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Wine 11.4 released with DirectSound and MSXML improvements

By Liam Squires-Hand,
6
The Wine 11.4 development release is now available for the Windows to Linux compatibility layer, bringing assorted new features and fixes.
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Linux Mint Cinnamon has the new screensaver lock screen ready for Wayland

By Liam Squires-Hand,
3
The Linux Mint team have a new blog post up detailing their new screensaver, whicj is the last major point for full Wayland support with the Cinnamon desktop.
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Ubuntu and Fedora devs comment on California's new Digital Age Assurance Act

By Liam Squires-Hand,
32
With California's new age checking law coming into action in January 2027, there's a lot of discussion on how Linux distributions will be handling it.
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Bazzite gets a big update with KDE Plasma 6.6, Mesa 26.0.1 and more

By Liam Squires-Hand,
10
Bazzite has a big new update available for your PC gaming handhelds and desktops with some major packaging upgrades to play with.
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SteamInputDB is a new site to help you find Steam Input configurations for your gamepads

By Liam Squires-Hand,
7
SteamInputDB recently launched as a new third-party community site to help you find Steam Input configurations for various gamepads with Steam games.
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Proton Experimental gets improvements for Vermintide 2 and more controller support for launchers

By Liam Squires-Hand,
2
Valve released an update for Proton Experimental for February 27th, their testing ground for getting more Windows games running on Linux / SteamOS systems.
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SpaghettiKart the Mario Kart 64 fan-made PC port gets a big upgrade

By Liam Squires-Hand,
7
The Harbour Masters team recently released a big upgrade for SpaghettiKart, their Mario Kart 64 fan-made PC port with a bunch of new features.
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Longterm supported Linux kernels get a longer life

By Liam Squires-Hand,
3
Linux developer Greg Kroah-Hartman announced that the Longterm supported Linux kernels are going to be supported for longer than previously announced.
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Open source graphics drivers Mesa 26.0.1 released with various bug fixes and a security fix

By Liam Squires-Hand,
2
Developer Eric Engestrom announced the Mesa 26.0.1 update for open source graphics drivers, the first set of bug-fixes for the latest release.
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KDE Plasma 6.6.1 rolls out with lots of fixes for KWin

By Liam Squires-Hand,
12
The KDE team have released the latest release for the Plasma desktop, with version 6.6.1 bringing quite a lot of bug fixing.
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Lutris v0.5.21 and v0.5.22 arrive with Valve's Sniper runtime support and new game runners

By Liam Squires-Hand,
7
Lutris is an all-in-one open source game manager for launching games from various stores on Linux and emulators too - with multiple new versions released.
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D7VK version 1.4 brings further enhancements for older Direct3D via Vulkan

By Liam Squires-Hand,
1
Even more improvements have arrived for D7VK that brings Direct3D 5, 6 and 7 via Vulkan for use with Wine / Proton in version 1.4.
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Heroic Games Launcher 2.20.0 brings numerous important bug fixes

By Liam Squires-Hand,
1
Heroic Games Launcher is one of the best ways to run games from Epic Games Store, GOG and more on Linux / SteamOS - with a new v2.20.0 bug-fix release out now.
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Mesa 25.3.6 released as the last bug fix for this driver series

By Liam Squires-Hand,
4
Mesa 25.3.6 has released and is the last planned bug fix for this driver series, with the developers now moving on to focus on Mesa 26 and beyond.
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Wine 11.3 released with vkd3d and Mono upgrades

By Liam Squires-Hand,
3
Wine 11.3 is here bringing more compatibility fixes for running Windows apps and games on Linux systems.
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It's now easier to install MGSHDFix for Metal Gear games on Linux / Steam Deck

By Liam Squires-Hand,
1
The ace Luxtorpeda project has expanded, and now it makes it real easy to install the popular MGSHDFix pack for various Metal Gear games on Linux / Steam Deck.
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Widelands, the open source Settlers-like, devs plan to ban all AI generated contributions

By Liam Squires-Hand,
4
Widelands is a free and open source Settlers-like strategy game, and their developers appear to be setting a firm stance against any AI generated contributions.
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Free and open source RTS 0 A.D. release 28 "Boiorix" is live

By Liam Squires-Hand,
7
The first release of 0 A.D. that doesn't have an "Alpha" label attached, as the free and open source RTS has grown up with their faster release schedule.
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Experimental code ready for testing to enable HDMI 2.1 FRL with AMDGPU on Linux

By Liam Squires-Hand,
26
Unfortunately, the HDMI Forum refused to allow HDMI 2.1+ features in the open source driver, but that hasn't stopped one developer.
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Godot Engine suffering from lots of "AI slop" code submissions

By Liam Squires-Hand,
43
The Godot Engine team recently posted about more issues with "AI slop", including various pull requests that have become a big drain on resources.
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