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 7.6 Release Notes, 28 September 2009</h1> 18 19<p> 20Mesa 7.6 is a new development release. 21People who are concerned with stability and reliability should stick 22with a previous release or wait for Mesa 7.6.1. 23</p> 24<p> 25Mesa 7.6 implements the OpenGL 2.1 API, but the version reported by 26glGetString(GL_VERSION) depends on the particular driver being used. 27Some drivers don't support all the features required in OpenGL 2.1. 28</p> 29<p> 30See the <a href="../install.html">Compiling/Installing page</a> for prerequisites 31for DRI hardware acceleration. 32</p> 33 34 35<h2>MD5 checksums</h2> 36<pre> 375ffa7d7abf8973f57a1bc4f813e6dade MesaLib-7.6.tar.gz 388c75f90cd0303cfac9e4b6d54f6759ca MesaLib-7.6.tar.bz2 3927fcfd69708599c978cb34ba5cd363e1 MesaLib-7.6.zip 40e7befb3ae604f591806194a4da445628 MesaDemos-7.6.tar.gz 410ede7adf217951acd90dbe4551210c07 MesaDemos-7.6.tar.bz2 42ed9298409cf6613bc0964525ca4afc8a MesaDemos-7.6.zip 43666955668e44ff14acf7d15dc78407d3 MesaGLUT-7.6.tar.gz 44b8b59706f827d18d1b784a0ff98b4dc2 MesaGLUT-7.6.tar.bz2 45c49c19c2bbef4f3b7f1389974dff25f4 MesaGLUT-7.6.zip 46</pre> 47 48 49<h2>New features</h2> 50<ul> 51<li>OpenVG front-end (state tracker for Gallium). 52This was written by Zack Rusin at Tungsten Graphics. 53<li>GL_ARB_vertex_array_object and GL_APPLE_vertex_array_object extensions 54 (supported in Gallium drivers, Intel DRI drivers, and software drivers)</li> 55<li>GL_ARB_copy_buffer extension 56 (supported in Gallium drivers, Intel DRI drivers, and software drivers)</li> 57<li>GL_ARB_map_buffer_range extension 58 (supported in Gallium drivers, Intel DRI drivers, and software drivers)</li> 59<li>GL_ARB_seamless_cube_map extension 60 (supported in software drivers and i965 drivers)</li> 61<li>GL_ARB_vertex_array_bgra (ARB synonym for GL_EXT_vertex_array_bgra)</li> 62<li>GL_ARB_sync (supported in software drivers and Intel DRI drivers)</li> 63<li>GL_EXT_provoking_vertex extension (supported in Gallium, i915, i965, and software drivers) 64<li>Rewritten radeon/r200/r300 driver using a buffer manager 65<li>radeon/r200/r300 GL_EXT_framebuffer_object support when used with 66 kernel memory manager 67<li>radeon/r200/r300 support for GL_ARB_occlusion_query</li> 68<li>r300 driver supports OpenGL 1.5</li> 69<li>r300 driver support for GL_EXT_vertex_array_bgra, GL_EXT_texture_sRGB 70<li>i915/945 driver support for GL_ARB_point_sprite, GL_EXT_stencil_two_side 71 and GL_ATI_separate_stencil extensions 72<li>Rewritten assembler for GL_ARB_vertex_program / 73 GL_ARB_fragment_program.</li> 74<li>Added configure --with-max-width=W, --with-max-height=H options to specify 75 max framebuffer, viewport size. 76<li>Initial version of Gallium llvmpipe driver. This is a new driver based 77 on LLVM which makes exensive use of run-time code generation. This is 78 an "alpha" stage driver. See the src/gallium/drivers/llvmpipe/README 79 file for more information. 80</ul> 81 82 83<h2>Bug fixes</h2> 84<ul> 85<li>i965 DRI driver fixes, including support for "unlimited" size constant 86 buffers (GLSL uniforms) 87</ul> 88 89</div> 90</body> 91</html> 92