Mesa 17.0.1 Promises More Gallium and RadeonSI Improvements, First RC Out Now

Mesa 17.0.1 promises to be a hefty maintenance update that addresses approximately 70 issues discovered since last month’s release of Mesa 17.0.0. Fixes have been implemented across all of the supported open-source drivers, including but not limited to RadeonSI, Gallium, Intel i965, Nouveau, Radeon RADV and Intel ANV Vulkan ones. The Mesa 17.0.1 also promises to add a GLVND fix for the “The Binding of Isaac: Rebirth” game, as well as various other games, a patch has already been implemented in the Mesa 13.0.5 maintenance update at the end of February 2017. Additionally, a couple of fixes were added for the VC4 and Etnaviv drivers.