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 7.1 Release Notes / August 26, 2008</h1> 18 19<p> 20Mesa 7.1 is a new development release. 21There have been many internal code changes since Mesa 7.0.x. 22It should be relatively stable, but those who are especially concerned about 23stability should wait for Mesa 7.2 or use Mesa 7.0.4 (the previous stable 24release). 25</p> 26<p> 27Note that this version of Mesa does not use the GEM memory manager. 28The master branch of git uses GEM. 29</p> 30<p> 31DRM version 2.3.1 should be used with Mesa 7.1 32</p> 33 34 35<h2>MD5 checksums</h2> 36<pre> 37971c2fe6e6949dc5ba200a6f97a6dc81 MesaLib-7.1.tar.gz 386bff7f532d16f90f944a400c8bd7074d MesaLib-7.1.tar.bz2 39d48224bf9d54c3da6776adb4869ba024 MesaLib-7.1.zip 403de268420efca43e9a19ab506cdfc993 MesaDemos-7.1.tar.gz 41abfc9775e1462363af8ec160d1feb01f MesaDemos-7.1.tar.bz2 42f7b3623387c4036e9895cd9ac0dfad99 MesaDemos-7.1.zip 43fdf348f78cd09304b6ff801ef8acc8eb MesaGLUT-7.1.tar.gz 44f6d88a4eeb02e98c7e92f1c895d3c76b MesaGLUT-7.1.tar.bz2 454dc102a5ca51e1c41dde87d3f8c7b22a MesaGLUT-7.1.zip 46</pre> 47 48 49<h2>New features</h2> 50<ul> 51<li>autoconf-based configuration (and clean-up of Makefiles) 52<li>Assorted DRI driver enhancements 53<li>Reduced dependencies between X server and Mesa 54<li>GL_EXT_texture_from_pixmap extension for Xlib driver 55<li>Support for the GL shading language with i965 driver (implemented by Intel) 56<li>ATI R500 series support (Radeon X1300–X1950) in r300 DRI driver 57</ul> 58 59 60<h2>Bug fixes</h2> 61<ul> 62<li>Numerous GLSL fixes 63<li>Fixed some error code/detection bugs in the GLSL-related API functions 64<li>Lots of DRI driver fixes. 65</ul> 66 67 68<h2>To Do (someday) items</h2> 69<ul> 70<li>Remove the MEMCPY() and _mesa_memcpy() wrappers and just use memcpy(). 71Probably do the same for malloc, calloc, etc. 72The wrappers were useful in the past for memory debugging but now we 73have valgrind. Not worried about SunOS 4 support anymore either... 74<li>Switch to freeglut 75<li>Fix linux-glide target/driver. 76<li>Improved lambda and derivative calculation for frag progs. 77</ul> 78 79 80<h2>Driver Status</h2> 81 82<pre> 83Driver Status 84---------------------- ---------------------- 85DRI drivers varies with the driver 86XMesa/GLX (on Xlib) implements OpenGL 2.1 87OSMesa (off-screen) implements OpenGL 2.1 88Windows/Win32 implements OpenGL 2.1 89Glide (3dfx Voodoo1/2) implements OpenGL 1.3 90SVGA unsupported 91Wind River UGL unsupported 92DJGPP unsupported 93GGI unsupported 94BeOS unsupported 95Allegro unsupported 96D3D unsupported 97</pre> 98 99</div> 100</body> 101</html> 102