1Mesa 7.8 Release Notes / March 28, 2010 2======================================= 3 4Mesa 7.8 is a new development release. People who are concerned with 5stability and reliability should stick with a previous release or wait 6for Mesa 7.8.1. 7 8Mesa 7.8 implements the OpenGL 2.1 API, but the version reported by 9glGetString(GL_VERSION) depends on the particular driver being used. 10Some drivers don't support all the features required in OpenGL 2.1. 11 12See the :doc:`Compiling/Installing page <../install>` for 13prerequisites for DRI hardware acceleration. 14 15MD5 checksums 16------------- 17 18:: 19 20 5fcfde5383eccb3e9fd665f08a0ea59b MesaLib-7.8.tar.gz 21 85cb891eecb89aae4fdd3499cccd934b MesaLib-7.8.tar.bz2 22 754f39593006effc1c8ec3c27c2f1296 MesaLib-7.8.zip 23 c3869c29fa6c3dbdd763f7428d271e12 MesaDemos-7.8.tar.gz 24 9fe8ec184c7f78691e43c4c0a7f97d56 MesaDemos-7.8.tar.bz2 25 063a96947f7b83d4ad789c6cf291b184 MesaDemos-7.8.zip 26 5f4246756b7daaddb4fb3f970cad1e28 MesaGLUT-7.8.tar.gz 27 ca7048a4aa7a437dcc84cc2c7d731336 MesaGLUT-7.8.tar.bz2 28 b54581aeb79b585b158d6a32f94feff2 MesaGLUT-7.8.zip 29 30New features 31------------ 32 33- GL_NV_conditional_render extension (swrast driver only) 34- GL_EXT_draw_buffers2 extension (swrast and i965 driver only) 35- GL_ARB_fragment_coord_conventions extension (for swrast, i965, and 36 Gallium drivers) 37- GL_EXT_texture_array extension (swrast driver only) 38- GL_APPLE_object_purgeable extension (swrast and i945/i965 DRI 39 drivers) 40- Much improved support for :doc:`EGL in Mesa <../egl>` 41- New state trackers for :doc:`OpenGL ES 1.1 and 2.0 <../opengles>` 42- Dedicated documentation for Gallium 43 44Bug fixes 45--------- 46 47- Massive improvements to the Gallium driver for R300-R500 Radeons; 48 this driver is now moderately stable but not terribly performant. 49 50Changes 51------- 52 53- Removed support for color-index rendering 54- Removed support for GCC versions earlier than 3.3.0. 55