Prominent new features of Mesa 17.0.0 include OpenGL 4.5 support for Intel Haswell GPUs, support for multiple devices with the Radeon “RADV” Vulkan driver, the Intel “ANV” Vulkan driver now supports tessellation shader and Float64, Freedreno driver supports a5xx, and Nvidia Maxwell cards now support OpenGL 4.3. The r600/RadeonSI drivers also received a bunch of performance improvements, and they can now handle H.264/MPEG-4 AVC Level 5.2 encoding and provide Polaris12 support. VDPAU (Video Decode and Presentation API for Unix) now uses DRI3 to directly send the buffer to the X server.