It has been about half a year since the last release, but finally, over a hundred git commits later, we have version 1.3.0 of the radeonhd driver.

You may think that a release "cycle" of 6 months is... not that much. However, as most open source projects radeonhd is pretty much understaffed. Together with lots of additional work on Novell's side (which of course reduces the amount of time Egbert and I can spend on radeonhd) it took us a while to finally find some time for polishing. Because 2D acceleration is active by default now on (almost) all chipsets, we were seeing more regressions than usual.

Never mind, you're probably more interested about the new release. These are the main changes:

• Added support for RV740, M92, M93, M97.


• Added more support for HDMI audio, XVideo color spaces, backlight control.


• Added support for power management.


• 2D acceleration (EXA) is enabled by default now, except on RV740.


• Tons of bug fixes (AtomBIOS, Cursor, DDC, EXA, LUT, MC, Quirks, RandR).

For more read the Phoronix article, the announcement mail or the README of the driver.