News briefs for March 18, 2019.
Khronos today released the OpenXR 0.90 provision specification. From the press release: "OpenXR is a unifying, royalty-free, open standard that provides high-performance access to augmented reality (AR) and virtual reality (VR)—collectively known as XR—platforms and devices. The new specification can be found on the Khronos website[1] and is released in provisional form to enable developers and implementers to provide feedback at the OpenXR forum[2]." And following the release of the OpenXR 0.09 provision specification, Collabora announced Monado[3]: "at the center of Monado is a fully open source OpenXR runtime for Linux. It is the component in the XR software stack that implements the hardware support, it knows how to process non standard input from HMD devices and controllers, it knows how to render to those devices and it provides this functionality via the standard OpenXR API."
Solus 4 Fortitude is now available[4]. This new major release "delivers a brand new Budgie experience, updated sets of default applications and theming, and hardware enablement". Visit the download page[5] to install.
Geary 3.32 was released[6] yesterday. This is a feature release of the GNOME email application and aims to "align Geary's interface better with GNOME 3.32". It has "a new icon, the application menu has been moved to a burger menu in the main window, sender images in conversations are now taken from the the desktop address-book, and those without a custom photo are given a personalised image with initials and background colour based on their name", along with the usual bug fixes and other improvements. To install, visit here[7].
Linux kernel 5.1-rc1 is out. Linus Torvalds writes[8], "The merge window felt fairly normal to me. And looking at the stats, nothing really odd