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Mesa 10.6.6 Has Fixes For i965, R600, RadeonSI & Nouveau

Written by Michael Larabel in Mesa on 5 September 2015 at 08:19 AM EDT. 2 Comments

The latest Mesa 10.6 point release is now available for those sticking to stable updates until the official release of Mesa 11.0 in a week or so.

Emil Velikov released Mesa 10.6.6 a few minutes ago and is made up of around 40 changes for this stable branch.

Mesa 10.6.6 changes include some patches for core Mesa, regression fixes for the Intel i965 DRI driver, R600g fixes, RadeonSI has a workaround for a GPU hang in Unigine Heaven, Nouveau has Piglit test fixes, the Gallium3D D3D9 "Nine" state tracker now depends on GCC 4.6 or newer, and there's various other changes throughout.

More details on Mesa 10.6.6 via the mailing list release announcement.

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