Mesa 25.2.5 Released With Very Important Intel Driver Fix Mesa 25.2.5 is out today as the newest bi-weekly point release for these open-source OpenGL and Vulkan drivers. Particularly if you are on Intel graphics of Battlemage or Lunar Lake and potentially older, Mesa 25.2.5 contains a very important bug fix for various rendering issues and potential game hangs/crashes...

Mesa 25.2.5 Released With Very Important Intel Driver Fix - Phoronix

Mesa 25.2.5 is out today as the newest bi-weekly point release for these open-source OpenGL and Vulkan drivers

Mesa's Zink OpenGL-On-Vulkan Driver Lands Mesh Shader Support In development for around the past year was the cross-vendor mesh shading extension for OpenGL. Last week GL_EXT_mesh_shader was merged to the OpenGL Registry for this mesh shader support and first new GL extension in a while...

Mesa's Zink OpenGL-On-Vulkan Driver Lands Mesh Shader Support - Phoronix

In development for around the past year was the cross-vendor mesh shading extension for OpenGL

Basic HDR Support For AMD Radeon Accelerated Video Processing On Linux David Rosca at AMD continues leading the efforts for improving the open-source Radeon video acceleration support under Linux with the Mesa Gallium3D code. This is especially important now that AMD is encouraging customers to no longer use the AMD Multimedia Framework (AMF) on Linux but resort to using VA-API and the Mesa multimedia capabilities instead...

Basic HDR Support For AMD Radeon Accelerated Video Processing On Linux - Phoronix

David Rosca at AMD continues leading the efforts for improving the open-source Radeon video acceleration support under Linux with the Mesa Gallium3...

Valve Developer Gets Initial DLSS Support Working On Open-Source NVIDIA "NVK" Driver Autumn Ashton of Valve's Linux graphics driver team and responsible for many great Mesa and DXVK/VKD3D-Proton improvements over the years has managed an exciting new feat: getting NVIDIA DLSS upscaling working atop Mesa's NVK open-source NVIDIA Vulkan driver. The code isn't ready to be merged yet but is an exciting early milestone...

Valve Developer Gets Initial DLSS Support Working On Open-Source NVIDIA "NVK" Driver - Phoronix

Autumn Ashton of Valve's Linux graphics driver team and responsible for many great Mesa and DXVK/VKD3D-Proton improvements over the years has ...

FSF Announces The LibrePhone Project The Free Software Foundation today announced the LibrePhone project with a goal of creating a fully free software OS for mobile devices and to reverse-engineer obstacles where necessary...

FSF Announces The LibrePhone Project - Phoronix

The Free Software Foundation today announced the LibrePhone project with a goal of creating a fully free software OS for mobile devices and to reve...

Yet Another Longtime Linux Driver Maintainer At Intel Has Left Adding to the unfortunately long list of unfortunate Intel Linux/open-source setbacks over the past year, yet another Intel Linux software engineer that was an upstream Linux kernel driver maintainer has departed Intel...

Yet Another Longtime Linux Driver Maintainer At Intel Has Left - Phoronix

Adding to the unfortunately long list of unfortunate Intel Linux/open-source setbacks over the past year, yet another Intel Linux software engineer...

Linux 6.19 Will Continue With More Rust Graphics Driver Preparations Even prior to the recent ending of the Linux 6.18 merge window and its many new features, the first "drm-misc-next" pull request of new material intended for Linux 6.19 was already submitted for inclusion to DRM-Next...

Linux 6.19 Will Continue With More Rust Graphics Driver Preparations - Phoronix

Even prior to the recent ending of the Linux 6.18 merge window and its many new features, the first 'drm-misc-next' pull request of new m...

Intel Lands Big Linux GPU Driver Fix: Fixing Rendering Issues & Game Hangs/Crashes Problematic code dating back to 2017 has now been reverted within the Intel open-source Mesa driver code that led to various games having rendering/corruption issues as well as various hangs and crashes in other games. This affected a variety of Intel graphics hardware and software while now has finally been tracked down with the problematic code remo…

Intel Lands Big Linux GPU Driver Fix: Fixing Rendering Issues & Game Hangs/Crashes - Phoronix

Problematic code dating back to 2017 has now been reverted within the Intel open-source Mesa driver code that led to various games having rendering...

Mir 2.23 Released With New Documentation For Building A Desktop Environment Mir 2.23 is out today as the newest version of this Canonical-led library for crafting Wayland-based shells and for smaller desktops to ease the adoption of Wayland, with a focus on Ubuntu Linux platforms...

Mir 2.23 Released With New Documentation For Building A Desktop Environment - Phoronix

Mir 2.23 is out today as the newest version of this Canonical-led library for crafting Wayland-based shells and for smaller desktops to ease the ad...

Blender Experimenting With Vulkan Ray Queries As part of Blender continuing to build out the Vulkan API capabilities for this open-source 3D modeling software, a proof of concept merge request was opened for beginning to make use of Vulkan ray queries...

Blender Experimenting With Vulkan Ray Queries - Phoronix

As part of Blender continuing to build out the Vulkan API capabilities for this open-source 3D modeling software, a proof of concept merge request ...