14 DAY TRIAL // Collabora's Emil Velikov is announcing today the immediate availability of the fourth maintenance update to the latest Mesa 13 stable series of the open-source graphics driver stack for Linux-based operating systems.
Mesa 13.0.4 is now considered the most advanced version of the 3D graphics library, and it comes approximately one month after the release of Mesa 13.0.3, which some of the rolling distros are currently using to provide their users with the highest available gaming experience.
From the release notes, we can notice that Mesa 13.0.4 3D Graphics Library is a pretty hefty update including a total of 63 changes across all areas. Specifically, it fixes many issues for the open-source RadeonSI and Intel i965 graphics drivers, and addresses a nasty glxgears glitch with the Freedreno driver.
It also makes the Intel ANV Vulkan driver compatible with the latest Vulkan loaders, and implements multiple compliance and rendering fixes. Some loop optimization-related hangs were fixed for the r600 driver, a missing glproto dependency has been added for gallium-xlib glx, and the Radeon RADV Vulkan driver supports loader interface v3.
"Multiple fixes for the i965 and RadeonSI drivers. An odd glitch in glxgears when using the Freedreno driver was also addressed," explains the developer. "The ANV driver being the prime source of patches - from compatibility improvements with newer Vulkan loaders, smoketesting and various rendering and compliance fixes."
Users are urged to update to Mesa 13.0.4 as soon as possible
If you're using a GNU/Linux distribution powered by the Mesa 13 3D Graphics Library, we recommend updating to version 13.0.4 as soon as possible, or as soon as the updated packages land in the stable software repositories of your operating system. Those still using Mesa 12 series should immediately move to Mesa 13.
OS vendors and those who fancy compiling software from sources can download the Mesa 13.0.4 3D Graphics Library tarball right now from our website. Below we've attached the full changelog if you're curious to know what exactly has been changed or improved in this new Mesa 13 maintenance update.
There will probably be just one or two more such point releases announced for the Mesa 13 series as the development team now concentrates all of their efforts on pushing the final Mesa 17 release out the door. Mesa 17 will be a major milestone featuring numerous new features and improvements.