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 7.6 Release Notes, 28 September 2009</h1> 11 12 <p> 13 Mesa 7.6 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 7.6.1. 16 </p> 17 <p> 18 Mesa 7.6 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 5ffa7d7abf8973f57a1bc4f813e6dade MesaLib-7.6.tar.gz 31 8c75f90cd0303cfac9e4b6d54f6759ca MesaLib-7.6.tar.bz2 32 27fcfd69708599c978cb34ba5cd363e1 MesaLib-7.6.zip 33 e7befb3ae604f591806194a4da445628 MesaDemos-7.6.tar.gz 34 0ede7adf217951acd90dbe4551210c07 MesaDemos-7.6.tar.bz2 35 ed9298409cf6613bc0964525ca4afc8a MesaDemos-7.6.zip 36 666955668e44ff14acf7d15dc78407d3 MesaGLUT-7.6.tar.gz 37 b8b59706f827d18d1b784a0ff98b4dc2 MesaGLUT-7.6.tar.bz2 38 c49c19c2bbef4f3b7f1389974dff25f4 MesaGLUT-7.6.zip 39 </pre> 40 41 42 <h2>New features</h2> 43 <ul> 44 <li><a href="openvg.html">OpenVG</a> front-end (state tracker for Gallium). 45 This was written by Zack Rusin at Tungsten Graphics. 46 <li>GL_ARB_vertex_array_object and GL_APPLE_vertex_array_object extensions 47 (supported in Gallium drivers, Intel DRI drivers, and software drivers)</li> 48 <li>GL_ARB_copy_buffer extension 49 (supported in Gallium drivers, Intel DRI drivers, and software drivers)</li> 50 <li>GL_ARB_map_buffer_range extension 51 (supported in Gallium drivers, Intel DRI drivers, and software drivers)</li> 52 <li>GL_ARB_seamless_cube_map extension 53 (supported in software drivers and i965 drivers)</li> 54 <li>GL_ARB_vertex_array_bgra (ARB synonym for GL_EXT_vertex_array_bgra)</li> 55 <li>GL_ARB_sync (supported in software drivers and Intel DRI drivers)</li> 56 <li>GL_EXT_provoking_vertex extension (supported in Gallium, i915, i965, and software drivers) 57 <li>Rewritten radeon/r200/r300 driver using a buffer manager 58 <li>radeon/r200/r300 GL_EXT_framebuffer_object support when used with 59 kernel memory manager 60 <li>radeon/r200/r300 support for GL_ARB_occlusion_query</li> 61 <li>r300 driver supports OpenGL 1.5</li> 62 <li>r300 driver support for GL_EXT_vertex_array_bgra, GL_EXT_texture_sRGB 63 <li>i915/945 driver support for GL_ARB_point_sprite, GL_EXT_stencil_two_side 64 and GL_ATI_separate_stencil extensions 65 <li>Rewritten assembler for GL_ARB_vertex_program / 66 GL_ARB_fragment_program.</li> 67 <li>Added configure --with-max-width=W, --with-max-height=H options to specify 68 max framebuffer, viewport size. 69 <li>Initial version of Gallium llvmpipe driver. This is a new driver based 70 on LLVM which makes exensive use of run-time code generation. This is 71 an "alpha" stage driver. See the src/gallium/drivers/llvmpipe/README 72 file for more information. 73 </ul> 74 75 76 <h2>Bug fixes</h2> 77 <ul> 78 <li>i965 DRI driver fixes, including support for "unlimited" size constant 79 buffers (GLSL uniforms) 80 </ul> 81 82 </body> 83 </html> 84
