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Mesa 19.3 released with huge updates for Linux open source graphics drivers

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Arriving in time before the holiday season, Mesa 19.3 has now been officially released giving all open source Linux graphics drivers some big boosts and new features.

What is Mesa? Is it a tasty biscuit? Do I have Mesa? If you have an AMD or Intel GPU then yes, you will be using Mesa (unless you changed it, 99% of distributions come with Mesa out of the box) and it's what powers your GPU enabling it to talk to OpenGL and Vulkan.

Don't be too hasty to upgrade right away though, with brand new releases there's always a few gremlins hiding ready to crash your games. The Mesa team always suggest waiting for the first point release 19.3.1 if you're concerned with stability and reliability.

If you're looking for a user-friendly list of what's new, the official 19.3 release notes are not the droids you're looking for. Thankfully, Phoronix has their usual feature overview. In this release you can expect support for the new ACO shader compiler which Valve funded, OpenGL 4.6 support for Intel GPUs, many more Vulkan extensions support added, support for newer AMD and Intel GPUs, bug fixes, performance improvements and so on.

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Koopacabras Dec 13, 2019
anyone with a PPA that has it already?? oibaf it's on 20.0-dev and sometimes padoka just takes too long.
tuubi Dec 13, 2019
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Quoting: The_Aquabatanyone with a PPA that has it already?? oibaf it's on 20.0-dev and sometimes padoka just takes too long.
This is a good one.
Shmerl Dec 13, 2019
Good to see AMD usage reaching more than one third on GOL and gradually growing. A big driver is advancement of Mesa:



Also, the pace seems to have slightly accelerated after Navi release in July 2019.


Last edited by Shmerl on 13 December 2019 at 7:38 pm UTC
Koopacabras Dec 13, 2019
Quoting: tuubi
Quoting: The_Aquabatanyone with a PPA that has it already?? oibaf it's on 20.0-dev and sometimes padoka just takes too long.
This is a good one.

thanks, in my testing ACO from 19.3 it's just 1 or 2 fps behind of valve master aco, but I prefer using this because valve's repos it's sometimes bugged over the OpenGL driver.
KuJo Dec 15, 2019
Quoting: The_Aquabatanyone with a PPA that has it already?? oibaf it's on 20.0-dev and sometimes padoka just takes too long.

Take the one kisak provides:
-> https://launchpad.net/~kisak/+archive/ubuntu/kisak-mesa
tuubi Dec 15, 2019
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Quoting: The_Aquabatanyone with a PPA that has it already?? oibaf it's on 20.0-dev and sometimes padoka just takes too long.

Take the one kisak provides:
-> https://launchpad.net/~kisak/+archive/ubuntu/kisak-mesa
That's the one I linked. :)
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