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Mesa 26.2.5 Released with Bug Fixes for NVK, RADV, ANV, PanVK, Other Drivers

Mesa 26.2.5, the fifth bugfix update for the Mesa 26.2 stable series, was released today. This update provides various improvements across several open-source graphics drivers. Affected drivers includ...

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Mesa 26.2 Released: NVK Gains Mesh Shaders, Vulkan Improvements Across Drivers

Mesa 26.2, the latest quarterly feature release for open source OpenGL and Vulkan drivers, was released today. This update introduces NVK mesh shader support, a significant advancement for NVIDIA GPU ...

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NVK Vulkan Performance Nears NVIDIA Proprietary Driver with Mesa 26.2 Updates

Recent testing indicates continued performance improvements for the open-source NVK Vulkan driver, which integrates with the Nouveau kernel driver for NVIDIA GPUs. With optimizations delivered in the ...

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NVK Vulkan Driver in Mesa 26.2-devel Adds DLSS Functionality

The open-source NVIDIA NVK Vulkan driver now supports Deep Learning Super Sampling (DLSS). Code enabling this functionality was merged today, June 20, 2026, into the Mesa 26.2-devel branch. According ...

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Phoronix Benchmarks Linux 7.0 Nouveau/NVK Performance Against NVIDIA Driver

Phoronix recently published a new round of benchmarks evaluating the performance of the fully open-source NVIDIA Linux driver stack. The testing utilized the Nouveau kernel driver, the Mesa NVK Vulkan...

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Linux 7.0 Kernel Fixes Nouveau Large Pages for NVK Performance

The forthcoming Linux 7.0 kernel is expected to resolve bugs preventing the Mesa NVK driver from utilizing large page support and compression within the Nouveau kernel driver. This functionality, whic...

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