After it has been delayed twice, the highly anticipated Ubuntu 16.04.2 LTS update is finally launching today, February 9, 2017, but it will include an older version of the Mesa 3D Graphics Library.
Many have hoped that the latest Mesa 13.0 series of the open source graphics stack will be included by default in this second point release to the Ubuntu 16.04 LTS (Xenial Xerus) series, which comes with updated kernel (Linux 4.8) and graphics stacks from Ubuntu 16.10 (Yakkety Yak), but that’s not going to happen according to Canonical’s Adam Conrad.
When user Mard Ward suggested Ubuntu developers to ship Mesa 13.0.4 by default in Ubuntu 16.04.2 LTS, Adam Conrad replied, “That’s not how this works. [Ubuntu] 16.04.2 will ship with the 16.10 X stack (including Mesa 12.0.6), and [Ubuntu] 16.04.3 will ship with the 17.04 stack… (read more)
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