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Mesa 13.0.5 to Add Improvements for "The Binding of Isaac: Rebirth," Other Games

A Release Candidate is now available for public testing

Feb 19, 2017 23:00 GMT  ·  By
Mesa 13.0.5 release candidate released
   Mesa 13.0.5 release candidate released

Collabora's Emil Velikov is announcing the availability of the Release Candidate (RC) development milestone of the upcoming fifth point release of the stable Mesa 13.0 3D Graphics Library series.

Even if Mesa 17.0 has been out for a week now as the most advanced version of the 3D graphics stack used by default in almost all Linux-based operating systems, it doesn't mean the Mesa 13.0 series is not receiving any more updates, and the Mesa 13.0.5 maintenance update is bringing lots of improvements and bug fixes.

Mesa 13.0 is still used in many distros tnat haven't had the chance yet to move to the Mesa 17.0 branch, and the changes included in the upcoming Mesa 13.0.5 release promise better support for The Binding of Isaac: Rebirth and other games, as it patches an important GLVND bug that's present in previous versions of Mesa 13.0.

"On the GLX/EGL front we have a GLVND fix for 'The Binding of Isaac: Rebirth' and other games, EGL Wayland buffer age rendering is back to normal," said Emil Velikov, Software Release Engineer at Collabora, in the mailing list announcement. "Over a dozen of GLSL patches, addressing multiple CTS/dEQP tests."

RadeonSI, Intel i965, and Vulkan (RADV and ANV) drivers get bug fixes

In the good tradition of any important point release, such as Mesa 13.0.5 looks to be when it is released next week, many bugs have been fixed for numerous of the enclosed graphics drivers for AMD Radeon and Intel GPUs, including RadeonSI, r600, Intel i965, VC4, Radeon RADV Vulkan and Intel ANV Vulkan drivers.

Talking about Vulkan drivers, Mesa 13.0.5 3D Graphics Library should also improve the vkGetPhysicalDeviceSurfacePresentModesKHR and vkGetPhysicalDeviceSurfaceFormatsKHR Vulkan WSI entrypoints to correctly handle VK_INCOMPLETE.

Other than that, it looks like a bunch of corner case build issues have been addressed in Mesa 13.0.5, and you can get an early taste of all these goodies if you download the Release Candidate. Mesa 13.0.5 should include over 75 changes that you can view in the preliminary changelog attached below.

Mesa 13.0.5 RC Changelog