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 7.8 Release Notes / March 28, 2010</h1> 18 19<p> 20Mesa 7.8 is a new development release. 21People who are concerned with stability and reliability should stick 22with a previous release or wait for Mesa 7.8.1. 23</p> 24<p> 25Mesa 7.8 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> 375fcfde5383eccb3e9fd665f08a0ea59b MesaLib-7.8.tar.gz 3885cb891eecb89aae4fdd3499cccd934b MesaLib-7.8.tar.bz2 39754f39593006effc1c8ec3c27c2f1296 MesaLib-7.8.zip 40c3869c29fa6c3dbdd763f7428d271e12 MesaDemos-7.8.tar.gz 419fe8ec184c7f78691e43c4c0a7f97d56 MesaDemos-7.8.tar.bz2 42063a96947f7b83d4ad789c6cf291b184 MesaDemos-7.8.zip 435f4246756b7daaddb4fb3f970cad1e28 MesaGLUT-7.8.tar.gz 44ca7048a4aa7a437dcc84cc2c7d731336 MesaGLUT-7.8.tar.bz2 45b54581aeb79b585b158d6a32f94feff2 MesaGLUT-7.8.zip 46</pre> 47 48 49<h2>New features</h2> 50<ul> 51<li>GL_NV_conditional_render extension (swrast driver only) 52<li>GL_EXT_draw_buffers2 extension (swrast and i965 driver only) 53<li>GL_ARB_fragment_coord_conventions extension (for swrast, i965, and Gallium drivers) 54<li>GL_EXT_texture_array extension (swrast driver only) 55<li>GL_APPLE_object_purgeable extension (swrast and i945/i965 DRI drivers) 56<li>Much improved support for <a href="../egl.html">EGL in Mesa</a> 57<li>New state trackers for <a href="../opengles.html">OpenGL ES 1.1 and 2.0</a> 58<li>Dedicated documentation for Gallium 59</ul> 60 61 62<h2>Bug fixes</h2> 63<ul> 64<li>Massive improvements to the Gallium driver for R300-R500 Radeons; this 65 driver is now moderately stable but not terribly performant. 66</ul> 67 68 69<h2>Changes</h2> 70<ul> 71<li>Removed support for color-index rendering</li> 72<li>Removed support for GCC versions earlier than 3.3.0.</li> 73</ul> 74 75</div> 76</body> 77</html> 78