Title: Mesa 26.3 Out Now — PanVK Gets Vulkan 1.3, Coverage Widens Across Arm Mali Chips
Summary: Mesa 26.3 has been released as the third major point update to the Mesa 26 open-source graphics stack, roughly three months after Mesa 26.2. PanVK is the flag-bearer this cycle: the Vulkan 1.3 profile it now exposes covers Arm’s Mali v6 and v7 GPUs. Alongside that, etnaviv adds an OpenGL ES 3.0 path for Vivante chips running HALTI5 hardware steps. Hardware coverage widens too: Panfrost can drive the Mali G68, both Panfrost and PanVK pick up the G715 and G615, and Imagination’s BXM-4-64 gains support through the PVR driver. Extension lists grow nearly everywhere: RADV adds VK_AMD_anti_lag and VK_KHR_video_encode_feedback2 among others, NVK gains VK_KHR_device_address_commands (the list the release notes name for it), Apple Silicon’s HK driver adds VK_KHR_shader_untyped_pointers and VK_KHR_maintenance10, and PanVK collects a long set of its own including cooperative matrix and indirect memory copies. RadeonSI picks up the EGL_NV_context_priority_realtime extension, and etnaviv gains a batch of GLES and GL extensions. Game-specific improvements land broadly too — the notes call out Counter-Strike 2, No Man’s Sky, The Last of Us Part II Remastered and Genshin Impact. Per the project’s own guidance, 26.3 is a development release — stability-first systems should keep the prior series and wait for 26.3.1.
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