OpenGL 4.6 Articles & Reviews |
| Mesa 20.0 Is Imminent With New Intel OpenGL Default, Intel + RADV Vulkan 1.2, OpenGL 4.6 For RadeonSI | Display Drivers | 2020-02-19 |
| RadeonSI NIR Benchmarks Show Great Progress With Mesa 20.0 | Display Drivers | 2019-12-06 |
| Running The RadeonSI NIR Back-End With Mesa 19.1 Git | Display Drivers | 2019-02-10 |
| OpenGL 4.6 Released With Vulkan/SPIR-V Ingestion, Parallel Shader Compiles & Finally AF | Software | 2017-07-31 |
OpenGL 4.6 Linux & Open-Source News |
| Mesa NVK Driver Now Exposes Vulkan 1.4 For NVIDIA GeForce RTX 50 "Blackwell" GPUs | Mesa | 2025-08-04 |
| AMD Preps Some Compute Driver Fixes For Polaris & Hawaii Era GPUs With Linux 6.17 | Radeon | 2025-07-01 |
| OpenGL 4.6 Now Exposed For Old AMD Evergreen & Cayman GPUs On Linux Driver | Radeon | 2025-06-12 |
| AMD ROCm 6.4 Adds SPIR-V Linking Support To HIP | AMD | 2025-04-21 |
| Linux 6.16 To Add Asahi UAPI Header For Apple Silicon Graphics But No Actual Driver Yet | Apple | 2025-04-09 |
| DRM User-Space API For Apple Silicon Graphics Posted For Review | Mesa | 2025-03-10 |
| Unvanquished 0.55 Released With Big Performance Optimizations For Its Engine | Linux Gaming | 2024-10-21 |
| Unvanquished Working On OpenGL 4.6 Renderer Support | Linux Gaming | 2024-10-15 |
| Mesa 24.1 Released With Explicit Sync Vulkan Drivers, More Mature NVK Driver | Mesa | 2024-05-22 |
| Fedora Asahi Remix 40 Now Available For Apple Silicon Devices, KDE Plasma 6 By Default | Fedora | 2024-05-08 |
| Mesa 24.1-rc2 Released With More Graphics Driver Fixes | Mesa | 2024-05-02 |
| Mesa 24.1-rc1 Released With Many OpenGL & Vulkan Driver Improvements | Mesa | 2024-04-24 |
| Mesa 24.0.1 Released With Various Graphics Driver Fixes | Mesa | 2024-02-15 |
| OpenGL 4.6 + OpenGL ES 3.2 Achieved On Apple M1 With Linux Driver | Apple | 2024-02-14 |
| Mesa 24.0 Released With Faster Radeon RADV Ray-Tracing & Initial PowerVR Vulkan Driver | Mesa | 2024-01-31 |
| Mesa 24.0-rc2 Released With This Quarter's Release Looking Good | Mesa | 2024-01-17 |
| Mesa 24.0 Feature Development Ends With Many OpenGL & Vulkan Driver Features | Mesa | 2024-01-11 |
| Microsoft Continued Advancing WSL2, Mesa & Its In-House Linux Distro In 2023 | Microsoft | 2024-01-03 |
| Microsoft Looking To Add Windows Media Foundation Transforms "MFTs" To Mesa | Microsoft | 2023-11-21 |
| Microsoft Enables OpenGL 4.6 Support Over Direct3D 12 | Mesa | 2023-11-19 |
| Mesa 24.0 Gets Asahi AGX Gallium3D To OpenGL 3.3 For Apple Silicon Hardware | Mesa | 2023-11-07 |
| Asahi Linux's Apple M1/M2 Gallium3D Driver Now OpenGL ES 3.1 Conformant | Apple | 2023-08-22 |
| Imagination GPUs With PVR Vulkan + Zink Working Well For OpenGL 4.6 | Mesa | 2023-07-06 |
| Qualcomm Adreno 600 Series Graphics Get OpenGL 4.6 On Open-Source Driver | Mesa | 2023-06-02 |
| Mesa 23.2 Virgl Lands Support For OpenGL 4.6 Inside Virtual Machines | Virtualization | 2023-05-27 |
| The Old Radeon "R600" Open-Source Gallium3D Driver Now Enables SPIR-V | Radeon | 2023-01-02 |
| Asahi Linux Enables Early Apple GPU Driver Support - WIP OpenGL 2.1 + GLES 2.0 | Apple | 2022-12-07 |
| Asahi Linux May Have OpenGL 2.1 For Apple M1/M2 By Year's End | Mesa | 2022-08-22 |
| Turnip Vulkan Driver Now Works With Zink For OpenGL 4.6, Approaching Vulkan 1.3 | Mesa | 2022-07-26 |
| Mesa 22.1-rc5 Released With Dozens Of Fixes For Zink, RADV & Intel Vulkan Drivers | Mesa | 2022-05-11 |
| Mesa 22.1-rc3 Released With Backports For Intel Raptor Lake P, Zink/Kopper On Windows | Mesa | 2022-04-27 |
| Zink OpenGL-On-Vulkan Making Progress On Windows, X-Plane Looking To Use It | Mesa | 2022-04-20 |
| Intel "Crocus" Driver For Old iGPUs Bumps OpenGL Compatibility Profile Support | Intel | 2022-02-09 |
| Zink OpenGL-on-Vulkan Now Offers Broader OpenGL Coverage Than RadeonSI, Intel | Mesa | 2022-01-20 |
| Zink Working On Sparse Textures, Other Improvements To Kick Off 2022 | Mesa | 2022-01-05 |
| Mesa 22.0 Zink Lands macOS Build Fix For OpenGL On Vulkan Via MoltenVK On Metal | Mesa | 2021-12-29 |
| Zink OpenGL-On-Vulkan Can Finally Render glxgears With Great Speed | Mesa | 2021-11-12 |
| Mesa 21.3-rc4 Release Led By Many Zink Fixes | Mesa | 2021-11-04 |
| Zink OpenGL On Vulkan Inches Closer To OpenGL 4.6 Conformance, More Games Working | Linux Gaming | 2021-10-29 |
| Vendors Including NVIDIA Talk Up New OpenCL Extensions For Vulkan Interop, NN Inference | Standards | 2021-10-19 |
| Microsoft's "CLOn12" Mesa Code Adds SPIR/SPIR-V Support | Mesa | 2021-09-23 |
| Zink Now Achieves OpenGL ES 3.2 Atop Vulkan | Mesa | 2021-08-31 |
| Zink Now Supports OpenGL Compatibility Contexts - Allowing More Games/Apps To Work | Linux Gaming | 2021-08-18 |
| Mesa 21.3 LLVMpipe Enables OpenGL 4.5 Compatibility Profile Support | Mesa | 2021-08-17 |
| LLVMpipe Effectively At OpenGL 4.6 With Anistropic Filtering Now Supported | Mesa | 2021-07-21 |
| Zink Now Supports OpenGL ES 3.2 Over Vulkan | Mesa | 2021-07-09 |
| Mesa 21.1 Released With RADV Variable Rate Shading, More Intel Vulkan Improvements | Mesa | 2021-05-05 |
| Mesa 21.1-rc1 Released With RADV Optimizations, Faster Zink, Many Other New Features | Mesa | 2021-04-14 |
| With OpenGL 4.6 Achieved, Zink Working CTS Fixes, Substantial Performance Gains | Mesa | 2021-02-19 |
| Zink With Mesa 21.1 Now Advertises OpenGL 4.6 | Mesa | 2021-02-16 |
| Zink Now Supports OpenGL 4.5 Over Vulkan With Mesa 21.1 | Mesa | 2021-02-11 |
| Mesa's LLVMpipe Flips On ARB_gl_spirv, Help Sought For Lavapipe Windows Port | Mesa | 2021-02-11 |
| Zink On Mesa 21.1-devel Now Achieves OpenGL 4.3 Over Vulkan | Mesa | 2021-02-10 |
| Zink OpenGL On Vulkan Now Supports OpenGL 4.2 With Mesa 21.1 | Mesa | 2021-01-21 |
| Zink With Mesa 21.0 Now Exposes OpenGL 4.1 | Mesa | 2021-01-05 |
| The Most Popular NVIDIA Linux News + Milestones Of 2020 | NVIDIA | 2020-12-30 |
| Zink OpenGL-On-Vulkan Lands Tessellation Shader Support In Mesa 21.0 | Mesa | 2020-12-23 |
| Classic OSMesa Retires In Mesa 21.0 As The Worst Of The Software Rendering Paths | Mesa | 2020-12-11 |
| Zink OpenGL-On-Vulkan Development Now Being Done On RADV With Navi GPU | Radeon | 2020-11-28 |
| Valve Now Funding Blumenkrantz - Zink OpenGL-On-Vulkan To Continue | Mesa | 2020-11-23 |
| Zink Seeing macOS Support For OpenGL Over Vulkan Then MoltenVK On Top Of Metal | Vulkan | 2020-11-02 |
| LLVMpipe Is Now Officially Conformant With OpenGL 4.5 | Mesa | 2020-10-30 |
| Zink In Mesa 20.3 Now Hits OpenGL 3.3, Can Run Blender With This OpenGL-on-Vulkan | Mesa | 2020-10-17 |
| Zink OpenGL-On-Vulkan Now Nearly At ~69% Of Intel's Native OpenGL Driver | Mesa | 2020-10-16 |
| After ~70% FPS Boost For Zink, The OpenGL-on-Vulkan Code Is ~50% The GL Native Speed | Mesa | 2020-09-27 |
| Zink OpenGL-Over-Vulkan With Unigine Heaven Seeing Improved Performance | Vulkan | 2020-09-25 |
| Zink OpenGL-On-Vulkan Seeing Some 50~100% FPS Gains | Mesa | 2020-09-19 |
| Zink OpenGL-Over-Vulkan Driver - Performance Is Turning Out Better Than Expected | Vulkan | 2020-09-08 |
| Experimental Zink Patches Get OpenGL 4.6 Running Atop Vulkan | Vulkan | 2020-08-24 |
| OpenGL 4.5 Now Enabled For LLVMpipe With Mesa 20.3, To Be Back-Ported For 20.2 | Mesa | 2020-08-17 |
| LLVMpipe Has Patches Bringing It To OpenGL 4.5 Support | Mesa | 2020-08-17 |
| LLVMpipe Gallium3D Driver Now Exposes OpenGL 4.3 | Mesa | 2020-07-22 |
| Radeon R600 Gallium3D Lands NIR Support In Mesa 20.1 | Mesa | 2020-02-10 |
| Mesa 20.0-RC2 Brings Many Intel Vulkan + OpenGL Gallium3D Driver Fixes | Mesa | 2020-02-07 |
| Mesa 20.0-rc1 Released With Intel Gallium3D Default, OpenGL 4.6 for RadeonSI, Vulkan 1.2 | Mesa | 2020-01-30 |
| Nsight Graphics 2020.1 Released With Profiling For Vulkan+OpenGL Interop | NVIDIA | 2020-01-24 |
| Mesa 20.0 Now Defaults To The New Intel Gallium3D Driver For Faster OpenGL | Intel | 2020-01-24 |
| Mesa 20.0 Feature Development Is Ending Next Week | Mesa | 2020-01-23 |
| AMD Drops TGSI Support From Their RadeonSI OpenGL Driver | Radeon | 2020-01-07 |
| Mesa Development Activity Was Up By ~20% In 2019, Just Under 3 Million Lines Of Code | Mesa | 2020-01-03 |
| Intel Gallium3D Driver Performance Is Looking Good With The Core i9 9900KS | Intel | 2019-12-26 |
| Mesa 20.0-devel Intel Gallium3D Performance Benchmarks Are Looking Good For Ice Lake | Intel | 2019-12-14 |
| Mesa 19.3 Released With Big Updates For Intel's Open-Source Drivers, Valve ACO Option | Mesa | 2019-12-12 |
| RadeonSI Driver Switches To NIR, Thereby Enabling OpenGL 4.6 By Default For AMD GPUs | Mesa | 2019-12-10 |
| Khronos + W3C Collaborating On SPIR-V Potentially Being The Shading Language For The Web | Desktop | 2019-11-28 |
| AMD's RadeonSI Driver Finally Enables OpenGL 4.6 But You Need To First Enable NIR | Radeon | 2019-11-27 |
| Intel's Open-Source Gallium3D Driver Achieves OpenGL 4.6 Conformance | Intel | 2019-11-21 |
| Mesa 19.3-RC1 Released With OpenGL 4.6 For Intel, Many Vulkan Driver Improvements | Mesa | 2019-10-30 |
| Khronos Rolls Out OpenVX 1.3 While Updating OpenGL 4.6 + OpenGL ES 3.2 | Standards | 2019-10-22 |
| RLSL Allows Running A Subset Of Rust On Vulkan/SPIR-V Enabled GPUs | Vulkan | 2019-10-21 |
| Gallium3D's Mesa State Tracker Sees "Mega Cleanup" For NIR In Mesa 19.3 | Mesa | 2019-10-18 |
| Mesa 19.2 Released With Navi Support, Much Improved Intel Gallium3D | Mesa | 2019-09-25 |
| Intel's Gallium3D Linux Driver Now Exposes OpenGL 4.6 | Mesa | 2019-09-11 |
| Intel Iris Gallium3D Is Close With SPIR-V Support For OpenGL 4.6 | Mesa | 2019-08-24 |
| Intel's OpenGL Linux Driver Now Has OpenGL 4.6 Support For Mesa 19.2 | Intel | 2019-08-21 |
| Mesa 19.2-RC1 Released But Intel Still Looking To Add OpenGL 4.6 Support | Mesa | 2019-08-20 |
| Mesa 19.2's Feature Freeze / Release Candidate Process Beginning Tomorrow | Mesa | 2019-08-19 |
| TGSI To NIR Improvements Hit Mesa 19.2 For RadeonSI | Mesa | 2019-08-12 |
| Khronos Releases OpenCL 2.2-11 While Still Waiting For OpenCL-Next | Standards | 2019-08-07 |
| Intel's Iris Gallium3D Driver Now Has Better OpenGL Compatibility Profile Support | Intel | 2019-08-04 |
| Mesa 19.2 Is Just Six Patches Away From Seeing OpenGL 4.6 Support | Mesa | 2019-07-17 |
| LLVMpipe Software OpenGL Implementation Picks Up More GL4 Extensions | Mesa | 2019-07-08 |
| OpenGL 4.6 / SPIR-V Support Might Be Inching Closer For Mesa Drivers | Mesa | 2019-05-24 |
| Mesa 19.1 To Expose EXT_gpu_shader4 Support | Mesa | 2019-04-25 |
| Mesa's Vulkan Drivers See More Extension Work Ahead Of The 19.1 Branching | Mesa | 2019-04-19 |
| A Bunch Of New Code Merged Into Mesa 19.1: Intel ANV, Iris, Softpipe, Virgl | Mesa | 2019-04-09 |
| RadeonSI Gallium3D In Mesa 19.1 Enables Parallel Shader Compile Support | Radeon | 2019-04-01 |
| GLX_ARB_create_context_no_error Support Lands In Mesa 19.1 | Mesa | 2019-03-13 |
| Khronos Continues Working On Better OpenCL + LLVM Integration | LLVM | 2019-03-08 |
| RadeonSI Gets Patches To Finally Tap The Parallel Shader Compile Extensions | Radeon | 2019-02-25 |
| RadeonSI Gets NIR Improvements, Enabled By Default For Civilization VI | Radeon | 2019-02-19 |
| Gallium3D's Mesa State Tracker Sees Shaders Ported From TGSI To NIR For Capable Drivers | Mesa | 2019-02-01 |
| Intel's Mesa Driver Nearing OpenGL 4.6 With Final SPIR-V Additions Under Review | Intel | 2019-01-30 |
| The New Features On Deck For Mesa 19.0: Vulkan Additions, FreeSync, Soft FP64 & More | Mesa | 2019-01-28 |
| From The Linux Perspective: What I Am Most Looking Forward To In 2019 | Linux Kernel | 2019-01-02 |
| Nouveau Picks Up NV_shader_atomic_float For Fermi/Kepler GPUs | Nouveau | 2018-12-27 |
| Mesa Made Massive Progress In 2018 On Open-Source Vulkan / OpenGL Drivers | Mesa | 2018-12-26 |
| RLSL Continues Maturing For Compiling Rust To SPIR-V For Use With Vulkan Drivers | Vulkan | 2018-11-26 |
| More NIR Optimizations En Route, "Soft FP64" Still Being Worked On | Mesa | 2018-11-22 |
| The Shiny New Features Of Mesa 18.3 For Open-Source Intel / Radeon Graphics Drivers | Mesa | 2018-11-13 |
| Mesa 18.3-RC1 Released As The Final 2018 Update Approaches | Mesa | 2018-11-06 |
| Mesa 18.3 Feature Development Wraps Up While Mesa 19.0 Opens Up On Master | Mesa | 2018-11-01 |
| Mesa 18.3 Gets A Release Date Towards The End Of November | Mesa | 2018-10-23 |
| More Linux Tests & Driver Observations With The GeForce RTX 2080 Ti | NVIDIA | 2018-09-20 |
| Igalia Sends Out Another 26 Patches Chipping Away On Intel ARB_gl_spirv Support | Intel | 2018-09-15 |
| Mesa 18.2 Released With Vega 20 Support, OpenGL 4.4 Compat Profile & A Lot More | Mesa | 2018-09-07 |
| RadeonSI Compatibility Profile Now Supports OpenGL 4.5 On Mesa 18.3 | Mesa | 2018-08-29 |
| RadeonSI Gets Patches For OpenGL 4.5 Compat, Workaround For No Man's Sky On Steam Play | Radeon | 2018-08-24 |
| Mesa 18.2 Is Releasing Soon With Many OpenGL / Vulkan Driver Improvements | Mesa | 2018-08-21 |
| XDC2018 Will Have Many Interesting Talks On Vulkan, AR/VR, Wayland & More | X.Org | 2018-08-12 |
| Marek Tackles EXT_gpu_shader4 Support In Gallium3D For Old Games/Apps | Mesa | 2018-08-08 |
| 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 |
| Mesa 18.2 Is On The Final Days Of Development With Many New Features Coming | Mesa | 2018-07-26 |
| Mesa 18.2 Gets Extra Two Weeks Of Development Time | Mesa | 2018-07-18 |
| Igalia Aligns Latest Patches For Giving Intel's Mesa Driver OpenGL 4.6 | Intel | 2018-07-16 |
| Marek Squeezes More Performance Out Of RadeonSI In CPU-Bound Scenarios | Radeon | 2018-07-14 |
| More Intel ARB_gl_spirv Code Lands In Mesa, But Still Not Ready To Finish Up OpenGL 4.6 | Mesa | 2018-07-03 |
| RadeonSI GL 4.4 Compat Patches Make Wolfenstein & Doom With OpenGL Happy In Wine | Mesa | 2018-06-28 |
| Google Gets DirectX Shader Compiler Working On Linux | Google | 2018-06-26 |
| RadeonSI Compatibility Profile Is Close To OpenGL 4.4 Support | Radeon | 2018-06-22 |
| RadeonSI Lands OpenGL 3.3 Compatibility Profile Support | Mesa | 2018-06-18 |
| Intel Develops A SPIR-V Translator To Run On The CPU | Intel | 2018-06-06 |
| Latest Intel ARB_gl_spirv Patches Published By Igalia | Mesa | 2018-05-12 |
| The New Features Coming In Mesa 18.1: Intel Cache By Default, Many Vulkan Strides | Mesa | 2018-05-04 |
| LLVM Is Playing A Big Role With Vulkan/SPIR-V Compilers | LLVM | 2018-04-19 |
| RadeonSI Now Supports KHR_blend_equation_advanced, Needed For OpenGL ES 3.2 | Mesa | 2018-04-03 |
| Valve & RADV Developers Are Topping Contributions To Mesa This Year | Mesa | 2018-04-01 |
| More Intel OpenGL 4.6 SPIR-V Code Lands In Mesa 18.1 Git | Mesa | 2018-03-30 |
| Mesa 18.0 Should Arrive Today With Many Vulkan/OpenGL Driver Improvements | Mesa | 2018-03-23 |
