1 2 Mesa 6.4 Release Notes 3 4 October 24, 2005 5 6 7 8Introduction 9------------ 10 11Mesa uses an even/odd version number scheme like the Linux kernel. 12Odd numbered versions (such as 6.3) designate new developmental releases. 13Even numbered versions (such as 6.4) designate stable releases. 14 15 166.4 is a bug-fix release. See the VERSIONS file for details. 17 18 19 20GLUT tarball 21------------ 22 23Starting with 6.4, the GLUT library sources are distributed in a separate 24tarball. This was done at the request of Linux distro vendors who prefer 25to use freeglut. 26 27 28 29 30Driver Status 31---------------------- ---------------------- 32DRI drivers varies with the driver 33XMesa (Xlib) implements OpenGL 1.5 34OSMesa (off-screen) implements OpenGL 1.5 35Windows/Win32 implements OpenGL 1.5 36Glide (3dfx Voodoo1/2) requires updates 37SVGA requires updates 38DJGPP requires updates 39GGI requires updates 40BeOS requires updates 41Allegro requires updates 42D3D requires updates 43 44The drivers which require updates mostly need to be updated to work 45with the new gl_renderbuffer / gl_framebuffer infrastructure introduced 46in Mesa 6.3. 47 48 49---------------------------------------------------------------------- 50