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 7.7 Release Notes / 21 December 2009</h1> 11 12 <p> 13 Mesa 7.7 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 7.7.1. 16 </p> 17 <p> 18 Mesa 7.7 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 395c9516edf1ad54b0934d8db15557bf MesaLib-7.7.tar.gz 31 e3fa64a1508bc23dd9de9dd2cea7cfb1 MesaLib-7.7.tar.bz2 32 e54903eb5e49c3969821fa16b32da245 MesaLib-7.7.zip 33 53b5b6f78e55de170d43c98cb6aaab7e MesaDemos-7.7.tar.gz 34 6fd616b27b9826d0faa23e08e05d9435 MesaDemos-7.7.tar.bz2 35 240fe06159ad73d5e22c27033b66c80a MesaDemos-7.7.zip 36 9fe11a904b2a9d8cd06cc52bc330b716 MesaGLUT-7.7.tar.gz 37 e8dceed05a59a2d3c2619d7d734587e3 MesaGLUT-7.7.tar.bz2 38 96af041d435349ee23ead4667ec36363 MesaGLUT-7.7.zip 39 </pre> 40 41 42 <h2>New features</h2> 43 <ul> 44 <li>VMware "SVGA" Gallium driver. This is a Gallium3D driver which targets the 45 VMware virtual graphics device. It allows Linux OpenGL guest applications 46 to utilize the 3D graphics hardware of the host operating system. 47 <li>GL_ARB_draw_elements_base_vertex (supported in Intel i965 and software drivers)</li> 48 <li>GL_ARB_depth_clamp (supported in Intel i965 DRI and software drivers)</li> 49 <li>GL_NV_depth_clamp (supported in Intel i965 DRI and software drivers)</li> 50 <li>GL_ARB_provoking_vertex (same as GL_EXT_provoking_vertex)</li> 51 <li>Wavefront .obj file loader/viewer demo (progs/demos/objviewer) 52 </ul> 53 54 55 <h2>Bug fixes</h2> 56 <ul> 57 <li>Many assorted i965 driver fixes. 58 <li>Many r300-gallium driver fixes; this driver is now considered unstable-quality instead of experimental-quality. 59 </ul> 60 61 62 <h2>Changes</h2> 63 <ul> 64 <li>New Mesa texture/surface format infrastructure 65 <li>Removed some unused Mesa device driver hooks 66 </ul> 67 68 </body> 69 </html> 70
