Mesa 17.2 Graphics Stack; Install Mesa 17.2 via PPA in Ubuntu 17.04 and other Ubuntu Derivatives. Mesa 17.2.0 is now available. The release consists of 3300 commits from approximately 130 developers. Some ~300 commits while being 10 authors less, relative to Mesa 17.1.x Feature wise, this release mainly focuses on hardware driver improvements, although common code paths has also seen some love. For example, the XvMC and OMX state trackers now work with DRI3, EGL has support for modifiers. The Vulkan drivers ANV and RADV are continuing to mature, have seen multiple performance improvements.
For more details check the release notes, or the log our favourite driver.
Install Mesa on Ubuntu
Run the following commands in Terminal to install MESA 17.2 on Ubuntu Systems:
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:ubuntu-x-swat/updates
sudo apt update
sudo apt dist-upgrade
Once installed, run the command glxinfo | grep “OpenGL version” to check the version.
git tag: mesa-17.2.0
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