Mesa 18.2.3 Coming This Week With Fixes/Workarounds For Several Steam Play Games

Igalia's Juan Suarez Romero as the Mesa 18.2 series release manager is putting the finishing touches on the 18.2.3 point release to benefit Steam Play / Proton / Wine games.

This latest bi-weekly point release to the Mesa 18.2 stable series has over three dozen patches queued so far and several of them are for fixes/workarounds to different games. Those affected games include Rage, Yakuza, The Evil Within, Wolfenstein: The Old Blood, ARMA 3, and No Man's Sky.

Most of the work is adding DRIRC workarounds / program-specific settings to handle their quirky/non-standard behavior. There are also updates for using the build-id when available for the Mesa shader disk cache, various Intel ANV VUlkan driver fixes, and an assortment of other smaller fixes.

If there are no last minute hold-ups, Mesa 18.2.3 will be officially released on Friday, 19 October. The current list of changes can be found on Mesa-dev.