With the two free desktops Cinnamon in version 5.0.5, Gnome in version 40.3 and the graphics library Mesa 3D in version 21.1.5, you get three relevant software packages for operating systems based on the System Kernels Linux an update. The focus is on bug fixes and optimizations.
Cinnamon 5.0.5 and Gnome 40.3
After the modular desktop KDE Plasma 5.22.3 recently received further improvements, the Cinnamon 5.x, which is known from the current Linux Mint 20.2 (“Uma”), which is extremely popular with newcomers and users, and the recently completely redesigned Gnome are now also available 40, which premiered in April under the Fedora 34 Workstation, are now available in fresh versions.
Mesa 3D 21.1.5
The free graphics library Mesa 3D is also being updated and upgraded to the latest version 21.1.5. While new functions have to be left behind, according to the official release notes, various errors have been corrected.
Bug fixes
[build error] macros.h: 88: 26: error: size of unnamed array is negative
Game Issue: Nuclear Throne crashes in RadeonSI
Crash in glLinkProgram while trying to craft the link error
Shader compilation memory leaks
Wolfenstein II: The New Colossus – Screen goes black in some cases
SpaceEngine in Steam Proton cannot start with Mesa & gt; = 20.3
[bisected] KDE plasma menu text renders like stretched strangely [amdgpu]
Luna Sky Crashes on Launch
Mesa crashes on undefined texture behavior
Mesa crashes on undefined texture behavior
cache_test uses uninitialized stack memory
Mesa 3D 21.1.5 – Release Notes
Among other things, Mesa 3D implements the OpenGL specification on free operating systems based on Linux and BSD and implements the Open source low-level API Vulkan 1.2.
Since the release of Mesa 3D 21.0, Resizable BAR alias AMD Smart Access Memory (Test) is supported by AMD.
Linux 5.13.2 and 5.14 RC
While the first release candidate of the Linux 5.14 is already being tested and is to be used for the first time in the final version with the current Arch class leader Manjaro Linux 21.1, chief developer Linus Torvalds also has Linux 5.13.2 fr entered.
