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| Mesa 26.2 Lands VK_GOOGLE_display_timing Support For Direct Display Mode | Mesa | 2026-06-07 |
| Some Broadcom V3D Graphics Support On Path For Removed Over Lack Of Testing | Hardware | 2026-06-07 |
| Mesa 26.1 Released With Many Improvements For Open-Source Vulkan Drivers | Mesa | 2026-05-06 |
| Linux 7.2 To Set Default DRM Scheduler Priority To "Fair", New AIE4 Hardware In AMDXDNA | Linux Kernel | 2026-04-30 |
| Mesa 26.1-rc1 Released For Testing With Many New Vulkan Extensions & Optimizations | Mesa | 2026-04-15 |
| Linux 7.1 Adding DRM Dedicated CRTC Background Color Property | Linux Kernel | 2026-03-20 |
| Mesa 26.0 Released With Much Better Radeon Ray-Tracing, Many Vulkan Driver Improvements | Mesa | 2026-02-11 |
| AMDXDNA Improvements & New Rockchip NPU Accelerator Driver For Linux 6.18 | Hardware | 2025-08-14 |
| Mesa 25.2 Released With Many Improvements For RADV, Intel & NVK Drivers | Mesa | 2025-08-06 |
| Runtime PM For The V3D Raspberry Pi Driver Will Finally Lower The GPU Clock When Idle | Raspberry Pi | 2025-07-28 |
| Mesa 25.1.4 Delivers Latest Open-Source OpenGL & Vulkan Driver Fixes | Mesa | 2025-06-19 |
| Mesa 25.1 Released With Many Open-Source Vulkan Driver Improvements | Mesa | 2025-05-07 |
| Mesa 25.0-rc3 Released With Numerous RADV & RadeonSI Fixes | Mesa | 2025-02-12 |
| Igalia's Optimizations Juicing More Graphics Performance Out Of The Raspberry Pi | Raspberry Pi | 2025-02-04 |
| The Most Exciting Kernel Optimizations, New Hardware Support & Other Linux 6.13 Features | Linux Kernel | 2025-01-16 |
| Mesa's Terrific Year With Better Vulkan Ray-Tracing, NVK Progress & Same-Day Vulkan 1.4 | Mesa | 2024-12-30 |
| Faster Raspberry Pi Graphics & Intel Xe3 Enablement Starts With Linux 6.13 DRM Changes | Linux Kernel | 2024-11-21 |
| Mesa 24.3 Released With Many Open-Source Vulkan Driver Improvements | Mesa | 2024-11-21 |
| Linux 6.13 Very Exciting With New Feature Code For AMD EPYC Zen 5, Intel Panther Lake | Linux Kernel | 2024-11-15 |
| Mesa 24.3-rc1 Released With Big Improvements For AMD Radeon & Intel Graphics | Mesa | 2024-11-08 |
| The Maturing State Of Rusticl For Rust-Based OpenCL Within Mesa | Mesa | 2024-10-17 |
| Linux 6.13 To Bring Big/Super Pages For The Raspberry Pi Graphics Driver - Better Performance | Raspberry Pi | 2024-10-01 |
| Raspberry Pi Bugs Currently Make Up Half Of The Fedora 41 Blocker Bugs | Fedora | 2024-09-04 |
| Mesa 24.2 Released With New Vulkan Extensions, New Shader Cache | Mesa | 2024-08-14 |
| Raspberry Pi Driver Updated With Vulkan 1.3 Support | Vulkan | 2024-08-05 |
| Mesa 24.2-rc1 Released With Many OpenGL & Vulkan Driver Improvements | Mesa | 2024-07-19 |
| Rust-Written OpenCL Driver Now Works On Raspberry Pi GPUs | Mesa | 2024-06-26 |
| Mesa 24.1.1 Released With Many Graphics Driver Bug Fixes | Mesa | 2024-06-05 |
| AMD's GPUOpen Vulkan Memory Allocator 3.1 Improves Raspberry Pi Support | Radeon | 2024-05-27 |
| Mesa 24.1 Released With Explicit Sync Vulkan Drivers, More Mature NVK Driver | Mesa | 2024-05-22 |
| Raspberry Pi V3DV Vulkan Driver Implements Extended Dynamic State - Important For DXVK | Raspberry Pi | 2024-04-29 |
| Raspberry Pi OS Now Shipping With Vulkan Support By Default | Raspberry Pi | 2024-04-08 |
| Raspberry Pi V3D Kernel Graphics Driver Prepares For Big & Super Pages To Boost Speed | Raspberry Pi | 2024-04-06 |
| Raspberry Pi "V3DV" Vulkan Driver Now Supports Dynamic Rendering | Mesa | 2024-03-21 |
| Raspberry Pi V3D Graphics Driver Preps For Super Pages To Boost Performance | Raspberry Pi | 2024-03-11 |
| KWinFT Compositor Now Known As Theseus' Ship | KDE | 2024-02-27 |
| Intel's New "Xe" Driver Submitted For Linux 6.8 Along With Imagination's PowerVR Driver | Linux Kernel | 2024-01-11 |
| Linux 6.8 To Introduce New Intel Xe & PowerVR Graphics Drivers, Prepare For New AMD & Intel CPUs | Linux Kernel | 2024-01-07 |
| Linux 6.8 Dropping Support For Very Old Graphics Drivers | Linux Kernel | 2023-12-07 |
| Raspberry Pi 5 Kernel Graphics Driver Support Queued Ahead Of Linux 6.8 | Linux Kernel | 2023-11-17 |
| Rusticl OpenCL Still Striving For Better Performance, SYCL & HIP Features | Mesa | 2023-10-20 |
| Mesa Merges Initial OpenGL/Vulkan Support For Raspberry Pi 5's GPU | Mesa | 2023-10-14 |
| Raspberry Pi's V3D Kernel Driver Prepares For "CPU Jobs" To Assist Vulkan | Raspberry Pi | 2023-09-06 |
| Raspberry Pi V3D Driver Gaining Per-Process GPU Usage Stats | Raspberry Pi | 2023-08-15 |
| Valve Makes RADV Driver More Robust For Gaming With VK_EXT_pipeline_robustness | Mesa | 2023-07-05 |
| Raspberry Pi V3D Driver Adds Native ASTC Texture Compression Support | Mesa | 2023-05-31 |
| Mesa 22.3.4 Brings Fix For RADV RT Build Performance To Match AMDVLK/AMDGPU-PRO | Mesa | 2023-01-26 |
| Mesa 22.3.3 Brings More Intel & Radeon Driver Fixes, KDE Plasma Hang Workaround | Mesa | 2023-01-11 |
| Mesa 22.3.2 Closes Out The Year With RADV RT Fixes, Raspberry Pi V3DV Fixes Too | Mesa | 2022-12-31 |
| Mesa's Raspberry Pi V3DV Vulkan Driver Lands New Occlusion Queries Implementation | Raspberry Pi | 2022-11-25 |
| Mesa 22.3-rc4 Brings Many Fixes, Official Release Now Expected Next Week | Mesa | 2022-11-24 |
| Mesa 22.3 Will Hopefully Be Released Next Week With Improved Vulkan Drivers, Rusticl | Mesa | 2022-11-17 |
| FBDEV Drivers Will Honor "nomodeset" With Linux 6.2 | Linux Kernel | 2022-11-17 |
| Running The Open-Source Upstream V3D Driver On The Raspberry Pi 4 & Newer | Raspberry Pi | 2022-11-13 |
| 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 |
| Linux 6.0 Graphics Driver Changes Preparing For Intel DG2/Alchemist & AMD RDNA3 | Linux Kernel | 2022-08-03 |
| Fedora 37 To Offer Official Support On Raspberry Pi 4 Devices | Raspberry Pi | 2022-08-02 |
| Linux 5.20 To Support The Qualcomm Snapdragon 8cx Gen3, ThinkPad X13s Arm Laptop | Linux Kernel | 2022-07-30 |
| Linux 5.20 To Bring New Intel & AMD Hardware Support, IO_uring Features & Much More | Linux Kernel | 2022-07-29 |
| Raspberry Pi V3DV Driver Now Exposes Vulkan 1.2 | Raspberry Pi | 2022-07-29 |
| RADV Vulkan Driver Lands Performance Query Extension | Radeon | 2022-07-11 |
| Raspberry Pi 4 V3D Open-Source Kernel Driver Support Slated For Linux 5.20 | Raspberry Pi | 2022-06-17 |
| Mesa 22.1.2 Released With Many OpenGL / Vulkan Driver Fixes | Mesa | 2022-06-16 |
| Raspberry Pi's V3DV Driver Nearly Across The Finish Line For Vulkan 1.2 | Vulkan | 2022-06-16 |
| Mesa 22.1.1 Released With Many Open-Source Graphics Driver Fixes | Mesa | 2022-06-01 |
| Raspberry Pi "V3DV" Open-Source Driver Closing In On Vulkan 1.2 | Raspberry Pi | 2022-05-23 |
| Mesa 22.1 Released With Many Vulkan Improvements, Kopper For Zink, Imagination Driver | Mesa | 2022-05-18 |
| Raspberry Pi's Vulkan Driver Has Been Adding More Extensions, Multi-Sync Support | Raspberry Pi | 2022-05-16 |
| Improved Vulkan Profiling Support For Raspberry Pi's V3DV Driver | Raspberry Pi | 2022-05-09 |
| Mesa 22.1-rc2 Released With Many Zink, Intel, AMD Driver Fixes | Mesa | 2022-04-21 |
| 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 |
| Mesa 22.1 Open-Source Vulkan Drivers Prepare Support For New Extensions | Mesa | 2022-04-06 |
| Raspberry Pi "V3D" OpenGL Driver Improving Performance With On-Disk Shader Cache | Mesa | 2022-03-18 |
| Mesa 22.0 Released With Vulkan 1.3, Many Open-Source Intel & AMD Driver Improvements | Mesa | 2022-03-09 |
| Raspberry Pi V3D Driver Enables Anisotropic Filtering | Mesa | 2022-03-06 |
| Raspberry Pi's Vulkan Driver Likely To See Better Performance This Year | Mesa | 2022-02-14 |
| Mesa 22.0-rc1 Released With Many Radeon & Intel Linux GPU Driver Features, Vulkan 1.3 | Mesa | 2022-02-02 |
| Open-Source Raspberry Pi Graphics Drivers Add Double Buffer Mode | Mesa | 2022-01-14 |
| Raspberry Pi "V3DV" Vulkan Driver Now Works On Android | Mesa | 2021-12-21 |
| Raspberry Pi 4 Granted Official Vulkan 1.1 Conformance | Vulkan | 2021-10-26 |
| V3DV Raspberry Pi Driver Now Exposes Vulkan 1.1 | Mesa | 2021-10-21 |
| Raspberry Pi "V3D" Driver Landing Support For Multiple Sync Objects | Raspberry Pi | 2021-10-06 |
| Linux 5.16 To Add Quirk For The Steam Deck, Other DRM-Misc-Next Changes | Linux Kernel | 2021-09-16 |
| Raspberry Pi V3DV Driver Still Working On Vulkan 1.1 Conformance, More Performance | Vulkan | 2021-09-15 |
| Raspberry Pi V3DV Driver Nearing Vulkan 1.1 Support | Vulkan | 2021-08-11 |
| Many Interesting Talks On Deck For The X.Org Developers Conference 2021 | X.Org | 2021-08-04 |
| Raspberry Pi's V3DV Vulkan Driver Now Supports Geometry Shaders | Mesa | 2021-07-12 |
| Panfrost Gallium3D Driver For Open-Source Arm Mali Graphics Now Has OpenGL ES 3.1 | Mesa | 2021-06-10 |
| 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 |
| V3DV Pipeline Caching Work Leads To Greater Raspberry Pi Vulkan Performance | Mesa | 2021-03-23 |
| V3DV Vulkan Driver Enjoys More Optimizations To Help The Raspberry Pi 4 | Mesa | 2021-03-16 |
| The Vulkan API Is Now Five Years Old And Enjoying Phenomenal Success | Vulkan | 2021-02-16 |
| Broadcom V3D Will See Slightly Higher Performance With Mesa 21.1 | Mesa | 2021-02-04 |
| Raspberry Pi's V3DV Vulkan Driver Has Been Picking Up More Extensions, Wayland WSI | Mesa | 2021-02-03 |
| Mesa Vulkan Drivers Get A Common Dispatch Framework For Better Code Sharing | Mesa | 2021-02-02 |
| Apple M1 Open-Source GPU Bring-Up Sees An Early Triangle | Apple | 2021-01-22 |
| Mesa Enjoyed A Record-Setting Year With Intel G3D Default, RADV ACO, Faster Performance | Mesa | 2021-01-01 |
| Ubuntu Developers Get it Up And Running On Apple's M1 With Early Parallels Desktop Build | Ubuntu | 2020-12-18 |
| Raspberry Pi OpenGL Driver Seeing Faster Blit Support Come Mesa 21.0 | Mesa | 2020-12-10 |
| The 10 Most Interesting Features Of Linux 5.10 | Linux Kernel | 2020-12-08 |
| 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's V3DV Vulkan Driver Now Supports Wayland | Mesa | 2020-11-25 |
| Raspberry Pi V3DV Is Officially Vulkan Conformant, Lavapipe Also Nearing 1.0 Conformance | Vulkan | 2020-11-24 |
| Mesa 20.3-RC1 Released With Lavapipe CPU-Based Vulkan, Raspberry Pi V3DV Added | Mesa | 2020-11-11 |
| Raspberry Pi's V3DV Vulkan Driver Can Now Run The Zink OpenGL Translation Layer | Vulkan | 2020-11-05 |
| Raspberry Pi 4 Vulkan Driver "V3DV" Merged Into Mesa 20.3 | Mesa | 2020-10-13 |
| V3DV Developers Lay Out Plans For Upstreaming The Raspberry Pi 4 Vulkan Driver In Mesa | Mesa | 2020-09-17 |
| After Reaching Vulkan 1.0 Conformance, V3DV Raspberry Pi Vulkan To Pursue Mainline Mesa | Vulkan | 2020-09-16 |
| V3DV Driver For Raspberry Pi Closing In On Vulkan 1.0 | Vulkan | 2020-09-07 |
| Raspberry Pi 4 "V3DV" Vulkan Driver Begins Tackling MSAA, Other Improvements | Vulkan | 2020-07-31 |
| V3DV Vulkan Driver Now Running vkQuake On The Raspberry Pi | Vulkan | 2020-07-23 |
| Raspberry Pi 4's Vulkan Driver Is Now More Usable - Supporting More Features | Mesa | 2020-07-03 |
| Raspberry Pi Vulkan Driver Making Progress But Long Road Remains | Vulkan | 2020-06-09 |
| Mesa 20.1-RC3 Released With Another Week Worth Of Fixes Plus Intel Rocket Lake Support | Mesa | 2020-05-14 |
| Imagination Working On A New Open-Source Linux Graphics Driver Project | Mesa | 2020-02-14 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| Mesa 20.0 Now Includes Intel's Gallium3D Driver To Build By Default | Mesa | 2019-12-07 |
| Mesa 19.3-RC5 Brings RADV Secure Compile Update, Other Fixes | Mesa | 2019-11-28 |
| Mesa 19.2.6 Released Due To POWER Fallout | Mesa | 2019-11-22 |
| Raspberry Pi 4's V3D Driver Lands OpenGL ES 3.1 Bits In Mesa 19.3-devel | Mesa | 2019-10-21 |
| Raspberry Pi 4's V3D Mesa Driver Nearing OpenGL ES 3.1 | Mesa | 2019-10-11 |
| Igalia Is Working On "mediump" Support For Mesa To Help With OpenGL ES Performance | Mesa | 2019-10-03 |
| Lima Gallium3D Picks Up A Buffer Object Cache, Partial Updates | Mesa | 2019-09-23 |
| Open-Source GPU Drivers For Embedded Have Been Improving But RE'ing Take A While | Hardware | 2019-08-25 |
| Etnaviv Gallium3D Picks Up A NIR Compiler | Mesa | 2019-08-07 |
| Broadcom's VC4/V3D Driver Developer Parts Ways To Join Google | Mesa | 2019-08-02 |
| The Massive DRM Pull Request With AMDGPU Navi Support Sent In For Linux 5.3 | Linux Kernel | 2019-07-15 |
| Mesa 19.1.1 Released - Led By RADV & Intel Driver Fixes | Mesa | 2019-06-25 |
| Raspberry Pi 4 Announced With Dual HDMI, USB 3.0, Gigabit Ethernet, V3D Driver Stack | Hardware | 2019-06-24 |
| Mesa 19.1.1 Is Coming Next Week With A Variety Of Fixes | Mesa | 2019-06-22 |
| Mesa Is About To Crack 2.7 Million Lines | Mesa | 2019-04-29 |
| Broadcom's V3D Gallium3D Driver Nears Working Compute Shader Support | Mesa | 2019-04-13 |
| Mesa 19.0.2 Released With A Few RadeonSI, RADV, V3D Fixes | Mesa | 2019-04-11 |
| Mesa 19.0.1 Released - Mostly Made Up Of RADV Fixes | Mesa | 2019-03-27 |
| Gallium Nine With NIR Is Now Running Most D3D9 Games "Flawlessly" | Mesa | 2019-02-20 |
| RadeonSI Gets NIR Improvements, Enabled By Default For Civilization VI | Radeon | 2019-02-19 |
| Gallium Nine Is Working On NIR Support So It Can Be Used With Intel Iris, Zink Vulkan | Mesa | 2019-02-08 |
| Mesa 19.0-RC2 Released With Intel Transform Feedback Fix, Freedreno & VC4/V3D Fixes | Mesa | 2019-02-05 |
| The New Features On Deck For Mesa 19.0: Vulkan Additions, FreeSync, Soft FP64 & More | Mesa | 2019-01-28 |
| Mesa 18.3.2 Released With Many Fixes As Users Encouraged To Upgrade | Mesa | 2019-01-17 |
| Broadcom's V3D Gallium Driver Picks Up New Features Ahead Of Mesa 19.0 | Mesa | 2019-01-16 |
| Mesa 18.3.2 Is Finally En Route With 78+ Changes | Mesa | 2019-01-15 |
