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 <h1>Mesa 7.8 Release Notes / March 28, 2010</h1> 11 12 <p> 13 Mesa 7.8 is a new development release. 14 People who are concerned with stability and reliability should stick 15 with a previous release or wait for Mesa 7.8.1. 16 </p> 17 <p> 18 Mesa 7.8 implements the OpenGL 2.1 API, but the version reported by 19 glGetString(GL_VERSION) depends on the particular driver being used. 20 Some drivers don't support all the features required in OpenGL 2.1. 21 </p> 22 <p> 23 See the <a href="install.html">Compiling/Installing page</a> for prerequisites 24 for DRI hardware acceleration. 25 </p> 26 27 28 <h2>MD5 checksums</h2> 29 <pre> 30 5fcfde5383eccb3e9fd665f08a0ea59b MesaLib-7.8.tar.gz 31 85cb891eecb89aae4fdd3499cccd934b MesaLib-7.8.tar.bz2 32 754f39593006effc1c8ec3c27c2f1296 MesaLib-7.8.zip 33 c3869c29fa6c3dbdd763f7428d271e12 MesaDemos-7.8.tar.gz 34 9fe8ec184c7f78691e43c4c0a7f97d56 MesaDemos-7.8.tar.bz2 35 063a96947f7b83d4ad789c6cf291b184 MesaDemos-7.8.zip 36 5f4246756b7daaddb4fb3f970cad1e28 MesaGLUT-7.8.tar.gz 37 ca7048a4aa7a437dcc84cc2c7d731336 MesaGLUT-7.8.tar.bz2 38 b54581aeb79b585b158d6a32f94feff2 MesaGLUT-7.8.zip 39 </pre> 40 41 42 <h2>New features</h2> 43 <ul> 44 <li>GL_NV_conditional_render extension (swrast driver only) 45 <li>GL_EXT_draw_buffers2 extension (swrast and i965 driver only) 46 <li>GL_ARB_fragment_coord_conventions extension (for swrast, i965, and Gallium drivers) 47 <li>GL_EXT_texture_array extension (swrast driver only) 48 <li>GL_APPLE_object_purgeable extension (swrast and i945/i965 DRI drivers) 49 <li>Much improved support for <a href="egl.html">EGL in Mesa</a> 50 <li>New state trackers for <a href="opengles.html">OpenGL ES 1.1 and 2.0</a> 51 <li>Dedicated documentation for Gallium 52 </ul> 53 54 55 <h2>Bug fixes</h2> 56 <ul> 57 <li>Massive improvements to the Gallium driver for R300-R500 Radeons; this 58 driver is now moderately stable but not terribly performant. 59 </ul> 60 61 62 <h2>Changes</h2> 63 <ul> 64 <li>Removed support for color-index rendering</li> 65 <li>Removed support for GCC versions earlier than 3.3.0.</li> 66 </ul> 67 68 </body> 69 </html> 70
