Eric Engestrom is out with another on-time Mesa release. Mesa 26.0-rc3 provides the latest week’s worth of bug fixes as we work toward the stable Mesa 26.0 release as soon as next week.
Mesa 26.0-rc3 picks up the newly-merged change for disabling Intel Vulkan Video encode on newer graphics hardware — Alchemist and Meteor Lake and newer — due to current bugs and insufficient testing. Mesa 26.0-rc3 also has two fixes around ANV’s Vulkan Video AV1 support.
This week’s release candidate also has some common Vulkan code fixes, the NVIDIA NVK driver now reporting additional host_image_copy layouts, other Intel ANV driver fixes, and also several RADV ray-tracing fixes plus other Radeon driver fixes in general.
The full list of Mesa 26.0-rc3 patches can be found via today’s release announcement.
Mesa 26.0 stable could be out next Wednesday if all goes well. At the moment there are no blocker bugs around code pending — just an action item for writing up the release announcement email. So as it stands now are good chances of seeing Mesa 26.0 stable on 11 February rather than having to go with a Mesa 26.0-rc4 release.
