Coming soon on a GNU/Linux distribution near you

Dec 5, 2016 23:44 GMT  ·  By

Today, December 5, 2016, Collabora's Emil Velikov proudly announced the release and immediate availability of the fifth and last scheduled maintenance update of the Mesa 12.0 3D Graphics Library for GNU/Linux distributions.

While Ubuntu developers are struggling to push the Mesa 12.0.4 3D Graphics Library update to the stable repositories of the Ubuntu 16.04 LTS (Xenial Xerus) and Ubuntu 16.10 (Yakkety Yak) operating systems, it seems that Mesa 12.0.5 is already here, but it looks like it's the last in the series, and users are now urged to move to Mesa 13.0.

"Mesa 12.0.5 is now available. This is the final anticipated release in the 12.0 series. Users are encouraged to migrate to the 13.0 series in order to obtain future fixes," said Emil Velikov, Software Release Engineer at Collabora, in the mailing list announcement for Mesa 12.0.5 3D Graphics Library.

Mesa 12.0.5 further stabilizes the built-in Intel i965 and Radeon drivers

The Mesa 12.0.5 3D Graphics Library maintenance update was released mainly to further stabilize the built-in Intel i965 and Radeon (r600, radeonsi) drivers by patching a number of GPU hang issues reported by users with Mesa 12.0.4, as well as to add some rendering fixes.

Additionally, Mesa 12.0.5 3D Graphics Library ships with an updated SWR driver that can now be compiled against LLVM/Clang 3.7 up to 3.9, and the GLVND GLX implementation was improved to output the accurate GLX entry points, while the Intel Vulkan driver now exposes the api_version.

As usual, we've attached the full changelog below for your reading pleasure, and you can download the Mesa 12.0.5 3D Graphics Library right now from our website. However, we strongly recommend that you upgrade to the latest Mesa 13.0 release as soon as possible for a performance boost when gaming or running OpenGL apps.

Mesa 12.0.5 Changelog