Mesa 9.2 was released in August of 2013 with new OpenGL 3/4 extensions, a Gallium3D Heads-Up Display, the Freedreno Gallium3D driver for Qualcomm Adreno graphics processors, and support for AMD UVD video decoding with R600g/RadeonSI using the VDPAU state tracker.

Mesa 9.2 Articles & Reviews

AMD R600 Gallium3D Performance Changes Found On Mesa 9.3   Display Drivers   2013-10-09
Intel HD Sandy/Ivy Bridge Linux Graphics Performance On Ubuntu 13.10   Display Drivers   2013-10-08
Legacy Radeon Gallium3D Performance Drops On Mesa 9.2   Display Drivers   2013-09-13
Radeon R600 Gallium3D MSAA Performance Update   Display Drivers   2013-09-12
Mesa 9.2 X.Org/Mir Ubuntu 13.10 Performance Benchmarks   Display Drivers   2013-08-30
AMD Gallium3D Performance Is Much Better Than Two Years Ago   Display Drivers   2013-08-27
Nouveau Benchmarks Lack Change On Mesa 9.2   Display Drivers   2013-08-06
Mesa 9.2 Can Boost Intel Haswell Graphics 30~40% On Linux   Display Drivers   2013-07-17
Mesa 9.2 Brings Some Performance Improvements For Intel IVB   Display Drivers   2013-07-16
Mesa 7.11 To Mesa 9.2 R600 Gallium3D Performance   Display Drivers   2013-07-13
Mesa 9.2 & The R600 SB Back-End Are Good For AMD APUs   Display Drivers   2013-07-10
AMD Radeon Gallium3D More Competitive With Catalyst On Linux   Display Drivers   2013-04-17
Mesa 9.2 Brings Better Performance To Intel Ivy Bridge   Display Drivers   2013-04-13
Running Mesa 9.2-devel + LLVM 3.3 SVN With The R600 Back-End   Display Drivers   2013-02-26

Mesa 9.2 Linux & Open-Source News

Fedora 31 Released For This Innovative Linux Distribution Supported By Red Hat   Fedora   2019-10-29
First Release Of PC-BSD 11.0-CURRENT Images   BSD   2015-02-13
Scientific Linux 6.6 vs. Scientific Linux 7.0 Benchmarks   Operating Systems   2014-11-21
Ubuntu 14.10 vs. Scientific Linux 7.0 Trial Benchmarks With A Haswell-EP   Operating Systems   2014-11-10
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.0 Is Looking Fantastic   Red Hat   2014-04-23
Oracle Linux 6.5 vs. Oracle Linux 7.0 Beta Benchmarks   Oracle   2014-04-20
Mesa 10.0 Lands As A Fedora 20 Stable Update   Fedora   2014-03-16
Mesa 10 Will Likely End Up As A Fedora 20 Update   Mesa   2014-03-12
Ubuntu 12.04.4 LTS Brings New Linux Hardware Support   Ubuntu   2014-02-06
Benchmarks Of Fedora 20 Updates + Linux 3.12 Kernel   Fedora   2014-01-09
Valve Releases New SteamOS Beta With Updated Drivers   Valve   2013-12-21
It's Easy Getting Intel Graphics To Work On SteamOS   Linux Gaming   2013-12-15
Radeon R300 Gallium3D Benchmarks On Mesa 10.1 Git   Mesa   2013-12-04
Mesa 9.2.4 Release Brings Big Freedreno Improvements   Mesa   2013-11-28
Gallium3D LLVMpipe Performance Remains Unchanged   Mesa   2013-11-26
Mesa 9.2.3 Fixes A Number Of Bugs   Intel   2013-11-14
RadeonSI Gallium3D Gets UBO/TBO Support, OpenGL 3.3   Mesa   2013-11-04
AMD Driver To Enabling RadeonSI Tiling By Default   Radeon   2013-11-01
Features To Be Found In Mesa 10.0   Mesa   2013-10-26
Kepler: Nouveau Is ~20% The Speed Of NVIDIA's Blob   NVIDIA   2013-10-25
Latest Haswell Performance Changes In Mesa 10.0   Mesa   2013-10-21
Intel Ivy Bridge Benchmarks On Mesa 10.0 With GL 3.3   Intel   2013-10-20
Mesa 9.2.2 Is Now Available   Mesa   2013-10-19
Intel SNA Performance Of Sandy Bridge, Ivy Bridge, Haswell   Intel   2013-10-13
New Linux Mesa Git Benchmarks Of Intel's Iris Pro   Mesa   2013-10-12
Mesa 9.2 OpenGL Library Gets Further Stabilized   Mesa   2013-10-05
Intel Core i7 4960X "Ivy Bridge-E" Is A Beauty On Linux   Intel   2013-10-05
The State Of Open-Source ARM GPU Drivers   Arm   2013-09-27
Ubuntu 13.04 vs. Ubuntu 13.10 In A VMware VM   Virtualization   2013-09-26
OpenSUSE 13.1 Goes Into Beta With Linux 3.11   SUSE   2013-09-19
OpenELEC 3.2 Packs In XBMC 12   Multimedia   2013-09-14
Intel Bay Trail / Silvermont Linux Hardware Support   Intel   2013-09-12
RadeonSI / GLAMOR Support Still M.I.A. From Ubuntu 13.10   Radeon   2013-09-12
2D Performance Is Improving For Ubuntu 13.10 XMir   Ubuntu   2013-09-10
System76 Gazelle Pro: A High Performance Linux Laptop   Phoronix   2013-09-05
Pipelight, X.Org, exFAT & Wayland Topped This Month   Phoronix   2013-08-31
Mesa 9.2 Release Brings New Features, Performance   Mesa   2013-08-27
Mesa 9.2 Is Planned For Release Next Week   Mesa   2013-08-23
R600 SB Shader Optimizations May Become The Default   AMD   2013-08-22
The State Of OpenGL 3.x/4.x Features In Mesa 9.2   Mesa   2013-08-22
Why Mesa 9.2 Doesn't Work For All Linux Users   Mesa   2013-08-21
Performance Overview Of Mesa 9.2   Mesa   2013-08-21
Mesa 9.2 Release Candidate 1 Now Surfaces   Mesa   2013-08-20
AMD Radeon Driver Support To Land In FreeBSD 10.0   BSD   2013-08-19
R600 Gallium3D LLVM & SB Shader Back-End Tests   AMD   2013-08-17
Mesa 9.2-devel vs. Mesa 9.3-devel For Intel Haswell   Intel   2013-08-16
Intel Still Making Source Engine Performance Optimizations   Intel   2013-08-14
The Performance Impact Of Fedora 19 Updates   Fedora   2013-08-10
Linux 3.11 Benchmarks For Nouveau Graphics   Nouveau   2013-08-07
Nouveau NVC0 Fermi Compute Support Committed   Nouveau   2013-08-07
Mesa 9.1.6 Provides Stable Driver Bug-Fixes   Mesa   2013-08-02
Intel Updates Its Linux Graphics Driver Installer   Intel   2013-07-31
Freedreno DRM/Gallium3D Shines Well For ARM   Arm   2013-07-30
Nouveau Driver Gets Multi-Screen Reverse Optimus   Nouveau   2013-07-30
Mesa 9.2 Is At 1.3 Million Lines Of Code   Mesa   2013-07-29
Windows 8 vs. Linux Graphics, Source Benchmarks Coming   Phoronix   2013-07-23
Canonical Posts X.Org, Driver Patches For XMir   X.Org   2013-07-22
Canonical Posts 15 Mesa Patches To Support Mir   Ubuntu   2013-07-20
Haswell Perf Doesn't Change Much On Linux 3.11   Intel   2013-07-20
Mesa 9.2 Branched For Release Next Month   Mesa   2013-07-20
Nouveau VP2 H.264/MPEG2 Decoding Now In Gallium3D   Nouveau   2013-07-18
R600 Radeon Gallium3D Gets More SB Back-End Work   Radeon   2013-07-17
LLVMpipe Driver Can Almost Do OpenGL 3.0~3.1   Mesa   2013-07-15
The Current State Of OpenGL 3, OpenGL 4 In Mesa 9.2   Mesa   2013-07-15
R600 Gallium3D LLVM Compiler Back-End Benchmarks   Mesa   2013-07-14
Some Of The New Features Coming For Mesa 9.2   Mesa   2013-07-13
Nouveau Fermi Performance On Ubuntu 13.10   Nouveau   2013-07-12
Mir Support Not Merged For Mesa 9.2   Mesa   2013-07-11
Mesa 9.2, R600 SB Also Good For Older AMD GPUs   Mesa   2013-07-11
Gallium3D's LLVMpipe Is Much Faster With Mesa 9.2   Mesa   2013-07-10
Intel Works On Enabling Haswell's Resource Streamer   Intel   2013-07-08
DRM/KMS Driver Published For Snapdragon Graphics   Hardware   2013-07-06
Gallium3D Compute Comes For Nouveau NVC0   Nouveau   2013-07-05
FreeBSD Radeon Support Might Be Good In Mesa 9.2   BSD   2013-07-04
The Mesa 3D Release Process Is Changing   Intel   2013-07-03
Mesa 9.1.4 Pulls In Bug Fixes, Mostly For Intel   Mesa   2013-07-01
AMD Sea Islands Support Comes To Radeon Gallium3D   Radeon   2013-06-28
AMD HD 7000 "RadeonSI" Runs Well With Fedora 19   Radeon   2013-06-27
8-Way Desktop Comparison On Ubuntu 13.10 Linux   Linux Gaming   2013-06-22
Assessing The Current Intel Haswell Linux Experience   Intel   2013-06-21
Is Intel Sandy Bridge Getting Faster On Linux?   Intel   2013-06-21
The Latest Mesa 9.2 Results For Intel Haswell   Intel   2013-06-21
Gallium3D LLVMpipe Benchmarks From Intel Haswell   Mesa   2013-06-14
Intel Ivy Bridge: UXA vs. SNA - Updated Benchmarks   Intel   2013-05-29
Intel Ultrabook Performance Is Faster With Mesa 9.2   Mesa   2013-05-22
Mesa 9.1.3 Release Corrects Some Bugs   Mesa   2013-05-21
Linux 3.10 Kernel Benchmarks For Intel Ivy Bridge   Intel   2013-05-17
X.Org, Mir Plans Are Made Up For Ubuntu 13.10   X.Org   2013-05-14
What Was Striking On Phoronix Last Month   Phoronix   2013-05-01
Gears On Gallium Still Grinding The Latest Mesa   Operating Systems   2013-04-24
R600g Tests Show Little Change On Mesa 9.2-devel   AMD   2013-04-17
NVIDIA vs. Nouveau Drivers On Ubuntu 13.04   NVIDIA   2013-04-11
Intel Mesa Driver Gets HiZ Support For Haswell   Intel   2013-04-10
Nouveau Improves Some Games With Linux 3.9 Kernel   Nouveau   2013-04-10
Early Mesa 9.2 Benchmarks With Nouveau   Mesa   2013-04-10
Geometry Shaders For Gallium3D LLVM   Mesa   2013-03-26
Mesa/Gallium3D Gets Its First ARM SoC GPU Driver   Mesa   2013-03-12
Intel GPU Benchmarks On Linux 3.9-rc1 Kernel   Intel   2013-03-04
Intel Mesa Driver Now Has GL 3.2 Multisample Textures   Intel   2013-03-01
Gallium3D LLVMpipe Driver Shows Progress   Mesa   2013-02-28
Revised Stack Space Patch For R600 Gallium3D Driver   Mesa   2013-02-18
IBM's Porting Gallium3D LLVMpipe To PowerPC   Mesa   2013-02-11
Intel To Improve "Out Of The Box" Linux Gaming   Mesa   2013-02-07
Geometry Shaders For Mesa Not Yet Ready   Mesa   2013-01-29