The branching of Mesa 26.0, originally anticipated for last week, was delayed until today, January 21, 2026. This postponement allowed for the integration of several performance optimizations into the Radeon Vulkan driver, RADV. These enhancements were merged just prior to the Mesa 26.0 feature freeze and branching. The merged changes are intended to improve graphics performance for AMD GPUs that utilize the RADV driver within the upcoming Mesa 26.0 release cycle.