Mesa 26.0 Will Make It In Time For The Fedora 44 Release
With the recent Fedora 44 beta release, Mesa 25.3 graphics drivers were in use rather than the newest Mesa 26.0 series. The good news is that there is now approval for getting Mesa 26.0 drivers to land in time for next month's official Fedora 44 release.
Due to the differing release schedules between Fedora Linux and Mesa, there was less than ideal alignment with Fedora 44. Typically Fedora waits a few Mesa point releases before incorporating the new Mesa version into their repository. With Mesa 26.0.3 releasing last week, they are working to land it in Fedora 44 post-beta so that it will be in place for the official release images in April.
Updating to Mesa 26.0 was requested and fast track approval now granted thus the new Mesa version can safely land for F44 leading up to the official release.
This is good to see albeit mostly a formality. Getting Mesa 26.0 into the official Fedora 44 images means a nicer Radeon graphics experience especially for gamers with Vulkan ray-tracing, many other Radeon and Intel improvements, improved NVIDIA NVK Vulkan driver support, and a range of other OpenGL/Vulkan driver enhancements.
Fedora 44 is releasing as soon as 14 April otherwise a 21 April target release date.
Due to the differing release schedules between Fedora Linux and Mesa, there was less than ideal alignment with Fedora 44. Typically Fedora waits a few Mesa point releases before incorporating the new Mesa version into their repository. With Mesa 26.0.3 releasing last week, they are working to land it in Fedora 44 post-beta so that it will be in place for the official release images in April.
Updating to Mesa 26.0 was requested and fast track approval now granted thus the new Mesa version can safely land for F44 leading up to the official release.
This is good to see albeit mostly a formality. Getting Mesa 26.0 into the official Fedora 44 images means a nicer Radeon graphics experience especially for gamers with Vulkan ray-tracing, many other Radeon and Intel improvements, improved NVIDIA NVK Vulkan driver support, and a range of other OpenGL/Vulkan driver enhancements.
Fedora 44 is releasing as soon as 14 April otherwise a 21 April target release date.