---
title: 'Mesa 26.0 Released with Many Vulkan Driver Improvements'
url: 'https://vulkan.org/news/auto-24179-0f7c13823aad8531d9453c7abe7025bf'
markdown: 'https://vulkan.org/news/auto-24179-0f7c13823aad8531d9453c7abe7025bf.md'
date: '2026-02-12'
taxonomy:
  tag:
    - mesa
---

#  Mesa 26.0 Released with Many Vulkan Driver Improvements 

  February 12th at 12:20am

 The Mesa 26.0 open-source graphics stack has been released as a major update that introduces new features and improvements across most of the included graphics drivers. Highlights of Mesa 26.0 include KosmicKrisp, a new Vulkan to Metal layered driver for macOS, significant raytracing performance improvements to the RADV Vulkan driver for AMD GPUs, and other Vulkan improvements. 

 [ Read More  ](https://docs.mesa3d.org/relnotes/26.0.0.html)

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