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mesa 23.3.0-rc2

posted by Roy Schestowitz on Nov 01, 2023

Hello everyone,


I'm happy to announce the second release candidate, 23.3.0-rc2.


As always, if you find any issues please report them here:
https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/mesa/mesa/-/issues/new


Any issue that should block the release of 23.3.0 final, thus adding
more 23.3.0-rc* release candidates, must be added to this milestone:
https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/mesa/mesa/-/milestones/44


The next release candidate is expected in one week, on November 8th.


Cheers,
  Eric


---


Alyssa Rosenzweig (4):
      hasvk: Support builiding on non-Intel
      crocus: Support building on non-Intel
      meson: Add vulkan-drivers=all option
      meson: Add gallium-drivers=all option


Caio Oliveira (1):
      anv: Fix leak when compiling internal kernels


Corentin Noël (1):
      mesa/bufferobj: ensure that very large width+offset are always rejected


Danylo Piliaiev (1):
      tu: Fix reading of stale (V)PC_PRIMITIVE_CNTL_0


Eric Engestrom (5):
      .pick_status.json: Update to e64a97694ac9dc97f65e1a8e91a5c9789109fd2c
      .pick_status.json: Update to 4cdd094ae1e97d857a6b9dbc291d7bbe6ea266ac
      .pick_status.json: Update to e4a1bc70dd739ca8addddc940af08312b038e288
      .pick_status.json: Update to faed5d647f2416bb0ce3a9d33a3955169c70dc52
      VERSION: bump for 23.3.0-rc2


Faith Ekstrand (1):
      nir/lower_bit_size: Fix subgroup lowering for floats


Iago Toral Quiroga (1):
      v3d,v3dv: fix MMU error from hardware prefetch after ldunifa


Ian Romanick (1):
      nir/split_vars: Don't split arrays of cooperative matrix types


Juston Li (6):
      venus: add helper function to get cmd handle
      venus: refactor out common cmd feedback functions
      venus: support deferred query feedback recording
      venus: track/recycle appended query feedback cmds
      venus: append query feedback at submission time
      venus: switch to unconditionally deferred query feedback


Karol Herbst (9):
      rusticl/device: restrict image_buffer_size
      rusticl/device: restrict param_max_size further
      rusticl/mem: properly set pipe_image_view::access
      zink: lower fisnormal as it requires the Kernel Cap
      radv: fix buffers in vkGetDescriptorEXT with size not aligned to 4
      rusticl/queue: Only take a weak ref to the last Event
      rusticl/mesa: pass PIPE_BIND_LINEAR in resource_create_texture_from_user
      zink: deallocate global_bindings array
      rusticl/mesa/screen: do not derefence the entire pipe_screen struct


Lionel Landwerlin (3):
      intel/fs: fix dynamic interpolation mode selection
      anv/meson: add missing dependency on the interface header
      anv: fix corner case of mutable descriptor pool creation


Marek Olšák (1):
      radeonsi: initialize perfetto in the right place


Mike Blumenkrantz (12):
      zink: don't block large vram allocations
      zink: add copy box locking
      zink: emit SpvCapabilitySampleRateShading with SampleId
      zink: always set VK_EXTERNAL_MEMORY_HANDLE_TYPE_HOST_ALLOCATION_BIT_EXT for usermem
      zink: clamp resolve extents to src/dst geometry
      zink: only emit xfb execution mode for last vertex stage
      aux/u_transfer_helper: set rendertarget bind for msaa staging resource
      zink: unset explicit_xfb_buffer for non-xfb shaders
      mesa/st/texture: match width+height for texture downloads of cube textures
      zink: add more locking for compute pipelines
      radv: correctly return oom from the device when failing to create a cs
      zink: check for cbuf0 writes before setting A2C


Neha Bhende (1):
      ntt: lower indirect tesslevels in ntt


Samuel Pitoiset (5):
      ac/gpu_info: remove bogus assertion about number of COMPUTE/SDMA queues
      radv: fix a synchronization issue with primitives generated query on RDNA1-2
      radv: bind the non-dynamic graphics state from the pipeline unconditionally
      radv: fix compute shader invocations query on compute queue on GFX6
      radv: emit COMPUTE_PIPELINESTAT_ENABLE for CS invocations on ACE


Sil Vilerino (1):
      d3d12: d3d12_video_buffer_create_impl - Fix resource importing


git tag: mesa-23.3.0-rc2

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