Radeon™ Software for Linux® 25.20.3 Release Notes

Release Date: November 17^th, 2025

This article provides information on the latest release version of Radeon™ Software for Linux®.

Highlights

• This release marks a significant milestone, featuring exclusively Open-Source software
  • The Mesa Vulkan driver is now officially supported, complementing the existing, robust Mesa OpenGL component. To maintain a 100% open-source core, the AMD proprietary OpenGL and Vulkan drivers are no longer included.
  • AMF is no longer included.  AMF users are advised to transition to the open-standard VA-API / Mesa Multimedia for continued hardware video acceleration.  Some examples of ffmpeg use cases with VA-API / Mesa Multimedia are shown below:
    • Hardware Decode:
       ffmpeg -hwaccel vaapi 
    • Hardware Encode:
       ffmpeg -vaapi_device /dev/dri/renderD128 -i in.mp4 -vf hwupload,scale_vaapi=format=nv12 -c:v h264_vaapi out.mp4 
    • Hardware Transcode:
      ffmpeg -vaapi_device /dev/dri/renderD128 -hwaccel vaapi - hwaccel_output_format vaapi -i in.mp4 -c:v hevc_vaapi out.mp4 

Please feel free to direct any questions or comments to the AMD Online Service Request.

• RHEL 10.0 support added: This release introduces compatibility with the RHEL 10.0 distribution.
• RHEL 8.10 support removed: Support for the RHEL 8.10 distribution has been removed in this release.

AMD Linux GPU Drivers Guidelines

AMD Linux GPU drivers are open source and integrated into popular Linux distributions (some of them are listed at Compatible 64-bit Operating Systems). For many use cases, AMD recommends using AMD GPU Linux drivers available from Linux distributions. Some of these use cases are described below:  

• Using AMD APU products with any popular and up-to-date Linux distribution.
• Using AMD discrete GPU products that are well supported by a popular Linux distribution.
• Using a notebook or desktop PC pre-loaded with Linux and/or certified by a Linux distribution vendor.
• Using a Linux distribution that is not compatible with Radeon™ Software for Linux® such as:
  • Fedora 43
  • Pop!_OS
  • Linux Mint 22
  • Arch Linux

When using a very recent AMD discrete GPU that is not yet well supported by recent versions of Linux distributions, AMD recommends the most recent release of Radeon™ Software for Linux®. Many users find it convenient to migrate to AMD GPU Linux drivers available from Linux distributions once they've been updated to include support for the latest AMD GPU products.

Radeon™ Software for Linux® installer can be downloaded from the following links:

• Radeon™ Software for Linux® installer version 25.20.3 for Ubuntu 22.04.5 HWE 
• Radeon™ Software for Linux® installer version 25.20.3 for Ubuntu 24.04.3 HWE
• Radeon™ Software for Linux® installer version 25.20.3 for RHEL 10.0
• Radeon™ Software for Linux® installer version 25.20.3 for RHEL 9.6
• Radeon™ Software for Linux® installer version 25.20.3 for SLED/SLES 15 SP7

Installing Radeon™ Software for Linux®

For detailed instructions on how to install or uninstall Radeon™ Software for Linux®, please refer to Radeon™ Software for Linux® installation instructions.

AMD Radeon™ Product Family Compatibility

Radeon™ Software for Linux® is compatible with the following AMD products (level of compatibility may vary from product to product within each series; for details, please refer to AMD Drivers and Support :

AMD Radeon™ Product Compatibility with 64-bit Linux Distributions

• Ubuntu 22.04.5 HWE
• Ubuntu 24.04.3
• RHEL 10.0
• RHEL 9.6
• SLED/SLES 15 SP7

Known Issues

• The Witcher 3 on Linux – Wild Hunt may fail to launch due to a missing 32-bit Vulkan driver. This issue will be resolved in a future release.  In the meantime, users can install the 32-bit Vulkan driver manually by using the following command on Ubuntu:
  
  sudo apt install mesa-amdgpu-vulkan-drivers:i386

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