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 7.7 Release Notes / 21 December 2009</H1> 12 13<p> 14Mesa 7.7 is a new development release. 15People who are concerned with stability and reliability should stick 16with a previous release or wait for Mesa 7.7.1. 17</p> 18<p> 19Mesa 7.7 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> 31395c9516edf1ad54b0934d8db15557bf MesaLib-7.7.tar.gz 32e3fa64a1508bc23dd9de9dd2cea7cfb1 MesaLib-7.7.tar.bz2 33e54903eb5e49c3969821fa16b32da245 MesaLib-7.7.zip 3453b5b6f78e55de170d43c98cb6aaab7e MesaDemos-7.7.tar.gz 356fd616b27b9826d0faa23e08e05d9435 MesaDemos-7.7.tar.bz2 36240fe06159ad73d5e22c27033b66c80a MesaDemos-7.7.zip 379fe11a904b2a9d8cd06cc52bc330b716 MesaGLUT-7.7.tar.gz 38e8dceed05a59a2d3c2619d7d734587e3 MesaGLUT-7.7.tar.bz2 3996af041d435349ee23ead4667ec36363 MesaGLUT-7.7.zip 40</pre> 41 42 43<h2>New features</h2> 44<ul> 45<li>VMware "SVGA" Gallium driver. This is a Gallium3D driver which targets the 46 VMware virtual graphics device. It allows Linux OpenGL guest applications 47 to utilize the 3D graphics hardware of the host operating system. 48<li>GL_ARB_draw_elements_base_vertex (supported in Intel i965 and software drivers)</li> 49<li>GL_ARB_depth_clamp (supported in Intel i965 DRI and software drivers)</li> 50<li>GL_NV_depth_clamp (supported in Intel i965 DRI and software drivers)</li> 51<li>GL_ARB_provoking_vertex (same as GL_EXT_provoking_vertex)</li> 52<li>Wavefront .obj file loader/viewer demo (progs/demos/objviewer) 53</ul> 54 55 56<h2>Bug fixes</h2> 57<ul> 58<li>Many assorted i965 driver fixes. 59<li>Many r300-gallium driver fixes; this driver is now considered unstable-quality instead of experimental-quality. 60</ul> 61 62 63<h2>Changes</h2> 64<ul> 65<li>New Mesa texture/surface format infrastructure 66<li>Removed some unused Mesa device driver hooks 67</ul> 68 69</body> 70</html> 71