The Intel i965 and ANV drivers received various fixes

May 23, 2017 01:10 GMT  ·  By

Collabora's Emil Velikov announced earlier that the first point release of the recently launched Mesa 17.1 3D Graphics Library is being prepared this week for GNU/Linux distributions.

Mesa 17.1.1 is now in Release Candidate stage of development, and promises to be a worthy update for those who already managed to upgrade to the latest Mesa 17.1 series of the graphics stack containing open source graphics drivers for AMD Radeon, Intel, and Nvidia GPUs.

Mesa 17.1.1 also marks the new Mesa 3D Graphics Library series as stable and ready for deployment in select Linux-based operating systems that want to offer their users the best available support for playing Linux games. The point release is expected in the coming days and should contain about sixty improvements.

Here's what's coming to Mesa 17.1.1

Among the things implemented in the upcoming Mesa 17.1.1 3D Graphics Library, we can mention support for new Vega10 PCI device IDs and Raven devices, as well as some tessellation fixes in the RadeonSI driver for AMD Radeon GPUs, as well as better support for BC1 and DXT1 formats in both the Intel i965 OpenGL and Intel ANV Vulkan drivers.

Additionally, the Mesa GLVND GLX library was updated to handle glXGetDriverConfig, which is used by driconf, the GBM module received a fix for an issue with the newly added modifier API, and the new release loosens EGL error checking within eglMakeCurrent. On the build side of things, Mesa 17.1.1 drops support for Python/Mako as SWR now ships with its final generated header.

Check out the mailing list announcement to see all the changes that should be implemented in the Mesa 17.1.1 3D Graphics Library, and don't hesitate to compile and install the Release Candidate (RC) milestone on your GNU/Linux distribution if you want to report bugs, which is greatly appreciated by the Mesa development team.