Mesa 23.2 Stable Released For Improved Open-Source Vulkan & OpenGL Drivers

[phoronix]

Phoronix: Mesa 23.2 Stable Released For Improved Open-Source Vulkan & OpenGL Drivers

After being delayed by many weeks, Mesa 23.2 has been released as the quarterly feature release for this collection of open-source OpenGL and Vulkan drivers used by AMD Radeon, Intel graphics, Apple Silicon, Qualcomm Adreno (Freedreno), Nouveau (open-source NVIDIA), Broadcom / Raspberry Pi, Arm Mali and other hardware...

https://www.phoronix.com/news/Mesa-23.2.1-Released

[peterdk]

I see that Ubuntu 23.10 picked it up already. They already had rc4 so it's not a big change.

[skeevy420]

I updated and my desktop acts wonky; X and Wayland. KDE doesn't display title bars, random characters of text aren't appearing, the backgrounds of some system elements look like a TV on a white noise channel. I'd hold off until 23.1.2. I'm hoping it's just a cachyos packaging issue...6700 XT for the curious.



EDIT: If anyone is curious, downgrading Mesa back to 23.1.8 fixed everything.

[geearf]

Mesa 23.3 as the Q4 feature release will already be branching later in August

Michael Did you mean October?

[Michael]

Michael Did you mean October?

Yep thanks!

[Eirikr1848]

I updated and my desktop acts wonky; X and Wayland. KDE doesn't display title bars, random characters of text aren't appearing, the backgrounds of some system elements look like a TV on a white noise channel. I'd hold off until 23.1.2. I'm hoping it's just a cachyos packaging issue...6700 XT for the curious.



EDIT: If anyone is curious, downgrading Mesa back to 23.1.8 fixed everything.

Might wanna figure out doin’ a bug report there

[mos87]

I updated and my desktop acts wonky; X and Wayland. KDE doesn't display title bars, random characters of text aren't appearing, the backgrounds of some system elements look like a TV on a white noise channel. I'd hold off until 23.1.2. I'm hoping it's just a cachyos packaging issue...6700 XT for the curious.
EDIT: If anyone is curious, downgrading Mesa back to 23.1.8 fixed everything.

Something breaks in KDE. More at 11.

[skeevy420]

Might wanna figure out doin’ a bug report there

I don't think it's a Mesa bug since it only affects KDE programs and KWin (titlebars and window decorations). Non-KDE Qt programs, GTK, Electron, etc all work just fine.

Mesa 23.1 to 23.2 definitely triggers the bug, but it's only KDE stuff that's affected.

ngraham Where would I report this to KDE at? Specifically, which one of the hundreds of subprojects would a Mesa update that causes random font corruption, login picture glitches, white noise in tooltip backgrounds, etc go? Not gonna lie, I get overwhelmed with all the options on bugs.kde.org.

Should I post something over at Mesa as well?

[ngraham]

It can be a mesa bug and only affect KDE software. This would happen if, for example, only the KDE software is using the hardware acceleration that Mesa provides, whereas the other stuff is using software rendering.

Ths issue should be reported to the Mesa developers. See https://docs.mesa3d.org/bugs.html and then cc `@zamundaa` on the ticket so he sees it.

[fahrenheit]

Michael, are you sure 23.2.1 was released officialy? There are no release notes anywhere (site or mailing list). 23.1.9 on the other hand has release notes and announcement in the regular places.