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OpenGL ES Articles & Reviews

Khronos Debuts OpenGL ES 3.2 & New GL Extensions, But No Vulkan This Week   Software   2015-08-10
An Open-Source, Reverse-Engineered Mali GPU Driver   Display Drivers   2012-01-21

OpenGL ES Linux & Open-Source News

XWayland 24.1 RC Released With Explicit Sync, Improved Rootful & GLAMOR Optimizations   Wayland   2024-04-17
Qt 6.7 Released With Many Improvements For This Cross-Platform Toolkit   Qt   2024-04-02
GLFW 3.4 Brings Better Support For Wayland & Run-Time Platform Selection   Programming   2024-02-24
OpenGL 4.6 + OpenGL ES 3.2 Achieved On Apple M1 With Linux Driver   Apple   2024-02-14
Asahi Linux Has Been Making Progress On Apple HDMI, EAS & GPU Features   Apple   2024-01-14
GTK Lands Their New Unified GPU Renderer, Vulkan Build Enabled By Default   GNOME   2024-01-08
Godot 4.3 Dev 1 Released With Rendering System Refactor, D3D12   Linux Gaming   2023-12-21
Mesa Enables S3TC Support For 3D Textures   Mesa   2023-12-12
Vulkan 1.3.273 Released With KHR Calibrated Timestamps Extension   Vulkan   2023-12-08
XWayland Now Allows For Better Choosing Between OpenGL & OpenGL ES   X.Org   2023-11-02
Igalia Has Been Doing A Great Job On The Raspberry Pi Graphics Drivers   Raspberry Pi   2023-10-19
X.Org's GLAMOR Adds Support For OpenGL ES 3.0 Shaders   Mesa   2023-10-18
Mesa Merges Initial OpenGL/Vulkan Support For Raspberry Pi 5's GPU   Mesa   2023-10-14
New GNOME Code Speeds Up Performance For NVIDIA Proprietary Driver Multi-Monitor   GNOME   2023-10-02
Mesa 23.2 Stable Released For Improved Open-Source Vulkan & OpenGL Drivers   Mesa   2023-09-28
Asahi Linux's Apple M1/M2 Gallium3D Driver Now OpenGL ES 3.1 Conformant   Apple   2023-08-22
Mesa 23.2 Feature Development Concludes With Numerous New Vulkan Extensions   Mesa   2023-07-13
Meta Releases Intermediate Graphics Library "IGL" Built Atop Vulkan, OpenGL   Free Software   2023-07-07
Tracking The OpenCL Support Status With Mesa Drivers   Mesa   2023-06-13
Mesa 23.2 Receives Asahi AGX Gallium3D Changes For OpenGL 3.1 + GLES 3.0   Mesa   2023-06-07
Experimental OpenGL 3.1 Support For Apple M1/M2 Graphics On Linux   Apple   2023-06-06
GNOME's Mutter Drops Legacy OpenGL Driver Support   GNOME   2023-02-21
Mesa Adds Compute Shader Decoding For ASTC   Mesa   2023-02-17
Basic OpenGL ES Compute Shader Support Begins Working For The Apple GPU Linux Driver   Apple   2023-01-15
Asahi Linux Enables Early Apple GPU Driver Support - WIP OpenGL 2.1 + GLES 2.0   Apple   2022-12-07
SDL 3.0 Drops Its OpenGL ES 1.0 Render Path   Linux Gaming   2022-12-04
SDL3 Begins Dumping A Lot Of Old Code: GLES1, OS/2, DirectFB, WinRT, NaCl & More   Linux Gaming   2022-11-23
Compiz 0.9.14.2 Released After Two Years   Desktop   2022-08-24
Arm Releases ASTC Encoder 4.0 With Even Faster Performance   Arm   2022-07-22
PowerVR Open-Source Vulkan Driver Adds Support For The TI AM62 SoC   Mesa   2022-06-21
Panfrost's Initial Arm Mali Valhall Support Sent In To DRM-Next For Linux 5.20   Mesa   2022-06-10
Linux 5.20 + Mesa 22.2 To Allow Conformant Mali G57 OpenGL ES 3.1 Support   Mesa   2022-06-06
Fragment Shading Rate Extension Comes To OpenGL ES   Standards   2022-06-02
Godot 4.0 Alpha 8 Game Engine Released With Some Nice Improvements   Linux Gaming   2022-05-12
Mesa 22.0 Released With Vulkan 1.3, Many Open-Source Intel & AMD Driver Improvements   Mesa   2022-03-09
Vulkan Ready To Take On Safety-Critical Market With Vulkan SC 1.0   Vulkan   2022-03-08
Mesa's Venus VirtIO-GPU Vulkan Driver Adds Code To Handle ANGLE   Mesa   2022-03-04
VMware Enabling VMWGFX 3D Support For AArch64   Virtualization   2022-03-03
Microsoft Adds Residency Management To Mesa's D3D12 Code For Better Efficiency   Mesa   2022-02-11
Microsoft's Mesa D3D12 Driver Now Allows OpenGL 4.2   Mesa   2022-02-04
Mesa's "Dozen" Close To Providing Vulkan Over Direct3D 12   Microsoft   2022-02-03
Mesa 22.0-rc1 Released With Many Radeon & Intel Linux GPU Driver Features, Vulkan 1.3   Mesa   2022-02-02
Valve Is Sponsoring More CI Testing For The Open-Source Radeon Linux Graphics Driver   Valve   2022-01-22
Microsoft Lands D3D12 Compute Support In Mesa 22.0   Microsoft   2022-01-11
Microsoft Eyeing OpenGL Compute + GLES 3.1 For Its Mesa D3D12 Backend   Microsoft   2022-01-07
Etnaviv DRM Driver Will Now Work On IOMMU-Enabled Systems   Linux Kernel   2021-12-25
RADV Working On ETC2 Emulation Support For Newer Radeon GPUs To Satisfy Android   Radeon   2021-12-08
Vulkan 1.2.200 Released With Two New Extensions   Vulkan   2021-11-23
Mesa 21.3 Released With Radeon RADV Ray-Tracing, Much Better Zink   Mesa   2021-11-17
Mesa 21.3-rc5 Released With Numerous Intel / AMD / Zink Fixes   Mesa   2021-11-11
Godot 3.4 Released With Many New Features For This Open-Source Game Engine   Linux Gaming   2021-11-06
Mesa 21.3-rc4 Release Led By Many Zink Fixes   Mesa   2021-11-04
Firefox 94 To Start Using EGL On Linux - Better Performance, Lower Power Use   Mozilla   2021-10-30
Mesa 21.3-rc1 Released With Improved Zink, Radeon Ray-Tracing, RADV NGG Culling   Mesa   2021-10-13
Intel Removes ASTC Hardware From Gen12.5+ Graphics   Intel   2021-10-07
Mesa 21.2.2 Released "Late & Very Large"   Mesa   2021-09-22
Zink OpenGL-On-Vulkan Tackling Support For More Games   Mesa   2021-09-13
Intel "Crocus" Gallium3D Now Part Of Mesa's Default Drivers To Build   Intel   2021-09-01
Zink Now Achieves OpenGL ES 3.2 Atop Vulkan   Mesa   2021-08-31
SDL2 Lands Long-Sought Geometry Render API   Linux Gaming   2021-08-19
Mesa 21.2 Released With New Intel Crocus Driver, PanVK, Early M1 Code   Mesa   2021-08-04
Mesa 21.2-rc2 Released With An Initial Batch Of Fixes   Mesa   2021-07-22
Godot 4 Is Focusing On Vulkan + OpenGL ES 3.0, OpenGL Likely For Godot 4.1   Linux Gaming   2021-07-18
Mesa 21.2-rc1 Released With Early Apple M1 Code, Crocus Gallium3D   Mesa   2021-07-14
Zink Now Supports OpenGL ES 3.2 Over Vulkan   Mesa   2021-07-09
Intel i915g Mesa Driver Now Goes Goes Through NIR, Fixes Some Past Test Failures   Intel   2021-06-18
GravityMark Launches As Cross-API Graphics Benchmark From Former Unigine Dev   Free Software   2021-06-15
Panfrost Gallium3D Driver For Open-Source Arm Mali Graphics Now Has OpenGL ES 3.1   Mesa   2021-06-10
Open-Source Driver Flips On OpenGL ES 3.1 For Select NVIDIA GeForce 200 Series GPUs   Nouveau   2021-06-07
The Forge Rendering Framework Adds Runtime API Switching, New Shader Translator   Vulkan   2021-05-23
Google Announces Some Very Interesting GSoC 2021 Projects   Google   2021-05-17
Mesa 21.1 Released With RADV Variable Rate Shading, More Intel Vulkan Improvements   Mesa   2021-05-05
Early Gallium3D Work Has Begun Around Apple's M1 GPU With New "AGX" Driver   Mesa   2021-05-02
Nouveau Working On Bringing Up Some OpenGL Compute Shader Support For NV50 Era GPUs   Nouveau   2021-05-01
Vulkan 1.2.177 Released To Help Graphics Translation Layers   Vulkan   2021-04-26
More Progress Is Made Understanding Apple's M1 GPU, Working Towards An Open Driver   Mesa   2021-04-18
XScreenSaver 6.0 Released With Increased Security, Better EGL & GLSL/GLES 3.0 Support   Desktop   2021-04-08
Two Decade Old RTS Game Rolls Out v4.0 Update With Vulkan Renderer   Linux Gaming   2021-04-05
Waffle 1.7 Released For Runtime OpenGL / Windowing System Selection   Mesa   2021-03-08
Vulkan 1.2.171 Released With New Extension For BlackBerry QNX Support   Vulkan   2021-03-01
With OpenGL 4.6 Achieved, Zink Working CTS Fixes, Substantial Performance Gains   Mesa   2021-02-19
XWayland 21.1 Release Candidate Offers Split From The X.Org Server   X.Org   2021-02-17
Mesa Enjoyed A Record-Setting Year With Intel G3D Default, RADV ACO, Faster Performance   Mesa   2021-01-01
Valve Now Funding Blumenkrantz - Zink OpenGL-On-Vulkan To Continue   Mesa   2020-11-23
Qt 6.0's Shiny New Features For Qt Quick 3D   Qt   2020-11-04
Warzone 2100 Lands Vulkan Renderer, Adaptive V-Sync For 20+ Year Old Game   Linux Gaming   2020-09-26
Open-Source Vivante Driver In Some Cases Outperforming Proprietary Driver   Mesa   2020-09-21
Experimental Zink Patches Get OpenGL 4.6 Running Atop Vulkan   Vulkan   2020-08-24
TensorFlow Lite Now Supports Tapping OpenCL For Much Faster GPU Inference   Programming   2020-08-18
LLVMpipe Gallium3D Driver Now Exposes OpenGL 4.3   Mesa   2020-07-22
Panfrost Gallium3D Driver Adds Midgard Multi-Sampling Support   Mesa   2020-07-08
Gallium3D's Arm Bifrost Now Handling Most Of OpenGL ES 2.0, Runs GNOME Wayland   Mesa   2020-06-07
Khronos Releases OpenVG 1.1 Lite For High Quality Vector Graphics On Mobile   Standards   2020-05-28
RenderDoc 1.8 Released For This Cross-Platform, Multi-API Graphics Debugger   Programming   2020-05-20
Microsoft Releases Shader Conductor 0.3 For Its Shader Cross-Compiler   Programming   2020-04-29
The Panfrost Gallium3D Driver Begins Rendering On Arm Bifrost Hardware   Arm   2020-04-23
GNOME 3.36.1 Released With First Batch Of Fixes   GNOME   2020-04-02
Android-x86 9.0-r2 Released With Updated Kernel, UEFI Boot Fix   Operating Systems   2020-03-25
Panfrost Gallium3D Driver Seeing New "BIR" Compiler   Mesa   2020-03-05
Panfrost Gallium3D Driver Adds Experimental OpenGL ES 3.0 For Open-Source Arm Mali   Mesa   2020-02-27
Android-x86 9.0-r1 Finally Released For Bringing Android 9.0 Pie To Intel/AMD Systems   Operating Systems   2020-02-27
GNOME 3.34.4 Released With Many Bug Fixes   GNOME   2020-02-19
Arm's ASTC Encoder Replaces Its Restrictive EULA With Apache 2.0 License   Arm   2020-02-17
Godot Merges Its Vulkan Renderer Ahead Of The v4.0 Game Engine   Linux Gaming   2020-02-11
Zink In Mesa For OpenGL Over Vulkan Should Be Back To Supporting OpenGL 3.0 Soon   Mesa   2020-02-08
New Raspbian Release Brings File Manager Improvements, Mesa 19.3.2 For OpenGL ES 3.1   Operating Systems   2020-02-07
Raspberry Pi Foundation Gets Back To Working On A Vulkan Driver - New Effort By Igalia   Raspberry Pi   2020-01-31
Godot 3.2 Open-Source Game Engine Released With Better Documentation, New Features   Linux Gaming   2020-01-29
Think Silicon's GLOVE OpenGL-Over-Vulkan Library Now Works On Wayland, Windows + macOS   Vulkan   2020-01-20
Raspberry Pi 4 V3D Driver Reaches OpenGL ES 3.1 Conformance   Mesa   2020-01-17
Raspberry Pi 4's V3D Driver Adds OpenGL ES 3.2 Geometry Shader Support   Mesa   2019-12-16
Raspberry Pi 4 BCM43455 NVRAM Addition Hits Linux-Firmware Git   Raspberry Pi   2019-12-15
Google Releases GraphicsFuzz 1.3 For Continuing To Fuzz GPU Drivers   Google   2019-12-10
NEOX V Announced By Think Silicon As First RISC-V 3D GPU   RISC-V   2019-12-02
Android-x86 9.0 Nearing Release - RC1 Brings Experimental Vulkan, Text-Based Installer   Google   2019-11-15
Zink Merged Into Mesa 19.3 For Offering OpenGL Over Vulkan   Mesa   2019-10-28
Zink Is Almost In Mesa For Offering OpenGL 2.1 / GLES 2.0 Over Vulkan   Mesa   2019-10-24
Khronos Rolls Out OpenVX 1.3 While Updating OpenGL 4.6 + OpenGL ES 3.2   Standards   2019-10-22
Raspberry Pi 4's V3D Driver Lands OpenGL ES 3.1 Bits In Mesa 19.3-devel   Mesa   2019-10-21
kwin-lowlatency 5.17 Brings A Better Experience To The KDE Desktop   KDE   2019-10-19
Raspberry Pi 4's V3D Mesa Driver Nearing OpenGL ES 3.1   Mesa   2019-10-11
RenderDoc 1.5 Released For This Leading OpenGL / Vulkan / Direct3D Open-Source Debugger   Programming   2019-10-10
Godot 3.2 Enters Alpha With Many Improvements   Linux Gaming   2019-10-06
Zink's OpenGL Over Vulkan Implementation Aiming For Mesa 19.3 Integration   Mesa   2019-10-05
ASTC Texture Compression License Turns Out To Be Restrictive Outside Of Khronos APIs   Free Software   2019-10-03
Igalia Is Working On "mediump" Support For Mesa To Help With OpenGL ES Performance   Mesa   2019-10-03
Mesa's Gallium3D LLVMpipe Driver Adds Compute Shader Support   Mesa   2019-09-04
Google Releases Android 10 With "Vulkan Everywhere", Privacy Improvements   Google   2019-09-03
DAV1D Experimenting With Vulkan & OpenGL ES GPU Offloading   Multimedia   2019-09-02
Google's SwiftShader Now Supports Vulkan 1.1   Vulkan   2019-08-28
Mesa 19.3's LLVMpipe Driver Adds Support For Shader Image Extensions   Mesa   2019-08-27
Etnaviv Is Packing Code For An Exciting Linux 5.4 Cycle   Hardware   2019-08-16
Broadcom's VC4/V3D Driver Developer Parts Ways To Join Google   Mesa   2019-08-02
Gallium3D Panfrost Driver Can Now Handle Running The GNOME Shell Desktop   GNOME   2019-06-27
MSM DRM Adding Snapdragon 835 / Adreno 540 Support In Linux 5.3   Hardware   2019-06-26
Librem 5 Dev Kit Can At Least Run Quake II Now, Progress On Adopting Linux 5.2   Hardware   2019-06-19
Panfrost Gallium3D Driver Continues Speeding Ahead For Open-Source Mali Graphics   Mesa   2019-06-18
Waffle 1.6 Released As Library Allowing GL / Windowing System Selection At Runtime   Mesa   2019-06-10
Alyssa Rosenzweig Joins Collabora To Work On Panfrost Graphics Stack   Mesa   2019-06-05
nCine Is An Interesting Open-Source 2D Game Engine   Linux Gaming   2019-06-01
KWin-LowLatency: An Effort To Yield Less Stutter & Lower Latency With The KDE Desktop   KDE   2019-05-08
Android Q's ANGLE Offering OpenGL ES On Top Of Vulkan 1.1   Google   2019-05-07
Kodi 18.2 Released With VA-API Fixes, OpenGL ES Rendering Fixes   Multimedia   2019-04-23
Panfrost DRM Driver Being Added To Linux 5.2 For Midgard / Bifrost Graphics   Arm   2019-04-20
GLAMOR Sees More Improvements For What Will Eventually Be X.Org Server 1.21   X.Org   2019-04-18
GNOME Shell & Mutter 3.32.1 Released With Many Fixes   GNOME   2019-04-17
Panfrost Gallium3D Is Now Running Kodi & Some Games For This Open-Source Mali Driver   Mesa   2019-04-02
Android Q Reaches Public Beta With Improved Privacy, Opus/AV1 Support, ANGLE On Vulkan   Google   2019-03-13
Godot 3.1 Open-Source Game Engine Debuts With Many Improvements   Linux Gaming   2019-03-13
GLX_ARB_create_context_no_error Support Lands In Mesa 19.1   Mesa   2019-03-13