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mesa 24.3.0-rc2

posted by Roy Schestowitz on Nov 15, 2024,
updated Nov 15, 2024

Hi list,

We have a fairly small RC2 today, with a bit of work across the board. We currently only have 2 open blocking issues, and given that we delayed the branchpoint by 3 weeks, I wouldn't object to pulling in the RC period by 1 week and have rc3 rather than rc4 be the final release, if we can get all of the issues closed in time.
Cheers, Dylan
Changes since rc1 =================
Alyssa Rosenzweig (1): asahi: fix a2c with sample shading, harder
Chia-I Wu (1): panvk: ensure res table is restored after meta
Deborah Brouwer (1): ci/b2c: update RESULTS_DIR for .b2c-test jobs
Dylan Baker (4): .pick_status.json: Update to ced2404cb433deaa84cf6cf9edce212733117c0b .pick_status.json: Update to 5e0b81413de588803c9a0736acd8decd40d19ab6 .pick_status.json: Update to b0c9789bc1ed808d29f642e9445599dc85896444 VERSION: bump for 24.3.0-rc2 release
Eric Engestrom (4): meson: bump spirv-tools version needed to v2022.1 ci: move error handling functions at the end ci: use quiet alias for commands ci: raise priority of release manager pipelines
Hans-Kristian Arntzen (1): vulkan/wsi/wayland: Use X11-style image count strategy when using FIFO.
Ian Romanick (3): brw/emit: Add correct 3-source instruction assertions for each platform brw/copy: Don't copy propagate through smaller entry dest size brw/cse: Don't eliminate instructions that write flags
Iván Briano (1): intel/rt: fix ray_query stack address calculation
Job Noorman (1): ir3/ra: prevent moving source intervals for shared collects
Jose Maria Casanova Crespo (1): v3d: Enable Early-Z with discards when depth updates are disabled
Karmjit Mahil (3): tu: Fix push_set host memory leak on command buffer reset tu: Fix potential alloc of 0 size nir: Fix `no_lower_set` leak on early return
Karol Herbst (2): nv/codegen: Do not use a zero immediate for tex instructions nvc0: return NULL instead of asserting in nvc0_resource_from_user_memory
Lionel Landwerlin (2): anv: fix extent computation in image->image host copies anv: update shader descriptor resource limits
M Henning (2): nvk/cmd_buffer: Pass count to set_root_array nvk: Fix invalidation of NVK_CBUF_TYPE_DYNAMIC_UBO
Matt Turner (1): anv: Align anv_descriptor_pool::host_mem
Russell Greene (1): perfetto: fix macos compile
Tomeu Vizoso (2): etnaviv/ml: Fix includes etnaviv/nn: Fix use of etna_core_info
git tag: mesa-24.3.0-rc2

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