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Mesa's Lavapipe Driver Now Exposes Vulkan 1.4


In time for the upcoming release of Mesa 25.0, Mesa's Lavapipe software Vulkan API implementation is now the latest driver exposing Vulkan 1.4 support.

In time for the upcoming release of Mesa 25.0, Mesa's Lavapipe software Vulkan API implementation is now the latest driver exposing Vulkan 1.4 support. Outside of Mesa, the NVIDIA proprietary driver stack had an immediate beta and AMDVLK in late December released an update with Vulkan 1.4 support. Now the latest driver joining the Vulkan 1.4 part is the Lavapipe software/CPU-based implementation.

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