14 DAY TRIAL // Collabora's Emil Velikov announced today the immediate availability of the first Release Candidate (RC) development version of the upcoming Mesa 17.0.1 3D Graphics Library, which will be the first point release to the Mesa 17.0 series.
Mesa 17.0.1 promises to be a hefty maintenance update that addresses approximately 70 issues discovered since last month's release of Mesa 17.0.0. Fixes have been implemented across all of the supported open-source drivers, including but not limited to RadeonSI, Gallium, Intel i965, Nouveau, Radeon RADV and Intel ANV Vulkan ones.
"There's a number of crash fixes affecting all Gallium drivers. An old regression fix for r300 on BE hardware been fixed. The RadeonSI driver has fixes for Tessellation shaders on Carrizo and Stoney hardware. While on the Nouveau side, compute shader have been improved on some nvc0 devices," reads today's mailing list announcement.
The Binding of Isaac: Rebirth should work much better with Mesa 17.0.1
The Mesa 17.0.1 also promises to add a GLVND fix for the "The Binding of Isaac: Rebirth" game, as well as various other games, a patch has already been implemented in the Mesa 13.0.5 maintenance update at the end of February 2017. Additionally, a couple of fixes were added for the VC4 and Etnaviv drivers.
As for the improvements integrated into the Intel i965 drivers, we can mention better support for Sandy Bridge CPUs and improved handling of GPUs that lack LLC (Last Level Cache) support. As a bonus, the upcoming Mesa 17.0.1 release should also implement a bunch of build fixes for Android, along with a new script to parse and look for bug fixes.
Mesa 17.0.1 should be out at the end of the week, if everything goes according to plan, but you can fetch the Release Candidate right now if you want to get a head start. Check out the full changelog attached below for all the technical details on the new fixes, and keep an eye on our news section for the Mesa 17.0.1 release.