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Mesa 12.0 Release Candidate 2 Hits The Web

Written by Michael Larabel in Mesa on 7 June 2016 at 08:43 AM EDT. 4 Comments

Ahead of the official Mesa 12.0 debut later this month, Mesa release manager Emil Velikov of Collabora has announced 12.0 Release Candidate 2.

Mesa 12.0 brings massive new features but now in the release candidate phase all of the work is about bug fixing.

Mesa 12.0 RC2 has many i965 driver fixes as among the heavy changes over the past week, some Radeon/RadeonSI fixes, core Mesa fixes, and an assortment of other random work.

The Mesa 12.0 RC2 release announcement with the complete listing of changes/fixes can be found via the Mesa-announce list.

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