Highlights of Mesa 25.0 include Vulkan 1.4 support for the RADV (AMD), ANV (Intel), NVK (NVIDIA), Turnip (Qualcomm), Asahi (Apple), and Lavapipe (software) drivers, support for Vulkan 1.1, shaderInt16, shaderInt64, imageCubeArray, depthClamp, depthBiasClamp, drawIndirectFirstInstance, sampleRateShading, and occlusionQueryPrecise for the PanVK (Mali) driver, and initial GFX12 (RDNA4) support for the RADV driver.
KDE Plasma 6.3.1 is here to make the updates list in the Plasma Discover package manager case-insensitively sorted, restore search results for the BBC Weather provider in the weather widget, add support for the Welcome Center to remember its window size on Wayland and its position on X11 across launches.
Linux kernel 6.13 was released on January 19th, 2025, with new features like lazy preemption support, user-space shadow stack support for AArch64 (ARM64) via Guarded Control Stack (GCS), support for running Linux in protected virtual machines (a.k.a. realm) under the Arm CCA (Confidential Compute Architecture), support for 6-node sub-NUMA clustering on Intel, split-lock detection support for AMD CPUs, and much more.