Mesa 17-rc1 released, it's a massive update for open source graphics

Mesa 17 (formerly Mesa 13.1) has it's first Release Candidate and it's a pretty big release for users of open source graphic drivers.

Quite a number of people worked on this release, so thank you to everyone who has been a part of improving Mesa!

The official changelog doesn't seem to be ready yet, but hopefully that will either come soon or when Mesa 17 is released in full next month. They have a changelog here for Mesa 17, but I'm unsure how up to date it is.

At the very least it will have:
- OpenGL 4.3 in nouveau Maxwell and above (NVIDIA)
- Haswell (Intel) should see OpenGL 4.5
- Improved performance for Deus Ex Mankind Divided on RadeonSI

There's plenty more, but that's what I remember right now.

See the announcement here. Article taken from GamingOnLinux.com.