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Mesa 22.3 Linux & Open-Source News

RADV Driver Drops NGG Stream-Out Code For RDNA1/RDNA2 GPUs   Radeon   2023-10-30
Valve Makes RADV Driver More Robust For Gaming With VK_EXT_pipeline_robustness   Mesa   2023-07-05
AMDVLK 2023.Q2.2 Brings New Extension For VKD3D-Proton, Performance Tuning   Radeon   2023-05-22
Open-Source AMD OpenGL Driver Drops Support For Smart Access Memory / ReBAR   Radeon   2023-03-08
Mesa 22.3.7 Released To End Out The Series   Mesa   2023-03-08
Mesa's Rusticl OpenCL Driver Nearly Ready With AMD Radeon GPU Support   Radeon   2023-02-22
Debian 12 "Bookworm" Enters Its Soft Freeze   Debian   2023-02-18
Mesa 22.3.4 Brings Fix For RADV RT Build Performance To Match AMDVLK/AMDGPU-PRO   Mesa   2023-01-26
Mesa 23.0 Feature Development Ends With Many Vulkan Additions   Mesa   2023-01-12
Mesa 22.3.3 Brings More Intel & Radeon Driver Fixes, KDE Plasma Hang Workaround   Mesa   2023-01-11
AMD RDNA3 ISA Reference Guide Published   Radeon   2023-01-11
Mesa 22.3.2 Closes Out The Year With RADV RT Fixes, Raspberry Pi V3DV Fixes Too   Mesa   2022-12-31
Arch Linux Powered EndeavourOS "Cassini" Brings Desktop & Arm Improvements   Operating Systems   2022-12-19
AMDVLK 2022.Q4.4 Released With RX 7900 Series Support   Radeon   2022-12-15
Mesa 22.3.1 Released - Led By Intel & Radeon Driver Fixes   Mesa   2022-12-15
AMD Radeon RX 7900 Series Firmware Upstreamed   Radeon   2022-12-14
Linux 6.2 Graphics Changes: Intel Arc Graphics Stable, Initial NVIDIA RTX 30 Acceleration   Linux Kernel   2022-12-13
Mesa 22.2.5 Released To End Out The Series   Mesa   2022-12-10
RADV Lands Dynamic Rasterization Samples & Line Rasterization Mode   Mesa   2022-12-08
HasVK Trims Some Fat For This Old Intel Hardware Vulkan Driver   Intel   2022-12-02
Mesa 22.3 Released With RDNA3 Vulkan, Rusticl OpenCL, Better Intel Arc Graphics   Mesa   2022-11-30
Mesa 22.3-rc4 Brings Many Fixes, Official Release Now Expected Next Week   Mesa   2022-11-24
Linux 6.2 Will No Longer Treat Intel Arc Graphics As Experimental   Intel   2022-11-19
Mesa 22.3 Will Hopefully Be Released Next Week With Improved Vulkan Drivers, Rusticl   Mesa   2022-11-17
Mesa's Rusticl Achieves Official OpenCL 3.0 Conformance   Mesa   2022-11-14
AMDVLK 2022.Q4.2 Brings More Performance Tuning   Radeon   2022-11-10
Mesa 22.3-rc2 Released With A Few AMD RDNA3 Fixes, V3DV Fixes For Raspberry Pi   Mesa   2022-11-09
Mesa Developers Eye Removing Clover Once Rusticl OpenCL Code Hits Parity   Mesa   2022-11-08
Some AMD RDNA3 Fixes Land In Mesa Git Ahead Of December's Radeon RX 7900 Series Launch   Radeon   2022-11-07
Rust UEFI Firmware Targets Promoted To Tier-2 Status   Programming   2022-11-03
Panfrost Gallium3D Driver Wires Up Mesa Shader Disk Cache Support   Mesa   2022-11-03
Mesa 22.3-rc1 Released With Rusticl, Many Intel & Radeon Vulkan Driver Improvements   Mesa   2022-11-02
Open-Source AMD Linux Driver Gets Ready For 50% More VGPRs With RDNA3   Mesa   2022-11-02
Freedreno Gallium3D Now Allows OpenGL 4.5 For Adreno 600 Series GPUs   Mesa   2022-11-02
Mesa 22.3 Tunes Intel Arc Graphics For Better Vulkan Mesh Shading Performance   Mesa   2022-11-02
Mesa 22.3 RADV Driver Now Allows Enabling NGG Stream-Out Functionality   Radeon   2022-11-01
Zink OpenGL-On-Vulkan Implements Front-End Shader Caching   Mesa   2022-11-01
RADV PLOC BVH Builder Merged For Faster Radeon Vulkan Ray-Tracing   Mesa   2022-10-31
Zink Lands Kernel Shader Support For Getting Rusticl OpenCL Running   Mesa   2022-10-28
Intel's Open-Source OpenGL Driver Adds Support For "Protected Content"   Intel   2022-10-27
Radeon RADV Ray-Tracing Performance Further Improved - PLOC BVH Builder   Radeon   2022-10-26
Mesa Adds "Block On Depleted Buffers" Option To Reduce Latency   Mesa   2022-10-25
Mesa Lands DMA-BUF Feedback Support For Vulkan On Wayland   Mesa   2022-10-22
Mesa Git Makes It Easier Activating Rusticl OpenCL Device Support   Mesa   2022-10-21
Microsoft Adds Mesa Support For Building Against The DirectX 12 Agility SDK   Microsoft   2022-10-21
Mesa OpenGL Threading Messed Up Cursor Handling With KDE Wayland - Fixed Now   Mesa   2022-10-19
Intel's Linux Vulkan Driver Lands Workaround For HITMAN 3   Intel   2022-10-19
Mesa's Rusticl OpenCL Implementation Can Outperform Radeon's ROCm Compute Stack   Radeon   2022-10-19
Mesa's Gallium3D Finishes Gutting Out Its Graw Interface   Mesa   2022-10-18
Intel's Vulkan Driver Lands More Patches To Help Reduce CPU Overhead   Intel   2022-10-15
Rusticl Lands Fixes For Rust-OpenCL Discrete GPU Support, Preps SPIR-V Program Support   Mesa   2022-10-13
RadeonSI Driver Lands Multi-Slice Video Encoding For AVC/HEVC   Radeon   2022-10-13
Zink Lands Async Pipeline Precompiles For Better Performance, Less Game Stuttering   Mesa   2022-10-11
Rusticl Shows Great Start For Rust OpenCL In Mesa - Might Support SYCL In The Future   Mesa   2022-10-06
Open-Source Radeon Vulkan Driver Lands APU Fix For Red Dead Redemption 2   Radeon   2022-10-01
Blumenkrantz Flushes 17.1k Lines Of Old Mesa Code   Mesa   2022-10-01
AMD Sends Last Minute Fixes To Linux 6.0 For RDNA3 Graphics Cards   Radeon   2022-09-30
Intel Arc Graphics A750 + A770 Are Ready To Run On Open-Source Linux Drivers   Intel   2022-09-30
Zink Enables OpenGL Threading For "Huge Perf Gains"   Mesa   2022-09-30
Microsoft Adds AV1 Decode Support To Their Mesa D3D12 Driver   Microsoft   2022-09-30
Intel Outlines Arc A750 Graphics Card For $289, More Arc Graphics Details   Intel   2022-09-29
Intel Open-Source Vulkan Linux Driver Now Exposes Ray-Tracing For Arc Graphics   Intel   2022-09-28
Thanks Microsoft: RadeonSI Enables Async VA-API For Faster Video Acceleration   Mesa   2022-09-27
Mesa 22.3 Lands Open-Source Radeon Driver CPU Overhead Optimizations   Radeon   2022-09-27
Rusticl Support For AMD RadeonSI Driver Being Worked On   Mesa   2022-09-26
Radeon R600 Gallium3D Switches To Modern NIR Backend By Default   Radeon   2022-09-23
Intel's Vulkan Linux Driver Lands A "Bunch" Of Ray Query Fixes   Intel   2022-09-23
Mesa 22.3 Merges The Big Draw Throughput Improvement For Intel's Vulkan Driver   Intel   2022-09-22
Intel Gallium3D "Iris" Driver Changes Merged For Rusticl's OpenCL 3.0   Intel   2022-09-22
Microsoft Speeds Up Mesa VA-API Video Acceleration For FFmpeg   Mesa   2022-09-22
Mesa's Turnip Now Advertises Vulkan 1.3 Support   Mesa   2022-09-22
Mesa 22.3 RadeonSI Enables OpenGL Threading By Default To Enhance Performance   Radeon   2022-09-21
Mesa Radeon Driver "RADV" Ray-Tracing Performance Becoming Viable For Linux Gaming   Radeon   2022-09-21
Mesa 22.2 Released With AMD RDNA3 Prep, Intel Arc Graphics, Many Vulkan Improvements   Mesa   2022-09-20
RADV Driver Lands Ray-Tracing Optimizations To Boost Quake II RTX By ~10%   Radeon   2022-09-20
Amazon Engineer Adds LTR Encode Support To Open-Source AMD Radeon Linux Driver   Radeon   2022-09-19
Microsoft Lands HEVC Video Encode/Decode Within Mesa Using VA-API To Direct3D 12   Mesa   2022-09-15
RADV Driver Sees Dramatic Improvement To Reduce CPU Overhead For Draw Calls   Radeon   2022-09-14
Mesa 22.3 Lands S3TC Texture Compression Software Fallback   Mesa   2022-09-14
Mesa Driver Improvement Will Yield Quicker Startup For Counter-Strike: Global Offensive   Mesa   2022-09-13
More Zink Improvements Arrive For Mesa 22.3, Less Stuttering For RADV   Mesa   2022-09-13
Mesa 22.3 Lands New "Rusticl" OpenCL 3.0 Implementation   Mesa   2022-09-12
RADV Driver Switches To 100% Dynamic Rendering   Vulkan   2022-09-09
Radeon Vulkan Driver RADV Lands 3D Sparse Image Support   Mesa   2022-09-07
Mesa 22.3-devel Lands Latest Workarounds For Intel Arc Graphics   Intel   2022-09-07
Mesa Preparing Software Fallback For S3TC Texture Compression   Mesa   2022-09-05
Radeon RADV Driver Lands Vulkan Mesh Shader Support   Mesa   2022-09-05
Mesa RADV Driver Adds Radeon Raytracing Analyzer Support   Radeon   2022-09-04
GravityMark 1.70 Released With VK_EXT_mesh_shader, Vulkan ReBAR Support   Vulkan   2022-09-04
Intel's Open-Source Driver Lands Vulkan Mesh Shader Support   Intel   2022-09-02
Intel Vulkan Driver Split Happens - "HASVK" Introduced For Older Gen7/Gen8 Graphics   Intel   2022-09-02
Mesa's Rust OpenCL Implementation Expected To Be Merged In Coming Days   Mesa   2022-09-02
Intel's OpenGL/Vulkan Mesa Drivers Begin Properly Identifying Arc Graphics Hardware   Mesa   2022-09-02
Vulkan 1.3.226 Released With Mesh Shader Extension   Vulkan   2022-09-01
Open-Source Arc Graphics, Apple M2, Mesa GPU Drivers & Linux 6.0 Excited Readers In August   Phoronix   2022-08-31
Mesa's Zink Adds Async Compute Pipeline Creation   Mesa   2022-08-30
AMD Radeon Linux OpenGL Driver Makes More Optimizations, Eyes GL Threading By Default   Radeon   2022-08-28
AMD Lands Video Encoding Quality Improvements For Mesa 22.3   Radeon   2022-08-24
RADV Prepares To Switch Completely To Dynamic Rendering   Radeon   2022-08-24
R600 Gallium3D Driver Receives NIR Backend Fixes For Radeon HD 2000/3000/4000 Series   Radeon   2022-08-21
R300 Open-Source Gallium3D Driver Sees New Optimization For Two Decade Old ATI GPUs   Radeon   2022-08-21
Mesa Zink Improvements For OpenGL-On-Vulkan Reportedly Make It Faster Than Radeon OpenGL   Mesa   2022-08-20
RADV Radeon Vulkan Driver Begins Landing Graphics Pipeline Library Support   Radeon   2022-08-17
RADV Lands Rewritten Acceleration Structures For Ray-Tracing In Mesa 22.3   Radeon   2022-08-07
Intel's Open-Source Vulkan Driver Moves Closer To Working Ray-Tracing Support   Intel   2022-08-06
Mesa 22.2 Pushed Back By Two Weeks To Let More Features Land   Mesa   2022-07-07