14 DAY TRIAL // Collabora's Emil Velikov announced today the release and immediate availability of the third maintenance update to the Mesa 17.1 stable series of the open-source graphics stack for GNU/Linux operating systems.
If you're a Linux gamer using AMD Radeon or Intel graphics cards, then you must have the latest Mesa 3D Graphics Library installed on your favorite GNU/Linux distribution, and today's Mesa 17.1.3 point release is the most advanced one adding multiple improvements across several of the included open-source drivers.
AMD Radeon gamers will be happy to learn that Mesa 17.1.3 improves the Radeon RADV Vulkan driver with a bunch of patches that fix various issues, among which we can mention the ability of the driver to correctly advertise AMD Radeon APU devices as integrated. The RadeonSI driver also saw minor bug fixes.
On the other hand, Intel gamers should know that Mesa 17.1.3 improves HiZ handling for the Intel i965 OpenGL graphics driver. Small bug fixes were also added to the Nouveau (nvc0) and Etnaviv drivers, along with various under-the-hood improvements, such as a build fix and some dependencies were loosened.
"SWR can now be build using C++11 compiler, as opposed to C++14 previously. While on zlib front the minimum required version is now 1.2.3 - as available in older enterprise linux distributions," explains Emil Velikov, Software Release Engineer at Collabora, in the mailing list announcement.
A small update that adds a total of 26 bug fixes
Mesa 17.1.3 appears to be a small update that adds a total of 26 bug fixes. Among other noteworthy changes, we can mention that the GLX/DRI3 implementation now offers correct drawable invalidation, EGL has improved error handling in eglQuerySurface, and "-Bsymbolic" is now used by libGL and Xlib implementations.
Thanks to the use of "-Bsymbolic", library symbols won't be overridden by third parties, which usually happens with tools like apitrace. Mesa 17.1.3 is available for download as a source tarball right now and it's a recommended update for all users using the latest Mesa 17.1 graphics stack. Check out the full changelog below for more details on the bug fixes.