--- title: Zink: Fall Update | daily.dev description: Erik Faye-Lund provides a fall 2019 update on Zink, the OpenGL-on-Vulkan implementation for Mesa. Zink currently supports OpenGL 2.1 and OpenGL ES 2.0, with no... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/zink-fall-update-ub0gaepv8 twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: Zink: Fall Update | daily.dev og:description: Erik Faye-Lund provides a fall 2019 update on Zink, the OpenGL-on-Vulkan implementation for Mesa. Zink currently supports OpenGL 2.1 and OpenGL ES 2.0, with no... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/zink-fall-update-ub0gaepv8 og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/UB0gaepv8.png og:image:alt: Zink: Fall Update og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # Zink: Fall Update **[Collabora Blog](https://daily.dev/sources/collabora)** · 4 min read · 0 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary Erik Faye-Lund provides a fall 2019 update on Zink, the OpenGL-on-Vulkan implementation for Mesa. Zink currently supports OpenGL 2.1 and OpenGL ES 2.0, with no plans to advance to 3.0 until it is upstreamed. The main focus is the upstreaming effort: several preparatory merge requests have already been merged, and a final 163-commit merge request adds the driver itself. Once merged, Zink will be part of Mesa but not built by default — users can enable it via the `-Dgallium-drivers` meson option. CI integration is in progress, with testing not yet enabled. After upstreaming, maintenance will follow standard Mesa driver practices, reducing single-maintainer bus-factor. Future plans include working on OpenGL 3.x and 4.x features. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. Read it at the original source: ## Questions this post answers ### What OpenGL version does Zink support and when will it support OpenGL 3.0? Zink supports OpenGL 2.1 and OpenGL ES 2.0. There are no immediate plans to work on OpenGL 3.0 or OpenGL ES 3.0 until Zink is upstreamed into Mesa. After upstreaming, work on OpenGL 3.x and 4.x level features is planned. _Developers following Mesa graphics driver progress track milestones like these on daily.dev._ ### How do I enable Zink in a Mesa build? Zink is not built by default in Mesa. To enable it, add `zink` to the `-Dgallium-drivers` meson option when configuring the Mesa build. This applies once the upstreaming merge request (163 commits) is merged into the main Mesa repository. _Mesa contributors keeping up with driver build system changes find relevant updates on daily.dev._ ## Similar posts on daily.dev - [Imagination's Open-Source PowerVR Vulkan Driver Now Plays Nicely With Zink OpenGL](https://daily.dev/posts/imagination-s-open-source-powervr-vulkan-driver-now-plays-nicely-with-zink-opengl-neig2zhea) · Phoronix · 0 upvotes · 0 comments - [Mesa's Zink OpenGL-On-Vulkan Driver Lands Mesh Shader Support](https://daily.dev/posts/mesa-s-zink-opengl-on-vulkan-driver-lands-mesh-shader-support-ew2az4koe) · Phoronix · 0 upvotes · 0 comments - [Proposed Wine Code Uses Zink For OpenGL-On-Vulkan By Default](https://daily.dev/posts/proposed-wine-code-uses-zink-for-opengl-on-vulkan-by-default-blylzehps) · Phoronix · 0 upvotes · 0 comments --- Tags: [#vulkan](https://daily.dev/tags/vulkan), [#mesa](https://daily.dev/tags/mesa) [View this post on daily.dev](https://daily.dev/posts/zink-fall-update-ub0gaepv8) ```json {"@context":"https://schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"Organization","@id":"https://daily.dev/#organization","name":"daily.dev","url":"https://daily.dev","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://daily.dev/apple-touch-icon.png","width":180,"height":180},"sameAs":["https://twitter.com/dailydotdev","https://github.com/dailydotdev","https://www.linkedin.com/company/daily-dev-ltd"]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https://daily.dev/#website","url":"https://daily.dev","name":"daily.dev","publisher":{"@id":"https://daily.dev/#organization"},"potentialAction":{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https://daily.dev/search?q={search_term_string}"},"query-input":"required name=search_term_string"}}]} {"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"TechArticle","headline":"Zink: Fall Update","url":"https://daily.dev/posts/zink-fall-update-ub0gaepv8","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://daily.dev/posts/zink-fall-update-ub0gaepv8"},"datePublished":"2026-08-11T08:54:14.949Z","dateModified":"2026-08-11T09:26:04.823Z","description":"Erik Faye-Lund provides a fall 2019 update on Zink, the OpenGL-on-Vulkan implementation for Mesa. 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