Mesa 26.1.8 Release Notes / 2026-08-19

Mesa 26.1.8 is a bug fix release which fixes bugs found since the 26.1.7 release.

Mesa 26.1.8 implements the OpenGL 4.6 API, but the version reported by glGetString(GL_VERSION) or glGetIntegerv(GL_MAJOR_VERSION) / glGetIntegerv(GL_MINOR_VERSION) depends on the particular driver being used. Some drivers don’t support all the features required in OpenGL 4.6. OpenGL 4.6 is only available if requested at context creation. Compatibility contexts may report a lower version depending on each driver.

Mesa 26.1.8 implements the Vulkan 1.4 API, but the version reported by the apiVersion property of the VkPhysicalDeviceProperties struct depends on the particular driver being used.

SHA checksums

SHA256: b320f65874fd9653ac6c0bd1616605387344e1247411a50c797b5f3fb9dc0b55  mesa-26.1.8.tar.xz
SHA512: eb3d46ae9aaba70fdd908486cef24041fec9264ddf586eaebbba65ce55e716d306ef9e91be83e742dfaec4dfc94105a5cd3a36b29bf56614febcbcf6c1f8b516  mesa-26.1.8.tar.xz

New features

  • None

Bug fixes

  • RadeonSI VA-API: vertical color discontinuity / split on YouTube (AV1/VP9) with RX 7900 XTX

  • Recording on AMD GPU using gpu-screen-recorder with VAAPI H.264 backend produces corrupted output since Mesa 26.0.0

  • V3D driver (Mesa) does not expose GL_EXT_shader_texture_lod, breaking raspberry Pi5 WebGL in Firefox (e.g. Google Maps with Street View)

  • [ANV][BMG] llama.cpp Flaky unit test results with latest Mesa on Arc B70 (Regression)

  • [meson] rust crate downloading for subbprojects blocked

  • [radv] Anisotropic filtering glitch in Wolfenstein II: The New Colossus

  • i915 GPU hang on Alder Lake-HX GT1 (8086:4688) with Mesa 26.2.0 OpenGL — works on 26.1.6

  • radeonsi: null-deref in validate_io() during glUseProgramStages on separable, SPIR-V-ingested program pipeline

Changes

Benjamin Cheng (3):

  • vtn: Mark Location decorated variables with explicit_location

  • glsl: Set location to -1 for SPIR-V built-ins

  • mesa/shader_query: Handle SPIR-V built-ins in validate_io

Caio Oliveira (1):

  • brw: Fix scalar image coordinate payloads

Christian Gmeiner (1):

  • etnaviv: drm: Do not return a stale fence fd

Christoph Pillmayer (1):

  • pan/bi: Fix vector phis from spilling

Connor Abbott (3):

  • tu: Add missing WFI to tu6_clear_lrz()

  • tu: Set MSM_SUBMIT_SYNCOBJ_* when there are only internal syncobjs

  • nir: Don’t allow peephole_select on read_invocation

Danylo Piliaiev (4):

  • tu: Fix condition for implicit dep of separate DS resolve

  • tu: Fix CmdSetRenderingInputAttachmentIndices with custom resolve

  • tu: Resuming dynamic rendering should re-emit attachments state

  • tu: Fix gmem not being disabled for some non-fb-space stages with sync2

Dave Airlie (1):

  • mesa/get: fix luid size and driver callback.

David Rosca (4):

  • radv/video: Fix out of bounds reads of AV1 tile params

  • radeonsi/mm: Use correct feedback size for VCE

  • radv/video: Fix AV1 decode qmatrix params

  • radeonsi/mm: Fix AV1 decode qmatrix params

Dominique Belhachemi (1):

  • gallivm: orcjit: fix use-after-free in remove_jd() during exit

Eric Engestrom (2):

  • docs: add sha sum for 26.1.7

  • .pick_status.json: Update to 6609a0e7a66288ee338e6ef0e5622d33923755e7

Etaash Mathamsetty (1):

  • vulkan/wsi/wayland: Fix error handling for tearing control.

Gyeyoung Baek (1):

  • pvr: fix sampler handle dereference with immutable samplers

Hans-Kristian Arntzen (1):

  • radv: Prefer STRUCTURED OOB over STRUCTURED_OFFSET for texel buffers.

JaeHoon Lee (1):

  • v3dv: report correct TMU spill and fill counts

Jan Meisel (1):

  • nir/search: reset FP state for commutative match attempts

Jianxun Zhang (3):

  • iris: Fix an assertion when importing dmabuf

  • anv: Refactor check on CCS modifiers

  • anv: Set dedicated_only feature bit for CCS modifiers

Juan A. Suarez Romero (3):

  • v3d: fix data in get UBO size

  • broadcom/compiler: flip varyings replaced through COORD_REPLACE

  • broadcom/compiler: set full texture coordinates for sprite points

Kajal Kajal (1):

  • rusticl: fix wrong destination offset in Image::copy_to_buffer

Kenneth Graunke (1):

  • nir: Set info->fs.color_is_dual_source for DUAL_SRC_BLEND var locations

Lars-Ivar Hesselberg Simonsen (1):

  • panvk/v10+: Fix unbound LD_ATTR.auto32

Lionel Landwerlin (1):

  • anv: flush L1/L2 caches on end of command buffer

Maaz Mombasawala (1):

  • svga: Remove erroneous else-if in surface_get_handle()

Mel Henning (1):

  • subprojects: Use CDN URLs for crates.io

Paul Grandperrin (2):

  • wsi/wayland: move wsi_wl_surface_get_present_modes() higher in file

  • wsi/wayland: send tearing hints when present mode changes to IMMEDIATE

Pierre-Eric Pelloux-Prayer (5):

  • radeonsi: fix typo in barrier flag check

  • radeonsi/sqtt: fix barrier flags for <= gfx8

  • radeonsi: fix typo in descriptors bitmask

  • radeonsi: fix off-by-one cs shader indexing

  • radeonsi: fix AMD_DEBUG=usellvm usage

Rob Clark (1):

  • Revert “freedreno: Don’t re-bind global buffers”

Robert Mader (3):

  • llvmpipe: Pass size to displaytarget_create_mapped()

  • kms-dri-sw: Use size and offset from whandle in create_mapped()

  • dri-sw: Use size and offset from whandle in create_mapped()

Ryan Zhang (4):

  • panvk/utrace: add dynamic alloc for utrace clone buffer

  • panvk/utrace: skip clone copy when timestamp buffer allocation fails

  • panvk/utrace: guard delete_buffer against NULL on clone alloc failure

  • panvk/utrace: handle clone CS heap exhaustion gracefully

Samuel Pitoiset (5):

  • radv: fix blitting for 2D array to 3D with a Z flip

  • radv: fix cmdbuf alignment with DGC when queues aren’t enabled

  • radv: reset color remapping states when CmdBeginRendering() is called

  • radv: set radv_disable_aniso_single_level=true for Wolfenstein II: The New Colossus

  • radv/meta: fix using aspects for blits

Sebastian Wick (4):

  • kms-dri-sw: Remove always-true whandle check and simplify control flow

  • kms-dri-sw: Handle drmPrimeFDToHandle errors in create_mapped()

  • kms-dri-sw: Move find_and_ref() to make it available to create_mapped()

  • kms-dri-sw: Deduplicate displaytargets by handle in create_mapped()

Timur Kristóf (6):

  • ac/nir/clear_copy_buffer: Fix last thread byte count

  • aco/isel: Only allow first load to write the dst

  • radv: Use GL2_BYPASS flag for GFX preamble

  • radv: Use preemptable wait in gang preamble

  • radv: Use PFP for gang postamble wait and write

  • radv: Wait for L2 cache writeback on ACE for SDMA+ACE gangs

Tupili Krishna Gowtham Reddy (1):

  • tu: Don’t force R32_UINT when clearing MSAA E5B9G9R9 images

Vandomas (1):

  • wsi/metal: fix memoryTypeIndex in image memory allocation

Yi Ding (1):

  • panfrost: clear shader image mask on trailing unbinds

Yiwei Zhang (1):

  • vulkan/android: undo forcing linear for mutable format

Zhang, Jianxun (1):

  • anv: Require dedicated allocation query on scanout images from WSI

mmes (1):

  • anv: fix upload of shader kernels spanning more than one heap BO