Mesa 26.2.2 Enables Intel Nova Lake Graphics By Default
([Mesa] 5 Hours Ago
Mesa 26.2.2)
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- News link: https://www.phoronix.com/news/Mesa-26.2.2-Released
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Mesa 26.2.2 is out today as the newest bi-weekly stable point release for these open-source OpenGL and Vulkan drivers.
Most noticeable with Mesa 26.2.2 is that it back-ports a patch from Mesa 26.3-devel for promoting Intel's Nova Lake S, Nova Lake H, Nova Lake HX, and Nova Lake U integrated graphics to being enabled by default. A few weeks back Mesa Git landed the change for [1]promoting Intel's ANV Vulkan and Iris Gallium3D drivers to Nova Lake graphics by default rather than requiring a force override environment variable. This follows [2]Linux 7.3 promoting Nova Lake graphics to stable and no longer needing its force_probe module parameter override.
With Mesa 26.2.2, the Nova Lake graphics is in good shape so the on-by-default patch was back-ported rather than having to wait for next quarter's Mesa 26.3 release.
There are also some RADV and ACO fixes, a number of PowerVR PCO fixes, and a variety of other small fixes throughout. The full list of Mesa 26.2.2 changes can be found via the [3]mailing list announcement .
[1] https://www.phoronix.com/news/Intel-Mesa-Nova-Lake-Stable
[2] https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-7.3-Intel-NVL-S-Stable
[3] https://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/mesa-dev/2026-September/226697.html
Most noticeable with Mesa 26.2.2 is that it back-ports a patch from Mesa 26.3-devel for promoting Intel's Nova Lake S, Nova Lake H, Nova Lake HX, and Nova Lake U integrated graphics to being enabled by default. A few weeks back Mesa Git landed the change for [1]promoting Intel's ANV Vulkan and Iris Gallium3D drivers to Nova Lake graphics by default rather than requiring a force override environment variable. This follows [2]Linux 7.3 promoting Nova Lake graphics to stable and no longer needing its force_probe module parameter override.
With Mesa 26.2.2, the Nova Lake graphics is in good shape so the on-by-default patch was back-ported rather than having to wait for next quarter's Mesa 26.3 release.
There are also some RADV and ACO fixes, a number of PowerVR PCO fixes, and a variety of other small fixes throughout. The full list of Mesa 26.2.2 changes can be found via the [3]mailing list announcement .
[1] https://www.phoronix.com/news/Intel-Mesa-Nova-Lake-Stable
[2] https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-7.3-Intel-NVL-S-Stable
[3] https://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/mesa-dev/2026-September/226697.html