14 DAY TRIAL // 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."
BSD and GNU Hurd users should be able to install Mesa 13.0.2
There are numerous small bug fixes and improvements being prepared for inclusion in the soon-to-be-released Mesa 13.0.2 3D Graphics Library, including support for BSD and GNU Hurd operating system, as the development team managed to finally remove the PATH_MAX variable, and workarounds for issues with the during _mesa_HashWalk() function and "#version 0" in GLSL programs.
Below, we've attached the full changelog for our tech savvy readers who are curious to know what exactly has been changed in this second point release of Mesa 13.0, and in the meantime, you can download the Mesa 13.0.2 Release Candidate right now from our website and start compiling it on your favorite GNU/Linux distribution. Of course, please try to keep in mind that this is a pre-release version and you should not use it on your stable environment.