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 8.0 Release Notes / February 9, 2012</h1> 18 19<p> 20Mesa 8.0 is a new development release. 21People who are concerned with stability and reliability should stick 22with a previous release or wait for Mesa 8.0.1. 23</p> 24<p> 25Mesa 8.0 implements the OpenGL 3.0 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 3.0. 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> 373516fea6c28ce4a0fa9759e4894729a1 MesaLib-8.0.tar.gz 381a5668fe72651a670611164cefc703b2 MesaLib-8.0.tar.bz2 3966f5a01a85530a91472a3acceb556db8 MesaLib-8.0.zip 40</pre> 41 42 43<h2>New features</h2> 44<ul> 45<li>GL_ARB_ES2_compatibility (r300g, r600g) 46<li>GL_ARB_depth_buffer_float (r600g) 47<li>GL_ARB_vertex_type_2_10_10_10_rev (r600g) 48<li>GL_ARB_texture_storage (gallium drivers and swrast) 49<li>GL_EXT_packed_float (i965) 50<li>GL_EXT_texture_array (r600g, i965) 51<li>GL_EXT_texture_shared_exponent (i965) 52<li>GL_NV_fog_distance (all gallium drivers, nouveau classic) 53<li>GL_NV_primitive_restart (r600g) 54<li>GL_OES_EGL_image_external (gallium drivers) 55<li>GL_OES_compressed_ETC1_RGB8_texture (softpipe, llvmpipe) 56<li>ARB_texture_rgb10_a2ui (softpipe, r600g) 57<li>Many updates to the VMware svga Gallium driver 58</ul> 59 60 61<h2>Bug fixes</h2> 62 63 64<h2>Changes</h2> 65<ul> 66<li>Removed all DRI drivers that did not support DRI2. Specifically, 67 i810, mach64, mga, r128, savage, sis, tdfx, and unichrome were 68 removed.</li> 69<li>Removed support for BeOS.</li> 70<li>Removed the obsolete (and unmaintained) Windows "gldirect" and 71 "ICD" drivers.</li> 72<li>Removed the linux-fbdev software driver.</li> 73<li>Removed all remnants of paletted texture support. As required by 74 desktop OpenGL, <tt>GL_COLOR_INDEX</tt> data can still be uploaded 75 to a color (e.g., RGBA) texture. However, the data cannot be stored 76 internally as color-index.</li> 77<li>Removed support for GL_APPLE_client_storage extension.</li> 78<li>Removed the classic Mesa r300 and r600 drivers, which are superseded 79 by the gallium drivers for this hardware.</li> 80<li>Removed the dead Gallium i965, cell and failover drivers, which were 81 either broken and with nobody in sight to fix the situation or 82 deprecated.</li> 83</ul> 84 85</div> 86</body> 87</html> 88