14 DAY TRIAL // While we were waiting for the final Mesa 17.1.0 3D Graphics Library to hit the streets this past weekend, Collabora's Emil Velikov is today announcing the availability of the fourth and last Release Candidate (RC) milestone.
Including a total of 35 changes, which were implemented since last week's Mesa 17.1.0 Release Candidate 3 build, this fourth RC of the highly anticipated Mesa 17.1 stable series is here to fix the remaining blockers before the final release hits the streets, which should happen in the next 24 hours from the moment of writing.
"The fourth release candidate for Mesa 17.1.0 is now available. Barring any serious bugs reported, the final Mesa 17.1.0 will be out in approximately 24h. The build/link issue reported Grazvydas is expected to be fixed for the final release," said Emil Velikov, Software Release Engineer at Collabora, in the mailing list announcement.
Polaris 12 support enabled for Radeon RADV Vulkan driver
Among the highlights of the Mesa 17.1.0 Release Candidate 4 milestone, we can mention SCons support for LLVM 4.0, Polaris 12 support for the Radeon RADV Vulkan driver, along with a workaround for a tess+GS hang, also for Polaris 12, and use of helper function for modifier -> tiling on the Intel i965 driver.
Polaris 12 support was also improved for the RadeonSI driver, specifically for the AMD Radeon RX 550 graphics card, and Mesa 17.1 RC4 adds L8A8_UNORM texture format support for the Etnaviv open source user-space driver for the Vivante GCxxx series of embedded GPUs.
Several more bugs appear to have been squashed for the Intel i965 graphics driver, as well as for the Intel ANV Vulkan driver, the Radeon RADV Vukan driver, and the Freedreno driver. The full changelog is attached below for your reading pleasure or in case you're curious to know what exactly was changed in this release.
As mentioned before, the final release of the Mesa 17.1.0 3D Graphics Library is expected in the next 24 hours from the moment of the announcement, but you can download and test drive the fourth Release Candidate right now from our website. Please try to keep in mind, though, that this is a pre-release version.