Mesa 13.0.2 3D Graphics Library to Improve the Intel and Radeon Vulkan Drivers

Today, November 24, 2016, Collabora's Emil Velikov announced the availability of the Release Candidate (RC) version of the upcoming second Mesa 13.0 3D Graphics Library point release.

That's right, Mesa 13.0.2 3D Graphics Library is now in the works, and it looks like it's slated for release on November 25, 2016, around or shortly after 5pm GMT, promising a bunch of new fixes for the open source Intel i965, Radeon, and VC4 graphics drivers, as well as multiple improvements for the Intel ANV Vulkan and Radeon Vulkan (RADV) drivers.

"With this series, we have fixes for VC4, i965, and Radeon drivers. In addition to that PCI IDs for Geminilake have been added to the i965 driver," said Emil Velikov, Software Release Engineer, Collabora. "The respective Vulkan drivers have seen multiple improvements some of which include improved smoketesting and addressed memory leaks."

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