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NVIDIA announced new 595.71.05 version of production branch driver for Linux yesterday.<\/p>\n
This is the second stable release for the current 595 driver series, which however features only a single bug-fix.<\/p>\n
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NVIDIA 595.58.03<\/p><\/div>\n
For Wayland, the default session in Ubuntu (since 22.04) and Fedora Workstation, the new driver fixed the OpenGL applications stop rendering issue after waking up from suspend.<\/p>\n
Nothing else! See this page<\/a> for details.<\/p>\n For those who missed the last NVIDIA 595.58.03, there are as well many other changes compare to the 590 release series.<\/p>\n They include new CudaNoStablePerfLimit profile allowing CUDA-using apps to reach the highest power and performance level, There are as well Other changes since NVIDIA 590 include:<\/p>\n Ubuntu has made NVIDIA 595 into official repository for Ubuntu 22.04, 24.04, 25.10, and Ubuntu 26.04. It’s however NVIDIA 595.58.03 so far. And, I’ve written about how to install it<\/a> step by step.<\/p>\n For the latest NVIDIA 595.71.05, the best choice is wait for Ubuntu updates. If you can’t wait, then try the NVIDIA’s CUDA repository<\/a>, which also support Debian, Fedora, RHEL etc distributions.<\/p>\n NOTE: Don’t do following steps in production machine, as it may break your desktop.<\/b><\/p>\n For Ubuntu, first download & install the “ After that, open terminal (Ctrl+Alt+T) and run command to refresh cache:<\/p>\n And, finally install the driver via command:<\/p>\n Replace NVIDIA announced new 595.71.05 version of production branch driver for Linux yesterday. This is the second stable release for the current 595 driver series, which however features only a single bug-fix.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":38385,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[656],"class_list":["post-51084","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-howtos","tag-nvidia"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51084","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=51084"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51084\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/38385"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=51084"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=51084"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=51084"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}nvidia-drm.ko modeset=1<\/code> parameter enabled by default which is essential for Wayland support, and DRI3 1.2 support features a kernel-level synchronization mechanism that is crucial for preventing tearing and improving performance in modern Linux gaming environments.<\/p>\nVK_EXT_descriptor_heap<\/code> extension allowing apps to store buffers \/ images directly into GPU-accessible memory thus reducing CPU overhead, and, VK_EXT_present_timing<\/code> extension to query detailed timing information and specify a target time for future frames for smooth gaming and video playback experience.<\/p>\n\n
Install NVIDIA 595.71.05<\/h3>\n
cuda-keyring_1.1-1_all.deb<\/code>” (version number may vary as time goes on) from the 22.04<\/a>, 24.04<\/a>, or 26.04<\/a> page.<\/p>\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/cuda-repo-700x423.webp\")
<\/p>\nsudo apt update<\/pre>\n
sudo apt install nvidia-driver<\/pre>\n
nvidia-driver<\/code> with nvidia-driver-open<\/code> for the open kernel driver. Though, you probably need to first uninstall previously installed NVIDIA driver if any.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"