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Vulkan 1.3.284 Released With Another Extension To Help Zink   Vulkan   2024-05-07
Lavapipe CPU-Based Vulkan Driver Implements Ray-Tracing Pipelines   Mesa   2024-04-10
Mesa's CPU-Based Vulkan Driver Now Supports Ray-Tracing   Mesa   2024-03-07
Mesa's NVIDIA Vulkan Driver "NVK" Now Exposes Vulkan 1.3 Support   Mesa   2024-01-27
Open-Source Intel & AMD Drivers Make Quick Progress On Vulkan Roadmap 2024 Extensions   Vulkan   2024-01-25
Mesa 24.0-rc3 Up For Testing, Mesa 23.3.4 Out As Stable   Mesa   2024-01-24
Mesa 24.0-rc2 Released With This Quarter's Release Looking Good   Mesa   2024-01-17
Mesa 23.2 Stable Released For Improved Open-Source Vulkan & OpenGL Drivers   Mesa   2023-09-28
Blumenkrantz Optimizes Mesa Vulkan Submission Merging - Some Test Cases Improve 1000%+   Mesa   2023-09-23
Mesa 23.2 Feature Development Concludes With Numerous New Vulkan Extensions   Mesa   2023-07-13
Lavapipe Lands Vulkan Descriptors Support, Can Run Some VKD3D-Proton Games   Mesa   2023-07-01
Mesa 23.1.2 Released With Intel Fix For VKD3D-Proton, More RADV Fixes   Mesa   2023-06-08
Mesa's Lavapipe Adds Vulkan Task/Mesh Shader Support   Mesa   2023-06-06
Zink OpenGL-On-Vulkan Driver Enables Shader Object Support   Mesa   2023-04-27
Mesa 23.0.3 Released With Another Batch Of Fixes   Mesa   2023-04-22
Vulkan 1.3.246 Released With VK_EXT_shader_object   Vulkan   2023-03-31
More Of Valve's RADV Optimizations Around Fast-Linking Reach Mesa 23.1   Mesa   2023-02-02
Mesa 22.3 Released With RDNA3 Vulkan, Rusticl OpenCL, Better Intel Arc Graphics   Mesa   2022-11-30
Mesa 22.3-rc2 Released With A Few AMD RDNA3 Fixes, V3DV Fixes For Raspberry Pi   Mesa   2022-11-09
Mesa 22.3-rc1 Released With Rusticl, Many Intel & Radeon Vulkan Driver Improvements   Mesa   2022-11-02
Mesa 22.2 Released With AMD RDNA3 Prep, Intel Arc Graphics, Many Vulkan Improvements   Mesa   2022-09-20
Mesa 22.2-rc1 Released With AMD RDNA3 & Intel Alchemist Primed, Vulkan Additions   Mesa   2022-08-03
Lavapipe Vulkan Software Implementation Now Compliant With Vulkan 1.3   Mesa   2022-07-20
Mesa 22.1.1 Released With Many Open-Source Graphics Driver Fixes   Mesa   2022-06-01
Mesa's Lavapipe Now Officially Vulkan 1.2 Conformant   Vulkan   2022-05-27
Mesa 22.1 Released With Many Vulkan Improvements, Kopper For Zink, Imagination Driver   Mesa   2022-05-18
Mesa 22.1-rc4 Released With More Zink + Kopper Fixes   Mesa   2022-05-04
Mesa 22.1-rc1 Brings Radeon Vulkan Enhancements, Imagination Driver & Microsoft Dozen   Mesa   2022-04-14
Mesa 22.1 Begins Steps To Release Next Month With Vulkan Improvements, New Driver & More   Mesa   2022-04-14
Zink OpenGL-On-Vulkan Has Many Improvements With Mesa 22.1   Mesa   2022-04-13
Mesa 22.1 Open-Source Vulkan Drivers Prepare Support For New Extensions   Mesa   2022-04-06
Mesa 22.0.1 Released With Many Fixes, AMD GFX1037/GFX1036 Backported   Mesa   2022-03-29
Mesa's CPU-Based Software Vulkan Driver Now Exposes Vulkan 1.3   Vulkan   2022-03-21
Patches Pending That Bring Vulkan 1.3 To Lavapipe   Mesa   2022-03-19
Mesa's Lavapipe Vulkan Software Implementation Adds More Extensions   Mesa   2022-03-16
LLVMpipe/Lavapipe Patches Land To Allow For Greater CPU Saturation   Mesa   2022-02-21
LLVMpipe Patches Pending For Faster Vertex/Fragment Processing   Mesa   2022-02-18
Radeon RADV Driver Lands Vulkan Dynamic Rendering Support   Mesa   2021-12-06
Haiku OS Managing To Run Zink OpenGL Atop Radeon Vulkan Driver For 3D Acceleration   Operating Systems   2021-11-30
Mesa 21.3 Released With Radeon RADV Ray-Tracing, Much Better Zink   Mesa   2021-11-17
Mesa 22.0 Zink Speeds Up OpenGL-Over-Vulkan On CPUs   Mesa   2021-11-10
Mesa 21.3-rc4 Release Led By Many Zink Fixes   Mesa   2021-11-04
Early Progress Made On Porting Radeon Vulkan Driver To BeOS-Inspired Haiku OS   Operating Systems   2021-10-19
Mesa 21.3-rc1 Released With Improved Zink, Radeon Ray-Tracing, RADV NGG Culling   Mesa   2021-10-13
Lavapipe Mesa Software Driver Enables Vulkan 1.2 Support   Mesa   2021-09-27
Mesa's LLVMpipe + Lavapipe Land FP16 Support   Mesa   2021-09-16
AMDVLK 2021.Q3.4 Driver Fixes "Horrifically Broken" Switchable Graphics Layer   Radeon   2021-08-11
Lavapipe Keeps Tacking On Features, LLVMpipe Lands New Rasterizer With 2~3x Faster 2D   Mesa   2021-07-29
LLVMpipe Effectively At OpenGL 4.6 With Anistropic Filtering Now Supported   Mesa   2021-07-21
Mesa 21.1 Released With RADV Variable Rate Shading, More Intel Vulkan Improvements   Mesa   2021-05-05
Zink OpenGL-On-Vulkan Now Correctly Rendering... Glxgears   Mesa   2021-04-27
Mesa 21.0.3 + Mesa 21.1-rc2 Released   Mesa   2021-04-21
David Airlie Tries DOOM On CPU-Based Lavapipe Vulkan   Mesa   2021-04-19
Mesa 21.1-rc1 Released With RADV Optimizations, Faster Zink, Many Other New Features   Mesa   2021-04-14
Mesa 21.1's Lavapipe Now Teases Vulkan 1.1 On CPUs   Mesa   2021-04-07
Mesa 21.0.2 Released With Lavapipe Fixes, Improved AMD L3 Cache Calculation   Mesa   2021-04-07
The Most Exciting Open-Source Graphics Driver News From Q1'2021   Mesa   2021-03-29
Lavapipe CPU-Based Vulkan Performance Looking Good Compared To SwiftShader   Mesa   2021-03-26
Mesa 21.0.1 Released, 20.3.5 Issued To Close Out The Older Series   Mesa   2021-03-24
Zink OpenGL-Over-Vulkan Still Has ~200 Patches To Land, More Performance Work   Mesa   2021-03-19
Lavapipe CPU-Based Vulkan Ported To Windows   Mesa   2021-02-25
Mesa's LLVMpipe Flips On ARB_gl_spirv, Help Sought For Lavapipe Windows Port   Mesa   2021-02-11
Zink Can Now Run On Lavapipe But You Really Want To Avoid It   Mesa   2021-02-05
Mesa Vulkan Drivers Get A Common Dispatch Framework For Better Code Sharing   Mesa   2021-02-02
Lavapipe Continues Advancing CPU-Based Vulkan - Now Supports Transform Feedback   Mesa   2020-12-21
Mesa 20.3 Released With Big Improvements For Open-Source Graphics Drivers   Mesa   2020-12-03
Mesa 20.3 Is Near With Lavapipe Vulkan, Raspberry Pi V3DV, Better AMD RDNA2 Support   Mesa   2020-11-30
Raspberry Pi V3DV Is Officially Vulkan Conformant, Lavapipe Also Nearing 1.0 Conformance   Vulkan   2020-11-24
Mesa 20.3-RC2 Released With ACO Fixes, More Intel Updates   Mesa   2020-11-19
Airlie: "Why Sharing Code With Windows Isn't Always A Win"   Mesa   2020-11-11
Mesa 20.3-RC1 Released With Lavapipe CPU-Based Vulkan, Raspberry Pi V3DV Added   Mesa   2020-11-11
TTM Multihop Code Revised For Improving Linux GPU Buffer Management   Linux Kernel   2020-11-09
Mesa Moves Closer To Having OpenCL 3.0 Support In Clover Gallium3D   Mesa   2020-11-06
LLVMpipe Is Now Officially Conformant With OpenGL 4.5   Mesa   2020-10-30
Mesa's Vulkan Software Implementation Now Known as Lavapipe   Vulkan   2020-10-01