Mesa 23.3 has now been branched in Git and in flip that opens up the mainline code to starting characteristic work on what is going to grow to be Mesa 24.0 when it releases in Q1’2024.
Excellent Mesa launch supervisor Eric Engestrom is managing the Mesa 23.3 cycle and immediately branched the code from mainline Git as deliberate. In flip Mesa Git was bumped to Mesa 24.0-devel for starting characteristic work on the following quarter’s cycle.
Mesa 23.3-rc1 ought to be launched shortly and can see weekly launch candidates till the secure Mesa 23.3 launch is prepared probably someday by late November.
The Mesa 23.3 brings so much in retailer particularly numerous RADV Vulkan driver enhancements, preliminary AMD GFX11.5 / RDNA3 Refresh help, preliminary Raspberry Pi 5 OpenGL and Vulkan help (when operating a supported kernel), numerous Intel Arc Graphics optimizations have continued, extra environment friendly MSAA with AMD RDNA3 GPUs, preliminary Intel ANV Vulkan driver sparse help, mesh shader help by default for the Intel ANV driver, and the open-source NVIDIA “NVK” Vulkan driver has merged this cycle for that preliminary help. Different Mesa parts like Rusticl and Zink together with smaller {hardware} drivers just like the Asahi Gallium3D code have additionally seen a variety of good enhancements for Mesa 23.3.
