14 DAY TRIAL // Collabora's Emil Velikov is proud to announce today, April 17, 2017, the release and general availability of the fourth maintenance update to the stable Mesa 17.0 3D Graphics Library for Linux-based operating systems.
Coming a little over two weeks after the release of Mesa 17.0.3, which brought various improvements to both the Intel OpenGL and ANV Vulkan drivers, RadeonSI, Nouveau, Galleon, Freedreno, as well as Radeon RADV Vulkan drivers, the Mesa 17.0.4 update is here to implement a total of 29 changes, mostly for Intel i965.
Among the improvements, we can mention the implementation of PCI IDs for new Polaris10 devices on the RadeonSI driver, better error handling in OOM conditions for the r600 driver, a fix for a performance regression with the Freedreno driver, a GBM flush fix for VMWGFX driver, and various bug fixes for Nouveau and Intel i965.
"There is a GBM flush fix for VMWGFX and other drivers that queue DMA operations on the mapping context," said Emil Velikov, Software Release Engineer at Collabora. "For Nouveau and i965 we have various fixes, of which the correct GL version is now reported on i965 devices. Haiku build issues have been addressed."
First Release Candidate of Mesa 17.1 now ready for public testing
Another interesting change shipping with the Mesa 17.0.4 stable update is the ability to no longer print harmless warnings on platform devices. All Linux users are urged to update their operating system to the Mesa 17.0.4 maintenance release as soon as it lands in the main repositories of their GNU/Linux distributions.
You can also download the Mesa 17.0.4 source tarball right now from our website if you fancy compiling it on your distro, along with the first Release Candidate of the upcoming Mesa 17.1.0 series, which should hit the streets in about three weeks from the moment of writing this article, on May 5, 2017.