[ANNOUNCE] mesa 22.3.0-rc1

[Tapani Pälli]

On 2.11.2022 23.25, Eric Engestrom wrote:
> Hello everyone,
> 
> I'm happy to announce the start of a new release cycle with the first
> release candidate, 22.3.0-rc1.
> 
> New features (in no particular order):
> - GL_ARB_shader_clock on llvmpipe
> - VK_KHR_shader_clock on lavapipe
> - Mesa-DB, the new single file cache type
> - VK_EXT_attachment_feedback_loop_layout on RADV, lavapipe
> - VK_KHR_global_priority on RADV
> - GL_KHR_blend_equation_advanced_coherent on zink
> - VK_EXT_load_store_op_none on RADV
> - VK_EXT_mutable_descriptor_type on RADV
> - VK_EXT_shader_atomic_float on lvp
> - VK_EXT_shader_atomic_float2 on lvp
> - GL_NV_shader_atomic_float on llvmpipe
> - VK_EXT_image_robustness on v3dv
> - VK_EXT_extended_dynamic_state3 on lavapipe
> - VK_EXT_extended_dynamic_state3 on RADV

+ VK_EXT_extended_dynamic_state3 on anv

> - VK_EXT_pipeline_robustness on v3dv
> - Mali T620 on panfrost
> - Shader disk cache on Panfrost
> - support for R8G8B8, B8G8R8, R16G16B16 and 64-bit vertex buffer formats
>    on RADV
> - initial GFX11/RDNA3 support on RADV
> - various ray tracing optimizations on RADV
> - extendedDynamicState2PatchControlPoints on RADV
>    (VK_EXT_extended_dynamic_state2 feature)
> - Radeon Raytracing Analyzer integration (using RADV_RRA_* environment
>    variables)
> 
> A couple of notes for packagers:
> - When building the Intel Vulkan driver with ray-tracing (using
>    `-D intel-clc=enabled`, disabled by default), libclc is required
>    (both as build and runtime dependency).
> - Rusticl, the OpenCL implementation (`-D gallium-rusticl=true`,
>    disabled by default), introduces a bunch of new dependencies.
>    Make sure you read docs/rusticl.rst (https://docs.mesa3d.org/rusticl)
>    if you're considering enabling it.
> 
> For now, no driver is enabled by default in Rusticl. See here for how
> to enable them:
> https://docs.mesa3d.org/envvars#rusticl-environment-variables
> 
> If you find any issues, please report them here:
> https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/mesa/mesa/-/issues/new
> 
> The next release candidate is expected in one week, on November 9th.
> 
> Cheers,
>    Eric
> 
> ---
> 
> git tag: mesa-22.3.0-rc1
> 
> https://mesa.freedesktop.org/archive/mesa-22.3.0-rc1.tar.xz
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> PGP:  https://mesa.freedesktop.org/archive/mesa-22.3.0-rc1.tar.xz.sig
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