[1]Mesa 24.2 is barreling towards its stable release in August while out today is the third weekly release candidate for this set of open-source OpenGL, Vulkan, and video acceleration drivers.

Nesa 24.2-rc3 ships the latest week's worth of fixes to the various drivers. Notable this week are a number of fixes for Intel's upcoming Xe2 graphics with Lunar Lake and Battlemage.

Intel Xe2 fixes ensure SIMD16 mode for the fast-clear kernel, fixing assertion failures on Battlemage, disabling legacy CCS setup and compression on legacy modifiers, and fixing the protected ISL mask for Xe2. Meanwhile on the kernel driver side, [2]Intel is trying to have Xe2 graphics ready as stable for Linux 6.12 .

Mesa 24.2-rc3 also has various other Intel graphics driver fixes, including a few fixes to the aging i915 Gallium3D driver. Plus there are a handful of Rusticl OpenCL driver fixes, some LLVMpipe fixes, two EGL on Haiku OS fixes, and other random fixes throughout. See the full list with today's [3]24.2-rc3 announcement .

[4]Mesa 24.1.5 is also out today for those sticking to the bi-weekly Mesa stable point releases. There it's the usual assortment of bug fixes throughout.



[1] https://www.phoronix.com/search/Mesa+24.2

[2] https://www.phoronix.com/news/Intel-Xe-DRM-Next-Linux-6.12

[3] https://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/mesa-dev/2024-July/226290.html

[4] https://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/mesa-dev/2024-July/226289.html