1 2 Mesa 6.4 Release Notes 3 4 October 24, 2005 5 6 7 8 Introduction 9 ------------ 10 11 Mesa uses an even/odd version number scheme like the Linux kernel. 12 Odd numbered versions (such as 6.3) designate new developmental releases. 13 Even numbered versions (such as 6.4) designate stable releases. 14 15 16 6.4 is a bug-fix release. See the VERSIONS file for details. 17 18 19 20 GLUT tarball 21 ------------ 22 23 Starting with 6.4, the GLUT library sources are distributed in a separate 24 tarball. This was done at the request of Linux distro vendors who prefer 25 to use freeglut. 26 27 28 29 30 Driver Status 31 ---------------------- ---------------------- 32 DRI drivers varies with the driver 33 XMesa (Xlib) implements OpenGL 1.5 34 OSMesa (off-screen) implements OpenGL 1.5 35 Windows/Win32 implements OpenGL 1.5 36 Glide (3dfx Voodoo1/2) requires updates 37 SVGA requires updates 38 DJGPP requires updates 39 GGI requires updates 40 BeOS requires updates 41 Allegro requires updates 42 D3D requires updates 43 44 The drivers which require updates mostly need to be updated to work 45 with the new gl_renderbuffer / gl_framebuffer infrastructure introduced 46 in Mesa 6.3. 47 48 49 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 50
