Mesa 23.3-rc3 was launched on Wednesday night time as the latest weekly launch candidate forward of the Mesa 23.3 launch as this quarter’s characteristic sequence for this assortment of OpenGL and Vulkan open-source drivers.
With the discharge blocker tracker for Mesa 23.3 all the way down to only one bug, a vertex attribute regression, it is attainable the Mesa 23.3 secure launch must be right here within the subsequent week or two.
With the Mesa 23.3-rc3 launch this week numerous fixes had been back-ported for serving to out the Rusticl driver, a couple of RADV Vulkan driver fixes, and even a couple of R600 fixes too. There’s additionally been a couple of fixes for Zink, NVK, NIR, and AGX.
Mesa 23.3 is a superb launch with the NVK Vulkan driver added, preliminary GFX11.5 AMD assist, preliminary Raspberry Pi 5 assist, extra Intel Arc Graphics optimizations, mesh shader assist by default for Intel ANV, and plenty of different adjustments particularly for the Intel and AMD Radeon open-source drivers. The likes of Rusticl and Zink have additionally obtained some good enhancements this cycle.
In the meantime Mesa 23.2 hasn’t seen a secure level launch in six weeks since its preliminary (belated) launch itself. So with how Mesa 23.3 is pacing it’s extremely nicely attainable Mesa 23.3 might be out as secure earlier than any replace for that present secure sequence.
