---
title: 'Collabora Blog: Goodbye Nouveau GL. Hello Zink!'
url: 'https://vulkan.org/news/auto-23444-2826dd6545b43f417e0e6e8c57fdd911'
markdown: 'https://vulkan.org/news/auto-23444-2826dd6545b43f417e0e6e8c57fdd911.md'
date: '2025-03-11'
taxonomy:
  tag:
    - opengl
---

#  Collabora Blog: Goodbye Nouveau GL. Hello Zink! 

  March 11th at 4:27pm

 Starting with Mesa 25.1, Nouveau users will no longer get the old Nouveau OpenGL driver by default and will instead get Zink+NVK. Unlike most OpenGL drivers which are written to target the underlying hardware directly, Zink is an OpenGL implementation written on top of Vulkan. Collabora has been talking about this for a while, but the MR has landed today. 

 [ Read More  ](https://www.collabora.com/news-and-blog/news-and-events/goodbye-nouveau-gl-hello-zink.html)

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