Eric Engestrom on Friday launched the fifth weekly launch candidate of Mesa 23.3 with this quarterly secure launch hopefully debuting within the subsequent week.
Mesa 23.3-rc5 is the most recent launch candidate resulting from a blocker bug remaining somewhat than going for the secure launch this week. The lone present blocker is a crash throughout the RadeonSI driver code that additionally occurs within the present Mesa 23.2.1 secure launch. However there’s a patch for that bug that believes to repair the problem so hopefully it is going to be queued within the coming days. Barring any new blocker bugs from showing, Mesa 23.3.0 may then be out subsequent week.
The Mesa 23.3-rc5 launch does incorporate many random fixes throughout the board from RADV to EGL frequent code, varied Intel driver fixes, some Zink fixes, and different principally small fixes.
Mesa 23.3 because the quarterly replace to Mesa3D introduces the NVK Vulkan driver, preliminary AMD GFX11.5 “RDNA3 refresh” help, preliminary Raspberry Pi 5 help, extra Intel Arc Graphics optimizations, mesh shader help by default for Intel ANV, and plenty of different adjustments particularly for the Intel and AMD Radeon open-source drivers.
With it now being eight weeks for the reason that unique Mesa 23.2.1 launch and no bi-weekly level releases since then and seemingly none in sight, hopefully Mesa 23.3.0 will handle to debut subsequent week for these Linux fans/players that desire sticking to launched variations. Mesa 23.3 must be a really good replace to this open-source Linux GPU stack to finish out 2023 whereas already so much could be discovered on Mesa Git for Mesa 24.0 in Q1.
