14 DAY TRIAL // Mesa developers Andres Gomez and Emil Velikov announced the availability of the fourth maintenance update of Mesa 17.2 stable series, and the second Release Candidate (RC) of Mesa 17.3.
We reported last week on the upcoming availability of the Mesa 17.2.4 update to the open-source graphics stack for GNU/Linux distributions, and it arrived on October 30, 2017, bringing us another layer of fixes for the AMD Radeon RADV Vulkan, Broadcom's VC4, as well as both the Intel i965 OpenGL and Intel ANV Vulkan drivers.
Mesa 17.2.4 is coming soon to the stable repositories of your favorite GNU/Linux distro, so make sure that you update to this maintenance update as soon as possible if you want to have a better and more stable gaming experience. To see what's changed in Mesa 17.2.4, check out the official release notes.
Work on Mesa 17.3 series continues with the second RC
On the other hand, work on the major Mesa 17.3 update continues with the second Release Candidate, which brings numerous improvements to the Radeon RADV Vulkan and Intel i965 OpenGL drivers, as well as various small fixes to the Intel ANV Vulkan, Radeon, RadeonSI, and VC4 graphics drivers.
Both Mesa 17.2.4 and Mesa 17.3 RC2 can be downloaded as source tarballs right now from our web portal if you fancy compiling them on your Linux-based operating system, but please try to keep in mind that the latter is a pre-release version, and it's not recommended for use in production machines.
Mesa 17.3 RC2 should have been out three/four days ago, which means that the next Release Candidate could land sometime at the end of this week or early next week. This also pushes the final release of the Mesa 17.3 series into the second half of November, according to the release plan.