14 DAY TRIAL // Mesa developer Juan A. Suarez Romero announced the release of the tenth and last maintenance update to the Mesa 17.1 graphics stack series for GNU/Linux distributions, urging users to upgrade to the latest Mesa 17.2 branch.
Mesa 17.1.10 introduces numerous fixes for bugs and crashes, along with other improvements for various of the incorporated graphics drivers, among which we can mention the Intel ANV Vulkan driver, Intel i965 OpenGL driver, VC4 driver, SWR driver, as well as both the AMD Radeon RADV Vulkan and RadeonSI drivers.
"The state tracker received a couple of patches, one that fixes a dEQP-GLES31 test and another that fixes the usage of 64-bit unsigned integers when used for boolean comparisons," reads the mailing list announcement. "In build and integration system, we add a dependency on libunwind when running make distcheck."
Upgrade to Mesa 17.2 series now
Mesa 17.1.10 point release is available for download as a source tarball right now from our website if you're still using the Mesa 17.1 series on your GNU/Linux distribution, and it's a recommended update for all users as it will add an extra layer of performance for a better gaming experience.
However, we also suggest that you upgrade to the newer Mesa 17.2 stable series, which brings many improvements for Linux gamers, such as the implementation of the OpenGL 4.5 API, enhancements for the RadeonSI, Nouveau, as well as Intel ANV and AMD RADV Vulkan drivers, and much more.
If you want to play the Total War: Warhammer, The Witcher 2: Assassins of Kings, Europa Universalis IV, Serious Sam Fusion, or DOOM 2016 (Wine) games on your Linux PC, you should update to Mesa 17.2, which also improves support for the Google Earth and Chromium apps. You can also download the latest Mesa 17.2 update from our website.