In addition to releasing Mesa 25.2-rc1 with its many new features to test, Mesa release manager Eric Engestrom today released Mesa 25.1.6 as the newest bi-weekly stable point release for last quarter’s series.
Mesa 25.1.6 collects the latest back of back-ported fixes while Mesa 25.2.0 works its way toward release around mid-August depending upon how the weekly release candidate dance plays out. Notable with Mesa 25.1.6 is that it back-ports the change to enable Intel Xe3 graphics by default in integrated form for the upcoming Panther Lake SoCs. Great seeing the Intel Panther Lake support getting all squared away ahead of the next-gen laptops hitting shelves in the coming months.
Some of the Mesa 25.1.6 highlights include:
– The Intel ANV and Iris graphics drivers treat Xe3 Panther Lake integrated graphics as enabled by default. Panther Lake OpenGL and Vulkan support is now in good shape with Mesa 25.1.6+ or Mesa 25.2+. You’ll also want to be using the Linux 6.17+ kernel for having out-of-the-box support with the Xe kernel graphics driver.
– Fix tiling for H.265 and VP9 video content for Vulkan Video with the Intel ANV driver on GFX12.5+ hardware.
– The Intel ANV driver now increases the maximum number of vertex buffers to 33 on Gen11+ harware.
– Various Zink OpenGL-on-Vulkan driver fixes.
– Several Radeon RADV Vulkan driver fixes, including fixes for GFX12 (RDNA4), a GFX10 through GFX11.5 (RDNA 1 through RDNA 3.5) workaround, and other fixes.
– A workaround for legacy OpenGL with the Team Fortress 2 game.
– Various other bug fixes.
More details via today’s 25.1.6 release announcement.
