14 DAY TRIAL // Collabora's Emil Velikov announced today, May 1, 2017, the release and immediate availability of the third and probably last Release Candidate (RC) build in the development cycle of the upcoming and highly anticipated Mesa 17.1.0 stable series of the open-source graphics stack for GNU/Linux distributions.
Mesa 17.1.0 RC3 comes exactly one week after the release of the second RC milestone, and according to the mailing list announcement or the changelog attached at the end of the article for your reading pleasure, it adds about 33 changes with various improvements for the RadeonSI, Intel i965, and Gallium drivers, as well as for Travis CI.
Don't hesitate to study the release notes if you're curious to know what exactly was changed in this third Release Candidate of Mesa 17.1, which, as mentioned before, could be the last if there aren't any remaining blockers. According to the preliminary release plan, the final Mesa 17.1.0 release should hit the streets on Friday, May 5, 2017. If not, there will be a fourth RC released instead.
That being said, we invite you all to download the source tarball of Mesa 17.1 Release Candidate 3, compile and install it on your GNU/Linux distribution, and report bugs if you encounter any. Mesa 17.1.0 is coming very soon and will be the most advanced series of the open-source graphics stack shipping with numerous improvements and performance optimizations for AMD Radeon and Intel GPUs.