Mesa 25.3.6 released as the last bug fix for this driver series

By Liam Dawe - 23 Feb 2026 at 10:41 am UTC

Mesa 25.3.6 has released and is the last planned bug fix for this driver series, with the developers now moving on to focus on Mesa 26 and beyond.

Bug fixes noted for this release:

[radeonsi] Regression: GL_FEEDBACK returns 0.0 for X-coordinates (Legacy GL)

venus crashes in vn_CreateDevice() with latest mesa/main [bisected]

Question: Does building Lavapipe on Windows require building “microsoft-experimental” as well?

[ANV][DG2][Regression]: Flickering water “boxes” in Civilization VII

mesa: deleting a buffer bound only to an index also undoes the associated general target binding

[ANV][PTL] R.E.P.O. GPU Hang

Pictured - R.E.P.O

If you want to continue receiving support, you'll need to upgrade to Mesa 26 - the best time being when Mesa 26.0.1 is released on February 25th. Here's the current release schedule for future Mesa drivers:

Branch	Expected date	Release	Notes
26.0	2026-02-25	26.0.1
	2026-03-11	26.0.2
	2026-03-25	26.0.3
	2026-04-08	26.0.4
	2026-04-22	26.0.5
	2026-05-06	26.0.6
	2026-05-20	26.0.7	Last planned 26.0 release
26.1	2026-04-15	26.1.0-rc1	26.1 branchpoint
	2026-04-22	26.1.0-rc2
	2026-04-29	26.1.0-rc3
	2026-05-06	26.1.0-rc4	or 26.1.0 final

Article taken from GamingOnLinux.com.

Tags: Drivers, Mesa, New Release, Open Source

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AsciiWolf 2 hours ago

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Meanwhile, the upcoming Ubuntu 26.04 LTS is still on Mesa 25.3.3.

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