All users are urged to update as soon as possible

May 25, 2015 22:24 GMT  ·  By

Emil Velikov has announced the immediate availability for download of a new maintenance release of the Mesa 3D graphics library used in numerous distributions of GNU/Linux.

According to the changelog, which you can find below, Mesa 10.5.6 is a bugfix release that addresses numerous issues in various areas of the project, including core Mesa, patches for drivers, Clover improvements, fixes for the EGL and GLX loaders, as well as Darwin build improvements.

Mesa 10.5.6 introduces a new Bonaire PCI ID for Radeon GPUs, implements an extra check for graphics processing unit offloading case, properly destroys Wayland objects, adds a workaround for the broken EGL_KHR_get_all_proc_addresses function, and removes the -module tag from LDFLAGS.

A FramebufferTexture error has been fixed, the glGetIntegeri_v function no longer fails for GL_VERTEX_BINDING_STRIDE, a306 is now enabled by default in the Freedreno Gallium3D driver, and a problem in slot/tile calculation of the Freedreno drivers inside Mesa has been repaired.

Several other issues have been resolved in Mesa 10.5.6

In addition to the changes mentioned above, Mesa 10.5.6 repairs out-of-bounds vector initialization issues, fixes a check issue for version 2 of the ffvertex_prog function, a mutex has been added in order to secure queue::queued_events, and a problem with the version 2 of multi-threaded events has been patched.

Among other changes implemented in Mesa 10.5.6, we can mention a fix for the install name of the libOSMesa library on the Darwin build, several Clover improvements, a PBO cache coherency problem that occurred after _mesa_meta_pbo_GetTexSubImage() has been fixed, and a GL_INVALID_VALUE function is now generated in framebuffer_texture when the layer value is smaller than 0 (zero).

If you want to know more about what exactly has been changed in Mesa 10.5.6, we strongly recommend reading the attached changelog. Download Mesa 10.5.6 right now from Softpedia. Please keep in mind to update you Mesa installation as soon as the 10.5.6 version becomes live in your operating system.

Mesa 10.5.6 Changelog