Even amid the ongoing FreeDesktop.org GitLab cloud/server migration, Eric Engestrom has managed to release Mesa 25.0.2 on schedule as the newest stable release for these open-source OpenGL and Vulkan drivers for Linux systems.
There are a lot of fixes bundled up into Mesa 25.0.2 affecting all of the prominent drivers. On the AMD side there are fixes from addressing the software FP64 support in R600g for the pre-GCN Radeon graphics cards to at the other end of the spectrum bringing fixes for the brand new Radeon RX 9000 “RDNA4” graphics cards. A wild mix of changes/fixes spanning a wide range of hardware…
Some of the specific Mesa 25.0.2 highlights include:
– Several RADV fixes for the AMD RDNA4 (GFX12) GPUs like the recently launched Radeon RX 9070 series. Among the fixes are for a possible GPU hang with inherited rendering and HiZ/HiS usage.
– A fix for the aging software FP64 support found with the old Radeon R600g driver. With this change the software FP64 support is considered “fully operational”.
– The RADV driver now enables invariant geometry for the DOOM (2016) game.
– Several Rusticl OpenCL fixes.
– A fix for register spilling on Intel Xe2 graphics and newer, among other Intel driver fixes.
– The NVK driver now allows rendering to linear images with unaligned strides, among other fixes to this NVIDIA Vulkan driver.
– A DRIRC addition to help Resident Evil 2.
– A few video playback related fixes.
See the release announcement for the full list of Mesa 25.0.2 patches.
