NVIDIA released today the NVIDIA 590.48.01 graphics drivers for NVIDIA GPUs on Linux, BSD, and Solaris systems as the first stable release in the NVIDIA 590 series.

The NVIDIA 590.48.01 graphics driver improves support for Wayland users by raising the minimum supported Wayland version to 1.20 and fixes a bug that prevented the PowerMizer preferred mode drop-down menu in the nvidia-settings control panel from functioning correctly on Wayland systems.

It also improves support for Vulkan apps by boosting the performance of recreating Vulkan swapchains, which helps prevent stuttering when resizing Vulkan application windows, and fixes several issues that prevented Vulkan apps from working on the Venus VirtIO virtual GPU.