Mesa 17.2 Graphics Stack Released, Brings Many Improvements for Linux Gamers

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  • Post Updated: April 3, 2024

Collabora’s Emil Velikov is pleased to announce the release and general availability of the Mesa 17.2 graphics stack for GNU/Linux operating systems, which is a major version adding lots of improvements.

Mesa 17.2 has been in development for the past several weeks, during which it received no less than six Release Candidate (RC) snapshots, which implemented all the goodies that many Linux users will soon be able to enjoy on their personal computers, especially if they’re gamers.

“The release consists of 3300 commits from approximately 130 developers,” said Emil Velikov. “Feature wise, this release mainly focuses on hardware driver improvements, although common code paths has also seen some love. For example, the XvMC and OMX state trackers now work with DRI3, EGL has support for modifiers.”

Highlights of Mesa 17… (read more)

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