14 DAY TRIAL // After teasing users with the Release Candidate development version of Mesa 13.0.3 3D Graphics Library just before the Christmas holidays, Collabora's Emil Velikov announced today, January 5, 2017, the availability of the final release of Mesa 13.0.3.
As you can imagine, Mesa 13.0.3 is the third bugfix/stabilization update to the Mesa 13.0.x stable series, bringing a total of 55 fixes for many of the included graphics drivers and libraries, among which Intel ANV Vulkan, Intel i965, and RadeonSI are the most notable. Mesa 13.0.3 3D Graphics Library is coming five weeks after Mesa 13.0.2.
Among the changes, we can notice that some memory leaks were plugged from the Intel ANV Vulkan driver, a tess+GS hang workaround was added for VI dGPUs to the RadeonSI driver, which now always restores sampler states when unbinding sampler views. Also, unit tests were added for copy propagation pass to the Intel i965 driver.
"Mesa 13.0.3 is now available. This series we have multiple fixes for [Intel] i965 and RadeonSI. The ANV driver has extra smoke testing fixes and memory leaks have been resolved," said Emil Velikov, Software Release Engineer working for Collabora, in today's mailing list announcement, from where you can download the latest archive.
It's coming soon to a distro near you
Mesa 13.0.3, which is now the most advanced stable version of the 3D graphics library we rely on for Linux gaming and running various OpenGL applications, should soon make its way into the stable software repositories of your favorite GNU/Linux distribution, that, of course, if you haven't already switched to the Mesa 13.1-git.
Below you can find attached the full changelog if you are curious to know what exactly was patched or added in this release, and we're also providing you with a download for the source archive if you plan on compiling Mesa 13.0.3 3D Graphics Library yourself. However, this is a recommended update for all users running Mesa 13.0.2 or a previous version.