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> 14 Mesa 7.7 is a new development release. 15 People who are concerned with stability and reliability should stick 16 with a previous release or wait for Mesa 7.7.1. 17 </p> 18 <p> 19 Mesa 7.7 implements the OpenGL 2.1 API, but the version reported by 20 glGetString(GL_VERSION) depends on the particular driver being used. 21 Some drivers don't support all the features required in OpenGL 2.1. 22 </p> 23 <p> 24 See the <a href="install.html">Compiling/Installing page</a> for prerequisites 25 for DRI hardware acceleration. 26 </p> 27 28 29 <h2>MD5 checksums</h2> 30 <pre> 31 395c9516edf1ad54b0934d8db15557bf MesaLib-7.7.tar.gz 32 e3fa64a1508bc23dd9de9dd2cea7cfb1 MesaLib-7.7.tar.bz2 33 e54903eb5e49c3969821fa16b32da245 MesaLib-7.7.zip 34 53b5b6f78e55de170d43c98cb6aaab7e MesaDemos-7.7.tar.gz 35 6fd616b27b9826d0faa23e08e05d9435 MesaDemos-7.7.tar.bz2 36 240fe06159ad73d5e22c27033b66c80a MesaDemos-7.7.zip 37 9fe11a904b2a9d8cd06cc52bc330b716 MesaGLUT-7.7.tar.gz 38 e8dceed05a59a2d3c2619d7d734587e3 MesaGLUT-7.7.tar.bz2 39 96af041d435349ee23ead4667ec36363 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
