Eric Engestrom just released Mesa 25.2-rc2 as the newest, on-time weekly release candidate for this quarter's [1]Mesa 25.2 feature series.

A number of fixes have landed since last week's [2]Mesa 25.2-rc1 release that also marked the code branching / feature freeze . Some of the latest backports and fixes that are new to Mesa 25.2-rc2 include:

- The [3]Intel Wildcat Lake support in Mesa for open-source OpenGL and Vulkan driver support has now been back-ported from Mesa 25.3-devel to the Mesa 25.2 branch.

- The RadeonSI VCN code now correctly handles the tile swizzle. There are also some RADV Vulkan Video fixes.

- The NVK Vulkan driver and NAK compiler code for open-source NVIDIA driver support has seen some fixes around Blackwell and Hopper GPUs.

- Several Rusticl fixes.

- A few small Lavapipe fixes for that software-based Vulkan implementation.

- A few RADV driver fixes, including some specific to GFX12 / RDNA4.

- A Mesa workaround has been added for the game Interstellar Rift.

- The Meson build option of "legacy-x11" is now set as deprecated.

More details on all of the patches incorporated into this week's Mesa 25.2 release candidate can be found via the [4]Mesa-dev list .



[1] https://www.phoronix.com/search/Mesa+25.2

[2] https://www.phoronix.com/news/Mesa-25.2-rc1-Released

[3] https://www.phoronix.com/news/Intel-Wildcat-Lake-Mesa

[4] https://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/mesa-dev/2025-July/226536.html