Mesa 17.2.6 Linux Graphics Stack Brings Many Fixes for Intel and AMD Radeon GPUs

While Mesa 17.3 is still in the works, the development team released this past weekend a new maintenance update to the current stable series of the open-source graphics stack for GNU/Linux distributions.

Mesa 17.2.6 is now available and brings many new fixes for Intel and AMD Radeon GPUs, including improvements to SIMD32 and little-core for the Intel i965 OpenGL driver and a fix for a GPU hang that occurred when playing hardware-accelerated video with the MPV open-source video player.

For AMD Radeon GPUs, the Mesa 17.2.6 update plugs not one but two memory leaks from the Radeon RADV Vulkan driver, and fixes an issue with the reversing of the tess factor components for isolines. on the r600 driver. On the other hand, Mesa 17.2.6 fixes two performance regressions for the SWR driver and addresses a use-after-free bug in the Gallium driver.

GLSL and SPIR-V compilers get more fixes, as well as EGL and GLX

Under the hood, Mesa Core gets a fix for a use... (read more)

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