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Mesa 24.3.0 graphics drivers for Linux released with many new features and bug fixes

By Liam Dawe, about 11 hours ago

Developer Dylan Baker announced the early release of Mesa 24.3.0, the latest set of Linux open source graphics drivers full of new features.

Mesa 24.2.6 graphics drivers released with a few more bug fixes

By Liam Dawe, Oct 31

The Mesa team have released another bug-fix update with Mesa 24.2.6 available now, with a couple more bug-fix releases planned before they move onto Mesa 24.3 next month.

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Mesa graphics drivers 24.2.5 released with a few more bug fixes

By Liam Dawe, Oct 17

Mesa 24.2.5 was announced from developer Eric Engestrom bringing in some more bug fixes for various Linux graphics drivers.

Mesa 24.2.4 released with various bug fixes

By Liam Dawe, Oct 4

Developer Eric Engestrom announced the release of Mesa 24.2.4 open source graphics drivers, coming with multiple bug fixes for this stable release.

Mesa 24.2.2 graphics drivers released enabling Intel Lunar Lake and Battlemage

By Liam Dawe, Sep 6

A week after the release of both Mesa 24.2.1 and Mesa 24.1.7, the next point release Mesa 24.2.2 is out now with numerous bug fixes and improvements.

Mesa 24.2.1 and Mesa 24.1.7 open source drivers now available

By Liam Dawe, Aug 29

The Mesa team just released bug fix updates to the two most recent driver series with Mesa 24.2.1 and Mesa 24.1.7 now available.

Mesa 24.2.0 released with a new shader cache implementation

By Liam Dawe, Aug 15

Mesa 24.2.0 is out now bringing with it the usual advancements for open source OpenGL and Vulkan graphics drivers on Linux.

Mesa gets a nice performance boost for Proton games with various videos

By Liam Dawe, Jun 24

Developer Mike Blumenkrantz has another blog post up and Merge Request ready for Mesa, the set of open source graphics drivers, which gives a big boost to performance for Windows games with various videos.

Mesa 24.1.0 released with big improvements for NVK, Zink, Explicit Sync

By Liam Dawe, May 23

Ready for the next upgrade to open source graphics drivers? Mesa 24.1.0 has now released bringing some big enhancements to many different drivers across AMD, NVIDIA, Intel and others.

Zink driver startup time squashed with new patches

By Liam Dawe, Apr 29

Developer Mike Blumenkrantz is once again blogging about working on the Zink driver, and this time a nice optimization is on the way for startup times.

Former Nouveau driver lead joins NVIDIA and sent a massive patch set

By nwildner, Apr 18

Ben Skeggs, former Nouveau lead developer and former Red Hat employee has joined NVIDIA and appears to still be working on the open source drivers.

KDE's Xaver Hugl on why Wayland explicit sync is such a big deal

By Liam Dawe, Apr 8

You may have seen news recently about explicit sync for Wayland, but you might not know why it's actually important for the future of Linux on Wayland.

The HDMI Forum rejected AMD's open source HDMI 2.1 implementation

By Liam Dawe, Feb 29

If you were hoping at some point to see HDMI 2.1+ on Linux with AMD + Mesa, you're out of luck right now as it's simply not going to be happening.

Open-source Vulkan driver for NVIDIA hardware in Mesa, NVK, is now ready for prime time

By Liam Dawe, Feb 29

The future of NVIDIA hardware on Linux is here with the open source Vulkan driver NVK in Mesa, as there's now a Merge Request to have it shipped by default.

NVIDIA open source driver to use NVK + Zink for OpenGL on newer GPUs

By nwildner, Feb 23

A recent merge request on the Mesa Git repository added the initial support for allowing drivers to chose Zink as the translation layer for handling OpenGL.

Mesa 23.3 is out now with the NVK Vulkan driver for NVIDIA

By Liam Dawe, Nov 30, 2023

Developer Eric Engestrom announced yesterday the fresh release of the Mesa 23.3 open source graphics drivers.

Intel Vulkan drivers on Linux should run more games with Mesa 24.0

By Liam Dawe, Nov 21, 2023

While work is ongoing to provide brand new Intel Xe Vulkan drivers on Linux with their newer driver, work is still happening to improve the current driver.