Lavapipe Linux & Open-Source News |
| Vortex 3.0 Released As Full-Stack, Open-Source RISC-V GPU Now With 3D Pipeline | Hardware | 2026-06-09 |
| Ape: A New Vulkan Driver Written In The Zig Programming Language | Vulkan | 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 |
| RADV Lands Support For Vulkan's New Primitive Restart Index Extension | Mesa | 2026-04-09 |
| Radeon "RADV" Vulkan Driver Finally Lands VK_KHR_copy_memory_indirect | Radeon | 2026-03-12 |
| Redox OS Gets Vulkan & Node.js Working On This Rust-Based Open-Source OS | Operating Systems | 2026-03-05 |
| Mesa 26.0.1 Released With Important Security Fix For OOB Memory Access From WebGPU | Mesa | 2026-02-25 |
| Mesa 26.0 Released With Much Better Radeon Ray-Tracing, Many Vulkan Driver Improvements | Mesa | 2026-02-11 |
| Mesa 26.0-rc1 Released With RADV Improvements Leading The Way Along With Intel & NVK | Mesa | 2026-01-21 |
| Venus Vulkan Driver Lands Mesh Shader Support In Mesa 26.0 | Mesa | 2025-12-05 |
| Mesa 25.2.7 Ships The Latest Open-Source OpenGL & Vulkan Driver Fixes | Mesa | 2025-11-12 |
| Vulkan 1.4.328 Published With Copy Memory Indirect Extension | Vulkan | 2025-09-26 |
| Mesa 25.2-rc3 Released With RADV Vulkan Video Fixes, NVK Conformance Update | Mesa | 2025-07-30 |
| Mesa 25.2-rc2 Released With Intel Wildcat Lake Enablement, Legacy-X11 Option Deprecated | Mesa | 2025-07-23 |
| Mesa's Lavapipe Driver Wires Up More Features Used By VKD3D-Proton | Mesa | 2025-05-09 |
| Sway 1.11-rc1 Released With Many New Features & New Wayland Protocols | Wayland | 2025-04-20 |
| Mesa's Exciting Q1 With More Ray-Tracing, NVK Progress & Performance Optimizations | Mesa | 2025-03-30 |
| Mesa's Venus Now Exposes Vulkan 1.4 Support | Mesa | 2025-02-23 |
| Mesa's Lavapipe Driver Now Exposes Vulkan 1.4 | Mesa | 2025-01-07 |
| Mesa's Terrific Year With Better Vulkan Ray-Tracing, NVK Progress & Same-Day Vulkan 1.4 | Mesa | 2024-12-30 |
| Autodesk Contributes Mesa Vulkan WSI Support For Apple's Metal | Mesa | 2024-09-18 |
| Mesa 24.2 Released With New Vulkan Extensions, New Shader Cache | Mesa | 2024-08-14 |
| Mesa 24.2-rc1 Released With Many OpenGL & Vulkan Driver Improvements | Mesa | 2024-07-19 |
| Vulkan Sparse Binding Support Comes To Lavapipe Software Driver | Mesa | 2024-06-28 |
| Building Mesa On POWER Now Presents A Default Set Of OpenGL & Vulkan Drivers | Mesa | 2024-06-21 |
| Google Begins Upstreaming Fuchsia OS Support Into Mesa 3D | Mesa | 2024-06-07 |
| Vulkan 1.3.284 Released With Another Extension To Help Zink | Vulkan | 2024-05-07 |
| Lavapipe CPU-Based Vulkan Driver Implements Ray-Tracing Pipelines | Mesa | 2024-04-10 |
| Mesa's CPU-Based Vulkan Driver Now Supports Ray-Tracing | Mesa | 2024-03-07 |
| 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 |
| Mesa 24.0-rc3 Up For Testing, Mesa 23.3.4 Out As Stable | Mesa | 2024-01-24 |
| Mesa 24.0-rc2 Released With This Quarter's Release Looking Good | Mesa | 2024-01-17 |
| Mesa 23.2 Stable Released For Improved Open-Source Vulkan & OpenGL Drivers | Mesa | 2023-09-28 |
| Blumenkrantz Optimizes Mesa Vulkan Submission Merging - Some Test Cases Improve 1000%+ | Mesa | 2023-09-23 |
| Mesa 23.2 Feature Development Concludes With Numerous New Vulkan Extensions | Mesa | 2023-07-13 |
| Lavapipe Lands Vulkan Descriptors Support, Can Run Some VKD3D-Proton Games | Mesa | 2023-07-01 |
| Mesa 23.1.2 Released With Intel Fix For VKD3D-Proton, More RADV Fixes | Mesa | 2023-06-08 |
| Mesa's Lavapipe Adds Vulkan Task/Mesh Shader Support | Mesa | 2023-06-06 |
| Zink OpenGL-On-Vulkan Driver Enables Shader Object Support | Mesa | 2023-04-27 |
| Mesa 23.0.3 Released With Another Batch Of Fixes | Mesa | 2023-04-22 |
| Vulkan 1.3.246 Released With VK_EXT_shader_object | Vulkan | 2023-03-31 |
| More Of Valve's RADV Optimizations Around Fast-Linking Reach Mesa 23.1 | Mesa | 2023-02-02 |
| Mesa 22.3 Released With RDNA3 Vulkan, Rusticl OpenCL, Better Intel Arc Graphics | Mesa | 2022-11-30 |
| Mesa 22.3-rc2 Released With A Few AMD RDNA3 Fixes, V3DV Fixes For Raspberry Pi | Mesa | 2022-11-09 |
| Mesa 22.3-rc1 Released With Rusticl, Many Intel & Radeon Vulkan Driver Improvements | Mesa | 2022-11-02 |
| Mesa 22.2 Released With AMD RDNA3 Prep, Intel Arc Graphics, Many Vulkan Improvements | Mesa | 2022-09-20 |
| Mesa 22.2-rc1 Released With AMD RDNA3 & Intel Alchemist Primed, Vulkan Additions | Mesa | 2022-08-03 |
| Lavapipe Vulkan Software Implementation Now Compliant With Vulkan 1.3 | Mesa | 2022-07-20 |
| Mesa 22.1.1 Released With Many Open-Source Graphics Driver Fixes | Mesa | 2022-06-01 |
| Mesa's Lavapipe Now Officially Vulkan 1.2 Conformant | Vulkan | 2022-05-27 |
| Mesa 22.1 Released With Many Vulkan Improvements, Kopper For Zink, Imagination Driver | Mesa | 2022-05-18 |
| Mesa 22.1-rc4 Released With More Zink + Kopper Fixes | Mesa | 2022-05-04 |
| Mesa 22.1-rc1 Brings Radeon Vulkan Enhancements, Imagination Driver & Microsoft Dozen | Mesa | 2022-04-14 |
| Mesa 22.1 Begins Steps To Release Next Month With Vulkan Improvements, New Driver & More | Mesa | 2022-04-14 |
| Zink OpenGL-On-Vulkan Has Many Improvements With Mesa 22.1 | Mesa | 2022-04-13 |
| Mesa 22.1 Open-Source Vulkan Drivers Prepare Support For New Extensions | Mesa | 2022-04-06 |
| Mesa 22.0.1 Released With Many Fixes, AMD GFX1037/GFX1036 Backported | Mesa | 2022-03-29 |
| Mesa's CPU-Based Software Vulkan Driver Now Exposes Vulkan 1.3 | Vulkan | 2022-03-21 |
| Patches Pending That Bring Vulkan 1.3 To Lavapipe | Mesa | 2022-03-19 |
| Mesa's Lavapipe Vulkan Software Implementation Adds More Extensions | Mesa | 2022-03-16 |
| LLVMpipe/Lavapipe Patches Land To Allow For Greater CPU Saturation | Mesa | 2022-02-21 |
| LLVMpipe Patches Pending For Faster Vertex/Fragment Processing | Mesa | 2022-02-18 |
| Radeon RADV Driver Lands Vulkan Dynamic Rendering Support | Mesa | 2021-12-06 |
| Haiku OS Managing To Run Zink OpenGL Atop Radeon Vulkan Driver For 3D Acceleration | Operating Systems | 2021-11-30 |
| Mesa 21.3 Released With Radeon RADV Ray-Tracing, Much Better Zink | Mesa | 2021-11-17 |
| Mesa 22.0 Zink Speeds Up OpenGL-Over-Vulkan On CPUs | Mesa | 2021-11-10 |
| Mesa 21.3-rc4 Release Led By Many Zink Fixes | Mesa | 2021-11-04 |
| Early Progress Made On Porting Radeon Vulkan Driver To BeOS-Inspired Haiku OS | Operating Systems | 2021-10-19 |
| Mesa 21.3-rc1 Released With Improved Zink, Radeon Ray-Tracing, RADV NGG Culling | Mesa | 2021-10-13 |
| Lavapipe Mesa Software Driver Enables Vulkan 1.2 Support | Mesa | 2021-09-27 |
| Mesa's LLVMpipe + Lavapipe Land FP16 Support | Mesa | 2021-09-16 |
| AMDVLK 2021.Q3.4 Driver Fixes "Horrifically Broken" Switchable Graphics Layer | Radeon | 2021-08-11 |
| Lavapipe Keeps Tacking On Features, LLVMpipe Lands New Rasterizer With 2~3x Faster 2D | Mesa | 2021-07-29 |
| LLVMpipe Effectively At OpenGL 4.6 With Anistropic Filtering Now Supported | Mesa | 2021-07-21 |
| Mesa 21.1 Released With RADV Variable Rate Shading, More Intel Vulkan Improvements | Mesa | 2021-05-05 |
| Zink OpenGL-On-Vulkan Now Correctly Rendering... Glxgears | Mesa | 2021-04-27 |
| Mesa 21.0.3 + Mesa 21.1-rc2 Released | Mesa | 2021-04-21 |
| David Airlie Tries DOOM On CPU-Based Lavapipe Vulkan | Mesa | 2021-04-19 |
| Mesa 21.1-rc1 Released With RADV Optimizations, Faster Zink, Many Other New Features | Mesa | 2021-04-14 |
| Mesa 21.1's Lavapipe Now Teases Vulkan 1.1 On CPUs | Mesa | 2021-04-07 |
| Mesa 21.0.2 Released With Lavapipe Fixes, Improved AMD L3 Cache Calculation | Mesa | 2021-04-07 |
| The Most Exciting Open-Source Graphics Driver News From Q1'2021 | Mesa | 2021-03-29 |
| Lavapipe CPU-Based Vulkan Performance Looking Good Compared To SwiftShader | Mesa | 2021-03-26 |
| Mesa 21.0.1 Released, 20.3.5 Issued To Close Out The Older Series | Mesa | 2021-03-24 |
| Zink OpenGL-Over-Vulkan Still Has ~200 Patches To Land, More Performance Work | Mesa | 2021-03-19 |
| Lavapipe CPU-Based Vulkan Ported To Windows | Mesa | 2021-02-25 |
| Mesa's LLVMpipe Flips On ARB_gl_spirv, Help Sought For Lavapipe Windows Port | Mesa | 2021-02-11 |
| Zink Can Now Run On Lavapipe But You Really Want To Avoid It | Mesa | 2021-02-05 |
| Mesa Vulkan Drivers Get A Common Dispatch Framework For Better Code Sharing | Mesa | 2021-02-02 |
| Lavapipe Continues Advancing CPU-Based Vulkan - Now Supports Transform Feedback | Mesa | 2020-12-21 |
| Mesa 20.3 Released With Big Improvements For Open-Source Graphics Drivers | Mesa | 2020-12-03 |
| Mesa 20.3 Is Near With Lavapipe Vulkan, Raspberry Pi V3DV, Better AMD RDNA2 Support | Mesa | 2020-11-30 |
| Raspberry Pi V3DV Is Officially Vulkan Conformant, Lavapipe Also Nearing 1.0 Conformance | Vulkan | 2020-11-24 |
| Mesa 20.3-RC2 Released With ACO Fixes, More Intel Updates | Mesa | 2020-11-19 |
| Airlie: "Why Sharing Code With Windows Isn't Always A Win" | Mesa | 2020-11-11 |
| Mesa 20.3-RC1 Released With Lavapipe CPU-Based Vulkan, Raspberry Pi V3DV Added | Mesa | 2020-11-11 |
| TTM Multihop Code Revised For Improving Linux GPU Buffer Management | Linux Kernel | 2020-11-09 |
| Mesa Moves Closer To Having OpenCL 3.0 Support In Clover Gallium3D | Mesa | 2020-11-06 |
| LLVMpipe Is Now Officially Conformant With OpenGL 4.5 | Mesa | 2020-10-30 |
| Mesa's Vulkan Software Implementation Now Known as Lavapipe | Vulkan | 2020-10-01 |
