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Mesa 18.3 Articles & Reviews

Mesa 18.2 vs. 18.3 vs. 19.0 January Benchmarks For RadeonSI/RADV   Display Drivers   2019-01-21
The Polaris/Vega Performance At The End Of Mesa 18.3 Feature Development   Linux Gaming   2018-11-09
Ubuntu 18.10 Is A Nice Upgrade For Radeon Gamers, Especially For Steam VR   Operating Systems   2018-10-18
The Linux 4.19 AMDGPU + Mesa 18.3 Performance From The Radeon HD 7950 To RX Vega 64   Display Drivers   2018-09-09
The Tighter NVIDIA GeForce vs. AMD Radeon Linux Gaming Battle With 396.54 + Mesa 18.3-dev Drivers   Display Drivers   2018-08-28

Mesa 18.3 Linux & Open-Source News

Mesa 18.3.6 Released To End Out The Series   Mesa   2019-04-05
DiRT 4 Now Available For Linux, Racing Game Powered By Vulkan   Linux Gaming   2019-03-28
Mesa 18.3.6 Is Coming With Over A Dozen Fixes To End Out The Series   Mesa   2019-03-27
Feral Releasing DiRT 4 For Linux This Week   Linux Gaming   2019-03-25
Mesa 18.3.5 Released With Intel/Radeon Vulkan Driver Fixes   Mesa   2019-03-18
Mesa 18.3.4 Brings VA-API VP9 Improvements, More Coffeelake/Icelake IDs For Intel   Mesa   2019-02-18
Mesa 18.3.3 Released With Fixes For RadeonSI/RADV, OpenGL Driver Bugs   Mesa   2019-01-31
The New Features On Deck For Mesa 19.0: Vulkan Additions, FreeSync, Soft FP64 & More   Mesa   2019-01-28
Mesa 18.3.2 Released With Many Fixes As Users Encouraged To Upgrade   Mesa   2019-01-17
Mesa 18.3.2 Is Finally En Route With 78+ Changes   Mesa   2019-01-15
VKD3D Tapping Vulkan Transform Feedback For Direct3D 12 Stream Output   WINE   2019-01-14
NVIDIA's 2018 Linux Highlights Included Some Open-Source Milestones, But Not Many   NVIDIA   2018-12-30
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
Mesa 18.2.7 Released With Several RADV Driver Fixes, Variety Of Other Updates   Mesa   2018-12-13
Mesa 18.3.1 Released To Disable Botched Vulkan Extension   Mesa   2018-12-12
Mesa 18.3 Released With Intel & Radeon Vulkan Driver Improvements, New GPU Support   Mesa   2018-12-07
Mageia 7 Beta Finally Rolls Along For Testing   Operating Systems   2018-12-07
Mesa 18.3 Expected For Release Tomorrow   Mesa   2018-12-05
Linux's Slowdown, Raptor's Talos II, Clear Linux & Other Dominating Topics This Month   Phoronix   2018-11-30
Mesa 18.3-RC5 Released As The Stable Release Looms   Mesa   2018-11-30
Mesa 18.2.6 Picks Up Support For Amber/Whiskey Lake, Vulkan Driver Fixes   Mesa   2018-11-28
AMDGPU-PRO 18.50 Linux Preview Driver Available For RHEL7, Begins Work On Navi   Radeon   2018-11-25
Mesa 18.3-RC4 Released With A Handful Of Fixes   Mesa   2018-11-22
Mesa 18.3-RC3 Released With RADV Fixes, Drops Zen L3 Thread Pinning   Mesa   2018-11-16
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
Mesa Drops Support For AMD Zen L3 Thread Pinning, Will Develop New Approach   Mesa   2018-11-12
Mesa 18.3-RC2 Released With RADV, Wayland & NIR Fixes   Mesa   2018-11-09
The Anticipated Linux Driver Requirements For The Radeon Instinct MI50 / MI60 (Vega 20)   Radeon   2018-11-08
Mesa 18.3-RC1 Released As The Final 2018 Update Approaches   Mesa   2018-11-06
Mesa 18.3 Feature Development Wraps Up While Mesa 19.0 Opens Up On Master   Mesa   2018-11-01
Mesa 18.3 Has A Busy Last Day Of Feature Development   Mesa   2018-11-01
AMD Raven 2 Support Might Land In Time For Mesa 18.3   Mesa   2018-10-30
RADV Vulkan Driver Lands Transform Feedback For Mesa 18.3   Mesa   2018-10-29
Freedreno Gallium3D Working To Lower Its Driver Overhead   Mesa   2018-10-28
Intel Vulkan Driver Now Handles PRIME-Style Rendering, Raven Ridge Lands VCN JPEG Decode   Mesa   2018-10-24
Mesa 18.3 Gets A Release Date Towards The End Of November   Mesa   2018-10-23
Mesa VCN JPEG Decode Patches Posted For AMD Raven Ridge   Mesa   2018-10-17
Mesa Vulkan Drivers Move Ahead With PCI Bus Info, Calibrated Timestamps   Mesa   2018-10-15
NVIDIA 396.54.09 Vulkan Driver Released With Transform Feedback, Intel ANV Gets TF Too   Vulkan   2018-10-13
DXVK Already Lands Vulkan Transform Feedback Support, RADV Posts Patches   Vulkan   2018-10-13
Intel Whiskey Lake Support Formally Added To Mesa 18.3   Intel   2018-10-12
Proton 3.7 Updated, More RADV Fixes To Help Steam Play Gaming   Linux Gaming   2018-10-11
RadeonSI Fast Color Clears Should Now Be Even Faster   Mesa   2018-10-07
Mesa 18.2.2 Released With RADV GTA V Fix, Vulkan Additions & D3D9 Patches   Mesa   2018-10-05
Freedreno Enables Hardware Binning For Adreno A6xx GPUs - Yields Better Performance   Mesa   2018-10-03
Speck, Steam Play, RTX 2080 & Linux Kernel Activity Dominated The Scene In September   Phoronix   2018-10-01
Gallium Clover With SPIR-V & NIR Opening Up New Compute Options Inside Mesa   Mesa   2018-10-01
Mesa 18.2.1 Going Into Ubuntu 18.10 For Fresh Open-Source GPU Drivers   Ubuntu   2018-09-27
Valve Has Been Working On A HUD For The RADV Vulkan Driver   Mesa   2018-09-24
VMware's SVGA Gallium3D Driver Enables OpenGL 3.3 Compatibility Profile Support   Virtualization   2018-09-22
Mesa Can Finally Build With Almost No Compiler Warnings   Mesa   2018-09-21
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
AMD Picasso Support Comes To The RadeonSI OpenGL Driver   AMD   2018-09-18
Wolfenstein: The Old Blood Should Now Be In Good Shape With RadeonSI On Mesa 18.3   Mesa   2018-09-18
RADV's Iffy 16-bit Integer Support Merged Into Mesa   Mesa   2018-09-18
Mesa Eyeing The Removal Of Autotools Build Support In Favor Of Meson   Mesa   2018-09-17
Igalia Sends Out Another 26 Patches Chipping Away On Intel ARB_gl_spirv Support   Intel   2018-09-15
RADV Finally Picking Up Support For Conservative Rasterization   Radeon   2018-09-12
VMWare Updates Its Gallium3D Driver Ahead Of Fusion 11 / Workstation 15   Virtualization   2018-09-10
The RadeonSI Performance Tuning For AMD Zen CPUs Has Landed In Mesa   AMD   2018-09-09
Mesa 18.2 Released With Vega 20 Support, OpenGL 4.4 Compat Profile & A Lot More   Mesa   2018-09-07
AMD's RadeonSI/Gallium3D Linux Graphics Driver Gets Optimized For Ryzen CPUs   AMD   2018-09-06
Initial AMD Radeon "Vega 20" Support For RADV Vulkan Driver   Radeon   2018-09-03
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
Threadripper 2, Spectre, Steam Play / Proton & Linux 4.19 Made August Super Exciting   Phoronix   2018-08-31
RadeonSI Compatibility Profile Now Supports OpenGL 4.5 On Mesa 18.3   Mesa   2018-08-29
RadeonSI Gets Patches For OpenGL 4.5 Compat, Workaround For No Man's Sky On Steam Play   Radeon   2018-08-24
RadeonSI Gets Another Handful Of OpenGL Extensions, Mirroring The PRO Driver's Behavior   Mesa   2018-08-24
Mesa 18.2 Is Releasing Soon With Many OpenGL / Vulkan Driver Improvements   Mesa   2018-08-21
Adreno 600 Series Support Lands In Mesa 18.3 Gallium3D   Mesa   2018-08-18
RAGE & Doom Get Radeon Workarounds In Mesa 18.3-dev   Mesa   2018-08-18
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
Qualcomm Adreno 600 Series Support Proposed For Linux 4.19 Kernel   Linux Kernel   2018-08-11
Marek Tackles EXT_gpu_shader4 Support In Gallium3D For Old Games/Apps   Mesa   2018-08-08
RadeonSI Gets Patches For AMD_framebuffer_multisample_advanced (EQAA)   Mesa   2018-08-05
Mesa 18.2 Branched, Mesa 18.3 Enters Development   Mesa   2018-08-02
More Intel ARB_gl_spirv Code Lands In Mesa, But Still Not Ready To Finish Up OpenGL 4.6   Mesa   2018-07-03
Ubuntu 18.10 Planning For GCC 8.1, OpenJDK 11, Python 3.7   Ubuntu   2018-05-09