1<HTML> 2 3<TITLE>Mesa Release Notes</TITLE> 4 5<head><link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="mesa.css"></head> 6 7<BODY> 8 9<body bgcolor="#eeeeee"> 10 11<H1>Mesa 7.8 Release Notes / March 28, 2010</H1> 12 13<p> 14Mesa 7.8 is a new development release. 15People who are concerned with stability and reliability should stick 16with a previous release or wait for Mesa 7.8.1. 17</p> 18<p> 19Mesa 7.8 implements the OpenGL 2.1 API, but the version reported by 20glGetString(GL_VERSION) depends on the particular driver being used. 21Some drivers don't support all the features required in OpenGL 2.1. 22</p> 23<p> 24See the <a href="install.html">Compiling/Installing page</a> for prerequisites 25for DRI hardware acceleration. 26</p> 27 28 29<h2>MD5 checksums</h2> 30<pre> 315fcfde5383eccb3e9fd665f08a0ea59b MesaLib-7.8.tar.gz 3285cb891eecb89aae4fdd3499cccd934b MesaLib-7.8.tar.bz2 33754f39593006effc1c8ec3c27c2f1296 MesaLib-7.8.zip 34c3869c29fa6c3dbdd763f7428d271e12 MesaDemos-7.8.tar.gz 359fe8ec184c7f78691e43c4c0a7f97d56 MesaDemos-7.8.tar.bz2 36063a96947f7b83d4ad789c6cf291b184 MesaDemos-7.8.zip 375f4246756b7daaddb4fb3f970cad1e28 MesaGLUT-7.8.tar.gz 38ca7048a4aa7a437dcc84cc2c7d731336 MesaGLUT-7.8.tar.bz2 39b54581aeb79b585b158d6a32f94feff2 MesaGLUT-7.8.zip 40</pre> 41 42 43<h2>New features</h2> 44<ul> 45<li>GL_NV_conditional_render extension (swrast driver only) 46<li>GL_EXT_draw_buffers2 extension (swrast and i965 driver only) 47<li>GL_ARB_fragment_coord_conventions extension (for swrast, i965, and Gallium drivers) 48<li>GL_EXT_texture_array extension (swrast driver only) 49<li>GL_APPLE_object_purgeable extension (swrast and i945/i965 DRI drivers) 50<li>Much improved support for <a href="egl.html">EGL in Mesa</a> 51<li>New state trackers for <a href="opengles.html">OpenGL ES 1.1 and 2.0</a> 52<li>Dedicated documentation for Gallium 53</ul> 54 55 56<h2>Bug fixes</h2> 57<ul> 58<li>Massive improvements to the Gallium driver for R300-R500 Radeons; this 59 driver is now moderately stable but not terribly performant. 60</ul> 61 62 63<h2>Changes</h2> 64<ul> 65<li>Removed support for color-index rendering</li> 66<li>Removed support for GCC versions earlier than 3.3.0.</li> 67</ul> 68 69</body> 70</html> 71