Mesa 22.2 Released With AMD RDNA3 Prep, Intel Arc Graphics, Many Vulkan Improvements

[rene]

updated https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fiG5fbwcPaQ

[Mershl]

https://docs.mesa3d.org/relnotes.html

Although it doesn't look like they've been published for this release yet.

The release notes have not been updated in 30+ days (21.1.6 and 21.1.7 are missing for example).. Vacation time + priorization, maybe?

[smitty3268]

Is there any solution for being able to know about these changes during an update on a distro? I vaguely recall something in GNOME Software showing this.

When I download a graphics driver from AMD or NVIDIA, they list a general changelog before you download the driver, and it lists major changes. I feel something like the R600g NIR re-write and RADV RT queries change would go unnoticed until they're either accidentally discovered, or you have to manually check news sites and/or commits to know about it.

https://docs.mesa3d.org/relnotes.html

Although it doesn't look like they've been published for this release yet.

[Espionage724]

Is there any solution for being able to know about these changes during an update on a distro? I vaguely recall something in GNOME Software showing this.

When I download a graphics driver from AMD or NVIDIA, they list a general changelog before you download the driver, and it lists major changes. I feel something like the R600g NIR re-write and RADV RT queries change would go unnoticed until they're either accidentally discovered, or you have to manually check news sites and/or commits to know about it.

[Quackdoc]

I wonder if we will soon be able to use zink on windows as a drop in ogl dll currently you "Can" as in, you can force it, but iirc it does not work at all

[phoronix]

Phoronix: Mesa 22.2 Released With AMD RDNA3 Prep, Intel Arc Graphics, Many Vulkan Improvements

The belated Mesa 22.2 was unexpectedly released today for providing the very latest open-source Linux graphics driver support not only for Intel and AMD Radeon graphics hardware but also the reverse-engineered Nouveau (NVIDIA) driver and the many smaller drivers like Etnaviv, Mali, Panfrost, the new PowerVR Vulkan driver, and the software drivers like LLVMpipe and Zink...

https://www.phoronix.com/news/Mesa-22.2-Released