In addition to releasing 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.

Mesa 25.2 is now branched and thus under a feature freeze and with Mesa 25.2-rc1 having just been released. This marks the start of weekly release candidates until the Mesa 25.2 stable release is ready to ship sometime in August.

Mesa 25.2 is an especially exciting quarterly feature release given the many great changes included -- especially for the Radeon RADV and RadeonSI drivers, the Intel ANV and Iris drivers, and the NVIDIA NVK driver.

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Similar to the 3D class header files previously open-sourced by NVIDIA for prior generation GPUs, yesterday NVIDIA carried out a similar open-source move to publish all the 3D class header files for their newest Blackwell graphics processors.

These are all of the header files pertaining to programming the 3D engine of the Blackwell GPUs and useful for the open-source Linux driver efforts like the NVK Mesa Vulkan driver.

This commit yesterday to the NVIDIA open-source GPU documentation repository adds all of the 3D class header

It's a very busy week for the open-source OpenGL and Vulkan drivers leading up to the Mesa 25.2 code branching. On top of RADV ray-tracing improvements , Vulkan 1.2 conformance for Kepler GPUs , Xe3 Panther Lake graphics enabled by default , and many other last minute changes, over the past week has also been a push getting more AMD FidelityFX Super Resolution 4 "FSR 4" improvements merged for the Radeon RADV driver.

Hitting Mesa Git this morning were yet another round of

One of the early changes for the LLVM 22 compiler stack now in development is completing the removal of support for Google's Native Client "NaCl".

The Google Native Client sandboxing tech was interesting when first conceived, but WebAssembly (WASM) has been superior for years for running native code within web browsers. Google phased out its official Native Client support in 2022 while now in 2025 the LLVM compiler stack is removing its support for being able to build any new NaCl/PNaCl binaries

Canonical announced today that they teamed up with ESWIN Computing to ship Ubuntu Linux as the preferred operating system on their ESWIN Computing EBC77 Series single board computer.

The RISC-V-based ESWIN Computing EBC77 makes use of an ESWIN EIC7700X SoC providing four cores at 1.8GHz and a self-developed NPU rated for 20 TOPS, Imagination PowerVR graphics, and LPDDR5-6400 memory support. With a self-developed neural processing unit (NPU)

The Intel Media Driver is out with its quarterly feature release for bringing all of the latest open-source video acceleration improvements for Intel graphics hardware on Linux. Enhancing support for upcoming Panther Lake SoCs continues to be a primary focus.

On the kernel graphics side Panther Lake is ready with Linux 6.17 and the OpenGL and Vulkan driver support is now ready too . When it comes to VA-API based video acceleration via the Intel Media Driver, Panther Lake support is also being squared away.

Hyprland 0.50 is out today as the newest feature release for this Wayland compositor focused on delivering a lot of Linux desktop bling.

Hyprland 0.50 drops its legacy renderer and thus now requires graphics drivers to support at least OpenGL ES 3.0. Hyprland 0.50 also foregoes providing an explicit sync setting any longer as now explicit sync support is always used by default.

One of the notable additions in Hyprland 0.50 is new render scheduling that is able to dynamically switch to triple