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Mesa 24.1 Linux & Open-Source News

SteamOS 3.6 Preview Released With Linux 6.5, Updated Arch Linux & Mesa 24.1   Valve   2024-05-09
Mesa 24.0.7 & Mesa 24.1-rc3 Provide Latest Open-Source OpenGL/Vulkan Drivers   Mesa   2024-05-08
Mesa 24.1-rc2 Released With More Graphics Driver Fixes   Mesa   2024-05-02
Intel ANV Vulkan Driver Enables VK_KHR_shader_float_controls2   Intel   2024-04-25
Etnaviv NPU Optimizations Make It Into Mesa 24.1   Mesa   2024-04-25
Mesa 24.1-rc1 Released With Many OpenGL & Vulkan Driver Improvements   Mesa   2024-04-24
RadeonSI Squeezes "Many Improvements Around The Whole Driver" Into Mesa 24.1   Radeon   2024-04-24
NVK Vulkan Driver Adds Implicit Pipeline Caching To Boost DXVK Performance   Nouveau   2024-04-23
AMD Posts RDNA3+ Firmware Files For Linux Users   Radeon   2024-04-21
Mesa 24.1 Now Supports Vulkan Explicit Synchronization On X11   Mesa   2024-04-16
Intel Vulkan Driver Wires Up Image Compression Control For VKD3D-Proton   Intel   2024-04-16
Mesa 24.1 Zink Lands "Super Fast" Merge Request To Optimize IO   Mesa   2024-04-13
Open-Source Radeon Driver Enables Support For Vulkan Video H.264/H.265 Encode   Radeon   2024-04-11
KDE's KWin Merges Wayland Explicit Sync Support   KDE   2024-04-10
Lavapipe CPU-Based Vulkan Driver Implements Ray-Tracing Pipelines   Mesa   2024-04-10
Nouveau/NVK Driver Lands NIL Library Rewrite In Rust For Mesa 24.1   Nouveau   2024-04-09
Explicit GPU Synchronization Merged For XWayland   X.Org   2024-04-09
RADV Vulkan Driver Enables EXT_shader_object By Default With Mesa 24.1   Mesa   2024-04-08
KDE On The Importance Of Wayland Explicit Sync   KDE   2024-04-06
Mesa Adds PCI IDs For Intel Arc Graphics A580E & A750E   Intel   2024-04-05
RADV Lands New Extension To Better Debug GPU Hangs   Mesa   2024-04-03
Mesa 24.1 Merges Vulkan Support For Wayland Explicit Sync   Mesa   2024-04-02
Asahi AGX Gallium3D Driver Sees Big Sync For Mesa 24.1 To Improve Apple Silicon Graphics   Mesa   2024-03-30
Panthor DRM Driver Queued For Linux 6.10 To Support Newer Arm Mali GPUs   Arm   2024-03-26
Mesa 24.1 Merges AMD Radeon VPE 1.1 Engine Support   Radeon   2024-03-25
DIRT 5 Now Runs On Intel Arc Graphics Under Linux With Driver Workaround   Intel   2024-03-23
NVK Driver Adds Vendor ID Workaround For Games Expecting NVIDIA's Proprietary Driver   Mesa   2024-03-22
Raspberry Pi "V3DV" Vulkan Driver Now Supports Dynamic Rendering   Mesa   2024-03-21
RadeonSI OpenGL CTS Tests Running ~30% Faster With Mesa 24.1   Radeon   2024-03-16
Mesa 24.1 Adds Support For The Intel Data Center GPU Flex 170G   Intel   2024-03-14
Mesa 24.0.3 Released With Many Graphics Driver Bug Fixes   Mesa   2024-03-14
Mesa 24.1 Enables Intel Xe Kernel Driver Support By Default   Intel   2024-03-13
Radeon Memory Visualizer Hooks Up With Qualcomm Adreno Vulkan Driver   Mesa   2024-03-10
NVK Lands Sparse Memory Support - Enabling More Games To Run On This Open-Source Driver   Nouveau   2024-03-09
Mesa's VDPAU State Tracker Adds Support For AV1 Decoding   Mesa   2024-03-07
Mesa's CPU-Based Vulkan Driver Now Supports Ray-Tracing   Mesa   2024-03-07
Etnaviv Preps For Vivante PCI Device Support, Changes For Mesa's Teflon NPU Handling   Hardware   2024-03-07
RADV Now Supports Experimental VK_EXT_shader_object For RDNA3 GPUs Using NGG   Radeon   2024-03-06
Mesa 24.1 Lands Support For GFX11.5.1 "RDNA3 Refresh" Variant   Radeon   2024-03-04
Intel Vulkan Driver Lands Descriptor Buffer Support To Reduce Linux Gaming CPU Overhead   Intel   2024-03-04
Wine Code Merged To Overcome A Vulkan Performance Penalty   WINE   2024-03-03
Mesa 24.1 To Raise Limit Supporting More Than Eight Vulkan GPUs Per System   Mesa   2024-03-02
Panthor DRM Driver Set For Linux 6.9, Arm Mali Gen10 Merged To Panfrost Gallium3D   Mesa   2024-03-01
CUDA On ROCm, Ryzen 8000G Series & Rust Activity Made For An Exciting February   Phoronix   2024-03-01
Zink Lands Support For Partial Updates / Damage Handling   Mesa   2024-02-29
Mesa 24.1 Enables AV1 LTR Encode Support For RDNA3 GPUs With VCN4   Radeon   2024-02-29
Mesa NVK Vulkan Driver Now Declared Vulkan 1.3 Conformant, Mesa 24.1 To Build By Default   Nouveau   2024-02-28
NVK Vulkan Driver Lands Shader Object & Graphics Pipeline Library   Nouveau   2024-02-28
RADV Driver Lands Vulkan Video AV1 Decode For Mesa 24.1   Mesa   2024-02-27
Mesa OpenGL Threading Work Sees Much Reduced Memory Footprint For OpenGL Calls   Mesa   2024-02-26
Reverse-Engineered NPU Driver Tantalizingly Close To Proprietary Driver Performance   Mesa   2024-02-26
Open-Source NVIDIA Vulkan Driver "NVK" Lands Improvements For ReBAR   Mesa   2024-02-25
Mesa 24.1 Now Builds Zink By Default, Also Building D3D12 Driver By Default On Windows   Mesa   2024-02-23
Intel Mesa Driver Code Working To Split Off Old Broadwell "Gen8" Graphics Code   Intel   2024-02-21
Open-Source NVIDIA Driver Moving To NVK + Zink For OpenGL On Newer GPUs   Mesa   2024-02-21
RADV Driver Fixes Mesh Shader Support For AMD Phoenix APUs   Radeon   2024-02-16
HITMAN 3 Will Now Launch On Intel GPUs Under Linux After Hiding The GPU Vendor   Intel   2024-02-13
Intel Iris Gallium3D Driver Sees "Massive Boost" With Indirect Draw Generation   Intel   2024-02-13
Intel Arrow Lake Graphics Support Ready For Linux 6.9   Intel   2024-02-09
Etnaviv NPU Driver Further Boosts Performance, Striking Closer To The Proprietary Driver   Mesa   2024-02-09
AMD Updates Mesa Video Driver Code With Geometric Scaling & HLG   Radeon   2024-02-07
Intel Arrow Lake OpenGL & Vulkan Driver Support Merged For Mesa 24.1   Intel   2024-02-06
Another Optimization Comes For Radeon RADV Ray-Tracing In Mesa 24.1   Mesa   2024-02-05
VOPD Scheduler For Valve's ACO Compiler Merged Into Mesa 24.1   Radeon   2024-02-05
Mesa Merge Request Opened For RADV Driver With VK_KHR_video_decode_av1   Mesa   2024-02-02
Mesa 24.0 Released With Faster Radeon RADV Ray-Tracing & Initial PowerVR Vulkan Driver   Mesa   2024-01-31
Mesa's NVIDIA Vulkan Driver "NVK" Now Exposes Vulkan 1.3 Support   Mesa   2024-01-27
Open-Source Intel & AMD Drivers Make Quick Progress On Vulkan Roadmap 2024 Extensions   Vulkan   2024-01-25
Teflon Merged To Mesa 24.1 As Gallium3D Frontend For TensorFlow Lite   Mesa   2024-01-24
Intel's Open-Source Vulkan Driver Wired Up To Support AMD's Radeon Memory Visualizer   Intel   2024-01-23
Mesa 24.0 Feature Development Ends With Many OpenGL & Vulkan Driver Features   Mesa   2024-01-11
Ubuntu 24.04 "Noble Numbat" Opens For Development   Ubuntu   2023-10-26