{"id":240718,"date":"2026-05-07T03:47:00","date_gmt":"2026-05-07T07:47:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/07\/mesa-26-1-0-released-bringing-lots-of-linux-graphics-driver-enhancements\/"},"modified":"2026-05-07T04:10:08","modified_gmt":"2026-05-07T08:10:08","slug":"mesa-26-1-0-released-bringing-lots-of-linux-graphics-driver-enhancements","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/07\/mesa-26-1-0-released-bringing-lots-of-linux-graphics-driver-enhancements\/","title":{"rendered":"Mesa 26.1.0 released bringing lots of Linux graphics driver enhancements"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.gamingonlinux.com\/2026\/05\/mesa-26-1-0-released-bringing-lots-of-linux-graphics-driver-enhancements\/\">Mesa 26.1.0 released bringing lots of Linux graphics driver enhancements<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.gamingonlinux.com\/2026\/05\/mesa-26-1-0-released-bringing-lots-of-linux-graphics-driver-enhancements\/\">https:\/\/www.gamingonlinux.com\/2026\/05\/mesa-26-1-0-released-bringing-lots-of-linux-graphics-driver-enhancements\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Publish Date: <a href=\"publish_date]\">2026-05-07 03:47:00<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source Domain: <a href=\"www.gamingonlinux.com\">www.gamingonlinux.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Mesa 26.1.0 is out now as the latest new-feature release of open source graphics drivers for Linux, with upgraded Vulkan support and performance improvements.<\/p>\n<p>The official news post is not out yet, but the mailing list announcement went out last night. Noted in the announcement:<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; VirGL is no longer considered maintained any more. Unless someone steps up to maintain it in the long run, the code is likely to start bit-rotting and might eventually be removed. We recommend users start moving over to other solutions sooner rather than later.<br \/>&#8211; Intel i915 Iris, Crocus and ANV (excluding HASVK) drivers got VirtIO-GPU native-context driver support for a thinner\/faster Intel GPU paravirtualization in a VM.<br \/>&#8211; OpenGL ES 2.0 is now supported on PowerVR GPUs via Zink.<br \/>&#8211; Static C++ stdlib is now required on rusticl to workaround applications using their own C++ stdlib.<\/p>\n<p>You can expect the usual set of improvements across all the different drivers in Mesa for Intel, AMD, NVIDIA and others. There&#8217;s all of these new extensions and features added:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>GL_NV_timeline_semaphore on radeonsi<\/li>\n<li>VK_QCOM_image_processing on Turnip<\/li>\n<li>VK_EXT_present_timing on RADV, NVK, Turnip, ANV, Honeykrisp, panvk<\/li>\n<li>VK_KHR_sampler_ycbcr_conversion on pvr<\/li>\n<li>VK_EXT_image_drm_format_modifier on pvr<\/li>\n<li>VK_KHR_internally_synchronized_queues on RADV<\/li>\n<li>VK_EXT_blend_operation_advanced on lavapipe<\/li>\n<li>VK_KHR_get_surface_capabilities2 on panvk<\/li>\n<li>VK_KHR_get_display_properties2 on panvk<\/li>\n<li>VK_EXT_acquire_drm_display on panvk<\/li>\n<li>VK_KHR_present_id on panvk, v3dv<\/li>\n<li>VK_KHR_present_wait on panvk, v3dv<\/li>\n<li>VK_KHR_pipeline_executable_properties on pvr<\/li>\n<li>VK_EXT_zero_initialize_device_memory on panvk<\/li>\n<li>GL_EXT_shader_image_load_store on panfrost<\/li>\n<li>VK_KHR_swapchain_mutable_format on panvk<\/li>\n<li>VK_EXT_astc_decode_mode on panvk<\/li>\n<li>VK_KHR_copy_memory_indirect on nvk, RADV\/GFX8+<\/li>\n<li>VK_EXT_color_write_enable on panvk<\/li>\n<li>VK_EXT_hdr_metadata on v3dv<\/li>\n<li>VK_EXT_image_view_min_lod on panvk<\/li>\n<li>VK_EXT_depth_clamp_control on&#8230;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.gamingonlinux.com\/2026\/05\/mesa-26-1-0-released-bringing-lots-of-linux-graphics-driver-enhancements\/\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mesa 26.1.0 released bringing lots of Linux graphics driver enhancements https:\/\/www.gamingonlinux.com\/2026\/05\/mesa-26-1-0-released-bringing-lots-of-linux-graphics-driver-enhancements\/ Publish Date: 2026-05-07 03:47:00&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":240719,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.gamingonlinux.com\/uploads\/tagline_gallery\/mesa.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[48],"tags":[71],"class_list":["post-240718","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-linux","tag-linux"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/240718"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=240718"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/240718\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":240721,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/240718\/revisions\/240721"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/240719"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=240718"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=240718"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=240718"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}