It had been two years since the last update to the AMDGPU X.Org DDX driver but now xf86-video-amdgpu 25.0.0 is now available for those relying on this driver/hardware-specific driver for X.Org enabled Linux systems rather than the xf86-video-modesetting generic driver or a Wayland-based desktop.

Coming as a surprise is xf86-video-amdgpu 25.0 as the successor to xf86-video-amdgpu 23.0 that released back in February 2023... While two years have passed, there still aren't too many changes in this xf86-video-amdgpu 25.0 release.

The updated xf86-video-amdgpu 25.0 release drops compatibility with "ancient" X.Org Server versions, brings various low-level fixes, GitLab / Continuous Integration churn, and improved man page formatting. For those building xf86-video-amdgpu 25.0, it does drop the Autotools build system support and now depends upon Meson.

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Arguably the two most interesting patches of xf86-video-amdgpu 25.0 are the handling of color management properties and correctly checking the GFX12 (RDNA4) swizzle mode.

For those making use of the xf86-video-amdgpu 25.0 DDX, downloads and more details via the [2]mailing list announcement .

While two years between DDX releases may seem like a long time, it's now been ten years since [3]the last xf86-video-intel release that itself was just a development snapshot, due to now just focusing on the generic xf86-video-modesetting DDX for X.Org Server Intel graphics customers.



[1] https://www.phoronix.com/image-viewer.php?id=2025&image=xf86_amdgpu_25_lrg

[2] https://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/dri-devel/2025-July/517470.html

[3] https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/xorg/driver/xf86-video-intel/-/tags