Mesa, the open-source graphics stack for Linux-based operating systems, has been updated to this week to version 17.2.5, the fifth stability update to the Mesa 17.2 series.
While Mesa devs are still working hard on the next major release of the graphics stack, Mesa 17.3, which is expected to arrive next week with numerous exciting new features and enhancements for Intel and AMD Radeon GPUs, they pushed another maintenance update to Mesa 17.2 to fix bugs, memory leaks, hangs, and other issues.
For AMD GPUs, Mesa 17.2.5 brings various improvements to the AMD Radeon RADV Vulkan drive, including a fix for a GPU hang with Vulkan Dota 2 in VR mode, a correction for a DCC corruption visible with Rust, a memory leak, as well as an endless loop in the r600 driver.
For Intel gamers, the Mesa 17.2.5 update addresses a memory leak in the Intel i965 OpenGL open-source graphics driver, and another one in the compiler, avoiding GPU hangs with Intel Broxton chips. The Gallium i91… (read more)
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