[Mesa-announce] [ANNOUNCE] Mesa 18.3.6 release candidate

[Emil Velikov]

Hi all,

On Wed, 27 Mar 2019 at 12:04, Emil Velikov <emil.l.velikov at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Hello list,
>
> The candidate for the Mesa 18.3.6 is now available. Currently we have:
>  - 19 queued
>  - 0 nominated (outstanding)
>  - and 0 rejected patches
>
>
> Note: this is the final anticipated release in the 18.3 series. Users are
> encouraged to migrate to the 19.0 series in order to obtain future fixes.
>
>
> The current queue consists mainly of GLSL improvements. We also have a few
> UUID fixes in for both GL and Vulkan drivers.
>
> The i965 driver has been addressed to correctly advertise the extension
> ARB_fragment_shader_interlock - platforms prior to GEN9 lack this feature.
> The Vulkan RADV driver and GL softpipe one have also received some fixes.
>
> On the meson build side - a missing dependency tracking was fixed, while
> improving support when using DESTDIR.
>
>
> 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 18.3.6 this Thursday (28 March 2019), around or shortly
> after 12:00 GMT.
>
For anyone wondering about the delay:

We have been using LunarG OpenGL and Vulkan testing service to
validate Mesa releases since day 1.
Unfortunately, they've been experiencing some issues which we're
expecting to be resolved any day now.

Thanks
Emil