NVIDIA 580.159.03 driver released for Linux with some essential fixes

Along with the small release of NVIDIA 595.71.05 yesterday for Linux, NVIDIA also updated the older driver branch with NVIDIA 580.159.03 driver out now too.

You'll need to stick with the 580 series if you're on an older NVIDIA GPU, as the 595 series dropped support for some including those on Maxwell, Pascal and Volta generations. That includes the likes of GeForce 700 series, GeForce 900 series and GeForce 10 series for desktops along with various notebook chips like 800M, 900M and GeForce 10 Series (Notebooks).

The highlights for this 580.159.03 release:

• Improved support for falling back to system memory when available video memory is low, to help prevent Wayland desktop freezes.
• Fixed a bug that caused nvidia-drm to report errors in the system log and fail to enumerate connectors on some DisplayPort MST configurations.
• Fixed a bug that could cause a kernel crash on driver initialization on some DisplayPort MST configurations.
• Fixed a regression introduced in the 575.xx driver series which prevented EGL-X11 applications from starting on SLI Mosaic.
• Fixed a bug that could cause flickering in VRR on some HDMI displays.
• Fixed a bug that could cause an Xid error to be reported in the system log, along with a VK_DEVICE_LOST API error, when repeatedly resizing Vulkan application windows.

Source: NVIDIA