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Mesa 18.2 Articles & Reviews

Mesa 18.2 vs. 18.3 vs. 19.0 January Benchmarks For RadeonSI/RADV   Display Drivers   2019-01-21
Radeon Vulkan Driver Benchmarks: AMDVLK 2018.4.2 vs. AMDGPU-PRO 18.40 vs. Mesa 18.2/19.0   Display Drivers   2018-11-25
Radeon Software 18.20 vs. Mesa 18.2 RadeonSI/RADV Linux Driver Performance   Display Drivers   2018-06-26
A Look At The RadeonSI/RADV Performance From Mesa 17.2 To Mesa 18.2   Display Drivers   2018-06-05
A Look At The Intel UHD Graphics Performance On Clear Linux With Linux 4.16 + Mesa 18.2   Operating Systems   2018-06-03
Raven Ridge With The Ryzen 5 2400G On Mesa 18.2 + Linux 4.17 Is Finally Stable   Linux Gaming   2018-05-19
Radeon Software 18.10 vs. Mesa 18.2 RADV/RadeonSI Benchmarks   Display Drivers   2018-05-03

Mesa 18.2 Linux & Open-Source News

Mozilla Preparing To Test WebRender With "Qualified" Linux Users   Mozilla   2019-04-10
Updated Radeon Software 18.50 Linux Driver Tacks On Radeon VII Support   Radeon   2019-02-07
Mesa 18.3.2 Released With Many Fixes As Users Encouraged To Upgrade   Mesa   2019-01-17
The Expected Linux Driver State For The Radeon VII   Radeon   2019-01-10
Mesa 18.2.8 Released With Driver Fixes To End Out The Series   Mesa   2018-12-27
Mesa Made Massive Progress In 2018 On Open-Source Vulkan / OpenGL Drivers   Mesa   2018-12-26
Mesa 18.2.8 Packing RADV / Meson / New Vega IDs As An End To The Series   Mesa   2018-12-25
Radeon Software Adrenalin 2019 Rolls Out While Linux Users Should Have AMDGPU-PRO 18.50   Radeon   2018-12-13
Mesa 18.2.7 Released With Several RADV Driver Fixes, Variety Of Other Updates   Mesa   2018-12-13
A Radeon RX 590 Workaround For Linux But With Abysmal Performance   Radeon   2018-11-29
Mesa 18.2.6 Picks Up Support For Amber/Whiskey Lake, Vulkan Driver Fixes   Mesa   2018-11-28
Radeon Vulkan Driver Gets A Significant Performance Optimization For Pre-4.20 Kernels   Radeon   2018-11-26
AMDGPU-PRO 18.50 Linux Preview Driver Available For RHEL7, Begins Work On Navi   Radeon   2018-11-25
Mesa 18.2.5 Brings Fixes For Direct3D 9 State Tracker, RADV Vulkan Driver   Mesa   2018-11-15
The Shiny New Features Of Mesa 18.3 For Open-Source Intel / Radeon Graphics Drivers   Mesa   2018-11-13
System76 Pop!_OS Updated Against Ubuntu 18.10, Adds In Extra Changes   Operating Systems   2018-10-19
Mesa 18.2.3 Released With Latest Driver Workarounds For Steam Play / Proton   Mesa   2018-10-19
Mesa 18.2.3 Coming This Week With Fixes/Workarounds For Several Steam Play Games   Mesa   2018-10-18
Ubuntu 18.10 Set For Release Today With Some Nice Improvements   Ubuntu   2018-10-18
KaOS 2018.10 Released With KDE Plasma 5.14 Desktop, Wayland 1.16   KDE   2018-10-14
You Can Help Ubuntu This Weekend Test The Near-Final Cosmic Cuttlefish   Ubuntu   2018-10-14
Mesa 18.2.2 Released With RADV GTA V Fix, Vulkan Additions & D3D9 Patches   Mesa   2018-10-05
Valve Updates SteamVR AMD Requirements, Recommends Using PPAs On Ubuntu   Valve   2018-10-04
RADV In Mesa 18.2.2 Gets Steam Play + GTA V Fixes, SteamVR Hang Fix   Mesa   2018-10-03
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
Mesa 18.2.1 Is Coming This Week With Dozens Of Fixes   Mesa   2018-09-20
Mesa 18.2 Released With Vega 20 Support, OpenGL 4.4 Compat Profile & A Lot More   Mesa   2018-09-07
Mesa 18.1.8 Released With More Stable Fixes   Mesa   2018-09-07
Mesa 18.2-RC6 Released, Final Expected On Friday   Mesa   2018-09-05
Intel Amber Lake Graphics Support Added To Mesa Drivers   Intel   2018-09-01
Mesa 18.2 Should Now Be Clear For Releasing With Its Many OpenGL/Vulkan Improvements   Mesa   2018-09-01
Mesa 18.2-RC5 Released With Another Two Dozen Patches   Mesa   2018-08-30
RadeonSI Compatibility Profile Now Supports OpenGL 4.5 On Mesa 18.3   Mesa   2018-08-29
Feature Development Is Over On Ubuntu 18.10   Ubuntu   2018-08-24
Mesa 18.1.7 Released With Few Bug Fixes   Mesa   2018-08-24
RadeonSI Gets Patches For OpenGL 4.5 Compat, Workaround For No Man's Sky On Steam Play   Radeon   2018-08-24
Mesa 18.2-RC4 Released Due To Open Graphics Driver Bugs   Mesa   2018-08-22
Mesa 18.2 Is Releasing Soon With Many OpenGL / Vulkan Driver Improvements   Mesa   2018-08-21
Mesa 18.2-RC3 Released With Two Dozen Fixes   Mesa   2018-08-15
RADV Now Supports On-Demand Compilation Of Built-In Shaders   Radeon   2018-08-14
Mesa 18.1.6 Released With Build System Updates, Various OpenGL/Vulkan Driver Fixes   Mesa   2018-08-14
Mesa 18.1.6 On The Way With Over Three Dozen Fixes   Mesa   2018-08-11
Mesa 18.2-RC2 Released With 17 Fixes So Far   Mesa   2018-08-08
RadeonSI Gets Patches For AMD_framebuffer_multisample_advanced (EQAA)   Mesa   2018-08-05
Adreno A6xx Gallium3D Support Coming Together   Mesa   2018-08-04
Mesa 18.2 Branched, Mesa 18.3 Enters Development   Mesa   2018-08-02
LLVM / Clang 7.0 Branching Today, Releasing In September   LLVM   2018-08-01
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
All Gallium3D Drivers Getting ASTC Compression Support, RadeonSI Hits OpenGL ES 3.2   Mesa   2018-07-29
Mesa 18.1.5 Released With Many RADV Fixes, Other Changes Throughout   Mesa   2018-07-28
RADV Vulkan Driver Introduces Support For ETC2 Compression   Radeon   2018-07-27
Mesa 18.2 Is On The Final Days Of Development With Many New Features Coming   Mesa   2018-07-26
RADV Vulkan Driver Picks Up 16-Bit Storage Support   Radeon   2018-07-23
Raven Ridge APUs Get Minor Performance Boost With Latest RADV Vulkan Driver   Radeon   2018-07-19
Freedreno Gallium3D Now Exposes Adreno A5xx Performance Counters   Mesa   2018-07-19
Mesa 18.2 Gets Extra Two Weeks Of Development Time   Mesa   2018-07-18
Igalia Aligns Latest Patches For Giving Intel's Mesa Driver OpenGL 4.6   Intel   2018-07-16
NIR Continues To Be Prepped For OpenCL Support   Nouveau   2018-07-15
Marek Squeezes More Performance Out Of RadeonSI In CPU-Bound Scenarios   Radeon   2018-07-14
Mesa 18.1.4 Released With Fixes For Intel & Radeon Drivers   Mesa   2018-07-13
Vega 20 Support Added To RadeonSI Gallium3D Driver   Radeon   2018-07-12
Mesa 18.1.4 Being Prepared With Intel Fixes & A Couple For Radeon   Mesa   2018-07-11
RADV Driver Gets Faster Shader LLVM Compilation   Radeon   2018-07-09
RADV Vulkan Driver Gets Minor CPU Overhead Reductions, Conditional Rendering Patches   Radeon   2018-07-09
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
RandR Lease Support Appears Ready For AMDGPU X.Org Driver   Radeon   2018-07-07
Maxwell & Newer Now Support Multi-Sampled Images For Nouveau NVC0   Nouveau   2018-07-05
OpenGL 4.5 Compat Being Worked On For RadeonSI, Helping Out No Man's Sky & Others   Radeon   2018-07-04
More Intel ARB_gl_spirv Code Lands In Mesa, But Still Not Ready To Finish Up OpenGL 4.6   Mesa   2018-07-03
Intel NIR Optimizations Land In Mesa 18.2 That Help Skyrim With DXVK   Mesa   2018-07-02
Windows Comparisons, Linux 4.18, Wine & Alternate CPUs Were Very Popular In June   Phoronix   2018-07-01
RadeonSI Compute Shaders Now Supported By The Mesa Shader Cache   Radeon   2018-06-30
LLVM Quitter, Ryzen & Git Were Most Popular Linux News So Far This Year   Free Software   2018-06-30
Intel Vulkan Driver Patches Make For Playable Experience With Skyrim On DXVK   Intel   2018-06-30
Mesa 18.2 Git Lands RadeonSI OpenGL 4.4 Compatibility Profile Support   Mesa   2018-06-29
Nouveau NIR Support Nears The Mesa Merging Milestone   Nouveau   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
Patches Revised Taking RadeonSI OpenGL Compatibility Profile To v4.0   Mesa   2018-06-25
Vulkan Display Extensions To Be Used By SteamVR Merged Into Mesa RADV/ANV   Mesa   2018-06-19
RadeonSI Lands OpenGL 3.3 Compatibility Profile Support   Mesa   2018-06-18
Mesa 18.1.2 Released With Several RADV & Intel Driver Fixes   Mesa   2018-06-15
Mesa Rolls Out Support For ARB_sample_locations   Mesa   2018-06-15
Mesa's VirGL For OpenGL Within VMs Now Supports Tessellation Shaders   Mesa   2018-06-15
Mesa RadeonSI Lands Possible Vega/Raven Performance Improvement   Mesa   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
DRM Leasing / Display Patches Updated For Mesa's Vulkan Drivers   Mesa   2018-06-12
RADV Vulkan Driver Should Now Work Much Better With DXVK For Direct3D 11 Wine Gaming   Radeon   2018-06-09
Mesa 18.0.5 Released, But It's Now Time To Upgrade To Mesa 18.1+   Mesa   2018-06-03
Vega Up For Another Performance Boost On RadeonSI, More Fixes For RADV From Feral   Mesa   2018-06-01
Linux Distro Tests, New Ryzen, & LLVM Topped Our 333 Articles This Month   Phoronix   2018-05-31
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
Some Of The Features Expected For Fedora 29   Fedora   2018-05-29
Vega M Graphics On Intel Kabylake G CPUs Are Beginning To Work Under Linux   Intel   2018-05-27
Intel Mesa Driver Finally Supports Threaded OpenGL   Intel   2018-05-24
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
RADV Gets Fix For DXVK With World of Warcraft & Other Games   Radeon   2018-05-22
Mesa 18.1 Released With Intel Shader Cache Default, OpenGL 3.1 ARB_compatibility   Mesa   2018-05-18
VC5 Gallium3D Driver Becomes V3D, Enabled By Default In Mesa   Mesa   2018-05-17
Gallium3D's HUD Gets A Frametime Graph Capability   Mesa   2018-05-16
RADV Lands VK_PIPELINE_CREATE_DISABLE_OPTIMIZATION_BIT   Radeon   2018-05-13
Latest Intel ARB_gl_spirv Patches Published By Igalia   Mesa   2018-05-12
Radeon EQAA Anti-Aliasing Support Merged To Mesa 18.2   Mesa   2018-05-11
AMD Kaveri Gets A Big Performance Boost With Mesa 18.2 & AMDGPU DRM   Mesa   2018-05-11
The New Features Coming In Mesa 18.1: Intel Cache By Default, Many Vulkan Strides   Mesa   2018-05-04
VC5 Gallium3D Going To V3D, Ready To Turn On By Default   Mesa   2018-05-03
Intel ANV Vulkan Driver Lands shaderInt16 Support   Intel   2018-05-03
RADV Enables OoO Rasterization By Default For A 1% Gain   Radeon   2018-05-02
RadeonSI Ups Its Compiler Threads To Let Shader-DB Run Faster On Modern Systems   Radeon   2018-04-28