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Mesa 25.2 Open-Source Graphics Stack Officially Released, This Is What’s New
Highlights of Mesa 25.2 include some major house-cleaning of the window system code to remove support for deprecated functionality, such as removing DRI2 support entirely, removing support for the insecure legacy GEM names, removing support for thread-unsafe libX11, and deprecating support for EGL_WL_bind_wayland_display.
Mesa 25.2 also deletes the Clover OpenCL implementation as it’s been replaced by the Rust-based RustiCL implementation and adds the rustc-hash crate as a dependency for Collabora’s NVK Vulkan driver for NVIDIA GPUs, promising improved shader compile times by an estimated 12%.
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Mesa 25.2.0 released with NVIDIA upgrades, Apple Vulkan driver enhancements and lots more improvements
Mesa 25.2.0 is officially out now as the latest new feature release of open source graphics drivers for Linux. There's quite a lot of changes with this one from big new features, lots of different drivers seeing enhancements and the usual assortment of bug fixes.
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Mesa 25.2 Lands with Vulkan 1.4 on PanVK, Drops X11 DRI2 Support
Mesa, a crucial open-source library that provides drivers and APIs for various graphics hardware for Linux systems, announced the release of its latest version, 25.2.
This latest release brings OpenGL 4.6 support to the table, but there’s a catch—your mileage may vary depending on your specific driver. In other words, while Mesa 25.2 technically implements the OpenGL 4.6 API, some drivers might not support every feature required, meaning the reported OpenGL version could be lower unless specifically requested at context creation.
On top of that, Mesa now supports Vulkan 1.4, yet the actual supported version depends again on your driver, as reflected by the apiVersion property in VkPhysicalDeviceProperties.