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Mesa 24.2-rc1 Released With Many OpenGL & Vulkan Driver Improvements
Eric Engestrom is once again serving as the Mesa release manager and today took to forking the Mesa 24.2 codebase followed by issuing the first release candidate
Mesa 24.2 is to be the Q3'2024 feature release for this set of predominantly OpenGL and Vulkan drivers commonly used by Linux systems and most notably with AMD Radeon and Intel graphics from the Linux desktop but growing NVK use for NVIDIA Vulkan support, various use-cases under Windows Subsystem for Linux, and also the assortment of smaller GPU drivers such as for different Arm SoCs. Mesa 24.2 also brings a new shader cache implementation, a number of V3DV Vulkan improvements for the Raspberry Pi 5, and continued Lavapipe and Zink enhancements. For less than $4 USD per month, you can help support our site while the funds generated allow us to keep doing Linux hardware reviews, performance benchmarking, maintain our community forums, and much more.
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