14 DAY TRIAL // Collabora's Emil Velikov announced the availability of the Release Candidate (RC) milestone of the upcoming Mesa 17.0.7 point release of the Mesa 17.0 stable series of the 3D graphics library for GNU/Linux distributions.
Mesa 17.0.7 is being prepped these days with the last set of bug fixes for the Mesa 17.0 3D Graphics Library, which probably many of you are currently using on their favorite GNU/Linux distributions, some of which were imported from the Mesa 17.1.1 point release that was announced last week.
"This is the final anticipated release from the 17.0.x series. We have a few important outstanding patches which I'm planning to merge considering we have no regressions are reported by the Intel Jenkins instance," said Emil Velikov, Software Release Engineer working for Collabora, in the mailing list announcement.
Mesa 17.0.7 to hit the streets this week, here's what's new
Mesa 17.0.7 should hit the streets as soon as tomorrow, May 31, 2017, but Mesa releases usually slip a day or two into the weekend, and considering the fact that it takes a few days until it lands in the stable repositories of your favorite GNU/Linux distribution, you'll probably get it next week at the earliest.
If you're curious to know what's new, we can tell you that Mesa 17.0.7 packs support for glXGetDriverConfig in the Mesa GLVND GLX library, which is used by driconf, better handling of BC1 and DXT1 formats for both the Intel i965 OpenGL and ANV Vulkan drivers, as well as uniforms-related fixes to the Intel i965 VEC4 backend.
Other than that, Mesa 17.0.7 point release includes various small improvements for the Nouveau, VC4 and Etnaviv drivers, a bunch of Wayland patches to improve handling of event queues, and improved error checking within eglMakeCurrent for EGL. Check out the preliminary changelog attached below for more details.