Eric Engestrom is once again stepping up to manage the next quarterly Mesa driver feature release and thus today we have the on-time branching of Mesa 25.1 from Mesa Git and already the release of Mesa 25.1-rc1. This release brings many improvements to the collection of open-source OpenGL and Vulkan drivers that should be ready for their stable debut in May.

Mesa 25.1 brings a number of improvements for the Radeon RX 9000 series RDNA4/GFX12 support, numerous new Intel ANV and RADV Vulkan driver extensions, newer Arm Mali 4th Gen hardware support in Panfrost and PanVK, the Intel Linux graphics driver will be less restrictive over RAM use, deprecating Gallium Nine, various Intel Xe2 / Battlemage graphics improvements, Clover is deprecated in favor of Rusticl, Vulkan ray-tracing support for the Venus driver, Chromium VA-API support, GMLIB for the RadeonSI driver in working on HDR video support, Wayland color management for the Vulkan WSI, continuing to build out the NVK Vulkan API capabilities, low latency encoding for the RADV Vulkan Video handling, and a variety of other new features and performance optimizations.

The brief release announcement for Mesa 25.1-rc1 can be found on the Mesa mailing list .

Weekly release candidates of Mesa 25.1 are expected to continue until Mesa 25.1.0 is ready for release sometime in May depending upon how the rest of the release cycle plays out.