What are the usual delays for new mesa releaes to hit fedora?

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Hey, I’m waiting for mesa 25.0.5 to hit fedora 42 since I’m one of the 0.1% of people with a RX 9070 XT and Linux in the world.

what are the usual delays between mesa release and inclusion in Fedora?
what are the considerations that usually take place? in this case it is “just” a bugfix release. is there a fixed timeline for updates like that?

thx

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You can see what has been built on this page mesa | Package Info | koji
I do not see the 25.0.5 there yet.

I would expect mesa releases to be built soon after upstream release.
After testing they go into the update steam.

You can install from the fedora testing repo soon after the build is done and not wait for it to hit fedora updates repo.

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Interestingly though, mesa-25.1.0-1.fc43 seems to be there. How would I install that, without waiting for it to hit fedora updates repo?

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Have anyone tested this update?

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I’ve never had to use the testing repo, but I expect Mesa release candidates will land in testing before making it to stable branches. You might try to opt-in to testing and have a look as to what version of Mesa is shipped. Once your card hits Mesa / Fedora stable, you can opt-out of the testing repo.

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I’m also curious what’s involved with delays. I see 25.0.5 mentioned as a future update on recently-released F42, and out of curiosity I checked on FreeBSD 14.2 and have 25.1.0-devel now.

AMD stuff seems to benefit from a fast-moving graphics stuff and the kernel already moves fast.

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I’ve just created a copr/mesa project and compiled mesa-25.0.6 for f42-x86_64.
It has the same configuration as vanilla fedora packages, so NO mesa-freeworld* packages.

I succesfully tested vulkan (vkquake) on an Intel iGPU and software emulation with llvmpipe.
I don’t have any radeon HW here to test! YMMV

sudo dnf copr enable anotheruser/mesa 
sudo dnf upgrade

Update: changed to multilib x86_64/i686 and added f41

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