Release 2.6 (2026-09-28)
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General changes:
- Removed xe_eudebug from meson. (Dominik Karol Piątkowski)
Devops changes:
- Bumped Debian version to bookworm and Fedora to latest 44 (Kamil Konieczny)
Runner changes:
- New igt_runner option --save-results-after-each-test. (Kamil Konieczny)
Library changes:
- Continued refactor of display library code. (Jani Nikula)

- New platform filtering helpers for skipping tests without modifying test
  source code. (Vitaly Prosyak)

- Improved setting up the render and compute pipelines for Intel GPUs. (Jan
  Maslak)

Test changes:
- Improved display testing during suspend. (Michał Grzelak)
- Added subtest for BACKGROUND_COLOR crtc property. (Maarten Lankhorst)

- New test for HDMI TMDS audio bandwidth constraints on Intel GPUs. (Swati
  Sharma)

- Added subtest for Content Match Refresh Rate (CMRR) across both fixed and
  video timing display modes. (Naladala Ramanaidu)

- New Xe page offline tests on Intel CRI GPUs. (Tejas Upadhyay)
- Added test coverage for FIXED_MATRIX colorops for CSC. (Harry Wentland)
- Added GT reset submit stress subtest. (Nishit Sharma)

- New tests for SRIOV GGTT accesses by PF and VFs on Xe. (Piotr Piórkowski,
  Marcin Bernatowicz and Lukasz Laguna).

- Added FIXED_MATRIX colorop subtests. (Swati Sharma)
- Added UHBR-to-HBR fallback subtest for UHBR-capable DP connectors.(Sowmiya S)
- Improved KMS tests on MediaTek. (Jason-JH Lin)
- Added user fence no signal subtest for Intel Xe driver. (Priyanka Dandamudi)
- Improved userptr stress test for amdgpu. (Vitaly Prosyak)
- Improved Xe OA testing. (Umesh Nerlige Ramappa)
- Improved FBC handling in display tests. (Vinod Govindapillai)
- Improved amdgpu reset tests. (Jesse Zhang)
- Added subtest to validate YUV420 with DC3CO. (Jeevan B)
- Ported dmabuf tests to KUnit. (Krzysztof Niemiec)
- Added display feature discovery subtests for HDR, VRR and DSC. (Swati Sharma)
- Added Panthor sparse VM_BIND tests. (Adrián Larumbe)
- Extended BO tests to cover GEM_INFO and cache flags on MSM. (Jitta Vignan)
- New tests for PERFCNTR_CONFIG ioctl on MSM GPUs. (Rob Clark)

- New tests for PowerVR Imagination GPUs. (Donald Robson, Matt Coster,
  Robert Mazur, Frank Binns and Sarah Walker)

Tools changes:
- Fixed gputop on Panthor. (Deborah Brouwer)

- Renamed AMD tool to igt_hdmi_compliance and improved it to work on Intel GPUs
  (Swati Sharma)

- Improvements in amd_hdmi_compliance. (Fangzhi Zuo and Mark Broadworth)

- Decreased number of dynamically linked libraries in many tools. (Sebastian
  Brzezinka)

And many other bug fixes, improvements, cleanups and new tests.