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 6.5.2 Release Notes / December 2, 2006</h1> 11 12 <p> 13 Mesa 6.5.2 is a 6.5 follow-on development release with a few new features 14 but mostly consisting of bug fixes. 15 </p> 16 17 18 <h2>MD5 checksums</h2> 19 <pre> 20 11a033b078e090b3caaeb467234fe299 MesaLib-6.5.2.tar.gz 21 e4d894181f1859651658b3704633e10d MesaLib-6.5.2.tar.bz2 22 63bf1d444fa738cca52ce1043e284021 MesaLib-6.5.2.zip 23 2b8f1375d16bda5f5a2304174cd5bcf7 MesaDemos-6.5.2.tar.gz 24 e870efe98d3a50be01ab211b9b2e25d9 MesaDemos-6.5.2.tar.bz2 25 d92cc6f5fee5ca75af0be04f9f4908f0 MesaDemos-6.5.2.zip 26 8d4d77e3a7132f4217bbc7c1ab157030 MesaGLUT-6.5.2.tar.gz 27 e84edbb11c69c8e408dfadd2ed08e95b MesaGLUT-6.5.2.tar.bz2 28 c6d7134843ed5faf11f6686ecb5d2a2e MesaGLUT-6.5.2.zip 29 </pre> 30 31 32 <h2>New features</h2> 33 <ul> 34 <li>New DRI memory manager system. Currently used by the i915tex driver. 35 Other DRI drivers will be updated to use the new memory manager in coming 36 months. 37 <br> 38 To use the new driver you'll need the most recent DRM library and drivers 39 (version 2.2 or later) and a recent xf86-video-intel driver module from X.org. 40 <br> 41 New features resulting from this work include: 42 <ul> 43 <li>EXT_framebuffer_objects, render to texture 44 <li>ARB_pixel_buffer_objects 45 <li>Accelerated CopyTexSubimage, DrawPixels, ReadPixels, CopyPixels 46 <li>Accelerated texture uploads from pixel buffer objects 47 <li>Potentially texturing directly from the pixel buffer object (zero 48 copy texturing). 49 </ul> 50 <li>New Intel i965 DRI driver 51 <li>New <code>minstall</code> script to replace normal install program 52 <li>Faster fragment program execution in software 53 <li>Added (or fixed) support for <a href="http://www.opengl.org/registry/specs/SGI/make_current_read.txt"> 54 GLX_SGI_make_current_read</a> to the following drivers: 55 <ul> 56 <li>radeon</li> 57 <li>savage</li> 58 <li>mga</li> 59 <li>tdfx</li> 60 </ul> 61 <li>Added support for ARB_occlusion_query to the tdfx driver (Ian 62 Romanick).</li> 63 </ul> 64 65 <h2>Bug fixes</h2> 66 <ul> 67 <li>fixed invalid memory read while rendering textured points (bug 8320) 68 <li>fixed problems with freebsd-dri configuration (bug 8344) 69 <li>Mesa's fake glxGetCurrentContext() wasn't thread-aware 70 <li>OPTION NV_position_invariant didn't work in NV vertex programs 71 <li>glDrawPixels into a user-created framebuffer object could crash Xlib driver 72 <li>Line clipping was broken in some circumstances 73 <li>fragment.fogcoord register didn't always contain the correct value 74 <li>RGBA logicops didn't work reliably in some DRI drivers 75 <li>Fixed broken RGBA LogicOps in Intel DRI drivers 76 <li>Fixed some fragment program bugs in Intel i915 DRI driver 77 <li>Fixed glGetVertexAttribfvARB bug 8883 78 <li>Implemented glGetUniform[fi]vARB() functions 79 <li>Fixed glDrawPixels(GL_COLOR_INDEX, GL_BITMAP) segfault (bug 9044) 80 <li>Fixed some gluBuild2DMipmaps() bugs (Greg McGarragh) 81 <li>Fixed broken "mgl" name mangling 82 <li>Indirect rending was broken for glMap* functions (bug 8899) 83 </ul> 84 85 86 <h2>Internal code changes</h2> 87 88 <ul> 89 <li>The device driver functions ResizeBuffers and GetBufferSize have been 90 decprecated. 91 <li>OpenGL 2.0 and 2.1 support is nearly done. We need to do quite a bit 92 more testing of the shading language functions. 93 </ul> 94 95 96 <h2>To Do (someday) items</h2> 97 <ul> 98 <li>Switch to freeglut 99 <li>Increase MAX_DRAWBUFFERS 100 <li>Fix linux-glide target/driver. 101 <li>Improved lambda and derivative calculation for frag progs. 102 </ul> 103 104 105 <h2>Driver Status</h2> 106 107 <pre> 108 Driver Status 109 ---------------------- ---------------------- 110 DRI drivers varies with the driver 111 XMesa/GLX (on Xlib) implements OpenGL 1.5 112 OSMesa (off-screen) implements OpenGL 1.5 113 Glide (3dfx Voodoo1/2) implements OpenGL 1.3 114 SVGA implements OpenGL 1.3 115 Wind River UGL implements OpenGL 1.3 116 Windows/Win32 implements OpenGL 1.5 117 DJGPP implements OpenGL 1.5 118 GGI implements OpenGL 1.3 119 BeOS implements OpenGL 1.5 120 Allegro needs updating 121 D3D needs updating 122 </pre> 123 124 </body> 125 </html> 126
