[Mesa-announce] [ANNOUNCE] Mesa 18.2.6 release candidate

[Juan A. Suarez Romero]

Hello list,

The candidate for the Mesa 18.2.6 is now available. Currently we have:
 - 40 queued (+1 squashed)
 - 0 nominated (outstanding)
 - and 7 rejected patch

The current queue consists of:

Several patches fixing leaks in glsl, winsys and r600.

Improvements in the scripts that helps in preparing releases.

Added PCI IDs for Amber Lake and Whiskey Lake.

Fixes for radv, anv, i965 and vc4 drivers.

A couple of fixes in NIR backend.

Finally, several fixes in meson build system.

Take a look at section "Mesa stable queue" for more information


Testing reports/general approval
--------------------------------
Any testing reports (or general approval of the state of the branch) will be
greatly appreciated.

The plan is to have 18.2.6 this Wednesday (28th November), around or shortly after
18:00 GMT.

If you have any questions or suggestions - be that about the current patch queue
or otherwise, please go ahead.


Trivial merge conflicts
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commit 35379ec233353d19d94994dfa43b205a6b5622b2
Author: Jason Ekstrand <jason.ekstrand at intel.com>

    anv: Put robust buffer access in the pipeline hash
    
    (cherry picked from commit 617e402b3d1be185f200b1667540096d9a8b2aec)


commit 6ceeb848d5be06464cfaaf6735c38c6d167d0352
Author: Emil Velikov <emil.velikov at collabora.com>

    travis: drop unneeded x11proto-xf86vidmode-dev
    
    (cherry picked from commit 84445a86d192c0d7f07bc25a84080458de764149)


commit 21f97a6b38649f866946862803c3f7f5d6e3e474
Author: Eric Engestrom <eric.engestrom at intel.com>

    meson: fix wayland-less builds
    
    (cherry picked from commit 4fa2fb35245448f8b5d81fb5b37afec4f343f18a)
 

commit 94161eed7d047996a7773602eaa0ba84c210d4ff
Author: Dylan Baker <dylan at pnwbakers.com>

    meson: Don't set -Wall
    
    (cherry picked from commit 9c2a95b29868f1388408b5eb9193fff39f942217)


Cheers,
    J.A.


Mesa stable queue
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Nominated (0)
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Queued (40)
===========
Andrii Simiklit (1):
      i965/batch: avoid reverting batch buffer if saved state is an empty

Bas Nieuwenhuizen (1):
      radv: Fix opaque metadata descriptor last layer.

Brian Paul (1):
      scons/svga: remove opt from the list of valid build types

Danylo Piliaiev (1):
      i965: Fix calculation of layers array length for isl_view

Dylan Baker (2):
      meson: Don't set -Wall
      meson: Don't force libva to required from auto

Emil Velikov (13):
      bin/get-pick-list.sh: simplify git oneline printing
      bin/get-pick-list.sh: prefix output with "[stable] "
      bin/get-pick-list.sh: handle "typod" usecase.
      bin/get-pick-list.sh: handle the fixes tag
      bin/get-pick-list.sh: tweak the commit sha matching pattern
      bin/get-pick-list.sh: flesh out is_sha_nomination
      bin/get-pick-list.sh: handle fixes tag with missing colon
      bin/get-pick-list.sh: handle unofficial "broken by" tag
      bin/get-pick-list.sh: use test instead of [ ]
      bin/get-pick-list.sh: handle reverts prior to the branchpoint
      travis: drop unneeded x11proto-xf86vidmode-dev
      glx: make xf86vidmode mandatory for direct rendering
      travis: adding missing x11-xcb for meson+vulkan

Eric Anholt (1):
      vc4: Make sure we make ro scanout resources for create_with_modifiers.

Eric Engestrom (5):
      meson: only run vulkan's meson.build when building vulkan
      gbm: remove unnecessary meson include
      meson: fix wayland-less builds
      egl: add missing glvnd entrypoint for EGL_ANDROID_blob_cache
   Squashed with:
      egl: fix bad rebase
      glapi: add missing visibility args

Erik Faye-Lund (1):
      mesa/main: remove bogus error for zero-sized images

Gert Wollny (3):
      mesa: Reference count shaders that are used by transform feedback objects
      r600: clean up the GS ring buffers when the context is destroyed
      glsl: free or reuse memory allocated for TF varying

Jason Ekstrand (2):
      nir/lower_alu_to_scalar: Don't try to lower unpack_32_2x16
      anv: Put robust buffer access in the pipeline hash

Karol Herbst (1):
      nir/spirv: cast shift operand to u32

Kenneth Graunke (1):
      i965: Add PCI IDs for new Amberlake parts that are Coffeelake based

Lionel Landwerlin (1):
      egl/dri: fix error value with unknown drm format

Marek Olšák (2):
      winsys/amdgpu: fix a buffer leak in amdgpu_bo_from_handle
      winsys/amdgpu: fix a device handle leak in amdgpu_winsys_create

Rodrigo Vivi (4):
      i965: Add a new CFL PCI ID.
      intel: aubinator: Adding missed platforms to the error message.
      intel: Introducing Amber Lake platform
      intel: Introducing Whiskey Lake platform


Rejected (7)
=============
Erik Faye-Lund (1):
      c120dbfe4d1 mesa/main: fix incorrect depth-error
Reason: This commit requires commits 854202f70e6 and 84bc5738401 which did not
        land in branch.

Lionel Landwerlin (2):
      0db898cef2f intel/aub_viewer: Print blend states properly
Reason: intel/aub_viewer is not present in branch.
      ac324a6809c intel/aub_viewer: fix dynamic state printing
Reason: intel/aub_viewer is not present in branch.

Marek Olšák (3):
      e0c7114eb3c st/mesa: disable L3 thread pinning
Reason: Explicitly nominated for 18.3.
      9367514524f radeonsi: fix video APIs on Raven2
Reason: Explicitly nominated for 18.3.
      ea9f95e2a67 radeonsi: go back to using bottom-of-pipe for beginning of TIME_ELAPSED
Reason: Explicitly nominated for 18.3.

Samuel Pitoiset (1):
      b5f213bb1dc radv: binding streamout buffers doesn't change context regs
Reason: Explicitly nominated for 18.3.