ASTC Linux & Open-Source News |
| OpenCV 5.0 Released With Rewritten DNN Engine, Built-In LLM & VLM Support | Free Software | 2026-06-06 |
| Mesa 26.1 Released With Many Improvements For Open-Source Vulkan Drivers | Mesa | 2026-05-06 |
| Mesa 26.1-rc1 Released For Testing With Many New Vulkan Extensions & Optimizations | Mesa | 2026-04-15 |
| Vulkan 1.4.337 Debuts With Long Vector & 3D ASTC Compression Extensions | Vulkan | 2025-12-19 |
| Mesa 25.1.9 Released To End Out The Mesa 25.1 Series | Mesa | 2025-08-27 |
| Mesa 25.2 Released With Many Improvements For RADV, Intel & NVK Drivers | Mesa | 2025-08-06 |
| Linux Patches Enable Support For The Snapdragon X1 Powered ASUS Zenbook A14 | Hardware | 2025-04-01 |
| Mesa 24.1.1 Released With Many Graphics Driver Bug Fixes | Mesa | 2024-06-05 |
| Flax Engine 1.8 Brings ASTC Textures, New UI Editor & New Vehicle Features | Linux Gaming | 2024-03-30 |
| Intel Vulkan Driver Lands Optimization To Help GravityMark, Other Demanding Software | Intel | 2023-10-23 |
| Intel Vulkan Driver Lands ASTC LDR Emulation For Latest GPUs | Intel | 2023-10-14 |
| Cisco Posts Rust-Written PuzzleFS File-System Driver For Linux | Linux Storage | 2023-06-09 |
| Raspberry Pi V3D Driver Adds Native ASTC Texture Compression Support | Mesa | 2023-05-31 |
| Linux 6.3 Adds ath12k Driver For Qualcomm WiFi 7 Hardware Support | Linux Networking | 2023-02-22 |
| Mesa Adds Compute Shader Decoding For ASTC | Mesa | 2023-02-17 |
| Mesa Preparing Software Fallback For S3TC Texture Compression | Mesa | 2022-09-05 |
| AMDVLK 2022.Q3.2 Released With Game Optimizations, Fixes CTS Failures | Radeon | 2022-08-05 |
| Arm Releases ASTC Encoder 4.0 With Even Faster Performance | Arm | 2022-07-22 |
| AMDVLK 2022.Q3.1 Released With Fixes, Minor Enhancements | Radeon | 2022-07-18 |
| MythTV 32 Released With Vulkan Rendering, Tons Of Other Improvements | Multimedia | 2022-02-24 |
| AMDVLK 2022.Q1.1 Released With Radeon RX 6500 XT Support | Radeon | 2022-01-19 |
| Radeon RADV Lands Emulated ETC2 Support For Improving Android Support | Radeon | 2021-12-14 |
| RenderDoc 1.17 Released For This Leading Open-Source Graphics Debugging Tool | Programming | 2021-11-27 |
| Vulkanised Fall 2021 Material Available - Autodesk Has Begun Using MoltenVK | Vulkan | 2021-10-23 |
| Intel Removes ASTC Hardware From Gen12.5+ Graphics | Intel | 2021-10-07 |
| NVIDIA Jetson TX2 NX + Other ARM Platforms Now Supported By Linux 5.15 | Arm | 2021-09-02 |
| Zink Now Achieves OpenGL ES 3.2 Atop Vulkan | Mesa | 2021-08-31 |
| New/Updated Benchmarks For June From GravityMark To L4D2 Vulkan, Updated Neural Networks | Phoronix Test Suite | 2021-07-03 |
| Arm Releases ASTC Encoder 3.0 With Even Better Performance | Arm | 2021-06-04 |
| ASpeed AST2500 SSIF BMC Driver Being Worked On For The Linux Kernel | Hardware | 2021-05-21 |
| Khronos Ratifies KTX 2.0 | Standards | 2021-04-20 |
| Many New/Updated Benchmarks For March With New SDR/Radio Tests, More Code Compilation | Phoronix Test Suite | 2021-03-28 |
| Intel "IGEN6" Driver Comes To Linux 5.11 For In-Band ECC (IBECC) | Intel | 2020-12-15 |
| Vulkan Comes To Apple Silicon GPUs / M1 By Means Of MoltenVK 1.1.1 | Vulkan | 2020-12-10 |
| New/Updated Benchmarks For August From TensorFlow Lite To ASTCENC | Phoronix Test Suite | 2020-09-01 |
| Linux 5.7's USB Changes Range From Apple Fast Charging To Reporting USB-C Orientation | Apple | 2020-03-31 |
| New High Quality GPU Compression Codec Going Open-Source In The Coming Days | Standards | 2020-03-09 |
| Arm's ASTC Encoder Replaces Its Restrictive EULA With Apache 2.0 License | Arm | 2020-02-17 |
| Linux 5.7 To See USB Fast Charge Support For Apple iOS Devices | Apple | 2020-02-15 |
| TURNIP Vulkan Driver Gets MSAA Working | Mesa | 2019-10-16 |
| ASTC Texture Compression License Turns Out To Be Restrictive Outside Of Khronos APIs | Free Software | 2019-10-03 |
| Wine 4.17 Adds DXTn Compressed Textures, Windows Script Runtime Library | WINE | 2019-09-27 |
| Vulkan 1.1.117 Adds Line Rasterization - Helping Out CAD Applications & More | Vulkan | 2019-07-29 |
| A Decade Later, Mesa Wiring In Support For Qualcomm/AMD's ATC Texture Compression | Mesa | 2019-04-23 |
| RADV Driver Patches Revive shaderStorageImageMultisample - Useful For DXVK | Mesa | 2018-12-20 |
| Qt 3D Studio 2.1 Released With Editor Enhancements, Better Runtime Performance | Qt | 2018-10-01 |
| RADV's Iffy 16-bit Integer Support Merged Into Mesa | Mesa | 2018-09-18 |
| RADV Vulkan Driver Finally Picking Up 16-Bit Integer Support In Shaders | Radeon | 2018-09-14 |
| NVIDIA Vulkan Beta Driver Updated With New Extensions (v396.54.05) | NVIDIA | 2018-09-10 |
| Vulkan 1.1.84 Brings KHR Memory Model, ASTC Decode Mode Extensions | Vulkan | 2018-09-09 |
| Mesa 18.2 Released With Vega 20 Support, OpenGL 4.4 Compat Profile & A Lot More | Mesa | 2018-09-07 |
| Mesa 18.2 Should Now Be Clear For Releasing With Its Many OpenGL/Vulkan Improvements | Mesa | 2018-09-01 |
| RadeonSI Gets Another Handful Of OpenGL Extensions, Mirroring The PRO Driver's Behavior | Mesa | 2018-08-24 |
| Mesa 18.2 Is Releasing Soon With Many OpenGL / Vulkan Driver Improvements | Mesa | 2018-08-21 |
| More OpenGL Extensions For RadeonSI Are The Latest In A Flurry Of Interesting Activity | Radeon | 2018-08-09 |
| Mesa 18.2 Branched, Mesa 18.3 Enters Development | Mesa | 2018-08-02 |
| ASTC Gallium Bits Land, VirGL Already Hits OpenGL 4.3 + GLES 3.2 | Mesa | 2018-08-01 |
| All Gallium3D Drivers Getting ASTC Compression Support, RadeonSI Hits OpenGL ES 3.2 | Mesa | 2018-07-29 |
| Vulkan CTS 1.1.1 Adds 26,272 New Test Cases | Vulkan | 2018-04-09 |
| RadeonSI Now Supports KHR_blend_equation_advanced, Needed For OpenGL ES 3.2 | Mesa | 2018-04-03 |
| RADV Vulkan Driver Picks Up Support For ETC2 Textures | Radeon | 2018-01-03 |
| Etnaviv Gallium3D Driver Now Wiring Up ASTC Texture Compression | Mesa | 2017-11-02 |
| Many Vega Improvements & Other Fixes Land In Mesa For RADV Vulkan Driver | Mesa | 2017-10-20 |
| The S3TC Patent Finally Expires Next Week - S3 Texture Compression | Standards | 2017-09-29 |
| RADV Gets More Last Minute Fixes For Mesa 17.2 | Radeon | 2017-07-24 |
| RADV Vulkan Driver Now Exposes INT64 Support | Radeon | 2017-07-03 |
| Intel Broxton Gets ASTC HDR Support In Mesa | Intel | 2017-05-22 |
| sparseBinding Lands For Radeon RADV Vulkan Driver | Mesa | 2017-03-29 |
| Performance-Boosting Fast Clears To Be Enabled By Default For RADV Vulkan Driver | Vulkan | 2017-02-06 |
| Geometry Shader Support Lands In RADV Vulkan Driver | Radeon | 2017-01-30 |
| RADV Vulkan Driver Has Geometry Shader Support For Testing | Vulkan | 2017-01-19 |
| Haswell On Mesa Now Has Nearly Complete OpenGL ES 3.2 Implementation | Intel | 2017-01-06 |
| RADV Radeon Vulkan Code Enables More Driver Features | Vulkan | 2016-12-22 |
| Lighttpd 1.4.42 Brings New Modules, Rewritten Authentication Framework | Free Software | 2016-10-16 |
| Google Releases Chrome 54 Web-Browser | Google | 2016-10-13 |
| OpenGL ES 3.2 Officially Enabled For Intel Mesa Driver, Limited To Skylake+ | Mesa | 2016-09-21 |
| Chrome 54 Beta Brings Custom Elements V1: Create Custom HTML Tags | Google | 2016-09-15 |
| Intel Finishes Up Another OpenGL ES 3.2 Extension In Mesa | Intel | 2016-07-18 |
| AMD Polaris Doesn't Support ETC2 Texture Compression | AMD | 2016-04-13 |
| Nouveau NVC0 Adds ETC2/ASTC Texture Compression For Newer GPUs | Mesa | 2016-04-04 |
| AMD Stoney APUs Bring ETC2 Open-Source Driver Support | AMD | 2016-01-22 |
| NVIDIA Open-Source Christmas Present: Some Documentation | NVIDIA | 2015-12-22 |
| Nouveau Support For ETC2/ASTC Texture Compression | Nouveau | 2015-12-19 |
| Gallium3D Support For ASTC Compression Is Being Worked On | Mesa | 2015-11-21 |
| The Changes Needed For OpenGL ES 3.2 Support In Mesa | Mesa | 2015-09-12 |
| Intel Enables ASTC Texture Compression In Mesa For Skylake | Intel | 2015-08-31 |
| ASTC Texture Compression May Finally Supplant S3TC | Linux Gaming | 2015-08-12 |
| Radeon Gallium3D Tackles A Bit More, OpenGL 4.1 Patches Pending | Mesa | 2015-07-28 |
| Intel Skylake Adds ASTC Texture Compression, Open-Source Support Coming | Mesa | 2015-05-20 |
| Firefox 38 Adds Responsive Image Support, Ruby Annotations | Mozilla | 2015-05-12 |
| OpenBSD's Custom HTTP Web Server Is Set To Replace Nginx | BSD | 2015-03-17 |
| HHVM Plans To Integrate LLVM This Year | LLVM | 2015-02-17 |
| Kodi 14.0 Released For The Holidays - Formerly Known As XBMC | Multimedia | 2014-12-23 |
| Another LZ4 Security Issue Analyzed | Linux Security | 2014-07-13 |
| EmScripten Merges Its Speedy "Fastcomp" Backend | Programming | 2014-04-21 |
| S3TC Is Still Problematic For Mesa Developers, Users | Mesa | 2013-08-14 |
| ETC2 Texture Compression Looks Good For OpenGL | Mesa | 2012-08-12 |
| Khronos ASTC: Royalty-Free Next-Gen Texture Compression | Standards | 2012-08-06 |
