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phosh 0.57.0 is out 🚀📱:

There's new features, 🐛 fixes and initial hardware support in BengalOS.

Check out the full release notes at https://phosh.mobi/releases/rel-0.57.0/ for details or see 👇 for a short 🧵

🙏 to everyone who contributed to this release.

#phosh #gtk #wlroots #gnome #linux #mobile #LinuxMobile #Librem5 #PinePhone #BengalOS

@linuxteck Don't really understand the fuss about #cosmic here.

Sure, it's cool stuff and rapid development, but there is a TON of #wlroots based compositors that can tile like #niri, #mangowc etc.

Sure, cosmic has a more complete suite, but it is no way as deep and comprehensive as #gnome or #kde.

Aside of #popOS users, I'm not sure who it is for.

It's been relatively quiet on the compositor side this cycle but we updated phoc to use #wlroots 0.20.1 and added support for the xdg-toplevel-tag protocol.

#phoc #phosh #wlroots

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phosh 0.56.0 is out 🚀📱:

There's new features - most notably for immutable OSes, 🐛 fixes and improvements.

Check out the full release notes at https://phosh.mobi/releases/rel-0.56.0/ for details or see 👇 for a short 🧵

🙏 to everyone who contributed to this release.

#phosh #gtk #wlroots #gnome #linux #mobile #LinuxMobile #Librem5 #PinePhone #Duranium #BengalOS

PSA for distributions that use an older phoc with current phosh:

Starting from Phosh 0.56.0 (planned release date 2026-07-05) components like stevia (and likely phosh) will depend on phoc >= 0.55 (and thus #wlroots 0.20).

While it was always recommended to have the versions of the components of the stack in sync, some distros use phoc as old as 0.44.0 / wlroots 0.17 (from 2024). This already causes various issues for users but the session would at least start.

This won't be the case for 0.56.0 and later versions, unless you revert the changes. For 0.56 this will be rather small changes but it will become more involved over time so please update the compositor.

You can completely ignore this message if phosh, phoc and stevia are the same version.

#LinuxMobile #Phosh

#phoc now uses #wlroots 0.20, floating windows now show focus using an accent-colored frame and tiled windows have a small margin. We also support the xdg-dialog-v1 protocol to handle modal dialogs better.

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phosh 0.55.0 is out 🚀📱:

There are multiple 🐛 fixes and some new features.

Check out the full release notes at https://phosh.mobi/releases/rel-0.55.0/ for details or see 👇 for a short 🧵

🙏 to everyone who contributed to this release.

#phosh #gtk #wlroots #gnome #linux #mobile #LinuxMobile #Librem5 #PinePhone

We've just tagged and relesed phoc 0.55~alpha1 🥳. This is basically 0.54.0 but using the recently released #wlroots 0.20.0 instead of 0.19.3. Please give it a try!

#phosh #LinuxMobile

The Wayland compositor #phoc saw some workspace related improvements but the major changes affect the handling of override-redirect windows in #X11 applications. This allows X11 applications like #emacs, #ardour, etc. to work better. We also updated to #wlroots 0.19.3.

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phosh 0.54.0 is out 🚀📱:

There's 🐛 fixes, improvements and some new features this time.

Check out the full release notes at https://phosh.mobi/releases/rel-0.54.0/ for details or see 👇 for a short 🧵

🙏 to everyone who contributed to this release:

#phosh #gtk #wlroots #gnome #linux #mobile #LinuxMobile #Librem5 #PinePhone

(more Linux news in previous posts)

Proton Experimental brings fixes for Crimson Desert, Steam Overlay with EA games, Death Stranding 2:
https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/03/proton-experimental-brings-fixes-for-crimson-desert-steam-overlay-with-ea-games-death-stranding-2/

GE-Proton 10-34 brings fixes for God of War Ragnarök, Assassin's Creed, Final Fantasy XIV:
https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/03/ge-proton-10-34-brings-fixes-for-god-of-war-ragnarok-assassins-creed-final-fantasy-xiv/

D7VK version 1.6 gets improved vertex processing and VSync handling:
https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/03/d7vk-version-1-6-gets-improved-vertex-processing-and-vsync-handling/

Pine64 teases PineTime Pro with AMOLED, GPS and ‘custom’ chip:
https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2026/03/pine64-tease-pinetime-pro-smartwatch

GTK3 Toolkit Winding Down To One Release Per Year:
https://www.phoronix.com/news/GTK3-Annual-Release-Cadence

Qt 6.11 Toolkit Released With "The Same 3D Capabilities As A Game Engine":
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Qt-6.11-Toolkit

wlroots 0.20 Released,Sway 1.12-rc1 Available For Testing With Color Management:
https://www.phoronix.com/news/wlroots-0.20-Sway-1.12-rc1

Fish 4.6 Shell Brings Support For Recent systemd Environment Variables:
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Fish-4.6-Released

GStreamer 1.30 to Support HDR10+ Metadata Parsing from H.265 & AV1 Bitstreams:
https://9to5linux.com/gstreamer-1-30-to-support-hdr10-metadata-parsing-from-h-265-av1-bitstreams

Mesa 26.0 Will Make It In Time For The Fedora 44 Release:
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Mesa-26.0-For-Fedora-44

NVIDIA 595 Linux Graphics Driver Released as Latest Production Branch Version:
https://9to5linux.com/nvidia-595-linux-graphics-driver-released-as-latest-production-branch-version

Electron's Investment Into Good Wayland Support:
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Electron-Good-Wayland-Support

(FOSS news in comments)

#WeeklyNews #News #Linux #LinuxNews #Proton #ProtonExperimental #GEProton #D7VK #Pine64 #PineTime #PineTimePro #GTK #GTK3 #Qt #wlroots #FishShell #GStreamer #Mesa #NVIDIA #NVIDIADriver #Electron #Smartwatch #LinuxSmartwatch #FosseryTech

Its a fact, #HDR on #Linux, its taken 6 years from buying this TV to getting here, congratulations on everyone who worked on color-management-v1 for #Wayland.

This setup shows #wlroots (git) #sway (git) and #mpv

Set:

'output xxx { render_bit_depth 10; hdr off }'

In sway config then toggle using:

'swaymsg output xxx hdr toggle'

Next launch mpv using:

'mpv --target-colorspace-hint "path/file"'

(more Linux news in original post)

System76 Preparing To Introduce Redesigned Thelio Hardware:
https://www.phoronix.com/news/System76-Thelio-Redesign

PipeWire 1.6 Released with Support for Audio Channel Layouts, LDAC Decoder:
https://9to5linux.com/pipewire-1-6-released-with-support-for-audio-channel-layouts-ldac-decoder

DNF 5.4 Released With Some New Options & AI Contributions Policy:
https://www.phoronix.com/news/DNF-5.4-Released

TrueNAS 25.10.2 brings 100+ fixes, OpenZFS 2.3.4, and NVMe-oF support:
https://alternativeto.net/news/2026/2/truenas-25-10-2-brings-100-fixes-openzfs-2-3-4-and-nvme-of-support/

It's now easier to install MGSHDFix for Metal Gear games on Linux / Steam Deck:
https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/02/its-now-easier-to-install-mgshdfix-for-metal-gear-games-on-linux-steam-deck/

GE-Proton 10-31 brings fixes for Arknights: Endfield, Duet Night Abyss and more:
https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/02/ge-proton-10-31-brings-fixes-for-arknights-endfield-duet-night-abyss-and-more/

Lutris 0.5.20 Game Manager Adds Support for Importing Commodore 64 ROMs:
https://9to5linux.com/lutris-0-5-20-game-manager-adds-support-for-importing-commodore-64-roms

Fish 4.5.0 fixes Vi mode regressions and drops terminfo dependency:
https://alternativeto.net/news/2026/2/fish-4-5-0-fixes-vi-mode-regressions-and-drops-terminfo-dependency/

Intel Hiring More Linux Developers - Including For GPU Drivers / Linux Gaming Stack:
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Intel-Linux-Jobs-February-2026

wlroots 0.20 Nears Release With New Protocols, Enhanced Vulkan Renderer:
https://www.phoronix.com/news/wlroots-0.20-Released

Linux Begins Seeing Early Preparations For PCIe 7.0:
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-Early-PCIe-Gen-7-Prep

KVM In Linux 7.0 Adds Support For Virtualizing AMD ERAPS:
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-7.0-KVM

Experimental code ready for testing to enable HDMI 2.1 FRL with AMDGPU on Linux:
https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/02/experimental-code-ready-for-testing-to-enable-hdmi-2-1-frl-with-amdgpu-on-linux/

Apple M3 With Asahi Linux Continues Making Progress, No ETA Yet For Shipping:
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Apple-M3-Asahi-Linux-2026

NTFS3 Driver Sees Improvements In Linux 7.0 While "NTFS Remake" Driver Bakes:
https://www.phoronix.com/news/NTFS3-Linux-7.0

Linux 7.0 Merges The Code To Replace The Tux Boot Logo At Build Time:
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-7.0-FBDEV-Alternate-Logo

exFAT Achieves Better Sequential Read Performance With Linux 7.0:
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-7.0-exFAT

Linux 7.0 Makes Preparations For Rust 1.95:
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-7.0-Rust-1.95-Prep

AppArmor Enhancements Merged For Linux 7.0:
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-7.0-AppArmor

(FOSS news in comments)

#WeeklyNews #News #Linux #LinuxNews #News #PipeWire #DNF #System76 #TrueNAS #GEProton #Lutris #FishShell #wlroots #KVM #LinuxKernel #AsahiLinux #NTFS3 #exFAT #AppArmor #FosseryTech

phosh 0.53.0 is out 🚀📱:

There's plenty of 🐛 fixes, improvements and refinements of existing features this time.

Check out the full release notes at https://phosh.mobi/releases/rel-0.53.0/ for details or see 👇 for a short 🧵

🙏 to everyone who contributed to this release.

#phosh #Librem5 #PinePhone #gtk #wlroots #gnome #linux #mobile #LinuxMobile

wlroots 0.20.0-RC1 just released 16 hours ago and it has "Foreign toplevel support for ext-image-capture-source-v1" (quoting from the changelog). This means that when it's fully out and when Sway has a release that supports it, direct window screenshots using grim will "just work" without git versions.

https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/wlroots/wlroots/-/releases/0.20.0-rc1

#wlroots

phosh 0.52.0 is out 🚀📱:

There's some important 🐛 fixes and some user visible improvements - maybe a bit less than usual as the end of the year got a bit busy and we decided to rather not rush things in.

Check out the full release notes at https://phosh.mobi/releases/rel-0.52.0/ for details or see 👇 for a short 🧵

🙏 to everyone who contributed to this release.

#phosh #Librem5 #PinePhone #gtk #wlroots #gnome #linux #mobile #LinuxMobile

Would be great if that would happen:

https://social.phosh.mobi/@ev/statuses/01KB51N0TPZ0MS45Y082E99J5J

#phosh #LinuxMobile #gtk #wlroots #pcm2026

phosh 0.51.0 is out 🚀📱:

Another 6️⃣ weeks have passed and we have some new features, quality of life improvements, and 🐛 fixes. Check out the full release notes at https://phosh.mobi/releases/rel-0.51.0/ for details or see 👇 for a short 🧵

🙏 to everyone who contributed to this release.

#phosh #Librem5 #PinePhone #gtk #wlroots #gnome #linux #mobile #LinuxMobile

phosh 0.50.1 is out 🚀📱:

This is just a small point release update over 0.50.0 to fix some critical 🐛. Check out the full release notes at https://phosh.mobi/releases/rel-0.50.1 for details.

🙏 to everyone who contributed to this release.

#phosh #Librem5 #PinePhone #gtk #wlroots #gnome #linux #mobile #LinuxMobile

#Phosh and Phoc had nightlight support since ages but the only phone with out of the box gamma LUT support that could make use of it so far was the #PinePhone.

Thanks to @fizzo 's kernel work it works on Qualcomm based phones too now and makes the (optional) night light quick toggle useful on way more devices and looking at the bright AMOLED displays at night much more pleasant.

Demo below is on a #SHIFT6mq.

#LinuxMobile #wlroots

Phosh's compositor phoc gained workspace support. This is mostly useful in
docked setups with external mouse and a keyboard attached but we
intend to make use of it in the future for the mobile use case too.

We also switched to #wlroots 0.19.1.

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phosh 0.50.0 is out 🚀📱:

We have some new features, quality of life improvements, (a bit more than usual) under the hood work and 🐛 fixes, check out the full release notes at
https://phosh.mobi/releases/rel-0.50.0/ for details or see 👇 for a short 🧵

🙏 to everyone who contributed to this release.

#phosh #Librem5 #PinePhone #gtk #wlroots #gnome #linux #mobile #LinuxMobile

I keep forgetting Phoc is wlroots. I wonder how well Sway runs on Halium phones, then. Can't seem to find any info about that.

#Sway #Phoc #Phosh #wlroots #Halium #LinuxMobile #LinuxPhones

phosh 0.49.0 is out 🚀📱:

We have some new features, quality of life improvements, under the hood work and 🐛 fixes, check out the full release notes at https://phosh.mobi/releases/rel-0.49.0/ for details or see 👇 for a short 🧵

🙏 to everyone who contributed to this release.

#phosh #Librem5 #PinePhone #gtk #wlroots #gnome #linux #mobile #LinuxMobile

Some #wayland news on #OpenBSD from #l2k25:
- pointer acceleration works now in libinput (thanks volker@)
- volker@ also has prepared a wlroots patch to enable outputs hotplugs (when you add an external monitor) that should land in the short future.
- I've done some work on wscons / wsmux to have wayland (and also eventually Xorg) behave better with multiple keyboards without needing ugly hacks. That also manages hot-plugin of input devices (and disconnect/reconnect during suspend/resume). That code will take longer to be put in shape to be reviewed and hopefully committed.
- A number of the wayland ports have been updated, and an update of pixman to 0.46.4 (which is needed to upgrade to #wlroots 0.19) is also almost ready. Once it's in wlroots, sway and labwc can be updated.

dwl - dwm for Wayland

A hackable (~3200 line single .c file implementation) compositor for Wayland based on wlroots.

https://codeberg.org/dwl/dwl

#linux #wayland #wlroots