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Kernel, Mesa Release Candidate, and Gaming Performance

posted by Roy Schestowitz on Nov 10, 2023

Barry Kauler ☛ Fixed waiting for kernel video drivers to load

Have implemented various fixes, including this. See commit: [...]

Free Desktop ☛ mesa 23.3.0-rc3

Hello everyone,


I'm happy to announce the next release candidate, 23.3.0-rc3.


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 15th.


Cheers,
  Eric

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