OpenGL ES Articles & Reviews |
| Khronos Debuts OpenGL ES 3.2 & New GL Extensions, But No Vulkan This Week | Software | 2015-08-10 |
| An Open-Source, Reverse-Engineered Mali GPU Driver | Display Drivers | 2012-01-21 |
OpenGL ES Linux & Open-Source News |
| Google's ANGLE Merges Wayland Support, Unblocking Chromium Embedded Framework On Wayland | Wayland | 2026-05-26 |
| Mesa 26.1 Released With Many Improvements For Open-Source Vulkan Drivers | Mesa | 2026-05-06 |
| Jay: A New Open-Source Shader Compiler Being Developed For Intel GPUs | Intel | 2026-04-07 |
| Imagination's Open-Source PowerVR Vulkan Driver Now Plays Nicely With Zink OpenGL | Mesa | 2026-03-16 |
| Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 5 Display Support & Old Adreno 225 Enablement For Linux 7.0 | Linux Kernel | 2026-01-25 |
| Open-Source Linux Driver Christmas Surprise For 20~23 Year Old Radeon GPUs | Radeon | 2025-12-23 |
| OpenGL Sees New Extensions Added To The Registry | Standards | 2025-10-24 |
| Hyprland 0.50 Released With New Render Scheduling, Drops Legacy Renderer | Wayland | 2025-07-16 |
| Many GLAMOR OpenGL ES Improvements Backported To X.Org Server / XWayland 21.1 | X.Org | 2025-07-06 |
| Linux 6.16 To Add Asahi UAPI Header For Apple Silicon Graphics But No Actual Driver Yet | Apple | 2025-04-09 |
| RadeonSI Driver Wires Up Support For 16-bit NIR Types: Benefits GLES & OpenCL | Mesa | 2025-04-09 |
| DRM User-Space API For Apple Silicon Graphics Posted For Review | Mesa | 2025-03-10 |
| Chromium Embedded Framework "CEF" Seeing Progress On Wayland Support | Wayland | 2025-01-31 |
| Open-Source PowerVR Driver Being Extended For The Imagination BXS-4-64 MC1 GPU | Hardware | 2024-11-05 |
| RadeonSI Gallium3D Driver Adds GL_KHR_shader_subgroup Support | Radeon | 2024-08-26 |
| Mesa's Freedreno Gallium3D Driver Lands Initial Adreno 700 Series Support | Mesa | 2024-07-30 |
| Meta Releases IGL 1.0 As Intermediate Graphics Library Built Atop Vulkan & OpenGL | Free Software | 2024-07-11 |
| Servo Web Engine Gets WebGPU Running On OpenGL ES & Other New Features | Free Software | 2024-06-28 |
| Godot 4.3 Beta 1 Released With Native Wayland Support | Linux Gaming | 2024-05-31 |
| XWayland 24.1 Released With Explicit Sync, Better Rootful Experience | Wayland | 2024-05-15 |
| XWayland 24.1 RC Released With Explicit Sync, Improved Rootful & GLAMOR Optimizations | Wayland | 2024-04-17 |
| Qt 6.7 Released With Many Improvements For This Cross-Platform Toolkit | Qt | 2024-04-02 |
| GLFW 3.4 Brings Better Support For Wayland & Run-Time Platform Selection | Programming | 2024-02-24 |
| OpenGL 4.6 + OpenGL ES 3.2 Achieved On Apple M1 With Linux Driver | Apple | 2024-02-14 |
| Asahi Linux Has Been Making Progress On Apple HDMI, EAS & GPU Features | Apple | 2024-01-14 |
| GTK Lands Their New Unified GPU Renderer, Vulkan Build Enabled By Default | GNOME | 2024-01-08 |
| Godot 4.3 Dev 1 Released With Rendering System Refactor, D3D12 | Linux Gaming | 2023-12-21 |
| Mesa Enables S3TC Support For 3D Textures | Mesa | 2023-12-12 |
| Vulkan 1.3.273 Released With KHR Calibrated Timestamps Extension | Vulkan | 2023-12-08 |
| XWayland Now Allows For Better Choosing Between OpenGL & OpenGL ES | X.Org | 2023-11-02 |
| Igalia Has Been Doing A Great Job On The Raspberry Pi Graphics Drivers | Raspberry Pi | 2023-10-19 |
| X.Org's GLAMOR Adds Support For OpenGL ES 3.0 Shaders | Mesa | 2023-10-18 |
| Mesa Merges Initial OpenGL/Vulkan Support For Raspberry Pi 5's GPU | Mesa | 2023-10-14 |
| New GNOME Code Speeds Up Performance For NVIDIA Proprietary Driver Multi-Monitor | GNOME | 2023-10-02 |
| Mesa 23.2 Stable Released For Improved Open-Source Vulkan & OpenGL Drivers | Mesa | 2023-09-28 |
| Asahi Linux's Apple M1/M2 Gallium3D Driver Now OpenGL ES 3.1 Conformant | Apple | 2023-08-22 |
| Mesa 23.2 Feature Development Concludes With Numerous New Vulkan Extensions | Mesa | 2023-07-13 |
| Meta Releases Intermediate Graphics Library "IGL" Built Atop Vulkan, OpenGL | Free Software | 2023-07-07 |
| Tracking The OpenCL Support Status With Mesa Drivers | Mesa | 2023-06-13 |
| Mesa 23.2 Receives Asahi AGX Gallium3D Changes For OpenGL 3.1 + GLES 3.0 | Mesa | 2023-06-07 |
| Experimental OpenGL 3.1 Support For Apple M1/M2 Graphics On Linux | Apple | 2023-06-06 |
| GNOME's Mutter Drops Legacy OpenGL Driver Support | GNOME | 2023-02-21 |
| Mesa Adds Compute Shader Decoding For ASTC | Mesa | 2023-02-17 |
| Basic OpenGL ES Compute Shader Support Begins Working For The Apple GPU Linux Driver | Apple | 2023-01-15 |
| Asahi Linux Enables Early Apple GPU Driver Support - WIP OpenGL 2.1 + GLES 2.0 | Apple | 2022-12-07 |
| SDL 3.0 Drops Its OpenGL ES 1.0 Render Path | Linux Gaming | 2022-12-04 |
| SDL3 Begins Dumping A Lot Of Old Code: GLES1, OS/2, DirectFB, WinRT, NaCl & More | Linux Gaming | 2022-11-23 |
| Compiz 0.9.14.2 Released After Two Years | Desktop | 2022-08-24 |
| Arm Releases ASTC Encoder 4.0 With Even Faster Performance | Arm | 2022-07-22 |
| PowerVR Open-Source Vulkan Driver Adds Support For The TI AM62 SoC | Mesa | 2022-06-21 |
| Panfrost's Initial Arm Mali Valhall Support Sent In To DRM-Next For Linux 5.20 | Mesa | 2022-06-10 |
| Linux 5.20 + Mesa 22.2 To Allow Conformant Mali G57 OpenGL ES 3.1 Support | Mesa | 2022-06-06 |
| Fragment Shading Rate Extension Comes To OpenGL ES | Standards | 2022-06-02 |
| Godot 4.0 Alpha 8 Game Engine Released With Some Nice Improvements | Linux Gaming | 2022-05-12 |
| Mesa 22.0 Released With Vulkan 1.3, Many Open-Source Intel & AMD Driver Improvements | Mesa | 2022-03-09 |
| Vulkan Ready To Take On Safety-Critical Market With Vulkan SC 1.0 | Vulkan | 2022-03-08 |
| Mesa's Venus VirtIO-GPU Vulkan Driver Adds Code To Handle ANGLE | Mesa | 2022-03-04 |
| VMware Enabling VMWGFX 3D Support For AArch64 | Virtualization | 2022-03-03 |
| Microsoft Adds Residency Management To Mesa's D3D12 Code For Better Efficiency | Mesa | 2022-02-11 |
| Microsoft's Mesa D3D12 Driver Now Allows OpenGL 4.2 | Mesa | 2022-02-04 |
| Mesa's "Dozen" Close To Providing Vulkan Over Direct3D 12 | Microsoft | 2022-02-03 |
| Mesa 22.0-rc1 Released With Many Radeon & Intel Linux GPU Driver Features, Vulkan 1.3 | Mesa | 2022-02-02 |
| Valve Is Sponsoring More CI Testing For The Open-Source Radeon Linux Graphics Driver | Valve | 2022-01-22 |
| Microsoft Lands D3D12 Compute Support In Mesa 22.0 | Microsoft | 2022-01-11 |
| Microsoft Eyeing OpenGL Compute + GLES 3.1 For Its Mesa D3D12 Backend | Microsoft | 2022-01-07 |
| Etnaviv DRM Driver Will Now Work On IOMMU-Enabled Systems | Linux Kernel | 2021-12-25 |
| RADV Working On ETC2 Emulation Support For Newer Radeon GPUs To Satisfy Android | Radeon | 2021-12-08 |
| Vulkan 1.2.200 Released With Two New Extensions | Vulkan | 2021-11-23 |
| Mesa 21.3 Released With Radeon RADV Ray-Tracing, Much Better Zink | Mesa | 2021-11-17 |
| Mesa 21.3-rc5 Released With Numerous Intel / AMD / Zink Fixes | Mesa | 2021-11-11 |
| Godot 3.4 Released With Many New Features For This Open-Source Game Engine | Linux Gaming | 2021-11-06 |
| Mesa 21.3-rc4 Release Led By Many Zink Fixes | Mesa | 2021-11-04 |
| Firefox 94 To Start Using EGL On Linux - Better Performance, Lower Power Use | Mozilla | 2021-10-30 |
| Mesa 21.3-rc1 Released With Improved Zink, Radeon Ray-Tracing, RADV NGG Culling | Mesa | 2021-10-13 |
| Intel Removes ASTC Hardware From Gen12.5+ Graphics | Intel | 2021-10-07 |
| Mesa 21.2.2 Released "Late & Very Large" | Mesa | 2021-09-22 |
| Zink OpenGL-On-Vulkan Tackling Support For More Games | Mesa | 2021-09-13 |
| Intel "Crocus" Gallium3D Now Part Of Mesa's Default Drivers To Build | Intel | 2021-09-01 |
| Zink Now Achieves OpenGL ES 3.2 Atop Vulkan | Mesa | 2021-08-31 |
| SDL2 Lands Long-Sought Geometry Render API | Linux Gaming | 2021-08-19 |
| Mesa 21.2 Released With New Intel Crocus Driver, PanVK, Early M1 Code | Mesa | 2021-08-04 |
| Mesa 21.2-rc2 Released With An Initial Batch Of Fixes | Mesa | 2021-07-22 |
| Godot 4 Is Focusing On Vulkan + OpenGL ES 3.0, OpenGL Likely For Godot 4.1 | Linux Gaming | 2021-07-18 |
| Mesa 21.2-rc1 Released With Early Apple M1 Code, Crocus Gallium3D | Mesa | 2021-07-14 |
| Zink Now Supports OpenGL ES 3.2 Over Vulkan | Mesa | 2021-07-09 |
| Intel i915g Mesa Driver Now Goes Goes Through NIR, Fixes Some Past Test Failures | Intel | 2021-06-18 |
| GravityMark Launches As Cross-API Graphics Benchmark From Former Unigine Dev | Free Software | 2021-06-15 |
| Panfrost Gallium3D Driver For Open-Source Arm Mali Graphics Now Has OpenGL ES 3.1 | Mesa | 2021-06-10 |
| Open-Source Driver Flips On OpenGL ES 3.1 For Select NVIDIA GeForce 200 Series GPUs | Nouveau | 2021-06-07 |
| The Forge Rendering Framework Adds Runtime API Switching, New Shader Translator | Vulkan | 2021-05-23 |
| Google Announces Some Very Interesting GSoC 2021 Projects | Google | 2021-05-17 |
| Mesa 21.1 Released With RADV Variable Rate Shading, More Intel Vulkan Improvements | Mesa | 2021-05-05 |
| Early Gallium3D Work Has Begun Around Apple's M1 GPU With New "AGX" Driver | Mesa | 2021-05-02 |
| Nouveau Working On Bringing Up Some OpenGL Compute Shader Support For NV50 Era GPUs | Nouveau | 2021-05-01 |
| Vulkan 1.2.177 Released To Help Graphics Translation Layers | Vulkan | 2021-04-26 |
| More Progress Is Made Understanding Apple's M1 GPU, Working Towards An Open Driver | Mesa | 2021-04-18 |
| XScreenSaver 6.0 Released With Increased Security, Better EGL & GLSL/GLES 3.0 Support | Desktop | 2021-04-08 |
| Two Decade Old RTS Game Rolls Out v4.0 Update With Vulkan Renderer | Linux Gaming | 2021-04-05 |
| Waffle 1.7 Released For Runtime OpenGL / Windowing System Selection | Mesa | 2021-03-08 |
| Vulkan 1.2.171 Released With New Extension For BlackBerry QNX Support | Vulkan | 2021-03-01 |
| With OpenGL 4.6 Achieved, Zink Working CTS Fixes, Substantial Performance Gains | Mesa | 2021-02-19 |
| XWayland 21.1 Release Candidate Offers Split From The X.Org Server | X.Org | 2021-02-17 |
| Mesa Enjoyed A Record-Setting Year With Intel G3D Default, RADV ACO, Faster Performance | Mesa | 2021-01-01 |
| Valve Now Funding Blumenkrantz - Zink OpenGL-On-Vulkan To Continue | Mesa | 2020-11-23 |
| Qt 6.0's Shiny New Features For Qt Quick 3D | Qt | 2020-11-04 |
| Warzone 2100 Lands Vulkan Renderer, Adaptive V-Sync For 20+ Year Old Game | Linux Gaming | 2020-09-26 |
| Open-Source Vivante Driver In Some Cases Outperforming Proprietary Driver | Mesa | 2020-09-21 |
| Experimental Zink Patches Get OpenGL 4.6 Running Atop Vulkan | Vulkan | 2020-08-24 |
| TensorFlow Lite Now Supports Tapping OpenCL For Much Faster GPU Inference | AI | 2020-08-18 |
| LLVMpipe Gallium3D Driver Now Exposes OpenGL 4.3 | Mesa | 2020-07-22 |
| Panfrost Gallium3D Driver Adds Midgard Multi-Sampling Support | Mesa | 2020-07-08 |
| Gallium3D's Arm Bifrost Now Handling Most Of OpenGL ES 2.0, Runs GNOME Wayland | Mesa | 2020-06-07 |
| Khronos Releases OpenVG 1.1 Lite For High Quality Vector Graphics On Mobile | Standards | 2020-05-28 |
| RenderDoc 1.8 Released For This Cross-Platform, Multi-API Graphics Debugger | Programming | 2020-05-20 |
| Microsoft Releases Shader Conductor 0.3 For Its Shader Cross-Compiler | Programming | 2020-04-29 |
| The Panfrost Gallium3D Driver Begins Rendering On Arm Bifrost Hardware | Arm | 2020-04-23 |
| GNOME 3.36.1 Released With First Batch Of Fixes | GNOME | 2020-04-02 |
| Android-x86 9.0-r2 Released With Updated Kernel, UEFI Boot Fix | Operating Systems | 2020-03-25 |
| Panfrost Gallium3D Driver Seeing New "BIR" Compiler | Mesa | 2020-03-05 |
| Panfrost Gallium3D Driver Adds Experimental OpenGL ES 3.0 For Open-Source Arm Mali | Mesa | 2020-02-27 |
| Android-x86 9.0-r1 Finally Released For Bringing Android 9.0 Pie To Intel/AMD Systems | Operating Systems | 2020-02-27 |
| GNOME 3.34.4 Released With Many Bug Fixes | GNOME | 2020-02-19 |
| Arm's ASTC Encoder Replaces Its Restrictive EULA With Apache 2.0 License | Arm | 2020-02-17 |
| Godot Merges Its Vulkan Renderer Ahead Of The v4.0 Game Engine | Linux Gaming | 2020-02-11 |
| Zink In Mesa For OpenGL Over Vulkan Should Be Back To Supporting OpenGL 3.0 Soon | Mesa | 2020-02-08 |
| New Raspbian Release Brings File Manager Improvements, Mesa 19.3.2 For OpenGL ES 3.1 | Operating Systems | 2020-02-07 |
| Raspberry Pi Foundation Gets Back To Working On A Vulkan Driver - New Effort By Igalia | Raspberry Pi | 2020-01-31 |
| Godot 3.2 Open-Source Game Engine Released With Better Documentation, New Features | Linux Gaming | 2020-01-29 |
| Think Silicon's GLOVE OpenGL-Over-Vulkan Library Now Works On Wayland, Windows + macOS | Vulkan | 2020-01-20 |
| Raspberry Pi 4 V3D Driver Reaches OpenGL ES 3.1 Conformance | Mesa | 2020-01-17 |
| Raspberry Pi 4's V3D Driver Adds OpenGL ES 3.2 Geometry Shader Support | Mesa | 2019-12-16 |
| Raspberry Pi 4 BCM43455 NVRAM Addition Hits Linux-Firmware Git | Raspberry Pi | 2019-12-15 |
| Google Releases GraphicsFuzz 1.3 For Continuing To Fuzz GPU Drivers | Google | 2019-12-10 |
| NEOX V Announced By Think Silicon As First RISC-V 3D GPU | RISC-V | 2019-12-02 |
| Android-x86 9.0 Nearing Release - RC1 Brings Experimental Vulkan, Text-Based Installer | Google | 2019-11-15 |
| Zink Merged Into Mesa 19.3 For Offering OpenGL Over Vulkan | Mesa | 2019-10-28 |
| Zink Is Almost In Mesa For Offering OpenGL 2.1 / GLES 2.0 Over Vulkan | Mesa | 2019-10-24 |
| Khronos Rolls Out OpenVX 1.3 While Updating OpenGL 4.6 + OpenGL ES 3.2 | Standards | 2019-10-22 |
| Raspberry Pi 4's V3D Driver Lands OpenGL ES 3.1 Bits In Mesa 19.3-devel | Mesa | 2019-10-21 |
| kwin-lowlatency 5.17 Brings A Better Experience To The KDE Desktop | KDE | 2019-10-19 |
| Raspberry Pi 4's V3D Mesa Driver Nearing OpenGL ES 3.1 | Mesa | 2019-10-11 |
| RenderDoc 1.5 Released For This Leading OpenGL / Vulkan / Direct3D Open-Source Debugger | Programming | 2019-10-10 |
| Godot 3.2 Enters Alpha With Many Improvements | Linux Gaming | 2019-10-06 |
| Zink's OpenGL Over Vulkan Implementation Aiming For Mesa 19.3 Integration | Mesa | 2019-10-05 |
| ASTC Texture Compression License Turns Out To Be Restrictive Outside Of Khronos APIs | Free Software | 2019-10-03 |
| Igalia Is Working On "mediump" Support For Mesa To Help With OpenGL ES Performance | Mesa | 2019-10-03 |
| Mesa's Gallium3D LLVMpipe Driver Adds Compute Shader Support | Mesa | 2019-09-04 |
| Google Releases Android 10 With "Vulkan Everywhere", Privacy Improvements | Google | 2019-09-03 |
| DAV1D Experimenting With Vulkan & OpenGL ES GPU Offloading | Multimedia | 2019-09-02 |
| Google's SwiftShader Now Supports Vulkan 1.1 | Vulkan | 2019-08-28 |
