It had been two years since the last update to the AMDGPU X.Org DDX driver but now xf86-video-amdgpu 25.0.0 is now available for those relying on this driver/hardware-specific driver for X.Org enabled Linux systems rather than the xf86-video-modesetting generic driver or a Wayland-based desktop.
Coming as a surprise is xf86-video-amdgpu 25.0 as the successor to xf86-video-amdgpu 23.0 that released back in February 2023… While two years have passed, there still aren’t too many changes in this xf86-video-amdgpu 25.0 release.
The updated xf86-video-amdgpu 25.0 release drops compatibility with “ancient” X.Org Server versions, brings various low-level fixes, GitLab / Continuous Integration churn, and improved man page formatting. For those building xf86-video-amdgpu 25.0, it does drop the Autotools build system support and now depends upon Meson.
Arguably the two most interesting patches of xf86-video-amdgpu 25.0 are the handling of color management properties and correctly checking the GFX12 (RDNA4) swizzle mode.
For those making use of the xf86-video-amdgpu 25.0 DDX, downloads and more details via the mailing list announcement.
While two years between DDX releases may seem like a long time, it’s now been ten years since the last xf86-video-intel release that itself was just a development snapshot, due to now just focusing on the generic xf86-video-modesetting DDX for X.Org Server Intel graphics customers.
