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VLC Media Player maker VideoLAN announced today the dav2d project as an open-source, cross-platform, and free AV2 decoder focused on speed and correctness, based on the popular dav1d decoder.

As an exciting development for GPU-accelerated video decoding within the Mozilla Firefox web browser, initial support for Vulkan Video has landed in the web browser!..

Catch up on the latest Linux news: Linux Lite 8.0, KaOS 2026.06 RC, COSMIC 1.0.15, GNOME 50.2, Yay 12.6, XLibre Xserver 25.1.6, Ubuntu 26.10 to ship with GNOME 51, and more.

KaOS Dinit 2026.06 RC follows months of migration work, replacing systemd as init with a Dinit-based stack.

HandBrake 1.11.2 has been released today as a minor update in the HandBrake 1.11 series of this free and open-source video transcoder application for converting between a multitude of video file formats, addressing a few issues and crashes.

Last week Linux 7.1-rc6 was larger than Linus Torvalds wished for and for Linux 7.1-rc7 it has come in still heavier than typically seen this late in the cycle, but is shrinking and making Linus comfortable in hopefully releasing Linux 7.1 stable next Sunday...

The 295th installment of the 9to5Linux Weekly Roundup is here for the week ending June 7th, 2026, keeping you updated on the most important developments in the Linux world.

A month ago I wrote about Linux scheduler work to help boost gaming performance on old "potato" hardware with Intel engineer Peter Zijlstra noting that Linux cgroup scheduling has continued to be "a pain in the arse." This work continues advancing with a third iteration of these "flatten the pick" patches being posted...

Hyprland 0.55.3 backports fixes from main to the 0.55 branch, covering config reloads, rendering, monitors, XWayland, and more.