Mesa 26.2.6 brings fixes for The Witcher 3 Remastered and various other Linux

29 Oct 2026 at 10:23 am UTC | Last updated: 29 Oct 2026 at 11:09 am UTC
By Liam Squires-Hand

Mesa 26.2.6 is out now as the latest upgrade for Linux open source graphics drivers, focused on fixing up some bugs reported. You have to wait for Mesa 26.3 for big new driver features.

Key Changes

• ACO: s_bitset0 retargeted to exec drops the VCC condition (26.2 regression from 984aa6e0855, RADV, RDNA2 to RDNA4, KytyPS5).
• ANV: Assert on vkGetPhysicalDeviceImageFormatProperties2.
• Confidential issue #16630.
• GPULostDevice on 6800 XT (mesa-26.0.X).
• Intel Meteor Lake: Unigine Heaven and Valley trigger GPU hangs with Mesa 26.2.0–26.2.4; work with 26.1.8.
• Witcher 3 Remastered - Graphical/visual bug that act like an overlay.
• [Turnip/A650] Hangs in several several games due to some missing shader(?) workaround.
• d3d12 (WSL2, NVIDIA RTX 5090): self-deadlock in d3d12_bo_new(), reclaim under pb_slab manager mutex hangs RPCS3 on compressed texture upload.
• freedreno: garbled text rendered by pdf.js on snapdragon x1 elite.
• kopper: non-dmabuf sw texture update is broken.
• lavapipe: maintenance8 depth/stencil <-> color vkCmdCopyImage copies only sample 0 of multisampled D32_SFLOAT_S8_UINT and D24_UNORM_S8_UINT images.
• lavapipe: new RT fails.
• v3dv: gpu hang when an inline uniform block comes before a sampled image.

Here's their current upcoming release schedule:

Branch

Expected date

Release

Notes

26.2

2026-11-11

26.2.7

26.3

2026-10-14

26.3.0-rc1

2026-10-21

26.3.0-rc2

2026-10-28

26.3.0-rc3

2026-11-04

26.3.0-rc4

Or 26.3.0 final.

Be sure to check out the GamingOnLinux Guide for Driver Upgrades!

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