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| Linux 7.2 To Integrate The AMDGPU "Power Module" To Better Align With Windows | Radeon | 2026-05-06 |
| New NTFS Driver Sees More Fixes With Linux 7.1-rc2 | Linux Storage | 2026-05-03 |
| While New NTFS Driver Merged, NTFS3 Driver Sees Fixes & Minor Changes For Linux 7.1 | Linux Storage | 2026-04-20 |
| RADV Vulkan Video Adds Low-Latency Encode/Decode Options | Radeon | 2026-03-30 |
| AMDGPU Driver For Linux 7.1 Preps Debug Improvements, New Hardware IP | Radeon | 2026-03-27 |
| AMD Preps More GFX12.1 Enablement For Linux 7.1, Initial VCN 5.0.2 & JPEG 5.0.2 IP | AMD | 2026-03-19 |
| Numerous AMDXDNA Ryzen AI Driver Fixes For Linux 7.0-rc2 | Linux Kernel | 2026-02-27 |
| AMD Video Decode Now Unified Between RadeonSI & RADV Vulkan Video | Mesa | 2026-02-12 |
| AMD Radeon Linux Driver Introduces Low-Latency Video Decode Option | Mesa | 2026-01-26 |
| AMD Sends In A Variety Of Graphics Driver Fixes Ahead Of Linux 7.0 Cycle | Radeon | 2026-01-25 |
| AMD ROCm 7.1.1 Released With RHEL 10.1 Support, More Models Working On RDNA4 | AMD | 2025-11-26 |
| RADV Driver Adds Valve Video Extension Used By Steam Link VR | Radeon | 2025-11-12 |
| The Linux Kernel Looks To "Bite The Bullet" In Enabling Microsoft C Extensions | Linux Kernel | 2025-11-09 |
| Basic HDR Support For AMD Radeon Accelerated Video Processing On Linux | Radeon | 2025-10-15 |
| Linux 6.18 DRM Pull Includes New Tyr & Rocket Drivers, More AMD & Intel GPU Enhancements | Linux Kernel | 2025-10-05 |
| Mesa 25.2.2 Ships The Latest Open-Source OpenGL & Vulkan Driver Fixes | Mesa | 2025-09-03 |
| AMD Begins Queuing Graphics Driver Changes For Linux 6.18 | Radeon | 2025-09-01 |
| Mesa 25.1.9 Released To End Out The Mesa 25.1 Series | Mesa | 2025-08-27 |
| Mesa 25.2-rc2 Released With Intel Wildcat Lake Enablement, Legacy-X11 Option Deprecated | Mesa | 2025-07-23 |
| RADV Vulkan Video Improvements Make It Into Mesa 25.2 For AMD RDNA4 GPUs | Radeon | 2025-07-14 |
| Mesa 25.1.4 Delivers Latest Open-Source OpenGL & Vulkan Driver Fixes | Mesa | 2025-06-19 |
| RADV Radeon Vulkan Driver Merges Support For VP9 Video Decoding | Vulkan | 2025-06-10 |
| Mesa 25.2 Lands RADV VCN5 Video Encode/Decode Support For RDNA4 GPUs | Radeon | 2025-06-02 |
| Mesa 25.1-rc2 Released With NVK Vulkan 1.4 Conformance For Older NVIDIA GPUs | Mesa | 2025-04-23 |
| AMD Ryzen AI Max 300 "Strix Halo" Graphics IP Versions Confirmed | AMD | 2025-04-22 |
| AMD Software Advancements, RDNA4 & Ryzen 9900X3D Series Excited Linux Users In Q1 | AMD | 2025-03-31 |
| Radeon RX 9070 Fan Speed Reporting & Other Last Minute AMD Changes For Linux 6.15 | Radeon | 2025-03-14 |
| AMD Preparing "High Precision" Mode For Upcoming Instinct MI350X (GFX950) | Radeon | 2025-03-09 |
| AMD Readies More Graphics Driver Improvements For Linux 6.15 | Radeon | 2025-03-01 |
| AMD Driver Lands DCC For Multi-Plane Formats With RDNA4, Tiling For Video Buffers | Radeon | 2025-02-26 |
| Mesa 25.0-rc3 Released With Numerous RADV & RadeonSI Fixes | Mesa | 2025-02-12 |
| RADV Vulkan Video Adds Low Latency Encoding Support | Mesa | 2025-02-10 |
| Vulkan Cooperative Matrix Merged For RDNA4 GPUs With RADV, DCC Support Inches Closer | Radeon | 2025-02-07 |
| FFmpeg Adds AMD AMF Decoder, FSR-Based Upscaling | Radeon | 2025-02-04 |
| Intel Battlemage, NVIDIA RTX 50 & Linux Kernel Excitement From January | Phoronix | 2025-02-01 |
| Open-Source RADV Radeon Driver Support For RDNA4: "Should Be Good Enough" | Radeon | 2025-01-29 |
| RadeonSI UVD/VCE Video Acceleration Improvements Merged For Mesa 25.0 | Mesa | 2025-01-17 |
| New Linux Patches Enhance AMD Radeon Video Encode/Decode For Older GPUs | Radeon | 2025-01-03 |
| Intel Battlemage, Raspberry Pi 500 & Linux 6.13 Excited Linux Users In December | Phoronix | 2025-01-03 |
| Mesa's Terrific Year With Better Vulkan Ray-Tracing, NVK Progress & Same-Day Vulkan 1.4 | Mesa | 2024-12-30 |
| AMD Continued Ramping Up Their Linux & Open-Source Investments In 2024 | AMD | 2024-12-27 |
| AMD Preps Many Graphics Driver Updates For Linux 6.14, DRM Panic Support | Radeon | 2024-12-18 |
| Vulkan Video Now Enabled By Default For Radeon VCN2/VCN3 Hardware On Linux | Mesa | 2024-12-02 |
| RadeonSI Lands Async Video Operations For Improving FFmpeg Performance | Mesa | 2024-10-30 |
| RADV Enables Vulkan Video By Default For RDNA3 / VCN4 GPUs | Radeon | 2024-08-27 |
| Big Video Encoding Rework Lands For AMD Open-Source Mesa 24.3 Driver | Radeon | 2024-08-23 |
| AMD Posts Patches For VCN IP DUMP With Open-Source Linux Driver | Radeon | 2024-08-06 |
| Mesa 24.3 Radeon VCN Adds HDR Metadata Support For AV1 Encoder | Radeon | 2024-07-24 |
| AMD Has A Crucial Linux Optimization Coming To Lower Power Use During Video Playback | Radeon | 2024-07-11 |
| AMD Landing ISP 4.x IP In Linux 6.11, Strix Point & Granite Ridge IP Versions Confirmed | Radeon | 2024-07-01 |
| VCN5 AV1 Encode & More AMD RDNA4 RADV Support Land In Mesa 24.2 | Radeon | 2024-06-01 |
| More AMDGPU Linux Firmware Published For RDNA 3+ | Radeon | 2024-05-31 |
| Arm Mali/Immortalis GPU Driver, New AMD Graphics IP & Lunar Lake Display In Linux 6.10 | Linux Kernel | 2024-05-15 |
| AMD RDNA4 "GFX12" Support Merged For Mesa's RadeonSI Driver | Radeon | 2024-05-12 |
| AMD Aims For AMF Decode In FFmpeg, Questioned Over Vulkan Video Commitment | AMD | 2024-05-10 |
| Mesa 24.0.7 & Mesa 24.1-rc3 Provide Latest Open-Source OpenGL/Vulkan Drivers | Mesa | 2024-05-08 |
| More AMDGPU Driver Code For Linux 6.10 Brings MES Updates, FreeSync Fixes | Radeon | 2024-04-28 |
| AMD Posts RDNA3+ Firmware Files For Linux Users | Radeon | 2024-04-21 |
| AMD Prepares More Next-Gen GPU Driver Support For Linux 6.10 | Radeon | 2024-04-14 |
| Mesa 24.1 Lands Support For GFX11.5.1 "RDNA3 Refresh" Variant | Radeon | 2024-03-04 |
| Updated AMDGPU VCN Firmware Fixes VP9 Decoding Issues | Radeon | 2024-03-04 |
| Mesa 24.1 Enables AV1 LTR Encode Support For RDNA3 GPUs With VCN4 | Radeon | 2024-02-29 |
| AMD Graphics Driver Gets "More New Stuff" For Linux 6.9: Continued RDNA4 Enablement | Radeon | 2024-02-19 |
| PSP 14.0 & Other New AMD Graphics IP Enablement Continues For Linux Ahead Of RDNA4 | Radeon | 2024-02-14 |
| AMDGPU Driver Changes Begin For Linux 6.9: RAS ACA Framework, SEQ64 Infrastructure & Fixes | Radeon | 2024-02-11 |
| AMD Posts Linux Driver Patches For Video Core Next 5 "VCN 5.0" | Radeon | 2024-02-08 |
| AMD Enables VCN Region Of Interest "ROI" Video Encoder Support For Linux GPU Drivers | Radeon | 2023-12-17 |
| RadeonSI Gallium3D Enables VCN Encoder Intra-Refresh Support | Radeon | 2023-11-18 |
| Mesa 24.0 Improving Radeon VCE/UVD Video Encoding Quality | Radeon | 2023-11-04 |
| Higher Quality AV1 Video Encoding Now Available For Radeon Graphics On Linux | Radeon | 2023-10-12 |
| AMD Posts Linux Driver Patches For New VPE & UMSCH Components With Future GPUs | AMD | 2023-08-24 |
| AMD Readies "New Stuff" For Linux 6.6 Graphics Driver, AMDGPU DC For RISC-V | Radeon | 2023-07-28 |
| New AMD Zen CPU & Radeon GPU Microcode Land In Linux-Firmware.Git | AMD | 2023-07-24 |
| AMD Graphics Driver In Linux 6.5 Improves Power Management, Adds CP Shadow Buffer | Radeon | 2023-06-03 |
| AMD Adds AV1 Video Encoding Support To Mesa VA-API | Radeon | 2023-04-27 |
| RadeonSI Change Allows For Balancing RDNA3 Video Transcoding Between Multiple Engines | Mesa | 2023-04-17 |
| AMD Instinct MI300 "GFX940" Support Merged To Mesa 23.1 | Mesa | 2023-04-07 |
| AMD Continues Linux Driver Enablement For Additional "Aldebaran" Instinct GPU | Radeon | 2023-03-27 |
| Mesa 23.0.1 Released With Many Fixes For Intel / AMD / Zink | Mesa | 2023-03-26 |
| Linux 6.4 AMD Graphics Driver Picking Up New Power Features For The Steam Deck | Radeon | 2023-03-18 |
| Mesa 23.1 RADV Driver Lands Vulkan Video Decoding For H.264/H.265 | Radeon | 2023-02-07 |
| AMD Sends In More RDNA3 Graphics Driver Fixes For Linux 6.3 | Radeon | 2023-01-28 |
| AMD Publishes New Firmware Binaries For Upcoming Hardware | AMD | 2023-01-25 |
| RADV Vulkan Video Making Progress On H.264 Encoding | Radeon | 2022-12-29 |
| Mesa 22.3.1 Released - Led By Intel & Radeon Driver Fixes | Mesa | 2022-12-15 |
| AMD Radeon RX 7900 Series Firmware Upstreamed | Radeon | 2022-12-14 |
| RadeonSI Driver Lands Multi-Slice Video Encoding For AVC/HEVC | Radeon | 2022-10-13 |
| Microsoft Adds AV1 Decode Support To Their Mesa D3D12 Driver | Microsoft | 2022-09-30 |
| Thanks Microsoft: RadeonSI Enables Async VA-API For Faster Video Acceleration | Mesa | 2022-09-27 |
| Amazon Engineer Adds LTR Encode Support To Open-Source AMD Radeon Linux Driver | Radeon | 2022-09-19 |
| AMD Lands New GPU Firmware Binaries In Linux-Firmware.Git | Radeon | 2022-09-13 |
| AMD Lands Video Encoding Quality Improvements For Mesa 22.3 | Radeon | 2022-08-24 |
| AMD Has A Bit More RDNA3 Graphics Driver Code Ready For Linux 5.20 | Radeon | 2022-07-27 |
| AMD Makes More RDNA3 GPU Driver Preparations For Linux 5.20 | Radeon | 2022-07-05 |
| Mesa 22.1 Released With Many Vulkan Improvements, Kopper For Zink, Imagination Driver | Mesa | 2022-05-18 |
| Mesa 22.2 RadeonSI Adds Option To Disable AMD Infinity Cache Usage, Other Changes | Radeon | 2022-05-17 |
| More AMD RDNA3 Code Prepared For Linux 5.19, RADV Begins Landing Task Shaders | Radeon | 2022-05-12 |
| Initial AMD GFX11 / RDNA3 Support Lands In Mesa, RADV Prepares For Task Shaders | Mesa | 2022-05-10 |
| AMDGPU Linux Driver Enabling New "LSDMA" Block | Radeon | 2022-05-06 |
| AMD Begins Working On "GFX11" Support For Open-Source Mesa Linux Graphics (RDNA3) | Radeon | 2022-05-05 |
| AMD Continues Posting New Patch Series For Next-Gen RDNA3 GPUs | Radeon | 2022-05-03 |
| AMD Posts Linux Driver Patches For New "VCN 4.0" IP Block | Radeon | 2022-05-02 |
| AMD Readies Initial Batch Of Radeon Graphics Driver Code For Linux 5.19 | Radeon | 2022-04-15 |
| Mesa 22.1-rc1 Brings Radeon Vulkan Enhancements, Imagination Driver & Microsoft Dozen | Mesa | 2022-04-14 |
| Updated AMDGPU Firmware Published To Deal With A Possible VCN Hang | Radeon | 2022-04-11 |
| AMD "EFC" Support Added To Mesa 22.1 For Radeon GPUs With VCN 2.0 | Radeon | 2022-03-11 |
| Updated AMD APU Firmware Helps Systems Stuck On High Memory Clocks, Wasting Battery | Radeon | 2022-02-28 |
| More AMD Radeon Driver Improvements Lined Up For Linux 5.18 | Radeon | 2022-02-26 |
| AMD Quietly Working On New Linux GPU Driver Support Block By Block | Radeon | 2022-02-18 |
| Better AMD Radeon VCE Video Encode Performance Coming To Linux | Radeon | 2021-12-30 |
| Vulkan Video Support Progressing For Open-Source Intel, AMD Radeon Hardware | Vulkan | 2021-11-15 |
| Linux 5.16 To Bring Initial DisplayPort 2.0 Support For AMD Radeon Driver (AMDGPU) | Radeon | 2021-09-27 |
| AMDGPU Linux Driver To Overhaul Its Approach To Device Enumeration | Radeon | 2021-09-21 |
| AV1 VA-API Acceleration Coming For AMD Radeon RX 6000 Series Linux Users | Radeon | 2021-08-13 |
| Radeon "Cyan Skillfish" Navi 1x APU Submitted For Linux 5.15 Plus Many Fixes | Radeon | 2021-07-30 |
| H.264 SVC / Temporal Encoding Wired Up For AMD's Linux Graphics Driver | Radeon | 2021-07-26 |
| AMDVLK 2021.Q2.1 Finally Adds Navi 12 Support | Radeon | 2021-04-07 |
| VCN Load Balancing, LTTPR, More Aldebaran + Other Changes For Radeon In Linux 5.13 | Radeon | 2021-04-02 |
| Linux 5.11.5, 5.10.22 Released With Headless AMD Navi 12 SKU Backported | Linux Kernel | 2021-03-09 |
| VCN-Less Navi 12 SKU, RX 6000 Series BACO Runtime PM Are Extras For Linux 5.12 | Radeon | 2021-03-04 |
| IBM Begins Adding GCC Support For Z Arch14 - Likely IBM z16 | GNU | 2021-03-02 |
| AMD Radeon "Aldebaran" GPU Support Published For Next-Gen CDNA | Radeon | 2021-02-24 |
| AMD Sends In More "New Stuff" For Radeon Graphics With Linux 5.12 | Radeon | 2021-01-15 |
| Mesa 21.0 Adds Radeon HEVC SAO Encode Support | Radeon | 2020-12-04 |
| AMD Stages More Driver Updates For New GPUs With Linux 5.11 | Radeon | 2020-11-26 |
| AMD Lands AV1 Decode For Radeon RX 6000 Series In Mesa | Radeon | 2020-11-17 |
| AMD Sends In Green Sardine Support For Linux 5.10, Hawaii BACO Reset | Linux Kernel | 2020-11-04 |
| AMD Adds Secure Video Playback To Their Open-Source Linux Driver | Radeon | 2020-11-04 |
| AMD Navi "Blockchain" Card Support Being Added To Linux 5.10 | Radeon | 2020-10-29 |
| AMD Linux Driver Preparing For A Navi "Blockchain" Graphics Card | Radeon | 2020-10-21 |
| Linux 5.9 Regression, NVIDIA RTX 30, GNOME 40 & Microsoft Made For A Fun September | Phoronix | 2020-10-01 |
| Linux 5.9 Gets More Fixes For AMD RDNA2 GPUs, Promotes Navi 12 | Radeon | 2020-09-30 |
| AMD Sends Out Linux Kernel Support For Van Gogh APUs - Confirms DDR5 Memory, VCN3 | Radeon | 2020-09-25 |
| Ray-Tracing Support For AMDGPU LLVM Back-End Lands For RDNA 2 | Radeon | 2020-09-16 |
| AMD Radeon Navi 2 / VCN 3.0 Supports AV1 Video Decoding | Radeon | 2020-09-15 |
| NVIDIA RTX 30 Series Supports AV1 Accelerated Video Decoding | NVIDIA | 2020-09-01 |
| AMD Lands VCN 3.0 Video Encode Support For Navi 2 / Sienna Cichlid | Radeon | 2020-06-18 |
| AMD Radeon Linux Driver Sees Patches For New "Sienna Cichlid" GPU | AMD | 2020-06-01 |
| AMD Lines Up Another Batch Of Radeon Graphics Fixes For Linux 5.8 | Radeon | 2020-05-27 |
| AMDGPU TMZ Support Wired Up For Linux 5.8 | Radeon | 2020-05-01 |
| Many AMD Radeon Graphics Driver Improvements Sent In For Linux 5.8 | Radeon | 2020-04-25 |
| AMD Radeon Graphics Driver Amassing Improvements For Linux 5.8 | Radeon | 2020-04-14 |
| AMD Begins Focusing On Bug Fixes For Linux 5.7 Graphics Driver Code | Radeon | 2020-03-20 |
| AMD Sends In A Bunch Of Fixes For Linux 5.6 Along With Pollock Support | Radeon | 2020-01-17 |
| Mesa 19.3.2 Released With All The Intel + AMD Driver Fixes From Over The Holidays | Mesa | 2020-01-09 |
| Radeon Linux 5.6 Changes Begin Queuing - Better Power Management, Adds DMCUB Controller | Radeon | 2019-12-11 |
| The Big Graphics Driver Update Lands In Linux 5.5 With Exciting Changes For Intel + AMD | Linux Kernel | 2019-11-28 |
| Linux 5.5 Cycle Kicks Off Next Week With Exciting Changes On Tap | Linux Kernel | 2019-11-22 |
| AMD Volleys Another Batch Of Graphics Driver Changes For Linux 5.5 | Radeon | 2019-11-09 |
| AMD Sends In More "Arcturus" GPU Code For Linux 5.5 | Radeon | 2019-11-02 |
