Mesa 24.1 Linux & Open-Source News |
| Intel's Vulkan Linux Driver Finally Exposes VK_EXT_shader_object | Intel | 2025-09-05 |
| Arch Linux Had A Great Year With Valve's Continued Backing, EndeavourOS & CachyOS Boost | Arch Linux | 2024-12-31 |
| Wayland's Wild 2024 With Better KDE Plasma Support, NVIDIA Maturity & More Desktops | Wayland | 2024-12-31 |
| Mesa's Terrific Year With Better Vulkan Ray-Tracing, NVK Progress & Same-Day Vulkan 1.4 | Mesa | 2024-12-30 |
| NVIDIA Made Great Strides With Their Open-Source Kernel Code & Wayland Support In 2024 | NVIDIA | 2024-12-28 |
| KDE Enjoyed A Stellar 2024 With The Debut Of The Plasma 6 Desktop | KDE | 2024-12-26 |
| New Intel Mesa Driver Patches Implement AV1 Decode For Vulkan Video | Intel | 2024-12-25 |
| Mesa 24.2.1 Released, Mesa 24.1 Series Comes To An End | Mesa | 2024-08-29 |
| RadeonSI Driver Sees GPU Hang Fixes - RDNA4 Fixes, Optimally Programming "OREO MODE" | Radeon | 2024-08-06 |
| Mesa 24.2-rc3 Released With More Intel Xe2 Graphics Fixes | Mesa | 2024-07-31 |
| Arch Linux Powered EndeavourOS Restores ARM Support | Operating Systems | 2024-07-01 |
| Shopping For A Launch-Day AMD Ryzen AI 300 Series Laptop For Linux Testing | AMD | 2024-06-06 |
| Mesa 24.1.1 Released With Many Graphics Driver Bug Fixes | Mesa | 2024-06-05 |
| Mesa 24.1 Released With Explicit Sync Vulkan Drivers, More Mature NVK Driver | Mesa | 2024-05-22 |
| Mesa 24.1-rc4 Backports NVK DRM Format Modifiers Support | Mesa | 2024-05-15 |
| Intel Arc Graphics Demonstrated Running On ARM With Ampere Altra | Intel | 2024-05-12 |
| SteamOS 3.6 Preview Released With Linux 6.5, Updated Arch Linux & Mesa 24.1 | Valve | 2024-05-09 |
| Mesa 24.0.7 & Mesa 24.1-rc3 Provide Latest Open-Source OpenGL/Vulkan Drivers | Mesa | 2024-05-08 |
| Mesa 24.1-rc2 Released With More Graphics Driver Fixes | Mesa | 2024-05-02 |
| Intel ANV Vulkan Driver Enables VK_KHR_shader_float_controls2 | Intel | 2024-04-25 |
| Etnaviv NPU Optimizations Make It Into Mesa 24.1 | Mesa | 2024-04-25 |
| Mesa 24.1-rc1 Released With Many OpenGL & Vulkan Driver Improvements | Mesa | 2024-04-24 |
| RadeonSI Squeezes "Many Improvements Around The Whole Driver" Into Mesa 24.1 | Radeon | 2024-04-24 |
| NVK Vulkan Driver Adds Implicit Pipeline Caching To Boost DXVK Performance | Nouveau | 2024-04-23 |
| AMD Posts RDNA3+ Firmware Files For Linux Users | Radeon | 2024-04-21 |
| Mesa 24.1 Now Supports Vulkan Explicit Synchronization On X11 | Mesa | 2024-04-16 |
| Intel Vulkan Driver Wires Up Image Compression Control For VKD3D-Proton | Intel | 2024-04-16 |
| Mesa 24.1 Zink Lands "Super Fast" Merge Request To Optimize IO | Mesa | 2024-04-13 |
| Open-Source Radeon Driver Enables Support For Vulkan Video H.264/H.265 Encode | Radeon | 2024-04-11 |
| KDE's KWin Merges Wayland Explicit Sync Support | KDE | 2024-04-10 |
| Lavapipe CPU-Based Vulkan Driver Implements Ray-Tracing Pipelines | Mesa | 2024-04-10 |
| Nouveau/NVK Driver Lands NIL Library Rewrite In Rust For Mesa 24.1 | Nouveau | 2024-04-09 |
| Explicit GPU Synchronization Merged For XWayland | X.Org | 2024-04-09 |
| RADV Vulkan Driver Enables EXT_shader_object By Default With Mesa 24.1 | Mesa | 2024-04-08 |
| KDE On The Importance Of Wayland Explicit Sync | KDE | 2024-04-06 |
| Mesa Adds PCI IDs For Intel Arc Graphics A580E & A750E | Intel | 2024-04-05 |
| RADV Lands New Extension To Better Debug GPU Hangs | Mesa | 2024-04-03 |
| Mesa 24.1 Merges Vulkan Support For Wayland Explicit Sync | Mesa | 2024-04-02 |
| Asahi AGX Gallium3D Driver Sees Big Sync For Mesa 24.1 To Improve Apple Silicon Graphics | Mesa | 2024-03-30 |
| Panthor DRM Driver Queued For Linux 6.10 To Support Newer Arm Mali GPUs | Arm | 2024-03-26 |
| Mesa 24.1 Merges AMD Radeon VPE 1.1 Engine Support | Radeon | 2024-03-25 |
| DIRT 5 Now Runs On Intel Arc Graphics Under Linux With Driver Workaround | Intel | 2024-03-23 |
| NVK Driver Adds Vendor ID Workaround For Games Expecting NVIDIA's Proprietary Driver | Mesa | 2024-03-22 |
| Raspberry Pi "V3DV" Vulkan Driver Now Supports Dynamic Rendering | Mesa | 2024-03-21 |
| RadeonSI OpenGL CTS Tests Running ~30% Faster With Mesa 24.1 | Radeon | 2024-03-16 |
| Mesa 24.1 Adds Support For The Intel Data Center GPU Flex 170G | Intel | 2024-03-14 |
| Mesa 24.0.3 Released With Many Graphics Driver Bug Fixes | Mesa | 2024-03-14 |
| Mesa 24.1 Enables Intel Xe Kernel Driver Support By Default | Intel | 2024-03-13 |
| Radeon Memory Visualizer Hooks Up With Qualcomm Adreno Vulkan Driver | Mesa | 2024-03-10 |
| NVK Lands Sparse Memory Support - Enabling More Games To Run On This Open-Source Driver | Nouveau | 2024-03-09 |
| Mesa's VDPAU State Tracker Adds Support For AV1 Decoding | Mesa | 2024-03-07 |
| Mesa's CPU-Based Vulkan Driver Now Supports Ray-Tracing | Mesa | 2024-03-07 |
| Etnaviv Preps For Vivante PCI Device Support, Changes For Mesa's Teflon NPU Handling | Hardware | 2024-03-07 |
| RADV Now Supports Experimental VK_EXT_shader_object For RDNA3 GPUs Using NGG | Radeon | 2024-03-06 |
| Mesa 24.1 Lands Support For GFX11.5.1 "RDNA3 Refresh" Variant | Radeon | 2024-03-04 |
| Intel Vulkan Driver Lands Descriptor Buffer Support To Reduce Linux Gaming CPU Overhead | Intel | 2024-03-04 |
| Wine Code Merged To Overcome A Vulkan Performance Penalty | WINE | 2024-03-03 |
| Mesa 24.1 To Raise Limit Supporting More Than Eight Vulkan GPUs Per System | Mesa | 2024-03-02 |
| Panthor DRM Driver Set For Linux 6.9, Arm Mali Gen10 Merged To Panfrost Gallium3D | Mesa | 2024-03-01 |
| CUDA On ROCm, Ryzen 8000G Series & Rust Activity Made For An Exciting February | Phoronix | 2024-03-01 |
| Zink Lands Support For Partial Updates / Damage Handling | Mesa | 2024-02-29 |
| Mesa 24.1 Enables AV1 LTR Encode Support For RDNA3 GPUs With VCN4 | Radeon | 2024-02-29 |
| Mesa NVK Vulkan Driver Now Declared Vulkan 1.3 Conformant, Mesa 24.1 To Build By Default | Nouveau | 2024-02-28 |
| NVK Vulkan Driver Lands Shader Object & Graphics Pipeline Library | Nouveau | 2024-02-28 |
| RADV Driver Lands Vulkan Video AV1 Decode For Mesa 24.1 | Mesa | 2024-02-27 |
| Mesa OpenGL Threading Work Sees Much Reduced Memory Footprint For OpenGL Calls | Mesa | 2024-02-26 |
| Reverse-Engineered NPU Driver Tantalizingly Close To Proprietary Driver Performance | Mesa | 2024-02-26 |
| Open-Source NVIDIA Vulkan Driver "NVK" Lands Improvements For ReBAR | Mesa | 2024-02-25 |
| Mesa 24.1 Now Builds Zink By Default, Also Building D3D12 Driver By Default On Windows | Mesa | 2024-02-23 |
| Intel Mesa Driver Code Working To Split Off Old Broadwell "Gen8" Graphics Code | Intel | 2024-02-21 |
| Open-Source NVIDIA Driver Moving To NVK + Zink For OpenGL On Newer GPUs | Mesa | 2024-02-21 |
| RADV Driver Fixes Mesh Shader Support For AMD Phoenix APUs | Radeon | 2024-02-16 |
| HITMAN 3 Will Now Launch On Intel GPUs Under Linux After Hiding The GPU Vendor | Intel | 2024-02-13 |
| Intel Iris Gallium3D Driver Sees "Massive Boost" With Indirect Draw Generation | Intel | 2024-02-13 |
| Intel Arrow Lake Graphics Support Ready For Linux 6.9 | Intel | 2024-02-09 |
| Etnaviv NPU Driver Further Boosts Performance, Striking Closer To The Proprietary Driver | Mesa | 2024-02-09 |
| AMD Updates Mesa Video Driver Code With Geometric Scaling & HLG | Radeon | 2024-02-07 |
| Intel Arrow Lake OpenGL & Vulkan Driver Support Merged For Mesa 24.1 | Intel | 2024-02-06 |
| Another Optimization Comes For Radeon RADV Ray-Tracing In Mesa 24.1 | Mesa | 2024-02-05 |
| VOPD Scheduler For Valve's ACO Compiler Merged Into Mesa 24.1 | Radeon | 2024-02-05 |
| Mesa Merge Request Opened For RADV Driver With VK_KHR_video_decode_av1 | Mesa | 2024-02-02 |
| Mesa 24.0 Released With Faster Radeon RADV Ray-Tracing & Initial PowerVR Vulkan Driver | Mesa | 2024-01-31 |
| 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 |
| Teflon Merged To Mesa 24.1 As Gallium3D Frontend For TensorFlow Lite | Mesa | 2024-01-24 |
| Intel's Open-Source Vulkan Driver Wired Up To Support AMD's Radeon Memory Visualizer | Intel | 2024-01-23 |
| Mesa 24.0 Feature Development Ends With Many OpenGL & Vulkan Driver Features | Mesa | 2024-01-11 |
| Ubuntu 24.04 "Noble Numbat" Opens For Development | Ubuntu | 2023-10-26 |
