In addition to releasing [1]Mesa 25.2-rc1 with its many new features to test , Mesa release manager Eric Engestrom today released Mesa 25.1.6 as the newest bi-weekly stable point release for last quarter's series.

Mesa 25.1.6 collects the latest back of back-ported fixes while Mesa 25.2.0 works its way toward release around mid-August depending upon how the weekly release candidate dance plays out. Notable with Mesa 25.1.6 is that it back-ports the change to enable Intel [2]Xe3 graphics by default in integrated form for the upcoming [3]Panther Lake SoCs. Great seeing the Intel Panther Lake support getting all squared away ahead of the next-gen laptops hitting shelves in the coming months.

Some of the Mesa 25.1.6 highlights include:

- The Intel ANV and Iris graphics drivers treat Xe3 Panther Lake integrated graphics as enabled by default. [4]Panther Lake OpenGL and Vulkan support is now in good shape with Mesa 25.1.6+ or Mesa 25.2+. You'll also want to be using [5]the Linux 6.17+ kernel for having out-of-the-box support with the Xe kernel graphics driver.

- Fix tiling for H.265 and VP9 video content for Vulkan Video with the Intel ANV driver on GFX12.5+ hardware.

- The Intel ANV driver now increases the maximum number of vertex buffers to 33 on Gen11+ harware.

- Various Zink OpenGL-on-Vulkan driver fixes.

- Several Radeon RADV Vulkan driver fixes, including fixes for GFX12 (RDNA4), a GFX10 through GFX11.5 (RDNA 1 through RDNA 3.5) workaround, and other fixes.

- A workaround for legacy OpenGL with the Team Fortress 2 game.

- Various other bug fixes.

More details via today's [6]25.1.6 release announcement .



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

[2] https://www.phoronix.com/search/Xe3

[3] https://www.phoronix.com/search/Panther+Lake

[4] https://www.phoronix.com/news/Intel-Panther-Lake-Mesa-Default

[5] https://www.phoronix.com/news/Intel-Xe-Driver-Linux-6.17-Big

[6] https://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/mesa-dev/2025-July/226524.html