Now available for all GNU/Linux operating systems

Jan 13, 2016 22:33 GMT  ·  By

Emil Velikov of Collabora has has announced earlier today, January 13, the general availability of the first maintenance release for the 11.1 stable series of the open-source Mesa 3D Graphics Library.

According to the internal changelog, which have been attached at the end of the article for reference, Mesa 11.1.1 promises to fix most of the issues that have been discovered by the Mesa developers or reported by users since the previous release, Mesa 11.1, which was announced exactly one month ago.

Among the changes implemented in Mesa 11.1.1, we can mention some more Intel i965 and GLSL patches for the GRID Autosport game, improvements to various graphics drivers, including Nouveau, Freedreno, Intel i965, RadeonSI Hyper-Z and Fiji, Radeon r600, more BSD fixes, and the addition of PCI IDs for Intel's KabyLake devices.

"With this release we have a significant amount of fixes - from radeonsi (Fiji, Hyper-Z), r600 (geom. shaders), nouveau (ir), freedreno (piglits), i965 (UBOs) Additionally I've included the PCI IDs for Intel's KabyLake devices," says Emil Velikov, Software Release Engineer for Collabora.

50 bugs have been fixed

Looking at the release notes, we can notice a total of 50 bugfixes in this first maintenance release of the Mesa 3D Graphics Library 11.1, which means that, after you upgrade to version 11.1.1, you should see an increase in the performance of OpenGL/3D applications, especially in games.

To update to Mesa 11.1.1, you can either wait for your OS vendor to release the new packages in the default software repositories of the respective operating system, or, if you have the skills, you can download the Mesa 11.1.1 sources right now via our website and start compiling by hand.

While the Mesa 11.1 stable branch will have a few more maintenance releases in 2016, work has already started on the next major version, Mesa 11.2, which should see a first milestone available for testing in the coming weeks. More details about Mesa 11.1.1 can be found in the changelog attached below.

Mesa 11.1.1 Changelog