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Mesa 18.1 Articles & Reviews

Linux 4.18 AMDGPU Tests: Vega Taking A Hit   Display Drivers   2018-07-10
Intel Coffee Lake OpenGL Performance On Windows 10 vs. Linux   Operating Systems   2018-02-21

Mesa 18.1 Linux & Open-Source News

Mesa Made Massive Progress In 2018 On Open-Source Vulkan / OpenGL Drivers   Mesa   2018-12-26
Total War: WARHAMMER II Now Available For Linux Gamers, Powered By Vulkan   Linux Gaming   2018-11-20
Feral Announces Linux System Requirements For Vulkan-Powered Total War: WARHAMMER II   Linux Gaming   2018-11-12
Mesa 18.2.1 Going Into Ubuntu 18.10 For Fresh Open-Source GPU Drivers   Ubuntu   2018-09-27
Ubuntu 18.10 "Cosmic Cuttlefish" Prepares For Its Beta Release   Ubuntu   2018-09-24
Mesa 18.1.9 Released As The Last Of The Series   Mesa   2018-09-24
Mesa 18.2.1 Released With A Number Of Fixes For The Vulkan Drivers   Mesa   2018-09-21
Life Is Strange: Before The Storm Is Now Out For Linux   Linux Gaming   2018-09-13
Mesa 18.1.8 Released With More Stable Fixes   Mesa   2018-09-07
Life Is Strange: Before the Storm - Shipping For Linux Next Week   Linux Gaming   2018-09-06
Initial AMD Radeon "Vega 20" Support For RADV Vulkan Driver   Radeon   2018-09-03
Mesa 18.1.7 Released With Few Bug Fixes   Mesa   2018-08-24
AMD Posts Open-Source Vulkan Driver Code For Vega 12 GPU   Radeon   2018-08-24
Mesa 18.2-RC3 Released With Two Dozen Fixes   Mesa   2018-08-15
Mesa 18.1.6 Released With Build System Updates, Various OpenGL/Vulkan Driver Fixes   Mesa   2018-08-14
Flatpak Gets New FreeDesktop SDK 18.08 Runtime   GNOME   2018-08-11
Mesa 18.1.6 On The Way With Over Three Dozen Fixes   Mesa   2018-08-11
Mesa 18.1.5 Released With Many RADV Fixes, Other Changes Throughout   Mesa   2018-07-28
AMDGPU Firmware Updated From 18.20, Vega M Blobs Added   Radeon   2018-07-17
Mesa 18.1.4 Released With Fixes For Intel & Radeon Drivers   Mesa   2018-07-13
Mesa 18.1.4 Being Prepared With Intel Fixes & A Couple For Radeon   Mesa   2018-07-11
Mesa 18.2 Git Lands RadeonSI OpenGL 4.4 Compatibility Profile Support   Mesa   2018-06-29
Mesa 18.1.3 Released With The Latest Load Of Fixes   Mesa   2018-06-29
RadeonSI GL 4.4 Compat Patches Make Wolfenstein & Doom With OpenGL Happy In Wine   Mesa   2018-06-28
Mesa 18.1.3 Is Coming This Week With Many RADV Fixes   Mesa   2018-06-28
DXVK 0.60 Released With Support For 64-Bit Floating Point Instructions, Optimizations   WINE   2018-06-22
OpenSUSE Tumbleweed Jumps On Linux 4.17, KDE Plasma 5.13 Riding Well   SUSE   2018-06-20
Mesa 18.1.2 Released With Several RADV & Intel Driver Fixes   Mesa   2018-06-15
More Vega M Performance Numbers Surfacing, Linux State Looking Good   Intel   2018-06-14
Mesa 18.0.5 Being Prepped For Ubuntu 18.04 While 18.1.1 Going Into X-Updates   Ubuntu   2018-06-13
LibreOffice Now Available On Haiku OS, Mesa 18.1 With Vulkan Being Worked On   Operating Systems   2018-06-06
Mesa 18.0.5 Released, But It's Now Time To Upgrade To Mesa 18.1+   Mesa   2018-06-03
Mesa 18.1.1 Released With Many OpenGL + Vulkan Driver Fixes   Mesa   2018-06-01
Vega Up For Another Performance Boost On RadeonSI, More Fixes For RADV From Feral   Mesa   2018-06-01
Mesa 18.0.5 Is The Last Planned Release In The Series   Mesa   2018-05-31
OpenGL Compatibility Profile Updates Land In Mesa 18.2-dev   Mesa   2018-05-30
Vega M Graphics On Intel Kabylake G CPUs Are Beginning To Work Under Linux   Intel   2018-05-27
Geometry & Tessellation Shaders For Mesa's OpenGL Compatibility Context   Mesa   2018-05-24
Mesa 18.2 Due For Release In August   Mesa   2018-05-23
Mesa 18.1 Released With Intel Shader Cache Default, OpenGL 3.1 ARB_compatibility   Mesa   2018-05-18
Mesa 18.0.4 Released With A Handful Of Bug Fixes   Mesa   2018-05-17
Mesa 18.0.4 Coming This Week With More Fixes   Mesa   2018-05-15
Latest Intel ARB_gl_spirv Patches Published By Igalia   Mesa   2018-05-12
Mesa 18.1 Expected To Officially Debut Next Week   Mesa   2018-05-11
Mesa 18.0.3 Released With A Handful Of Fixes   Mesa   2018-05-07
Intel Icelake Support Added To Mesa's Libdrm   Intel   2018-05-05
Mesa 18.1-RC3 Released, Final Expected In About Two Weeks   Mesa   2018-05-04
The New Features Coming In Mesa 18.1: Intel Cache By Default, Many Vulkan Strides   Mesa   2018-05-04
Vega 12/20 Added To AMDGPU LLVM, Confirms New GCN Deep Learning Instructions For Vega 20   Radeon   2018-04-30
Mesa 18.1-RC2 & Mesa 18.0.2 Released   Mesa   2018-04-28
Intel ANV Vulkan Driver Adds Initial Support For Icelake   Intel   2018-04-27
AMDGPU Linux Kernel Driver Gets Patches For Vega M Support - Intel Kabylake G   Radeon   2018-04-26
Mesa 18.1-RC1 Released With The Latest Open-Source 3D Driver Features   Mesa   2018-04-21
This Chart Shows How The Radeon RX 580 vs. GeForce GTX 1060 Now Compete Under Linux   Linux Gaming   2018-04-20
RADV Driver Lands Support For Vulkan's New Descriptor Indexing Extension   Radeon   2018-04-19
RadeonSI Now Appears To Support "RX Vega M" With Intel Core CPUs   Radeon   2018-04-18
Mesa 18.0.1 Released With A Number Of Fixes   Mesa   2018-04-18
Mesa 17.3.9 Released To End Out The Series   Mesa   2018-04-18
Mesa 18.0.1 Being Released In A Few Days With About Four Dozen Fixes   Mesa   2018-04-15
Testing RADV's Out-of-Order Rasterization Vulkan Performance   Radeon   2018-04-14
Mesa's Gallium HUD Gets A Simple Option   Mesa   2018-04-14
Mesa 17.3.9 Is Coming With About Two Dozen Fixes To End Out Mesa 17.3   Mesa   2018-04-12
Igalia Preps 16-bit Integer Support For Intel's Vulkan Driver   Intel   2018-04-11
AMD Posts VP9 VA-API Video Acceleration For Gallium3D   Radeon   2018-04-09
VK_AMD_shader_core_properties Now Supported By RADV   Vulkan   2018-04-09
Etnaviv Performance Counter Support Merged Into Mesa 18.1   Mesa   2018-04-08
RadeonSI Now Supports KHR_blend_equation_advanced, Needed For OpenGL ES 3.2   Mesa   2018-04-03
RadeonSI Gets A "Mega Cleanup" To Kick Off Spring   Mesa   2018-04-02
More Intel OpenGL 4.6 SPIR-V Code Lands In Mesa 18.1 Git   Mesa   2018-03-30
AMDVLK Updated With Wayland Support, Many Other Fixes & Improvements   Radeon   2018-03-29
RADV In Mesa 18.1 Git Receiving New Vulkan Extension Work   Radeon   2018-03-29
AMD Vega 12 GPU Support Lands In Mesa 18.1-devel   Mesa   2018-03-28
Mesa 18.0 Officially Released With Plenty Of OpenGL & Vulkan Improvements   Mesa   2018-03-27
Etnaviv Gallium3D Wires In Performance Monitor Support   Mesa   2018-03-26
Latest AMDGPU DC Plays Nicer With Raven Ridge But Still Linux Gaming Stability Issues   AMD   2018-03-24
Radeon Vega 12 Support Called For Pulling Into Linux 4.17 Kernel   Radeon   2018-03-23
A Valve Linux Developer Managed Another Small Performance Optimization For RADV   Mesa   2018-03-23
Mesa 18.0 Should Arrive Today With Many Vulkan/OpenGL Driver Improvements   Mesa   2018-03-23
Vega 12 Support Is Now Available For RadeonSI Gallium3D   Radeon   2018-03-22
Nouveau NIR Support Appears Almost Baked, NV50 Support Added   Nouveau   2018-03-20
RADV Patches Are Closer For Sub-Group Capabilities   Vulkan   2018-03-16
Uniform Packing For RadeonSI NIR, Helps Reduce CPU Overhead   Mesa   2018-03-14
Mesa 18.0 Has Been Off The Tracks For More Than One Month   Mesa   2018-03-13
David Airlie Moves Toward Upstreaming Soft FP64 Support In Mesa   Mesa   2018-03-12
New DRI3 v1.1 & v1.2 Bits Now Supported By Mesa   Mesa   2018-03-10
With Mesa Git You Can Now Run A Completely Open Graphics Stack On The Tegra X1   Mesa   2018-03-09
Vulkan 1.1 Support Lands In Mesa Git For RADV, ANV   Mesa   2018-03-07
RADV Achieves Same-Day Conformance For Vulkan 1.1   Vulkan   2018-03-07
Intel Publishes 56 Patches For Conformant Vulkan 1.1 Support With ANV Driver   Intel   2018-03-07
OpenMAX Tizonia H.264 Encoder/Decoder Land In Mesa 18.1 Git   Mesa   2018-03-06
Trying Out AMDGPU Overdrive Radeon Overclocking On Linux 4.15   Radeon   2018-03-03
Intel Mesa OpenGL Driver Lands 48-bit Addressing Support, Lets Up To ~256TB Of vRAM   Mesa   2018-03-02
MSAA Fast Clears Flipped On For Intel ANV Vulkan Driver   Mesa   2018-03-01
GraphicsFuzz Demo Works On Fuzzing Your GPU Drivers Through WebGL In The Browser   Mesa   2018-02-28
UVD-Based HEVC Video Encoding Main Now Supported In Mesa 18.1   Radeon   2018-02-24
RADV Vulkan Driver Improvements Coming For Wolfenstein 2 On Wine   WINE   2018-02-24
Mesa 18.1 Receives OpenGL 3.1 With ARB_compatibility For Gallium3D Drivers   Mesa   2018-02-23
NVIDIA Developer Posts Open-Source Tegra Support For Mesa - Tegra K1 & Newer   NVIDIA   2018-02-22
AMD_gcn_shader Support Is Being Prepped For RADV Vulkan   Vulkan   2018-02-21
Intel GLSL On-Disk Shader Cache Enabled By Default   Intel   2018-02-21
RadeonSI Now Offers NIR Shader Cache Support   Radeon   2018-02-20
Nouveau Gets ARB_bindless_texture Support For Maxwell & Newer   Nouveau   2018-02-18
Mesa Git Lands RadeonSI 32-bit Pointers Support   Mesa   2018-02-17
Initial Intel Icelake Support Lands In Mesa OpenGL Driver, Vulkan Support Started   Intel   2018-02-16
Ubuntu 18.04 LTS Landing Mesa 18.0, Enabling GLVND   Ubuntu   2018-02-14
Keith Packard Plumbs Direct Display Extensions Into RADV & ANV   Valve   2018-02-10
Gallium3D Now Supports NIR Shader Disk Cache   Mesa   2018-02-10
RadeonSI VCN Encode Now Supports HEVC Main   Radeon   2018-02-06
~80 Patches Are Left For Having Intel i965 SPIR-V Support   Mesa   2018-02-05
Trying Out RadeonSI NIR With Some OpenGL Linux Games On Mesa 18.1-dev   Mesa   2018-01-30
RADV Reworking Pipeline Emitting To Improve CPU Usage   Radeon   2018-01-29
R600 Gallium3D Now Effectively At OpenGL 4.4, A Nudge Away From GL 4.5   Mesa   2018-01-28
Radeon R600 Gallium3D Driver Nearly At OpenGL 4.5, Remaining Bits Being Finished   Mesa   2018-01-24
Mesa 18.0 Now Under Feature Freeze With 18.0-RC1 Premiere   Mesa   2018-01-23
R600g "Soft" FP64 Shows Signs Of Life, Enabling Older GPUs To Have OpenGL 4 In 2018   Mesa   2018-01-19
RadeonSI NIR Backend Now Supports GLSL 4.50   Mesa   2018-01-17
Mesa 18.0 Planned For A Mid-February Release   Mesa   2017-12-18