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 6.5.2 Release Notes / December 2, 2006</H1> 12 13 <p> 14 Mesa 6.5.2 is a 6.5 follow-on development release with a few new features 15 but mostly consisting of bug fixes. 16 </p> 17 18 19 <h2>MD5 checksums</h2> 20 <pre> 21 11a033b078e090b3caaeb467234fe299 MesaLib-6.5.2.tar.gz 22 e4d894181f1859651658b3704633e10d MesaLib-6.5.2.tar.bz2 23 63bf1d444fa738cca52ce1043e284021 MesaLib-6.5.2.zip 24 2b8f1375d16bda5f5a2304174cd5bcf7 MesaDemos-6.5.2.tar.gz 25 e870efe98d3a50be01ab211b9b2e25d9 MesaDemos-6.5.2.tar.bz2 26 d92cc6f5fee5ca75af0be04f9f4908f0 MesaDemos-6.5.2.zip 27 8d4d77e3a7132f4217bbc7c1ab157030 MesaGLUT-6.5.2.tar.gz 28 e84edbb11c69c8e408dfadd2ed08e95b MesaGLUT-6.5.2.tar.bz2 29 c6d7134843ed5faf11f6686ecb5d2a2e MesaGLUT-6.5.2.zip 30 </pre> 31 32 33 <h2>New features</h2> 34 <ul> 35 <li>New DRI memory manager system. Currently used by the i915tex driver. 36 Other DRI drivers will be updated to use the new memory manager in coming 37 months. 38 <br> 39 To use the new driver you'll need the most recent DRM library and drivers 40 (version 2.2 or later) and a recent xf86-video-intel driver module from X.org. 41 <br> 42 New features resulting from this work include: 43 <ul> 44 <li>EXT_framebuffer_objects, render to texture 45 <li>ARB_pixel_buffer_objects 46 <li>Accelerated CopyTexSubimage, DrawPixels, ReadPixels, CopyPixels 47 <li>Accelerated texture uploads from pixel buffer objects 48 <li>Potentially texturing directly from the pixel buffer object (zero 49 copy texturing). 50 </ul> 51 <li>New Intel i965 DRI driver 52 <li>New <code>minstall</code> script to replace normal install program 53 <li>Faster fragment program execution in software 54 <li>Added (or fixed) support for <a href="http://www.opengl.org/registry/specs/SGI/make_current_read.txt"> 55 GLX_SGI_make_current_read</a> to the following drivers:</li> 56 <ul> 57 <li>radeon</li> 58 <li>savage</li> 59 <li>mga</li> 60 <li>tdfx</li> 61 </ul> 62 <li>Added support for ARB_occlusion_query to the tdfx driver (Ian 63 Romanick).</li> 64 </ul> 65 66 <h2>Bug fixes</h2> 67 <ul> 68 <li>fixed invalid memory read while rendering textured points (bug 8320) 69 <li>fixed problems with freebsd-dri configuration (bug 8344) 70 <li>Mesa's fake glxGetCurrentContext() wasn't thread-aware 71 <li>OPTION NV_position_invariant didn't work in NV vertex programs 72 <li>glDrawPixels into a user-created framebuffer object could crash Xlib driver 73 <li>Line clipping was broken in some circumstances 74 <li>fragment.fogcoord register didn't always contain the correct value 75 <li>RGBA logicops didn't work reliably in some DRI drivers 76 <li>Fixed broken RGBA LogicOps in Intel DRI drivers 77 <li>Fixed some fragment program bugs in Intel i915 DRI driver 78 <li>Fixed glGetVertexAttribfvARB bug 8883 79 <li>Implemented glGetUniform[fi]vARB() functions 80 <li>Fixed glDrawPixels(GL_COLOR_INDEX, GL_BITMAP) segfault (bug 9044) 81 <li>Fixed some gluBuild2DMipmaps() bugs (Greg McGarragh) 82 <li>Fixed broken "mgl" name mangling 83 <li>Indirect rending was broken for glMap* functions (bug 8899) 84 </ul> 85 86 87 <h2>Internal code changes</h2> 88 89 <ul> 90 <li>The device driver functions ResizeBuffers and GetBufferSize have been 91 decprecated. 92 <li>OpenGL 2.0 and 2.1 support is nearly done. We need to do quite a bit 93 more testing of the shading language functions. 94 </ul> 95 96 97 <h2>To Do (someday) items</h2> 98 <ul> 99 <li>Switch to freeglut 100 <li>Increase MAX_DRAWBUFFERS 101 <li>Fix linux-glide target/driver. 102 <li>Improved lambda and derivative calculation for frag progs. 103 </ul> 104 105 106 <h2>Driver Status</h2> 107 108 <pre> 109 Driver Status 110 ---------------------- ---------------------- 111 DRI drivers varies with the driver 112 XMesa/GLX (on Xlib) implements OpenGL 1.5 113 OSMesa (off-screen) implements OpenGL 1.5 114 Glide (3dfx Voodoo1/2) implements OpenGL 1.3 115 SVGA implements OpenGL 1.3 116 Wind River UGL implements OpenGL 1.3 117 Windows/Win32 implements OpenGL 1.5 118 DJGPP implements OpenGL 1.5 119 GGI implements OpenGL 1.3 120 BeOS implements OpenGL 1.5 121 Allegro needs updating 122 D3D needs updating 123 </pre> 124 125 </body> 126 </html> 127
