14 DAY TRIAL // Three days after the release of the Nvidia 352.41 long-lived branch proprietary video driver for GNU/Linux, FreeBSD, and Solaris operating systems, Nvidia announced on the last day of August the immediate availability for download of the short-lived Nvidia 355.11 graphics driver.
According to the release notes, Nvidia 355.11 adds some of the features that have been implemented in the Nvidia 352.41 video driver on August 28, 2015, such as support for the Nvidia GeForce GTX 950, Nvidia Quadro M4000, and Nvidia Quadro M5000 GPUs (Graphics Processing Units), and better support for playback of video streams encoded with the H.265/HEVC codec.
Among the new features implemented in Nvidia 355.11 short-lived branch, we can mention experimental OpenGL support to EGL, support for the EGL_KHR_swap_buffers_with_damage and EGL_NV_stream_consumer_gltexture_yuv EGL extensions, deprecation of the DeleteUnusedDP12Displays option, as well as support for five new VDPAU profiles in VDPAU 0.9.
Many issues have been addressed
The Nvidia 355.11 proprietary video driver fixes multiple issues that have been reported by users since the previous release, such as a crash that occurred when using GLX indirect rendering on apps that use the CUDA or OpenCL technologies with OpenGL interoperability, various issues with GPU exceptions, and a crash that occurred when updating the display layout of the nvidia-settings control panel.
Moreover, inaccurate reporting of support for GLX extensions was fixed, nvidia-installer and the installer package have been updated to use Nvidia's new kernel module source code layout and build system, an issue with sharing of user-added modes in RandR output was addressed, a Xinerama bug that affected some screens has been repaired, and a RandR bug that corrupted the mode list was plugged.
Last but not least, there's support for making OpenGL 3.0 context current without the need to add current to any drawable. Download Nvidia 355.11 video driver for 64-bit and 32-bit GNU/Linux operating systems, as well as for FreeBSD and Solaris OSes right now from Softpedia.