancing Bcachefs even with its current out-of-tree kernel status...LLVM/Clang 22 Feature Development Ends With Intel Nova Lake, Arm C1 & Ampere1C Support
Jan 13, 2026 10:59 AMLLVM/Clang 22 feature development ended overnight with the code now being branched and working toward a stable release likely by the end of February...wl-proxy Announced As Rust Crate For Proxying Wayland Connections
Jan 13, 2026 10:55 AMAnnounced today on the Wayland mailing list is wl-proxy as a Rust crate for proxying Wayland connections and intercepting/manipulating Wayland messages...Haiku OS Pulls In Updated Drivers From FreeBSD 15
Jan 13, 2026 10:41 AMThe BeOS-inspired Haiku open-source operating system project just published a new status report to detail how they ended out the year...