Mesa 25.2 Articles & Reviews |
| Open-Source Nouveau Performance With Linux 7.0 + NVK Mesa 26.1-dev vs. NVIDIA Linux Driver | Display Drivers | 2026-03-26 |
| AMD Strix Halo Radeon 8060S Enjoys Improved Ray-Tracing With Mesa 25.2 | Display Drivers | 2025-07-21 |
| Mesa 25.2 NVK vs. NVIDIA R575 Linux Graphics Performance For GeForce RTX 40 Series | Display Drivers | 2025-07-14 |
| AMD Radeon RX 9070 Ray-Tracing Performance Improving With Mesa 25.2 | Display Drivers | 2025-07-11 |
Mesa 25.2 Linux & Open-Source News |
| Ubuntu 24.04.4 LTS Now Available With Linux 6.17 HWE Kernel | Ubuntu | 2026-02-12 |
| The Open-Source OpenGL & Vulkan Drivers Enjoyed A Rather Remarkable 2025 | Mesa | 2025-12-30 |
| Nova Driver Progress & Other NVIDIA Linux News From 2025 | NVIDIA | 2025-12-26 |
| Mesa 25.3.1 Released With Initial Set Of Fixes, Mesa 25.2 Comes To An End | Mesa | 2025-12-04 |
| Solus Linux 4.8 Released With Python 2 Finally Removed, Abandons Solus Software Center | Operating Systems | 2025-11-29 |
| Arch Linux Based Endeavour OS Updated After ISO Refresh Hiatus | Arch Linux | 2025-11-29 |
| Mesa 25.2.7 Ships The Latest Open-Source OpenGL & Vulkan Driver Fixes | Mesa | 2025-11-12 |
| AerynOS 2025.10 ISOs Released - GNOME 49, Switches Back To GNU libstdc++ | Operating Systems | 2025-10-31 |
| Mesa 25.2.6 Released With Many Driver Fixes | Mesa | 2025-10-29 |
| Valve Developer Contributes Open-Source Driver Fixes For 12 Year Old Hawaii GPUs | Radeon | 2025-10-15 |
| Mesa 25.2.5 Released With Very Important Intel Driver Fix | Mesa | 2025-10-15 |
| Intel Lands Big Linux GPU Driver Fix: Fixing Rendering Issues & Game Hangs/Crashes | Intel | 2025-10-13 |
| Ryzen AI Max+ With Framework Desktop, File-System Tests & EPYC 4005 Dominated Q3 | Phoronix | 2025-09-29 |
| Intel Fixes Panther Lake Xe3 Graphics Performance Issues For Linux Ahead Of Launch | Intel | 2025-09-10 |
| Mesa 25.2.2 Ships The Latest Open-Source OpenGL & Vulkan Driver Fixes | Mesa | 2025-09-03 |
| AerynOS 2025.08 Released With Many Package Updates | Operating Systems | 2025-08-31 |
| Mesa 25.1.9 Released To End Out The Mesa 25.1 Series | Mesa | 2025-08-27 |
| Mesa 25.2.1 Released: Restores NVK On Kepler, Additional Intel Battlemage ID | Mesa | 2025-08-20 |
| Intel Phasing Out 16x MSAA Support - Being Disabled With Xe3 Graphics | Intel | 2025-08-07 |
| Mesa 25.2 Released With Many Improvements For RADV, Intel & NVK Drivers | Mesa | 2025-08-06 |
| Mesa NVK Driver Now Exposes Vulkan 1.4 For NVIDIA GeForce RTX 50 "Blackwell" GPUs | Mesa | 2025-08-04 |
| Framework 12, Clear Linux Going EOL, AMD EPYC Performance & Other Excitement In July | Phoronix | 2025-08-01 |
| Mesa 25.2-rc3 Released With RADV Vulkan Video Fixes, NVK Conformance Update | Mesa | 2025-07-30 |
| Vulkan + Mesa Drivers For AI Inferencing? It's Already Showing Potential On Radeon RADV | Mesa | 2025-07-24 |
| Linux 6.16 Brings Some Minor Performance Boosts For Strix Halo's Radeon Graphics | Radeon | 2025-07-24 |
| Mesa 25.2-rc2 Released With Intel Wildcat Lake Enablement, Legacy-X11 Option Deprecated | Mesa | 2025-07-23 |
| Intel Wildcat Lake OpenGL & Vulkan Support Upstreamed In Mesa | Intel | 2025-07-21 |
| Google Continues Working On "Magma" For Mesa Cross-Platform System Call Interface | Mesa | 2025-07-17 |
| Mesa 25.1.6 Released With Intel Xe3 Panther Lake Graphics Enabled By Default | Mesa | 2025-07-16 |
| Mesa 25.2-rc1 Released: Faster RADV Ray-Tracing, NVK Blackwell & More Optimizations | Mesa | 2025-07-16 |
| 12k Lines Of NVIDIA Blackwell 3D Class Header Files Open-Sourced | NVIDIA | 2025-07-16 |
| More AMD FidelityFX Super Resolution 4 Improvements Land For Open-Source Driver | Mesa | 2025-07-16 |
| NVIDIA GeForce GTX 600/700 "Kepler" GPUs Now Vulkan 1.2 Conformant With NVK | Nouveau | 2025-07-15 |
| Additional AMD RDNA3 & RDNA4 Ray-Tracing Improvements For Mesa 25.2 RADV | Radeon | 2025-07-15 |
| Intel ANV Driver Now Exposes Vulkan Video AV1 Decode On Battlemage & Lunar Lake | Intel | 2025-07-15 |
| RADV Lands Experimental Host Image Copy Support (VK_EXT_host_image_copy) | Radeon | 2025-07-15 |
| Intel Xe3 Panther Lake OpenGL & Vulkan Support Now Enabled By Default On Linux | Intel | 2025-07-14 |
| Old Radeon HD 2000/3000/4000 GPUs Still Seeing Open-Source Driver Fixes In 2025 | Radeon | 2025-07-14 |
| RADV Vulkan Video Improvements Make It Into Mesa 25.2 For AMD RDNA4 GPUs | Radeon | 2025-07-14 |
| Intel Mesa Drivers Add Option To Disable Xe3's Variable Register Thread "VRT" Feature | Intel | 2025-07-14 |
| AMD NGG Improvements Make It Into Mesa 25.2 Ahead Of Next Week's Code Branching | Mesa | 2025-07-13 |
| RadeonSI Begins Upstreaming Its OpenGL Mesh Shader Support | Mesa | 2025-07-11 |
| Nouveau NAK Lands A Big Improvement For NVIDIA Kepler GPUs: As Much As 2.5x Faster | Nouveau | 2025-07-10 |
| Mesa 25.2 Drops Legacy DRI2 Code With A Bonfire To Pre-DMABUF Winsys Support | Mesa | 2025-07-09 |
| PowerVR Vulkan Driver Enhancements Merged Ahead Of Mesa 25.2 | Mesa | 2025-07-09 |
| Many NGG Improvements Arrive For AMD's Open-Source Linux OpenGL/Vulkan Drivers | Radeon | 2025-07-06 |
| Mesa 25.2 Should Have Initial Vulkan Support In Good Shape For NVIDIA Blackwell | Mesa | 2025-07-01 |
| RADV Ray-Tracing Lands Pointer Flags Support For RDNA3 & Newer | Mesa | 2025-06-28 |
| NVIDIA Blackwell Support Coming Together For NVK Vulkan In Mesa | Nouveau | 2025-06-27 |
| Mesa 25.2 RADV Driver Merges Support For AV1 Vulkan Video Encode | Radeon | 2025-06-26 |
| RADV Driver Introduces Limited Support For NVIDIA Cooperative Matrix Extension | Mesa | 2025-06-25 |
| RadeonSI Lands Shared Virtual Memory "SVM" Support For Mesa 25.2 | Mesa | 2025-06-24 |
| RADV Vulkan Driver Lands Some "Random Bits & Pieces" For CDNA Accelerators | Mesa | 2025-06-23 |
| RADV Driver Lands VK_EXT_shader_float8 Support | Radeon | 2025-06-23 |
| Mesa's Rusticl Driver Now Supports sRGB Images | Mesa | 2025-06-18 |
| Intel Mesa Drivers Now Properly Report Battlemage BMG-G31 GPUs | Mesa | 2025-06-16 |
| Intel Performance Counters Support Merged To Mesa For Panther Lake | Intel | 2025-06-16 |
| 16-bit Medium Precision Improvements Merged For AMD Radeon Mesa Code | Mesa | 2025-06-15 |
| Intel Vulkan Linux Driver Lands Initial Support For VP9 Decoding | Vulkan | 2025-06-13 |
| OpenGL 4.6 Now Exposed For Old AMD Evergreen & Cayman GPUs On Linux Driver | Radeon | 2025-06-12 |
| Intel Iris Linux Driver Lands Shared Virtual Memory Support | Intel | 2025-06-11 |
| Open-Source Linux Driver Preps For Qualcomm Adreno X1-45 GPU Support | Hardware | 2025-06-09 |
| Intel Vulkan Driver Lands Improvement For Helping Direct3D Games Under Steam Play | Intel | 2025-06-06 |
| The Performance Gains Brought By Linux 6.15+ & Mesa 25.2 For AMD Strix Halo | Radeon | 2025-06-06 |
| Mesa's Rusticl Lands OpenCL FP16 Half-Float Support | Mesa | 2025-06-05 |
| Linux 6.15 & Early Linux 6.16 Delivering Some Additional Gains For AMD Strix Halo | Linux Kernel | 2025-06-05 |
| Mesa 25.1.2 Released With More Intel Battlemage & Panther Lake IDs Added | Mesa | 2025-06-04 |
| More Intel Panther Lake Graphics Device IDs Added To Open-Source Linux Driver | Intel | 2025-06-02 |
| Mesa 25.2 Lands RADV VCN5 Video Encode/Decode Support For RDNA4 GPUs | Radeon | 2025-06-02 |
| AMDGPU High Priority Graphics User Queue Support Merged For Mesa 25.2 | Radeon | 2025-05-30 |
| More Intel Battlemage Graphics PCI IDs Added To Mesa OpenGL/Vulkan Drivers | Intel | 2025-05-29 |
| Mesa's Rusticl Lands Support For Shared Virtual Memory & Intel Subgroups | Mesa | 2025-05-28 |
| Mesa 25.0.7 Delivers A Last Batch Of Fixes To End The Series | Mesa | 2025-05-28 |
| Mike Blumenkrantz Axes Old Mesa Code: Goodbye Gallium Nine | Mesa | 2025-05-24 |
| Microsoft Lands 62k Lines Of Code Patch In Mesa: Adds New "MFT" Gallium3D Frontend | Microsoft | 2025-05-23 |
| Mesa Will Stop Building Gallium-XA By Default | Mesa | 2025-05-23 |
| Vulkan 1.4.315 With VK_EXT_zero_initialize_device_memory For VKD3D-Proton & More | Vulkan | 2025-05-15 |
| Intel ANV Driver Lands Fixes For AV1 Decoding With Vulkan Video | Intel | 2025-05-15 |
| Mesa 25.2 RADV Merges Ray-Tracing Improvements For Radeon RX 9070 Series / RDNA4 | Radeon | 2025-05-13 |
| NAK Compiler For Mesa's NVK Driver Adds Support For More NVIDIA Kepler GPUs | Mesa | 2025-05-13 |
| RADV Vulkan Driver Lands BFloat16 Support In Mesa 25.2 | Radeon | 2025-05-09 |
| Mesa's Lavapipe Driver Wires Up More Features Used By VKD3D-Proton | Mesa | 2025-05-09 |
| Mesa 25.2 Merges AMD Support For Setting Queue Priorities | Radeon | 2025-05-08 |
| Ubuntu 25.10 "Questing Quokka" Opens For Development | Ubuntu | 2025-05-01 |
| Mesa 25.1-rc3 & Mesa 25.0.5 Deliver More Graphics Driver Fixes | Mesa | 2025-04-30 |
| Intel's Vulkan Linux Driver Adds Memory Pool Support For Some Massive Performance Gains | Mesa | 2025-04-30 |
| Intel's Open-Source Vulkan Driver Lands BFloat16 Support In Mesa 25.2 | Intel | 2025-04-29 |
| Newer Arm Mali GPUs Now Advertising Vulkan 1.2 Support With Mesa's PanVK Driver | Mesa | 2025-04-25 |
| NVK Now Vulkan 1.4 Conformant For NVIDIA Maxwell GPUs | Mesa | 2025-04-22 |
| Intel Vulkan Linux Driver Begins Prepping For Ray-Tracing Changes With Xe3 | Intel | 2025-04-22 |
| Open-Source RADV Driver Begins Working To Improve AMD RDNA4 Ray-Tracing Performance | Radeon | 2025-04-17 |
| Mesa's Old OpenCL "Clover" Driver Removed For Mesa 25.2 | Mesa | 2025-04-16 |
| Gallium Nine Has Been Deprecated, Planned For Removal In Mesa 25.2 | Mesa | 2025-04-10 |
| RadeonSI Goes Rusticl-Only, Clearing Out Support For Old Clover OpenCL | Radeon | 2025-03-27 |
| Rusticl Wins: Mesa Officially Deprecates Clover OpenCL | Mesa | 2025-03-13 |
