1<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/loose.dtd"> 2<html lang="en"> 3<head> 4 <meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"> 5 <title>Mesa Release Notes</title> 6 <link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="../mesa.css"> 7</head> 8<body> 9 10<div class="header"> 11 <h1>The Mesa 3D Graphics Library</h1> 12</div> 13 14<iframe src="../contents.html"></iframe> 15<div class="content"> 16 17<h1>Mesa 6.5.2 Release Notes / December 2, 2006</h1> 18 19<p> 20Mesa 6.5.2 is a 6.5 follow-on development release with a few new features 21but mostly consisting of bug fixes. 22</p> 23 24 25<h2>MD5 checksums</h2> 26<pre> 2711a033b078e090b3caaeb467234fe299 MesaLib-6.5.2.tar.gz 28e4d894181f1859651658b3704633e10d MesaLib-6.5.2.tar.bz2 2963bf1d444fa738cca52ce1043e284021 MesaLib-6.5.2.zip 302b8f1375d16bda5f5a2304174cd5bcf7 MesaDemos-6.5.2.tar.gz 31e870efe98d3a50be01ab211b9b2e25d9 MesaDemos-6.5.2.tar.bz2 32d92cc6f5fee5ca75af0be04f9f4908f0 MesaDemos-6.5.2.zip 338d4d77e3a7132f4217bbc7c1ab157030 MesaGLUT-6.5.2.tar.gz 34e84edbb11c69c8e408dfadd2ed08e95b MesaGLUT-6.5.2.tar.bz2 35c6d7134843ed5faf11f6686ecb5d2a2e MesaGLUT-6.5.2.zip 36</pre> 37 38 39<h2>New features</h2> 40<ul> 41<li>New DRI memory manager system. Currently used by the i915tex driver. 42Other DRI drivers will be updated to use the new memory manager in coming 43months. 44<br> 45To use the new driver you'll need the most recent DRM library and drivers 46(version 2.2 or later) and a recent xf86-video-intel driver module from X.org. 47<br> 48New features resulting from this work include: 49<ul> 50<li>EXT_framebuffer_objects, render to texture 51<li>ARB_pixel_buffer_objects 52<li>Accelerated CopyTexSubimage, DrawPixels, ReadPixels, CopyPixels 53<li>Accelerated texture uploads from pixel buffer objects 54<li>Potentially texturing directly from the pixel buffer object (zero 55copy texturing). 56</ul> 57<li>New Intel i965 DRI driver 58<li>New <code>minstall</code> script to replace normal install program 59<li>Faster fragment program execution in software 60<li>Added (or fixed) support for <a href="https://www.khronos.org/registry/OpenGL/extensions/SGI/GLX_SGI_make_current_read.txt"> 61 GLX_SGI_make_current_read</a> to the following drivers: 62 <ul> 63 <li>radeon</li> 64 <li>savage</li> 65 <li>mga</li> 66 <li>tdfx</li> 67 </ul> 68<li>Added support for ARB_occlusion_query to the tdfx driver (Ian 69Romanick).</li> 70</ul> 71 72<h2>Bug fixes</h2> 73<ul> 74<li>fixed invalid memory read while rendering textured points (bug 8320) 75<li>fixed problems with freebsd-dri configuration (bug 8344) 76<li>Mesa's fake glxGetCurrentContext() wasn't thread-aware 77<li>OPTION NV_position_invariant didn't work in NV vertex programs 78<li>glDrawPixels into a user-created framebuffer object could crash Xlib driver 79<li>Line clipping was broken in some circumstances 80<li>fragment.fogcoord register didn't always contain the correct value 81<li>RGBA logicops didn't work reliably in some DRI drivers 82<li>Fixed broken RGBA LogicOps in Intel DRI drivers 83<li>Fixed some fragment program bugs in Intel i915 DRI driver 84<li>Fixed glGetVertexAttribfvARB bug 8883 85<li>Implemented glGetUniform[fi]vARB() functions 86<li>Fixed glDrawPixels(GL_COLOR_INDEX, GL_BITMAP) segfault (bug 9044) 87<li>Fixed some gluBuild2DMipmaps() bugs (Greg McGarragh) 88<li>Fixed broken "mgl" name mangling 89<li>Indirect rending was broken for glMap* functions (bug 8899) 90</ul> 91 92 93<h2>Internal code changes</h2> 94 95<ul> 96<li>The device driver functions ResizeBuffers and GetBufferSize have been 97decprecated. 98<li>OpenGL 2.0 and 2.1 support is nearly done. We need to do quite a bit 99more testing of the shading language functions. 100</ul> 101 102 103<h2>To Do (someday) items</h2> 104<ul> 105<li>Switch to freeglut 106<li>Increase MAX_DRAWBUFFERS 107<li>Fix linux-glide target/driver. 108<li>Improved lambda and derivative calculation for frag progs. 109</ul> 110 111 112<h2>Driver Status</h2> 113 114<pre> 115Driver Status 116---------------------- ---------------------- 117DRI drivers varies with the driver 118XMesa/GLX (on Xlib) implements OpenGL 1.5 119OSMesa (off-screen) implements OpenGL 1.5 120Glide (3dfx Voodoo1/2) implements OpenGL 1.3 121SVGA implements OpenGL 1.3 122Wind River UGL implements OpenGL 1.3 123Windows/Win32 implements OpenGL 1.5 124DJGPP implements OpenGL 1.5 125GGI implements OpenGL 1.3 126BeOS implements OpenGL 1.5 127Allegro needs updating 128D3D needs updating 129</pre> 130 131</div> 132</body> 133</html> 134