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Even more AMD ray tracing performance improvements heading to Mesa on Linux

Liam Dawe — Thu, 15 Jan 2026 13:04:47 +0000

Developer Natalie Vock working for Valve has sent in even more impressive performance improvements for AMD GPUs on Linux with Mesa.

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Mesa RADV driver on Linux looks set for a big ray tracing performance boost

Liam Dawe — Wed, 07 Jan 2026 15:49:58 +0000

One thing currently a bit lacking on Linux is the performance of ray tracing with the open source Mesa RADV driver, but a big improvement is coming.

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Mesa 25.3.3 released with more Linux graphics driver bug fixes

Liam Dawe — Fri, 02 Jan 2026 13:26:37 +0000

The first bug fix release of 2026 for the open source graphics drivers Mesa is here with Mesa 25.3.3 out now.

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Mesa 25.2.8 and Mesa 25.3.1 released for open source Linux graphics drivers

Liam Dawe — Thu, 04 Dec 2025 10:08:58 +0000

After being delayed, both Mesa 25.2.8 and Mesa 25.3.1 have been released with an assortment of bug fixes for open source Linux graphics drivers.

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Mesa 25.3.0 released with lots of Linux graphics driver improvements

Liam Dawe — Mon, 17 Nov 2025 17:56:22 +0000

Just as the weekend arrived, Mesa 25.3.0 was released as the latest new-feature upgrade for open source Linux graphics drivers.

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Linux open source graphics drivers Mesa 25.2.7 released

Liam Dawe — Thu, 13 Nov 2025 16:35:12 +0000

The latest set of open source graphics drivers for Linux have released, with the bug fix Mesa 25.2.7 now available.

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Mesa 25.2.6 rolls out with more fixes for Intel GPUs, Zink and NVK

Liam Dawe — Thu, 30 Oct 2025 14:20:15 +0000

Mesa 25.2.6 is the latest bug fix release available now for open source Linux graphics drivers, pulling in fresh updates for games and other assorted issues.

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Indiana Jones and the Great Circle will perform better on AMD GPUs with Mesa 26

Liam Dawe — Fri, 24 Oct 2025 09:58:00 +0000

Mesa 26 is due for release early next year, and it appears that Indiana Jones and the Great Circle is one game that's set to benefit greatly from it.

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Mesa 25.2.5 released with major bug fix for Intel graphics on Linux

Liam Dawe — Thu, 16 Oct 2025 09:08:05 +0000

Mesa 25.2.5 would normally be just another small point-release bug fix, but in this case it's a little extra special for Intel GPU owners on Linux.

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NVIDIA DLSS support in progress for NVK, the open source Vulkan driver for NVIDIA GPUs

Liam Dawe — Wed, 15 Oct 2025 09:23:02 +0000

This is pretty big and exciting, the open source NVK driver for NVIDIA GPUs is on a path towards getting NVIDIA DLSS support.

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Mesa 25.2.1 released for open source Linux graphics drivers

Liam Dawe — Thu, 21 Aug 2025 10:57:06 +0000

Mesa 25.2.1 was released on August 20th bringing some essential bug fixes for the current latest feature release of open source Linux graphics drivers.

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Mesa 25.2.0 released with NVIDIA upgrades, Apple Vulkan driver enhancements and lots more improvements

Liam Dawe — Wed, 06 Aug 2025 17:26:28 +0000

Mesa 25.2.0 is officially out now as the latest new feature release of open source graphics drivers for Linux.

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Mesa 25.1.6 and Mesa 25.2.0 RC1 are now available for Linux graphics drivers

Liam Dawe — Thu, 17 Jul 2025 10:46:22 +0000

Mesa 25.1.6 is the latest bug-fix release for the open source Linux graphics drivers, plus the first Release Candidate for the next feature-release.

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It's now easier to get Mesa 25.1 on the latest Ubuntu 25.04

Liam Dawe — Mon, 07 Jul 2025 09:52:37 +0000

Want to upgrade Mesa on Ubuntu, Kubuntu and other Ubuntu-based distributions? It's now a bit easier thanks to a PPA update to get Mesa 25.1 installed.

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Mesa 25.1.5 brings more bug fixes for Linux graphics drivers

Liam Dawe — Thu, 03 Jul 2025 09:14:25 +0000

Mesa 25.1.5 is the latest bug-fix release for the current main stable version of open source Linux graphics drivers.

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Mesa 25.1.3 emergency update released for AMD Radeon RX 9000 series (RDNA4)

Liam Dawe — Mon, 09 Jun 2025 08:14:14 +0000

Developer Eric Engestrom announced the release of Mesa 25.1.3, an unscheduled emergency release to fix AMD GFX12 (RDNA4 - Radeon RX 9000 series).

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Mesa 25.1.2 graphics drivers bug-fix released for Linux

Liam Dawe — Thu, 05 Jun 2025 12:19:05 +0000

Mesa graphics drivers version 25.1.2 are officially out now for Linux with improvements for those using Intel, AMD, NVIDIA GPUs and game fixes.

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Mesa 25.0.7 open source Linux graphics drivers released

Liam Dawe — Thu, 29 May 2025 16:58:26 +0000

Developer Eric Engestrom announced the Mesa 25.0.7 release, finishing off the 25.0 series of open source Linux graphics drivers.

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Mesa 25.1.1 is out now with the AMD GPU fix for DOOM: The Dark Ages

Liam Dawe — Wed, 21 May 2025 09:30:56 +0000

Developer Eric Engestrom announced today the release of Mesa 25.1.1 graphics drivers, a bug-fix release for the latest major version of the open source drivers.

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Guide: How to install, update and see what graphics driver you have on Linux and SteamOS

Liam Dawe — Thu, 15 May 2025 14:59:52 +0000

Here's an overview and guide to what options you have for graphics drivers on Linux, since it can at times be a little on the confusing side.

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Mesa 25.0.6 released with AMD GPU fixes for DOOM: The Dark Ages on Linux

Liam Dawe — Wed, 14 May 2025 18:35:06 +0000

The open source Mesa 25.0.6 graphics drivers bug-fix release is out now, and thankfully this one comes with the updates needed to run DOOM: The Dark Ages on Linux with Proton when you have an AMD GPU.

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DOOM: The Dark Ages needs workarounds on Linux with AMD GPUs, a fix has been merged into Mesa

Liam Dawe — Tue, 13 May 2025 11:01:20 +0000

With DOOM: The Dark Ages about to release for everyone on May 15th, and with Advanced Access available, it seems it needs some workarounds to run on Linux with AMD GPUs. This is likely what Valve already solved in SteamOS for Steam Deck.

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Mesa 25.1 open source graphics drivers are out now

Liam Dawe — Wed, 07 May 2025 18:27:26 +0000

Developer Eric Engestrom today officially announced the full release of Mesa 25.1, bringing with it plenty of upgrades for open source graphics drivers.

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Mesa NVK (NVIDIA Vulkan driver) now Vulkan 1.4 conformant on Maxwell, Pascal, and Volta GPUs

Liam Dawe — Wed, 23 Apr 2025 09:46:31 +0000

Collabora developer Faith Ekstrand has announced a nice big milestone for the open source Mesa driver NVK, the NVIDIA Vulkan driver, as it has expanded Vulkan 1.4 conformance to now include Maxwell+ (Maxwell, Pascal, and Volta GPUs).

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Mesa 25.0.4 bug-fix release out, plus the Mesa 25.1 feature update has a first release candidate

Liam Dawe — Thu, 17 Apr 2025 09:46:25 +0000

Developer Eric Engestrom announced the release of the latest Mesa 25.0.4 stable bug-fix release, and we're also closing in on the next feature release with Mesa 25.1 seeing a first release candidate for testing.

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Mesa 25.1 will make Indiana Jones: The Great Circle playable on older AMD GPUs

Liam Dawe — Thu, 10 Apr 2025 07:25:25 +0000

Since Ray Tracing is a requirement to run Indiana Jones: The Great Circle, a change has been merged into RADV (AMD Vulkan driver) for Mesa to get it working on older AMD GPUs.

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Mesa 25.0.3 graphics drivers released with numerous bug fixes

Liam Dawe — Fri, 04 Apr 2025 09:17:28 +0000

Mesa 25.0.3 has arrived as the latest bug-fix release for open source Linux graphics drivers, bringing a bunch of fixes across different drivers and some game fixes are included too.

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Mesa 25.0.1 released with fixes for Avowed and Total War Warhammer III

Liam Dawe — Thu, 06 Mar 2025 09:47:18 +0000

Developer Eric Engestrom announced the released of Mesa 25.0.1, the first bug-fix release for the Mesa 25.0 series.

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Indiana Jones and the Great Circle gets DLSS 4 and FSR 3.1 but breaks on Steam Deck / Linux with Mesa

Liam Dawe — Fri, 21 Feb 2025 11:18:27 +0000

Indiana Jones and the Great Circle just got a major update with some fancy new features, but it seems like it's now broken on Linux with AMD GPUs using Mesa like Steam Deck.

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Mesa 25.0 open source graphics drivers released with Vulkan 1.4 and initial AMD RDNA4 support

Liam Dawe — Wed, 19 Feb 2025 22:38:59 +0000

Developer Eric Engestrom announced today the release of Mesa 25.0, bringing lots of open source graphics driver updates and expanded hardware support.

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Mesa 24.3.2 released with more graphics driver bug fixes for Linux

Liam Dawe — Sat, 21 Dec 2024 11:08:49 +0000

The last open source graphics driver update before the holidays is here, with Mesa 24.3.2 now available for you to upgrade.

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Mesa 24.3.1 open source Linux graphics drivers released

Liam Dawe — Thu, 05 Dec 2024 09:31:04 +0000

Mesa developer Dylan Baker announced the release of Mesa 24.3.1, a bug-fix release for the latest stable release of the Linux open source graphics drivers.

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Mesa 24.2.8 released for Linux with bug fixes, last update for the 24.2 series

Liam Dawe — Thu, 28 Nov 2024 10:27:39 +0000

Developer Eric Engestrom announced the release of Mesa 24.2.8 open source graphics drivers for Linux with some bug fixes.

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Mesa 24.3.0 graphics drivers for Linux released with many new features and bug fixes

Liam Dawe — Fri, 22 Nov 2024 10:12:15 +0000

Developer Dylan Baker announced the early release of Mesa 24.3.0, the latest set of Linux open source graphics drivers full of new features.

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Mesa 24.2.6 graphics drivers released with a few more bug fixes

Liam Dawe — Thu, 31 Oct 2024 08:15:43 +0000

The Mesa team have released another bug-fix update with Mesa 24.2.6 available now, with a couple more bug-fix releases planned before they move onto Mesa 24.3 next month.

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Mesa graphics drivers 24.2.5 released with a few more bug fixes

Liam Dawe — Thu, 17 Oct 2024 10:11:31 +0000

Mesa 24.2.5 was announced from developer Eric Engestrom bringing in some more bug fixes for various Linux graphics drivers.

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Mesa 24.2.4 released with various bug fixes

Liam Dawe — Fri, 04 Oct 2024 09:27:07 +0000

Developer Eric Engestrom announced the release of Mesa 24.2.4 open source graphics drivers, coming with multiple bug fixes for this stable release.

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Mesa 24.2.2 graphics drivers released enabling Intel Lunar Lake and Battlemage

Liam Dawe — Fri, 06 Sep 2024 09:33:42 +0000

A week after the release of both Mesa 24.2.1 and Mesa 24.1.7, the next point release Mesa 24.2.2 is out now with numerous bug fixes and improvements.

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Mesa 24.2.1 and Mesa 24.1.7 open source drivers now available

Liam Dawe — Thu, 29 Aug 2024 11:37:35 +0000

The Mesa team just released bug fix updates to the two most recent driver series with Mesa 24.2.1 and Mesa 24.1.7 now available.

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Mesa 24.2.0 released with a new shader cache implementation

Liam Dawe — Thu, 15 Aug 2024 11:08:54 +0000

Mesa 24.2.0 is out now bringing with it the usual advancements for open source OpenGL and Vulkan graphics drivers on Linux.

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Mesa gets a nice performance boost for Proton games with various videos

Liam Dawe — Mon, 24 Jun 2024 13:26:03 +0000

Developer Mike Blumenkrantz has another blog post up and Merge Request ready for Mesa, the set of open source graphics drivers, which gives a big boost to performance for Windows games with various videos.

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Mesa 24.1.0 released with big improvements for NVK, Zink, Explicit Sync

Liam Dawe — Thu, 23 May 2024 09:23:16 +0000

Ready for the next upgrade to open source graphics drivers? Mesa 24.1.0 has now released bringing some big enhancements to many different drivers across AMD, NVIDIA, Intel and others.

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Zink driver startup time squashed with new patches

Liam Dawe — Mon, 29 Apr 2024 10:04:20 +0000

Developer Mike Blumenkrantz is once again blogging about working on the Zink driver, and this time a nice optimization is on the way for startup times.

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Former Nouveau driver lead joins NVIDIA and sent a massive patch set

nwildner — Thu, 18 Apr 2024 07:56:41 +0000

Ben Skeggs, former Nouveau lead developer and former Red Hat employee has joined NVIDIA and appears to still be working on the open source drivers.

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KDE's Xaver Hugl on why Wayland explicit sync is such a big deal

Liam Dawe — Mon, 08 Apr 2024 08:51:43 +0000

You may have seen news recently about explicit sync for Wayland, but you might not know why it's actually important for the future of Linux on Wayland.

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The HDMI Forum rejected AMD's open source HDMI 2.1 implementation

Liam Dawe — Thu, 29 Feb 2024 12:39:10 +0000

If you were hoping at some point to see HDMI 2.1+ on Linux with AMD + Mesa, you're out of luck right now as it's simply not going to be happening.

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Open-source Vulkan driver for NVIDIA hardware in Mesa, NVK, is now ready for prime time

Liam Dawe — Thu, 29 Feb 2024 12:19:41 +0000

The future of NVIDIA hardware on Linux is here with the open source Vulkan driver NVK in Mesa, as there's now a Merge Request to have it shipped by default.

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NVIDIA open source driver to use NVK + Zink for OpenGL on newer GPUs

nwildner — Fri, 23 Feb 2024 14:55:45 +0000

A recent merge request on the Mesa Git repository added the initial support for allowing drivers to chose Zink as the translation layer for handling OpenGL.

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Mesa 23.3 is out now with the NVK Vulkan driver for NVIDIA

Liam Dawe — Thu, 30 Nov 2023 12:11:59 +0000

Developer Eric Engestrom announced yesterday the fresh release of the Mesa 23.3 open source graphics drivers.

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Intel Vulkan drivers on Linux should run more games with Mesa 24.0

Liam Dawe — Tue, 21 Nov 2023 11:46:36 +0000

While work is ongoing to provide brand new Intel Xe Vulkan drivers on Linux with their newer driver, work is still happening to improve the current driver.

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