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| Linux 7.2 To Integrate The AMDGPU "Power Module" To Better Align With Windows | Radeon | 2026-05-06 |
| New NTFS Driver Sees More Fixes With Linux 7.1-rc2 | Linux Storage | 2026-05-03 |
| AMDGPU Driver For Linux 7.1 Preps Debug Improvements, New Hardware IP | Radeon | 2026-03-27 |
| AMD Preps More GFX12.1 Enablement For Linux 7.1, Initial VCN 5.0.2 & JPEG 5.0.2 IP | AMD | 2026-03-19 |
| Numerous AMDXDNA Ryzen AI Driver Fixes For Linux 7.0-rc2 | Linux Kernel | 2026-02-27 |
| AMD Video Decode Now Unified Between RadeonSI & RADV Vulkan Video | Mesa | 2026-02-12 |
| AMD Sends In A Variety Of Graphics Driver Fixes Ahead Of Linux 7.0 Cycle | Radeon | 2026-01-25 |
| Mesa 25.2.2 Ships The Latest Open-Source OpenGL & Vulkan Driver Fixes | Mesa | 2025-09-03 |
| AMD Begins Queuing Graphics Driver Changes For Linux 6.18 | Radeon | 2025-09-01 |
| Mesa 25.2-rc2 Released With Intel Wildcat Lake Enablement, Legacy-X11 Option Deprecated | Mesa | 2025-07-23 |
| RADV Radeon Vulkan Driver Merges Support For VP9 Video Decoding | Vulkan | 2025-06-10 |
| Mesa 25.1-rc2 Released With NVK Vulkan 1.4 Conformance For Older NVIDIA GPUs | Mesa | 2025-04-23 |
| Radeon RX 9070 Fan Speed Reporting & Other Last Minute AMD Changes For Linux 6.15 | Radeon | 2025-03-14 |
| AMD Preparing "High Precision" Mode For Upcoming Instinct MI350X (GFX950) | Radeon | 2025-03-09 |
| AMD Readies More Graphics Driver Improvements For Linux 6.15 | Radeon | 2025-03-01 |
| AMD Driver Lands DCC For Multi-Plane Formats With RDNA4, Tiling For Video Buffers | Radeon | 2025-02-26 |
| Vulkan Cooperative Matrix Merged For RDNA4 GPUs With RADV, DCC Support Inches Closer | Radeon | 2025-02-07 |
| FFmpeg Adds AMD AMF Decoder, FSR-Based Upscaling | Radeon | 2025-02-04 |
| Open-Source RADV Radeon Driver Support For RDNA4: "Should Be Good Enough" | Radeon | 2025-01-29 |
| New Linux Patches Enhance AMD Radeon Video Encode/Decode For Older GPUs | Radeon | 2025-01-03 |
| Intel Battlemage, Raspberry Pi 500 & Linux 6.13 Excited Linux Users In December | Phoronix | 2025-01-03 |
| Mesa's Terrific Year With Better Vulkan Ray-Tracing, NVK Progress & Same-Day Vulkan 1.4 | Mesa | 2024-12-30 |
| AMD Preps Many Graphics Driver Updates For Linux 6.14, DRM Panic Support | Radeon | 2024-12-18 |
| Vulkan Video Now Enabled By Default For Radeon VCN2/VCN3 Hardware On Linux | Mesa | 2024-12-02 |
| RadeonSI Lands Async Video Operations For Improving FFmpeg Performance | Mesa | 2024-10-30 |
| Big Video Encoding Rework Lands For AMD Open-Source Mesa 24.3 Driver | Radeon | 2024-08-23 |
| AMD Posts Patches For VCN IP DUMP With Open-Source Linux Driver | Radeon | 2024-08-06 |
| Mesa 24.3 Radeon VCN Adds HDR Metadata Support For AV1 Encoder | Radeon | 2024-07-24 |
| AMD Has A Crucial Linux Optimization Coming To Lower Power Use During Video Playback | Radeon | 2024-07-11 |
| AMD Landing ISP 4.x IP In Linux 6.11, Strix Point & Granite Ridge IP Versions Confirmed | Radeon | 2024-07-01 |
| More AMDGPU Linux Firmware Published For RDNA 3+ | Radeon | 2024-05-31 |
| Arm Mali/Immortalis GPU Driver, New AMD Graphics IP & Lunar Lake Display In Linux 6.10 | Linux Kernel | 2024-05-15 |
| AMD Aims For AMF Decode In FFmpeg, Questioned Over Vulkan Video Commitment | AMD | 2024-05-10 |
| Mesa 24.0.7 & Mesa 24.1-rc3 Provide Latest Open-Source OpenGL/Vulkan Drivers | Mesa | 2024-05-08 |
| More AMDGPU Driver Code For Linux 6.10 Brings MES Updates, FreeSync Fixes | Radeon | 2024-04-28 |
| AMD Posts RDNA3+ Firmware Files For Linux Users | Radeon | 2024-04-21 |
| AMD Prepares More Next-Gen GPU Driver Support For Linux 6.10 | Radeon | 2024-04-14 |
| Mesa 24.1 Lands Support For GFX11.5.1 "RDNA3 Refresh" Variant | Radeon | 2024-03-04 |
| Updated AMDGPU VCN Firmware Fixes VP9 Decoding Issues | Radeon | 2024-03-04 |
| AMD Graphics Driver Gets "More New Stuff" For Linux 6.9: Continued RDNA4 Enablement | Radeon | 2024-02-19 |
| AMDGPU Driver Changes Begin For Linux 6.9: RAS ACA Framework, SEQ64 Infrastructure & Fixes | Radeon | 2024-02-11 |
| AMD Posts Linux Driver Patches For Video Core Next 5 "VCN 5.0" | Radeon | 2024-02-08 |
| AMD Enables VCN Region Of Interest "ROI" Video Encoder Support For Linux GPU Drivers | Radeon | 2023-12-17 |
| RadeonSI Gallium3D Enables VCN Encoder Intra-Refresh Support | Radeon | 2023-11-18 |
| Mesa 24.0 Improving Radeon VCE/UVD Video Encoding Quality | Radeon | 2023-11-04 |
| AMD Posts Linux Driver Patches For New VPE & UMSCH Components With Future GPUs | AMD | 2023-08-24 |
| AMD Graphics Driver In Linux 6.5 Improves Power Management, Adds CP Shadow Buffer | Radeon | 2023-06-03 |
| RadeonSI Change Allows For Balancing RDNA3 Video Transcoding Between Multiple Engines | Mesa | 2023-04-17 |
| AMD Instinct MI300 "GFX940" Support Merged To Mesa 23.1 | Mesa | 2023-04-07 |
| AMD Continues Linux Driver Enablement For Additional "Aldebaran" Instinct GPU | Radeon | 2023-03-27 |
| Mesa 23.0.1 Released With Many Fixes For Intel / AMD / Zink | Mesa | 2023-03-26 |
| Linux 6.4 AMD Graphics Driver Picking Up New Power Features For The Steam Deck | Radeon | 2023-03-18 |
| AMD Publishes New Firmware Binaries For Upcoming Hardware | AMD | 2023-01-25 |
| RADV Vulkan Video Making Progress On H.264 Encoding | Radeon | 2022-12-29 |
| Mesa 22.3.1 Released - Led By Intel & Radeon Driver Fixes | Mesa | 2022-12-15 |
| AMD Radeon RX 7900 Series Firmware Upstreamed | Radeon | 2022-12-14 |
| Amazon Engineer Adds LTR Encode Support To Open-Source AMD Radeon Linux Driver | Radeon | 2022-09-19 |
| AMD Lands New GPU Firmware Binaries In Linux-Firmware.Git | Radeon | 2022-09-13 |
| AMD Lands Video Encoding Quality Improvements For Mesa 22.3 | Radeon | 2022-08-24 |
| Mesa 22.1 Released With Many Vulkan Improvements, Kopper For Zink, Imagination Driver | Mesa | 2022-05-18 |
| More AMD RDNA3 Code Prepared For Linux 5.19, RADV Begins Landing Task Shaders | Radeon | 2022-05-12 |
| AMD Begins Working On "GFX11" Support For Open-Source Mesa Linux Graphics (RDNA3) | Radeon | 2022-05-05 |
| AMD Posts Linux Driver Patches For New "VCN 4.0" IP Block | Radeon | 2022-05-02 |
| Mesa 22.1-rc1 Brings Radeon Vulkan Enhancements, Imagination Driver & Microsoft Dozen | Mesa | 2022-04-14 |
| Updated AMDGPU Firmware Published To Deal With A Possible VCN Hang | Radeon | 2022-04-11 |
| AMD "EFC" Support Added To Mesa 22.1 For Radeon GPUs With VCN 2.0 | Radeon | 2022-03-11 |
| Updated AMD APU Firmware Helps Systems Stuck On High Memory Clocks, Wasting Battery | Radeon | 2022-02-28 |
| More AMD Radeon Driver Improvements Lined Up For Linux 5.18 | Radeon | 2022-02-26 |
| AMD Quietly Working On New Linux GPU Driver Support Block By Block | Radeon | 2022-02-18 |
| Vulkan Video Support Progressing For Open-Source Intel, AMD Radeon Hardware | Vulkan | 2021-11-15 |
| AV1 VA-API Acceleration Coming For AMD Radeon RX 6000 Series Linux Users | Radeon | 2021-08-13 |
| Radeon "Cyan Skillfish" Navi 1x APU Submitted For Linux 5.15 Plus Many Fixes | Radeon | 2021-07-30 |
| H.264 SVC / Temporal Encoding Wired Up For AMD's Linux Graphics Driver | Radeon | 2021-07-26 |
| VCN Load Balancing, LTTPR, More Aldebaran + Other Changes For Radeon In Linux 5.13 | Radeon | 2021-04-02 |
| Linux 5.11.5, 5.10.22 Released With Headless AMD Navi 12 SKU Backported | Linux Kernel | 2021-03-09 |
| VCN-Less Navi 12 SKU, RX 6000 Series BACO Runtime PM Are Extras For Linux 5.12 | Radeon | 2021-03-04 |
| AMD Radeon "Aldebaran" GPU Support Published For Next-Gen CDNA | Radeon | 2021-02-24 |
| Mesa 21.0 Adds Radeon HEVC SAO Encode Support | Radeon | 2020-12-04 |
| AMD Stages More Driver Updates For New GPUs With Linux 5.11 | Radeon | 2020-11-26 |
| AMD Sends In Green Sardine Support For Linux 5.10, Hawaii BACO Reset | Linux Kernel | 2020-11-04 |
| AMD Navi "Blockchain" Card Support Being Added To Linux 5.10 | Radeon | 2020-10-29 |
| AMD Sends Out Linux Kernel Support For Van Gogh APUs - Confirms DDR5 Memory, VCN3 | Radeon | 2020-09-25 |
| Ray-Tracing Support For AMDGPU LLVM Back-End Lands For RDNA 2 | Radeon | 2020-09-16 |
| AMD Radeon Navi 2 / VCN 3.0 Supports AV1 Video Decoding | Radeon | 2020-09-15 |
| NVIDIA RTX 30 Series Supports AV1 Accelerated Video Decoding | NVIDIA | 2020-09-01 |
| AMD Lands VCN 3.0 Video Encode Support For Navi 2 / Sienna Cichlid | Radeon | 2020-06-18 |
| AMD Radeon Linux Driver Sees Patches For New "Sienna Cichlid" GPU | AMD | 2020-06-01 |
| AMD Lines Up Another Batch Of Radeon Graphics Fixes For Linux 5.8 | Radeon | 2020-05-27 |
| AMDGPU TMZ Support Wired Up For Linux 5.8 | Radeon | 2020-05-01 |
| Many AMD Radeon Graphics Driver Improvements Sent In For Linux 5.8 | Radeon | 2020-04-25 |
| AMD Radeon Graphics Driver Amassing Improvements For Linux 5.8 | Radeon | 2020-04-14 |
| AMD Sends In A Bunch Of Fixes For Linux 5.6 Along With Pollock Support | Radeon | 2020-01-17 |
| The Big Graphics Driver Update Lands In Linux 5.5 With Exciting Changes For Intel + AMD | Linux Kernel | 2019-11-28 |
| AMD Sends In More "Arcturus" GPU Code For Linux 5.5 | Radeon | 2019-11-02 |
| AMD "Trusted Memory Zone" Encrypted vRAM Support Coming To Their Linux GPU Driver | Radeon | 2019-09-11 |
| Vega-Based Renoir APU Has The Same VCN Video Encode/Decode Block As Navi | Radeon | 2019-09-09 |
| AMD Sends Out Initial Linux Driver Support For "Renoir" APUs | AMD | 2019-08-09 |
| Mesa 19.1.4: Intel Vulkan Fixes For Older Generations, Max Payne 3 Issue Fixed For RADV | Mesa | 2019-08-04 |
| AMD Sends Out Linux Kernel Driver Support For Navi 12 GPUs | Radeon | 2019-08-01 |
| RadeonSI Gallium3D Gets Wired For Compute-Only Arcturus To Handle Video Decode | Radeon | 2019-07-30 |
| AMD Sends In Navi Support & Other Remaining AMDGPU Changes For Linux 5.3 | Radeon | 2019-06-23 |
| Libdrm Picks Up Support For AMD Navi | Radeon | 2019-06-21 |
| Mesa 19.0.2 Released With A Few RadeonSI, RADV, V3D Fixes | Mesa | 2019-04-11 |
| Mesa 18.3.6 Released To End Out The Series | Mesa | 2019-04-05 |
| New Radeon Vega IDs & Fixes Land Ahead Of Linux 4.21-rc1 | Radeon | 2019-01-06 |
| A Lot Of AMDGPU DC Fixes, New VegaM PCI ID Line Up For Linux 4.21 | Radeon | 2018-12-29 |
| The Most Notable New Features Of The Linux 4.20 Kernel | Linux Kernel | 2018-12-20 |
| The Shiny New Features Of Mesa 18.3 For Open-Source Intel / Radeon Graphics Drivers | Mesa | 2018-11-13 |
| The Big DRM Graphics Driver Pull Request Has Been Submitted For Linux 4.20~5.0 | Linux Kernel | 2018-10-25 |
| Intel Vulkan Driver Now Handles PRIME-Style Rendering, Raven Ridge Lands VCN JPEG Decode | Mesa | 2018-10-24 |
| Mesa VCN JPEG Decode Patches Posted For AMD Raven Ridge | Mesa | 2018-10-17 |
| The Biggest Features Of Linux 4.19: Intel/AMD, CoC, 802.11ax, EROFS, GPS & GASKET | Linux Kernel | 2018-10-16 |
| AMD Stages A Number Of Fixes Ahead Of Linux 4.20~5.0 - Plus Vega 20 "MGPU Fan Boost" | Radeon | 2018-10-11 |
| The Great Work In DRM-Next: More Icelake, Vega 20, xGMI & Other Additions | Linux Kernel | 2018-10-07 |
| Vega 20 Compute Driver Support, Picasso DPG Added To Linux 4.20~5.0 Queue | Radeon | 2018-09-28 |
| AMD Picasso APUs To Support VCN Dynamic Power Gating | AMD | 2018-09-25 |
| In-Progress AMDGPU Updates For Linux 4.20~5.0 Have DC Update, New Polaris ID | Radeon | 2018-09-22 |
| AMD Preps For A Big Linux 4.20 Kernel With Vega 20, Picasso, Raven 2, xGMI, Better DC | Radeon | 2018-09-15 |
| More AMDGPU Work For Linux 4.19 Has VCN + PSP Firmware Hookup For Future Hardware | AMD | 2018-08-17 |
| DRM Updates Sent In For Linux 4.19 With New VKMS Driver, Intel Icelake Work | Linux Kernel | 2018-08-15 |
| A Number Of AMDGPU DRM Fixes Prepped Ahead Of Linux 4.19 | Radeon | 2018-08-02 |
| The DRM Changes Coming With The Linux 4.19 Kernel | Linux Kernel | 2018-07-25 |
| Initial AMDGPU Driver Changes Submitted For Linux 4.19 | Radeon | 2018-06-21 |
| AMDGPU On Linux 4.18 To Offer Greater Vega Power Savings, DisplayPort 1.4 Fixes | Radeon | 2018-06-01 |
| AMDGPU Patches Prepping JPEG Support For "Video Core Next" | AMD | 2018-05-30 |
| Vega 20 GPU Support & VCN Clock/Power Gating Sent In For Linux 4.18 | Radeon | 2018-05-24 |
| Mesa 18.0.3 Released With A Handful Of Fixes | Mesa | 2018-05-07 |
| AMD Posts VP9 VA-API Video Acceleration For Gallium3D | Radeon | 2018-04-09 |
| Mesa 18.0 Officially Released With Plenty Of OpenGL & Vulkan Improvements | Mesa | 2018-03-27 |
| Mesa 18.0 Should Arrive Today With Many Vulkan/OpenGL Driver Improvements | Mesa | 2018-03-23 |
| UVD-Based HEVC Video Encoding Main Now Supported In Mesa 18.1 | Radeon | 2018-02-24 |
| Mesa 17.3.4 Released With 90+ Changes | Mesa | 2018-02-15 |
| RadeonSI VCN Encode Now Supports HEVC Main | Radeon | 2018-02-06 |
| Radeon VCN Gets Mesa Patches For HEVC Main Video Encode | AMD | 2018-01-25 |
| AMDGPU Firmware Blobs Updated For Video Encode/Decode | Radeon | 2018-01-19 |
| The RADV Vulkan Driver Is Shy Of 40,000 Lines Of Code | Radeon | 2017-12-19 |
| The Many Open-Source Radeon Linux Driver Advancements Of 2017 | Radeon | 2017-11-30 |
| Radeon VCN Encode Support Lands In Mesa 17.4 Git | Mesa | 2017-11-17 |
| Radeon VCN Encode Support For RadeonSI Gallium3D | Radeon | 2017-11-07 |
| Radeon VCN Video Decode Support Lands In Mesa | Radeon | 2017-05-25 |
| Raven Ridge, VCN Decode Support Patches Posted For Gallium3D | Radeon | 2017-05-10 |
