Mesa 25.3.4, the newest stable update for open-source graphics drivers, has been released, delivering crucial bug fixes for users.
According to developer Dylan Baker’s release announcement on January 23rd, the release of Mesa 25.3.4 experienced a slight delay due to a US holiday, last-minute CI issues, and a GitLab upgrade.
Key improvements and bug fixes detailed in the changelog include:
- [radv] Regression causes Resident Evil 4 crashes with instruction QA checks in vkd3d-proton
- RX Vega 64 driver hang when processing a large amount of vertex shaders (OpenGOAL: Jak And Daxter 1)
- radv: Kingdom Come Deliverance 1 RDNA4 RGP capture has missing cache counters for dispatch
- Radv nir lowering seg-faults if given ray query proceed before initialize
- Regression in Vulkan driver for Intel iGPU.
- anv/intel-brw: enable SIMD32 shaders with ray queries
- GTT memory leak when running OpenGL games/software on an AMD RX 6600 XT
- [wsi_common_headless] `VkSurfacePresentModeCompatibilityKHR` is not populated when using `VK_EXT_headless_surface`
- [radv] – WITCH ON THE HOLY NIGHT (2052410) – Flickering squares on some UI elements with gfx1150/1151
- va no longer correctly converts YUV to RGB
- [RX 9060 XT / gfx1200] VCN page fault & ring timeout during VAAPI HEVC encode with scale_vaapi
- UB in NIR when using reallocated range_minimum_query_table
- [RADV]: cooperative matrix regression
- Clarify gallium-rusticl-enable-drivers build option
Resident Evil 4 is among the titles affected by these fixes.
For new features, users will need to await the next major version, Mesa 26.0, which is anticipated around February 11th. The current release schedule for upcoming versions is as follows:
- Mesa 25.3:
- 25.3.5 expected 2026-02-04
- 25.3.6 expected 2026-02-18 (Last planned 25.3 release)
- Mesa 26.0:
- 26.0.0-rc2 expected 2026-01-28
- 26.0.0-rc3 expected 2026-02-04
- 26.0.0-rc4 or 26.0.0 final expected 2026-02-11
- Mesa 26.1:
- 26.1.0-rc1 expected 2026-04-15 (26.1 branchpoint)
- 26.1.0-rc2 expected 2026-04-22
- 26.1.0-rc3 expected 2026-04-29
- 26.1.0-rc4 or 26.1.0 final expected 2026-05-06
Future Mesa releases are expected to bring significant advancements, particularly in ray tracing performance for AMD GPUs.
