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| Mesa Open-Source 3D Drivers Experienced Record Growth In 2022 | Mesa | 2022-12-29 |
| Vulkan 1.3.235 Released With New VK_EXT_descriptor_buffer Extension | Vulkan | 2022-11-17 |
| NVK Vulkan Driver Starting Work On New Compiler | Nouveau | 2022-11-08 |
| Open-Source NVIDIA Vulkan "NVK" Driver Continues Progressing | NVIDIA | 2022-10-04 |
| Intel Gallium3D "Iris" Driver Changes Merged For Rusticl's OpenCL 3.0 | Intel | 2022-09-22 |
| RADV Driver Switches To 100% Dynamic Rendering | Vulkan | 2022-09-09 |
| RADV Prepares To Switch Completely To Dynamic Rendering | Radeon | 2022-08-24 |
| Open-Source NVIDIA Vulkan Driver "NVK" Sees Uptick In Activity This Week | Mesa | 2022-08-21 |
| Linux 5.19 Advances In Quest To Improve Explicit Synchronization For Graphics | Linux Kernel | 2022-06-10 |
| Red Hat Experimenting With "NVK" Nouveau Open-Source Vulkan Driver | Nouveau | 2022-06-02 |
| PanVK Pulls Back From Advertising Vulkan 1.1 For Now | Mesa | 2022-03-15 |
| Panfrost's Vulkan Driver Progressing On Compute Shaders | Mesa | 2022-03-09 |
| NIR Continues Successfully Serving The Needs Of Mesa, Better Suited Than LLVM | Mesa | 2022-01-29 |
| Intel's Former Vulkan Driver Lead Dev Lands Great Role For Improving Linux Graphics | Mesa | 2022-01-17 |
| RADV Now Uses Common Sync Framework For More Mesa Driver Code Sharing | Mesa | 2022-01-02 |
| Mesa Open-Source GPU Drivers Enjoyed Near-Record Growth In 2021, Valve Dev Top Contributor | Mesa | 2021-12-26 |
| Intel's Lead Developer Of Their Linux Vulkan Driver Has Left The Company | Intel | 2021-12-19 |
| Intel's i965 Mesa Classic OpenGL Driver Will Stick Around A Bit Longer | Mesa | 2021-10-29 |
| Intel Talks More About Their Open-Source Vulkan Ray-Tracing Bring-Up | Intel | 2021-09-16 |
| Vulkan 1.2.185 Introduces Several New Extensions - Includes Presentation Work Led By Valve | Vulkan | 2021-07-20 |
| Intel Proposes Calibrated Timestamps As It Works Towards Vulkan Video | Vulkan | 2021-05-02 |
| AMD Proposing Redesign For How Linux GPU Drivers Work - Explicit Fences Everywhere | Mesa | 2021-04-20 |
| Mesa Vulkan Drivers Get A Common Dispatch Framework For Better Code Sharing | Mesa | 2021-02-02 |
| Mesa Enjoyed A Record-Setting Year With Intel G3D Default, RADV ACO, Faster Performance | Mesa | 2021-01-01 |
| Intel Begins Their Open-Source Driver Support For Vulkan Ray-Tracing With Xe HPG | Intel | 2020-10-28 |
| Intel Iris Gallium3D Driver Adds Compute Kernel Support In Mesa 20.3 | Intel | 2020-08-12 |
| Vulkan 1.2.149 Released With Another Extension For Helping The Likes Of DXVK | Vulkan | 2020-08-03 |
| Intel Gen11+ Graphics See An Easy Bump On Mesa 20.1-devel | Intel | 2020-04-28 |
| Intel NIR I/O Vectorization Ported From The AMD ACO Back-End - ~10% Performance Boost | Intel | 2020-03-29 |
| Intel Boosts Gen7 GPU Vulkan Compute Performance By ~330% For Geekbench | Intel | 2020-02-25 |
| Mesa Development Activity Was Up By ~20% In 2019, Just Under 3 Million Lines Of Code | Mesa | 2020-01-03 |
| Intel iGPU Linux Gamers May Be Better Off With The "Powersave" Governor | Linux Gaming | 2019-12-18 |
| Intel's Vulkan Driver To Lower CPU Overhead With Mesa 20.0 | Intel | 2019-11-18 |
| Intel's ANV Vulkan Driver Overhauls Its Buffer Allocation Code | Intel | 2019-10-31 |
| Mesa 19.2-RC1 Released But Intel Still Looking To Add OpenGL 4.6 Support | Mesa | 2019-08-20 |
| Intel's Icelake Gen11 OpenGL & Vulkan Driver Support Is Now Considered Feature-Complete | Intel | 2019-05-03 |
| Mesa Is About To Crack 2.7 Million Lines | Mesa | 2019-04-29 |
| NIR Improvements Land In Mesa 19.1, Helping RadeonSI & Intel | Mesa | 2019-03-13 |
| Mesa 19.0 Picks Up Intel NIR Caching Patches To Help With Shader Re-Compiles | Mesa | 2019-01-11 |
| Intel's ANV Vulkan Driver Aiming For Transform Feedback In Mesa 19.0, Helping DXVK | Intel | 2019-01-09 |
| Intel Iris Gallium3D Open-Source Driver Continues Speeding Along | Intel | 2018-11-27 |
| NVIDIA 396.54.09 Vulkan Driver Released With Transform Feedback, Intel ANV Gets TF Too | Vulkan | 2018-10-13 |
| Intel's Vulkan Driver Is Working On A NIR Cache | Intel | 2018-10-13 |
| Vulkan Working On New Timeline Semaphores Feature | Vulkan | 2018-09-26 |
| AMD's Marek Olšák Is Dominating Mesa Open-Source GPU Driver Development This Year | Mesa | 2018-09-12 |
| Intel Has Quietly Been Working On A New Gallium3D Driver Being Called "Iris" | Intel | 2018-08-17 |
| VK_KHR_8bit_storage Gets Wired Into Intel's ANV Vulkan Driver, Patches Available | Intel | 2018-07-09 |
| Intel ANV Driver Moves Forward With Vulkan 1.1.80 / KHR_create_renderpass2 | Intel | 2018-07-08 |
| Intel ANV Vulkan Driver Now Supports Automatic On-Disk Shader Cache | Intel | 2018-07-02 |
| Intel NIR Optimizations Land In Mesa 18.2 That Help Skyrim With DXVK | Mesa | 2018-07-02 |
| Intel Vulkan Driver Patches Make For Playable Experience With Skyrim On DXVK | Intel | 2018-06-30 |
| Intel's Mesa Driver Prepares To Kill Off The Blitter | Intel | 2018-05-13 |
| MSAA Fast Clears Flipped On For Intel ANV Vulkan Driver | Mesa | 2018-03-01 |
| Mesa Grew By Nearly 250,000 Lines Of Code In 2017 Across 10k Commits | Mesa | 2018-01-02 |
| ANV Enables UBO Pushing For Another Extra Bit Of Performance | Intel | 2017-12-09 |
| 16-Bit Storage, variablePointers Land For ANV Vulkan Driver | Mesa | 2017-12-06 |
| Many Vulkan Changes Hit Mesa 17.4-dev Git | Mesa | 2017-12-04 |
| Intel Vulkan Driver Preparing For Faster MSAA Performance | Intel | 2017-11-13 |
| Intel ANV Vulkan Driver Patches For Cross-Stage Link Optimizations | Intel | 2017-10-29 |
| Mesa 17.3 By The Numbers | Mesa | 2017-10-24 |
| i965 Shader Cache Revised As It Still Might Squeeze Into Mesa 17.3 | Mesa | 2017-10-22 |
| Mesa Is Up To About 8,000 Commits This Year, 2.2 Million Lines | Mesa | 2017-10-10 |
| Intel Lands Vulkan External Fences Support | Intel | 2017-08-29 |
| Mesa Is On Track Again To See More Than 10,000 Commits This Year | Mesa | 2017-08-07 |
| VK_KHR_external_semaphore Being Prepped For Intel ANV Vulkan | Intel | 2017-08-04 |
| Vulkan 1.0.54 Lands In Mesa For Intel ANV, Some RADV Extensions | Mesa | 2017-07-15 |
| Intel Haswell May Soon See Less Hangs With Mesa | Mesa | 2017-06-13 |
| Intel Gen 4~5 BLORPing Happens With Mesa 17.2 Git | Mesa | 2017-05-26 |
| Intel Developer BLORPs Older Hardware, May Help With Some Bugs | Intel | 2017-05-16 |
| VK_KHX_multiview Ready For Landing Within ANV, VK_KHX_external_memory Lands | Intel | 2017-04-28 |
| Intel Vulkan Driver Preps External Memory Extensions For Mesa 17.2 | Mesa | 2017-04-15 |
| Vulkan's VK_KHR_incremental_present Now Supported By Mesa's ANV/RADV Drivers | Mesa | 2017-04-04 |
| Mesa Has Seen Over 90k Commits, Nearly Two Million Lines Of Code | Mesa | 2017-03-29 |
| Intel's Vulkan Driver Working On VK_KHX_multiview Support | Intel | 2017-03-23 |
| Pipeline Statistic Queries Land In Mesa ANV | Intel | 2017-03-18 |
| Pipeline Statistics Queries Wired Up For Intel ANV Vulkan Driver | Intel | 2017-03-15 |
| Intel ANV Driver Gets Patches For VK_KHX_external_memory Extensions | Intel | 2017-02-27 |
| Mesa, Vulkan & Other Driver Talks From 2017 Embedded Linux Conference | Linux Events | 2017-02-25 |
| MSAA Compression Lands In Intel's Vulkan Driver, Big Win When Using Anti-Aliasing | Intel | 2017-02-23 |
| MSAA Compression Support For Intel's ANV Vulkan Driver | Vulkan | 2017-02-20 |
| Intel's ANV Vulkan Driver Gets An Important Performance Fix For Broadwell | Intel | 2017-02-14 |
| Vulkan 1.0.39 Adds A Number Of New Extensions | Vulkan | 2017-01-23 |
| Mesa Saw More Than 10,000 Commits This Year From Record Number Of Contributors | Mesa | 2016-12-31 |
| Intel ILO Gallium3D Driver Proposed For Removal, But Could Have Future Use-Cases | Mesa | 2016-12-06 |
| Intel Vulkan Linux Driver Now Has Patches For Fast Clears | Intel | 2016-11-19 |
| Intel Vulkan Linux Driver Lands Color Compression Support For Skylake | Intel | 2016-11-17 |
| Intel's Vulkan Linux Driver Gets ~30% Performance Boost, Now Faster Than OpenGL | Intel | 2016-11-01 |
| Mesa Development Has Gone Wild This Year | Mesa | 2016-10-14 |
| We Might Never See A New OpenGL Version, At Least Not For A Long Time | Standards | 2016-10-01 |
| Mesa 13.0 Planning For Release At End Of October, Might Include RADV Vulkan | Mesa | 2016-09-30 |
| The Open-Source Intel Vulkan Linux Driver's Anatomy | Intel | 2016-09-22 |
| The Interesting Wayland/Vulkan/Graphics Talks Happening This Month At XDC2016 | X.Org | 2016-09-08 |
| Mesa Has Already Seen More Code Changes This Year Than All Of 2015 | Mesa | 2016-08-31 |
| Mesa Is Almost Back Up To 1.9 Million Lines Of Code | Mesa | 2016-07-10 |
| Intel's Vulkan Linux Driver Should Now Work With Dota 2 | Intel | 2016-06-14 |
| Multiple OpenGL 4.x Adjustments Hits Mainline Mesa | Mesa | 2016-05-24 |
| Intel Is Getting Very Close With Its Last Extension For OpenGL 4.3 | Intel | 2016-05-21 |
| A TODO List For Intel's Linux Vulkan Driver | Intel | 2016-05-20 |
| Intel's Vulkan Driver Merged Into Mainline Mesa | Vulkan | 2016-04-15 |
| Intel's Vulkan Driver Should Be Merged Into Mainline Mesa Very Soon | Intel | 2016-04-06 |
| A Gallium3D State Tracker For Vulkan? | Mesa | 2016-02-17 |
| Mesa Vulkan Branch Published For Intel Linux Support | Intel | 2016-02-16 |
| There Is One Week To Go To The Vulkan Webinar | Vulkan | 2016-02-11 |
| Intel Open-Source Developer Talks About Vulkan | Vulkan | 2016-01-31 |
| Mesa Saw The Most Commits Last Year Since 2010 | Mesa | 2016-01-01 |
| NIR Mesa Functions Support Is Coming Along With SPIR-V To NIR | Mesa | 2015-12-26 |
| Intel's Mesa Driver Now Uses NIR By Default For Vertex Shaders | Mesa | 2015-08-20 |
| With Mesa 11.0 Coming, A Look At Development Stats | Mesa | 2015-08-17 |
| Intel Mesa Driver Starts Using NIR By Default For Fragment Shaders | Mesa | 2015-04-11 |
| Mesa Is At Nearly 1,500 Commits This Year | Mesa | 2015-03-26 |
| Intel Will Be Turning NIR On By Default In Their Mesa Driver | Intel | 2015-03-19 |
| NIR Lands In Mesa, New IR Started By High Schooler Intern At Intel | Mesa | 2015-01-15 |
| NIR Has Been Revised As A New IR For Mesa | Mesa | 2014-12-18 |
| The Developers Leading Wayland This Year | Wayland | 2014-09-10 |
| Wayland's Weston Is Past 90,000 Lines | Wayland | 2014-05-19 |
| Wayland Gains Fullscreen Shell, Screen Sharing Support | Wayland | 2014-04-04 |
| Weston Work Still Ongoing For A Fullscreen Shell Protocol | Wayland | 2014-02-26 |
| Wayland's Weston Was Rapidly On The Rise This Year | Wayland | 2013-12-27 |
| Weston's Wayland Back-End Gets More Features | Wayland | 2013-11-09 |
| Improvements Coming To Weston's Wayland Back-End | Wayland | 2013-10-28 |
| Wayland's Fullscreen Shell Protocol Is Still Baking | Wayland | 2013-10-24 |
| Proposing A Wayland System Compositor Protocol | Wayland | 2013-08-25 |
| Wayland Gains Client/Server-Side Language Bindings | Wayland | 2013-08-19 |
| Java Bindings Come To Wayland For Android | Wayland | 2013-01-10 |
