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OpenGL 4.2 Articles & Reviews

Intel Broadwell Graphics Are Much Faster With Mesa 11.3   Display Drivers   2016-05-18
Open-Source Mesa Drivers Now Supporting OpenGL 4.0+   Display Drivers   2015-07-23
Intel Linux Driver Almost Neck-And-Neck With Windows 8.1   Operating Systems   2013-11-28

OpenGL 4.2 Linux & Open-Source News

Microsoft Gets OpenGL 4.3 Implemented Atop Direct3D 12 With Mesa   Mesa   2023-11-08
Mesa Preparing Software Fallback For S3TC Texture Compression   Mesa   2022-09-05
Mesa 22.1.1 Released With Many Open-Source Graphics Driver Fixes   Mesa   2022-06-01
Mesa 22.1 Released With Many Vulkan Improvements, Kopper For Zink, Imagination Driver   Mesa   2022-05-18
Mesa 22.1-rc1 Brings Radeon Vulkan Enhancements, Imagination Driver & Microsoft Dozen   Mesa   2022-04-14
Microsoft's Mesa D3D12 Driver Now Allows OpenGL 4.2   Mesa   2022-02-04
The Most Exciting Open-Source Graphics Driver News From Q1'2021   Mesa   2021-03-29
Zink OpenGL On Vulkan Now Supports OpenGL 4.2 With Mesa 21.1   Mesa   2021-01-21
LLVMpipe Gallium3D Driver Now Exposes OpenGL 4.3   Mesa   2020-07-22
LLVMpipe Now Exposes OpenGL 4.2 For GL On CPUs   Mesa   2020-07-06
LLVMpipe Gallium3D Driver Now Exposes OpenGL 4.0   Mesa   2020-07-02
LLVMpipe Gains Support For On-Disk Shader Cache   Mesa   2020-06-10
Mesa 19.3's LLVMpipe Driver Adds Support For Shader Image Extensions   Mesa   2019-08-27
"Soft" FP64/INT64 Implementations Merged To Mesa, Intel Driver Already Making Use   Mesa   2019-01-10
ASTC Gallium Bits Land, VirGL Already Hits OpenGL 4.3 + GLES 3.2   Mesa   2018-08-01
Mesa's VirGL Now Has OpenGL 4.2 Support To Offer Guest VMs   Mesa   2018-07-31
Compute Shader & GLSL 4.30 Support For R600 Gallium3D   Mesa   2017-11-29
R600 Gallium3D Picks Up Another OpenGL 4.5 Extension   Radeon   2017-11-21
R600 Gallium3D Shader Image Support Lands, Other R600g Patches Pending   Mesa   2017-11-17
OpenGL 4.2 Support Could Soon Land For AMD Cayman GPUs On R600g   Mesa   2017-11-14
R600 Gallium3D Receiving Some New Improvements By David Airlie   Mesa   2017-11-03
FP64 Support Revised For R600g Gallium3D Driver   Radeon   2017-08-23
Airlie Is Looking At Tournier's Soft FP64 Work For R600-Rats   Mesa   2017-05-27
David Airlie Is Bringing OpenGL 4.2 To More R600 Gallium3D Hardware   Radeon   2017-05-24
Mesa 17.1 Released, Adds RADV Vulkan Conforming Patches   Mesa   2017-05-10
More Details On The OpenGL 4.2 Support For Ivy Bridge With Mesa 17.1   Intel   2017-04-20
Intel Ivy Bridge Gets OpenGL 4.2 On Mesa 17.1   Intel   2017-04-14
Mesa 17.0-RC1 Released   Mesa   2017-01-19
Ivy Bridge Patches For OpenGL 4.0 In Mesa Updated   Intel   2017-01-17
Intel's Mesa Driver Set To Flip On OpenGL 4.5 For Haswell   Intel   2017-01-16
OpenGL 4.3 Lands For Maxwell With Nouveau Gallium3D, Plus 1.5~3.5x Performance Boost   Mesa   2017-01-12
OpenGL 4.2 Now Exposed For Intel Haswell On Mesa 17.0   Mesa   2017-01-12
Mesa Patches For Bringing Intel Haswell To OpenGL 4.2   Intel   2017-01-09
Xenko Game Engine Sees Huge Performance Boost With Vulkan   Linux Gaming   2016-08-18
Developers Are Still Working On OpenGL 4.x For Intel Haswell / Ivy Bridge   Intel   2016-07-13
Intel Might Actually Be Done With OpenGL 4.4 In Mesa   Intel   2016-05-24
Nouveau Fermi Gets OpenGL 4.2 Support Flipped On   Nouveau   2016-05-21
Intel Is Getting Very Close With Its Last Extension For OpenGL 4.3   Intel   2016-05-21
Mesa 11.3 Isn't A Game Changer For Intel's Haswell   Intel   2016-05-19
It's Easy Trying Out Intel's OpenGL 4.2 Mesa Driver On Ubuntu 16.04   Intel   2016-05-17
Intel's Mesa Driver Jumps Ahead To OpenGL 4.2   Intel   2016-05-17
Intel's Mesa Driver Now Has OpenGL 4.0 Support   Intel   2016-05-16
Intel's i965 Mesa Driver Finishes Off Another OpenGL 4.5 Extension (ARB_cull_distance)   Intel   2016-05-15
Patches Published For Taking Nouveau Fermi Support Up To OpenGL 4.2   Nouveau   2016-05-14
Trying The Padoka PPA For The Latest RadeonSI Experience On Ubuntu 16.04   Radeon   2016-05-12
FP64 / OpenGL 4.2 Is Close To Being Finished Up In Intel Mesa   Intel   2016-05-12
Mesa 11.3/12.0 Planned For Release In June   Mesa   2016-04-28
Igalia Posts Intel vertex_attrib_64bit Mesa Driver Patches, Close To OpenGL 4.1+   Intel   2016-04-28
Nouveau NVC0 Appears Ready With OpenGL 4.2 Support For Select NVIDIA GPUs   Nouveau   2016-04-26
Mesa 11.2.1 Released For Stable Users Of Open-Source Linux GPU Drivers   Mesa   2016-04-17
Mesa 11.2.1 Is Coming With Fixes For Gallium3D Nine, VA-API, Hardware Drivers   Mesa   2016-04-14
RadeonSI Compute Shader Patches Revised   Mesa   2016-04-13
RadeonSI Now Officially At OpenGL 4.2 Compliance   Mesa   2016-04-12
AMD RadeonSI Gallium3D Is Now Incredibly Close To OpenGL 4.3!   Radeon   2016-04-12
OpenGL 4.3 Robust Buffer Access Is Now Done For RadeonSI   Mesa   2016-04-12
R600g & RadeonSI Scratch Off Another OpenGL 4.3 Extension   Radeon   2016-04-07
More Of OpenGL ES 3.2 Is Getting Finished Up Within Mesa   Mesa   2016-03-31
OpenGL 4 Shader Image Extensions Land Today In RadeonSI Gallium3D   Radeon   2016-03-21
RadeonSI/Gallium3D Is Almost Ready For Shader Images Support   Mesa   2016-03-13
Mesa 11.2 Features For When It's Released Very Soon   Mesa   2016-03-12
The Intel Mesa Driver Is Getting Incredibly Close To Nailing OpenGL 4.3   Mesa   2016-03-03
Intel's Mesa Driver Is Very Close To Having FP64, Thereby OpenGL 4 Support   Intel   2016-03-01
Mesa 11.2 RC1 Now Available: Intel Still At OpenGL 3.3, Radeon/Nouveau At OpenGL 4.1   Mesa   2016-02-22
Compute Shader Code Begins Landing For Gallium3D   Mesa   2016-02-13
Gallium3D Drivers Set To Receive OpenGL 4.3 AoA Support   Mesa   2016-02-08
Mesa 11.2 Is Set For Branching In Just Two Weeks, Release In Just Over One Month   Mesa   2016-02-06
Core Mesa Is Now Just One Step Away From OpenGL 4.3 Compliance   Mesa   2016-02-03
OpenGL 4.4's Query Buffer Object Support Appears Nearly Ready For Nouveau   Mesa   2016-01-31
Shader Image Support For The Gallium3D Mesa State Tracker   Mesa   2016-01-31
Nouveau Now Implements Two More GL4 Extensions, Very Close To OpenGL 4.2   Nouveau   2016-01-30
Open-Source Tessellation Lands For Pre-Broadwell Intel Hardware   Intel   2015-12-28
The Mesmerizing Mesa Milestones Of 2015   Mesa   2015-12-27
The Open-Source Linux Letdowns of 2015   Free Software   2015-12-24
Intel OpenGL ES 3.1 Support Now Enabled In Mesa   Intel   2015-12-17
Intel Lands Compute Shader Support In Mesa!   Mesa   2015-12-10
AMD R600g Tessellation Support Lands In Mesa Git   AMD   2015-12-06
Features To Find With Mesa 11.1   Mesa   2015-11-27
The Next Mesa Release Doesn't Have Any Major OpenGL Breakthrough   Mesa   2015-11-21
OpenGL 4.4's ARB_clear_texture Hits Nouveau Drivers   Nouveau   2015-11-11
ARB_copy_image Support Lands For AMD RadeonSI   Radeon   2015-10-28
R600/RadeonSI Get Patches For Another OpenGL 4.3 Extension In Mesa   Mesa   2015-10-17
The Rest Of The Year Should Be Super Exciting For Linux Enthusiasts   Hardware   2015-10-01
Intel Might Be Moving Closer With Their Mesa Tessellation Shader Support   Linux Kernel   2015-09-23
Mesa 11.0 Officially Released With OpenGL 4.1 For RadeonSI/Nouveau   Mesa   2015-09-12
Intel Releases Production-Ready OpenGL 4.4 Driver, But Only For Windows   Intel   2015-09-09
Intel Scratches Another OpenGL ES 3.1 Item Off The List   Intel   2015-08-20
Gallium3D Gets A Hack So It Can Now Play BioShock Infinite   Mesa   2015-08-19
DiRT Showdown Racing Game Released Today For Linux   Linux Gaming   2015-08-17
Developers Have Until Next Week To Finish More GL4 For Mesa 11.0   Mesa   2015-08-12
Mesa Has Patches For Another OpenGL 4.3 Extension   Mesa   2015-08-11
NVIDIA Releases Linux Graphics Debugger For OpenGL 4.2~4.5   NVIDIA   2015-08-11
OpenGL 4.2 Is Now Complete In Core Mesa!   Mesa   2015-08-11
RadeonSI Gets OpenGL 4.5 Derivative Control Support   Radeon   2015-07-25
Core Mesa Now Implements OpenGL 4.0, Nearly At OpenGL 4.1~4.2   Mesa   2015-07-23
RadeonSI Now Supports Tessellation In Mesa Git   Mesa   2015-07-22
The OpenGL ES 3.1 Foundation Is Being Laid In Mesa   Mesa   2015-05-26
Features Added To Mesa 10.6 For Open-Source GPU Drivers   Mesa   2015-05-23
Another OpenGL 4.2 Extension Comes Close For Intel Mesa   Intel   2015-04-28
Intel's Windows Driver Now Supports OpenGL 4.4, Linux Driver Still With OpenGL 3.3   Intel   2015-04-20
BioShock Infinite Now Available For Linux, Demands Binary Graphics Drivers   Linux Gaming   2015-03-17
OpenGL 4.0 Turns Five Years Old, Mesa Still Doesn't Fully Support It   Standards   2015-03-11
Mesa 10.5 Is Branched, Still Lacks OpenGL 4.0+ Support   Mesa   2015-02-09
Intel Mesa Driver Picks Up Support For OpenGL Memory Barriers   Intel   2015-02-06
Valve Optimizations, D3D9 & GL4 Topped Mesa This Year   Mesa   2014-12-26
Mesa 10.4 Brings Performance Improvements & New Features   Mesa   2014-11-30
Mesa 10.4 Tentatively Planned For Early December   Mesa   2014-10-22
Intel Releases OpenGL 4.3 Driver For Haswell... On Windows   Intel   2014-09-03
R600g & RadeonSI Now Support BPTC Texture Compression   Mesa   2014-08-15
BPTC Texture Compression Support Lands In Mesa   Mesa   2014-08-12
Intel Is Getting Very Close To OpenGL 4.0/4.1/4.2 Mesa Support   Mesa   2014-07-23
BPTC Texture Compression Comes To Nouveau After Intel's Work   Mesa   2014-07-23
Intel Takes Another Stab At OpenGL 4 In Mesa   Mesa   2014-06-09
Another OpenGL 4.2 Extension Is Hitting Mesa   Mesa   2014-01-15
Intel Brings ETC Texture Compression To The Desktop   Intel   2014-01-14
Linux 3.13, NVIDIA GPUs Won Over November   Phoronix   2013-11-30
Intel's GL Windows Driver Pushes Further Ahead Of Linux   Intel   2013-11-25
Mesa Gets Two New OpenGL 4.x Support Patch Series   Mesa   2013-11-06
The State Of OpenGL 3.x, 4.x Extensions In Mesa   Mesa   2013-10-07
An OpenGL Optimization Extension Merged Into Mesa   Mesa   2013-10-06
Mesa Lands Support For ARB_texture_query_levels   Mesa   2013-10-05
Crowd-Funded KHR_Debug Code For Mesa Published   Mesa   2013-08-10
AMD Catalyst vs. NVIDIA OpenCL Performance   Hardware   2013-07-01
An OpenGL 4.x Feature Gets Crossed Off In Mesa   Mesa   2013-03-31
Intel Mesa Gets Another OpenGL 4.2 Feature   Mesa   2013-03-16
OpenGL May Take On A Greater Role Within Qt   Qt   2012-12-18
Nine Reasons Mesa 9.0 Is Disappointing For End-Users   Mesa   2012-10-09
OpenGL 4.3, OpenGL ES 3.0 Specifications Unveiled   Standards   2012-08-06
Mesa Does A Bit More Of OpenGL 4   Mesa   2012-06-18
OpenGL ES 3.0 Will Be Here This Summer   Mesa   2012-05-27
OpenGL 3.1 Not Likely In Mesa Until 2013   Mesa   2012-05-04
AMD Evergreen Gallium3D Officially Does GLSL 1.30   AMD   2012-04-20
APITrace 3.0 Brings Graphics Tracing Goodness   Free Software   2012-03-09
AMD Radeon HD 7950 Running On Linux   Radeon   2012-03-08
Will OpenGL 3.0 Still Land In Mesa This Year?   Intel   2011-12-09
Khronos Releases OpenCL 1.2 Specification   Standards   2011-11-15
ApiTrace 2.0 Brings OpenGL 4.2, Faster Performance   Mesa   2011-09-28
Intel Aims For Open-Source OpenGL 3.0 Driver By Year's End   Intel   2011-09-14
NVIDIA Releases 285.03 Beta Linux Driver   NVIDIA   2011-08-18
AMD Puts Out An OpenGL 4.2 Linux Driver   AMD   2011-08-11
What Mesa Has Left With OpenGL 3, OpenGL 4   Mesa   2011-08-11
OpenGL 4.2 Specification Published With GLSL 4.20   Standards   2011-08-08
Mesa 7.12 Is Now Where The Fun Is At   Mesa   2011-06-29
Gallium3D OpenCL May Finally Get Some Needed Love   Mesa   2011-03-27
Patches Published For Merging S3TC Library Into Mesa   Mesa   2011-03-06
An Update On The OpenGL 3 Support In Mesa   Mesa   2010-11-21