Due to a bit of rebase fail with the Blackwell enabling patches, Kepler accidentally got turned back off just before the release. I've fixed it with https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/mesa/mesa/-/merge_requests/36745 and Kepler should be re-enabled with Mesa 25.2.1.
~Faith Ekstrand On Wed, Aug 6, 2025 at 1:13 PM Eric Engestrom <e...@engestrom.ch> wrote: > Hello everyone, > > I'm happy to announce a new feature release, 25.2.0! > > This release includes some major house-cleaning of the window system > code to remove support for deprecated functionality: > - DRI2 support has been removed entirely. X11 window system support is > now only available through DRI3 or software paths. This should not > directly impact users as DRI2 has been deprecated for some time. > - Support for the insecure legacy GEM names has also been removed and > buffer sharing is now only supported using dma-buf file descriptors. > This should also not affect users as dma-buf has been the preferred path > for about a decade. > - Support for thread-unsafe libX11 has been removed. Mesa now requires > libX11 >= 1.8 (April 2022) which calls XInitThreads() on load and > guarantees libX11 is always thread-safe. libX11 must not be built with > --disable-thread-safety-constructor since that disables the > XInitThreads() call. > - Support for EGL_WL_bind_wayland_display has been deprecated and is now > hidden behind the -Dlegacy-wayland=bind-wayland-display build flag. In > order for XWayland to work properly without EGL_WL_bind_wayland_display, > distros will need to upgrade to Xwayland >= 24.1 (May 2024). > > Another important things is that, as announced during `meson setup` since > 25.0.2, the Clover OpenCL implementation has been deleted. RustiCL is now > the > only OpenCL implementation available, providing support for more OpenCL > versions and features and to more hardware than Clover ever did. It is not > (yet) perfect though, so please report any issue you find while using it. > > NVK has added a dependency on the rustc-hash crate, which has improved > shader > compile times by an estimated 12%. We believe rustc-hash is already widely > packaged, so the hope is that this won't pose much of a burden to > packagers. > > Speaking of NVK, it now supports NVIDIA's Blackwell and Kepler > architectures. The old Nouveau GL driver has not been updated for > Blackwell and there are no plans to do so. Instead, Nouveau users will > only get OpenGL via Zink+NVK on any GPUs after Ada. (Kepler users will > still get the old Nouveau GL driver as it is still the default > pre-Turing.) > > HoneyKrisp, the Apple Vulkan driver, has seen significant performance > improvements. > > Users can expect the usual flurry of improvements across all drivers and > components, including these new extensions & features highlighted by > their developers (in no particular order): > - removed clover frontend > - VK_EXT_vertex_input_dynamic_state/vertexInputDynamicState on panvk > - pushDescriptor on panvk > - VK_EXT_vertex_input_dynamic_state on panvk > - VK_EXT_vertex_attribute_divisor on panvk > - supportsNonZeroFirstInstance on panvk > - GL_ARB_blend_func_extended on v3d > - dualSrcBlend on v3dv > - VK_KHR_maintenance4 on panvk/v10+ > - VK_KHR_maintenance5 on panvk/v10+ > - VK_EXT_direct_mode_display on panvk > - VK_EXT_extended_dynamic_state[2] on panvk > - Vulkan 1.2 on panvk/v10+ > - VK_KHR_shader_quad_control on panvk/v10+ > - multiDrawIndirect on panvk/v10+ > - VK_KHR_draw_indirect_count on panvk/v10+ > - VK_KHR_shader_integer_dot_product on panvk > - VK_KHR_shader_terminate_invocation on panvk > - VK_EXT_shader_demote_to_helper_invocation on panvk > - VK_EXT_shader_replicated_composites on panvk > - VK_EXT_depth_bias_control on panvk > - VK_KHR_shader_bfloat16 on anv/gfx125+ and radv/gfx12+ > - VK_KHR_robustness2 on RADV > - VK_EXT_zero_initialize_device_memory on RADV and NVK > - VK_EXT_primitive_topology_list_restart on panvk > - VK_EXT_image_2d_view_of_3d on panvk > - VK_EXT_texel_buffer_alignment on panvk > - cl_khr_kernel_clock on freedreno, iris, llvmpipe, nvc0, panfrost, > radeonsi and zink with llvm-19 or newer > - GL_KHR_texture_compression_astc_hdr on panfrost and asahi > - cl_ext_buffer_device_address on iris, llvmpipe, radeonsi and zink > - Completed OpenCL 2.0 coarse grain buffer SVM support for iris and > radeonsi > - VK_EXT_shader_subgroup_ballot on panvk > - VK_EXT_shader_subgroup_vote on panvk > - Vulkan video support on GFX12 (RDNA4) for RADV > - VK_KHR_load_store_op_none on panvk > - VK_EXT_load_store_op_none on panvk > - VK_EXT_scalar_block_layout on radv/gfx6 > - VK_EXT_inline_uniform_block on panvk > - cl_khr_fp16 on asahi, freedreno, llvmpipe, panfrost, radeonsi and zink > - GL_ARB_shader_clock on panfrost/v6+ > - VK_EXT_texture_compression_astc_hdr on panvk > - MSAA with 8 and 16 sample counts on panfrost > - cl_khr_spirv_queries > - VK_EXT_depth_clamp_zero_one on panvk > - VK_KHR_depth_clamp_zero_one on panvk > - VK_EXT_depth_clip_control on panvk > - VK_KHR_maintenance9 on RADV > - VK_KHR_unified_image_layouts on RADV (RDNA3+), tu and panvk > - VK_KHR_vulkan_memory_model on panvk > - Vulkan 1.3 on panvk/v10+ > - VK_KHR_present_wait2 > - VK_EXT_descriptor_indexing on panvk/v10+ > - cl_khr_priority_hints > - VK_KHR_maintenance6 on panvk/v10+ > - CL_sRGBA and CL_sBGRA images > - cl_khr_extended_bit_ops > - VK_KHR_shader_clock on panvk > - GL_EXT_shader_realtime_clock on panfrost/v6+ > - VK_KHR_shader_float8 on RADV (RDNA4+) > - GL_EXT_window_rectangles on r600 > - GL_EXT_shader_image_load_store on r600/evergreen+ > - GL_EXT_shader_clock on all drivers that support GL_ARB_shader_clock > - CL_UNORM_INT_101010_2 and cl_ext_image_unorm_int_2_101010 > - timestamps on panvk/v10+ > - VK_KHR_calibrated_timestamps on panvk/v10+ > - VK_EXT_non_seamless_cube_map on panvk > - VK_ARM_shader_core_properties on panvk/v10+ > - removed X11 DRI2 support > - removed EGL_MESA_drm_image > - removed pre-dmabuf wl_drm support > - deprecated EGL_WL_bind_wayland_display > - VK_KHR_shader_atomic_int64 on panvk/v10+ > - VK_EXT_host_image_copy on RADV (RDNA1+) > - VK_KHR_cooperative_matrix on nvk/turing+ > - VK_KHR_host_image_copy on panvk > - Vulkan 1.4 on panvk/v10+ > - NV_timeline_semaphore for zink > > If you find any issues, please report them here: > https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/mesa/mesa/-/issues/new > > The next bugfix release is due in two weeks, on August 20th. > > Cheers, > Eric > > --- > > Alyssa Rosenzweig (1): > asahi: enable virtgpu support > > Antonio Ospite (3): > build: stop calling unreachable() without arguments > util: avoid calling UNREACHABLE(str) macro without arguments > libcl: avoid calling UNREACHABLE(str) macro without arguments > > Caio Oliveira (1): > brw: Remove extra iteration on instructions from > brw_opt_address_reg_load > > Christian Gmeiner (2): > etnaviv: blt: Clear only requested color buffers > etnaviv: rs: Clear only requested color buffers > > Christoph Neuhauser (1): > egl: Fix DRI utility function compilation on macOS > > Dave Airlie (1): > spirv: move cmat store barrier after the store. > > David Rosca (1): > vulkan/video: Fix h265 level values > > Emma Anholt (1): > i915: Avoid calling drm_intel_get_aperture_sizes(). > > Eric Engestrom (4): > .pick_status.json: Update to 20dab5f819f7016b8d7f4e88927855a0e5ff7a61 > meson: fix VkLayer_MESA_device_select in the devenv > docs: add release notes for 25.2.0 > VERSION: bump for 25.2.0 > > Eric R. Smith (1): > panvk: use minimum attachment size for frame buffer size > > Erico Nunes (1): > lima: ppir: fix store_output optimization for modifiers > > Faith Ekstrand (1): > nvk: Blackwell is now Vulkan 1.4 conformant > > Hans-Kristian Arntzen (1): > ac/nir: Avoid 0/0 when computing texel buffer size on Polaris. > > Iván Briano (1): > intel: Re-disable ray tracing on 32 bits > > Job Noorman (2): > ir3/legalize: prevent infinite loop when inserting (ss)nop > nir/opt_uniform_subgroup: use ballot_bit_count > > Juston Li (1): > anv: fix uninitialized mutex lock in anv_slab_bo_deinit() > > Karol Herbst (1): > nv50: fully migrate away from util_framebuffer_init > > Kenneth Graunke (3): > brw: Refactor copy propagation checks for EOT send restrictions > brw: Fix units in copy propagation EOT restriction size calculation > brw: Update copy propagation into EOT sends handling for Xe2 units > > LingMan (1): > docs/rusticl: Update documented version requirements for meson and > bindgen > > Lionel Landwerlin (1): > anv: fix wsi image aliasing > > Mary Guillemard (2): > panvk: Always use varying_count in emit_varying_attrs > panvk: track oq write jobs in JM > > Mike Blumenkrantz (7): > zink: also add access stage sync when rebinding buffers > zink: fix tc buffer replacement rebind condition > zink: trigger multi-context buffer invalidate on internal buffer > invalidate > zink: zero dynamic rendering resolve views on rp end > tc: also inline depth resolves > zink: fix assert for unsynchronized non-GENERAL image barriers > tc: don't clobber CSO info when renderpass has ended > > Patrick Lerda (3): > r600: refactor r600_is_buffer_format_supported() for the next update > r600: fix remaining pbo issues > r600: fix arb_shader_image_load_store incomplete > > Rhys Perry (3): > nir/load_store_vectorize: check for interfering shared2 before > vectorizing > nir/load_store_vectorize: set is_store for shared append/consume > aco/ra: set late-kill for operands of temporary p_create_vector > > Samuel Pitoiset (2): > radv: fix fbfetch output with compresed FMASK on <= GFX9 > vulkan: fix missing presentId2/presentWait2 enable features > > Thomas H.P. Andersen (1): > zink: do not overwrite existing error for miptail on uncommit > > Yurii Kolesnykov (2): > Guard double include of libdrm.h by defining LIBDRM_H > Guard call to free_zombie_glx_drawable with condition from its > definition > > git tag: mesa-25.2.0 > > https://mesa.freedesktop.org/archive/mesa-25.2.0.tar.xz > SHA256: 7c726b21c074d14d31d253d638b741422f3c0a497ce7f1b4aaaa917d10bd8d4f > mesa-25.2.0.tar.xz > SHA512: > f36e4f9f619becfc89f9cf3704d21f5f1532f1e658808fd30c0edce8c28cd65dc6578a21333e896aa5eaccf09da99efd9127a8d3d46681e8360f618cf63bab94 > mesa-25.2.0.tar.xz > PGP: https://mesa.freedesktop.org/archive/mesa-25.2.0.tar.xz.sig > >
