Firefox 157 Lands Its Biggest Visual Overhaul in Five Years
Mozilla's Firefox 157 ships the long-awaited Nova redesign to all users: rounded corners, 12 new themes, a revived Compact Mode, and hardware AV1 decode — the most substantial interface refresh since Proton in 2021. »
Rust 1.99 Ships With Stable C-Variadic Functions and Expanded APIs
Rust 1.99 stabilizes C-compatible variadic functions for the first time on stable, along with raw pointer layout APIs and a slate of standard library additions. »
Three.js r186: SunLight, Cascaded Shadows, and WebGPU Now the Default Renderer
Three.js r186 ships SunLight with built-in cascaded shadows, pre-compilable compute shaders, and reworked PBR energy conservation — while WebGPU becomes the assumed default across Chrome, Edge, Safari, and Firefox. »
Incus 7.5 Moves Instances Between Projects Live — and OVN Networking Gets a Major Upgrade
The open source container and VM manager ships OVN child networks and live project-to-project instance migration, with 11 security fixes bundled in a single release. »
Firefox 156 Opens PDFs 45% Faster and Adds ARM64 Hardware Video Decoding
Mozilla shipped Firefox 156 on September 15 with a substantially faster PDF viewer, improved memory handling for large images, and WebRTC hardware H264 decoding on ARM64 Windows. »