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Proton Experimental updated for ARC Raiders, DIRT 5, Kingdom Come: Deliverance II:
https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/06/proton-experimental-updated-for-arc-raiders-dirt-5-kingdom-come-deliverance-ii/
GloriousEggroll Drops GE-Proton11-1 With Massive Video Playback Rework and Proton 11 Rebase:
https://www.linuxcompatible.org/story/geproton111-released-with-proton-11-rebase-and-complete-video-playback-rework/
fish 4.8 released with improved history search, better completion & scripting enhancements:
https://alternativeto.net/news/2026/6/fish-4-8-released-with-improved-history-search-better-completion-and-scripting-enhancements/
NVIDIA 580.173.02 Linux Graphics Driver Released for GeForce 10 Series:
https://9to5linux.com/nvidia-580-173-02-linux-graphics-driver-released-for-geforce-10-series
DXVK 3.0 Released with Shader Compilation and D3D9 Improvements:
https://9to5linux.com/dxvk-3-0-released-with-shader-compilation-and-d3d9-improvements
Fwupd 2.0.21 Brings Fixes For More Than 250 Potential Security Issues Found Via AI:
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Fwupd-2.0.21-Released
Mesa 26.2 Merges Vulkan Present Timing Support For X11/XWayland:
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Mesa-26.2-X11-Present-Timing
Linux's KUnit Finally Supporting JUnit Output:
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-KUnit-JUnit
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To pass more deqp gles3 tests, we need to support UNIFIED_SAMPLER feature of Vivante GPUs. It allows the fragment and vertex stages share one 32-entry
sampler HW array, that gets managed dynamically. With out it there is a fixed 16/16 split.
https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/mesa/mesa/-/merge_requests/42507
ICYMI: The open source NVIDIA Vulkan driver (NVK) now has experimental DLSS support
#AMD #Intel #LegionGo2 #LegionGoS #Linux #LinuxGaming #Mesa #NVIDIA #OpenGL #OpenSource #PCGaming #Radeon #SteamDeck #SteamFrame #SteamMachine #SteamOS #Vulkan
The open source community-made NVIDIA Vulkan driver (NVK) for Linux now has experimental support for DLSS.
https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/06/the-open-source-nvidia-vulkan-driver-nvk-now-has-experimental-dlss-support/
I cannot describe to you how beautifully quiet it really was, which is why I chose it for today.
#SilentSunday #DesertLandscape #NaturePhotography #Mesa #AltText #LandscapePhotography
One detail in Mesa 26.1.3 captures where Linux graphics is heading: it fixes a RADV/ACO regression in Cyberpunk 2077 and, two lines down, a RADV NIR compiler infinite loop triggered by loading Gemma 4 via llama.cpp on a gfx1100 card. The same driver team now fields gaming and local-inference bugs in the same release. As local LLMs spread, should Mesa treat compute regressions with the same urgency as game-breaking ones?
Mesa 26.1.3, released June 18, is a bug-fix release implementing OpenGL 4.6 and Vulkan 1.4. The fixes are oddly specific: a RADV/ACO regression flashing reflections in Cyberpunk 2077, a RADV NIR compiler infinite loop when loading Gemma 4 via llama.cpp on gfx1100, an Intel ANV null-pointer dereference on DMA-BUF import on Xe2, and a radeonsi gallivm SIGSEGV during GL_FEEDBACK software fallback. Running a GPU compute or gaming workload on Mesa, which path do you hit?
ICYMI: Gamescope - 3.16.23.2
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https://github.com/ValveSoftware/gamescope/releases/tag/3.16.23.2
New blog post: The Diagonal Seam 📐
Mesa's u_blitter copies pixels by drawing a textured quad - two triangles with a diagonal seam between them. For NEAREST filtering, that seam produces a stripe of wrong texels on GC7000, failing dEQP's nearest_consistency tests.
The proprietary Vivante blob doesn't draw a quad at all. It draws one oversized triangle and lets the scissor clip it. No seam, no problem.
https://christian-gmeiner.info/2026-06-19-the-diagonal-seam/
Two more dEQP tests down: dEQP-GLES3.functional.fbo.blit.rect.nearest_consistency_mag -- Pass dEQP-GLES3.functional.fbo.blit.rect.nearest_consistency_min -- Pass This one was a fun geometry puzzle. The problem Mesa’s u_blitter is the utility that drivers use for framebuffer blits – copying pixel data between surfaces, optionally scaling and filtering. It works by drawing a textured quad: set up the source as a texture, the destination as a render target, and draw a rectangle with the appropriate texture coordinates. Simple.
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