Mesa 25.2.5 is out today as the newest bi-weekly point release for these open-source OpenGL and Vulkan drivers. Particularly if you are on Intel graphics of Battlemage or Lunar Lake and potentially older, Mesa 25.2.5 contains a very important bug fix for various rendering issues and potential game hangs/crashes.
Mesa 25.2.5 back-ports the Intel driver fix covered earlier this week in Intel Lands Big Linux GPU Driver Fix: Fixing Rendering Issues & Game Hangs/Crashes. Known to be a big help for at least Lunar Lake / Battlemage Xe2 graphics, this fix corrects a number of rendering issues plaguing a wide variety of games as well as being a culprit for some game crashes/hangs. It’s very important for a better Intel graphics Linux gaming experience:
Mesa 25.2.5 also brings some Radeon video acceleration fixes, several Zink driver fixes, a Freedreno fix for XWayland, a few Radeon Vulkan (RADV) driver fixes, and other Intel driver fixes. Plus some random fixes to the smaller drivers too like Turnip and PanVK.
The full list of patches making up the Mesa 25.2.5 release can be found via today’s mailing list announcement.
