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 8.0 Release Notes / February 9, 2012</h1> 11 12 <p> 13 Mesa 8.0 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 8.0.1. 16 </p> 17 <p> 18 Mesa 8.0 implements the OpenGL 3.0 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 3.0. 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 3516fea6c28ce4a0fa9759e4894729a1 MesaLib-8.0.tar.gz 31 1a5668fe72651a670611164cefc703b2 MesaLib-8.0.tar.bz2 32 66f5a01a85530a91472a3acceb556db8 MesaLib-8.0.zip 33 </pre> 34 35 36 <h2>New features</h2> 37 <ul> 38 <li>GL_ARB_ES2_compatibility (r300g, r600g) 39 <li>GL_ARB_depth_buffer_float (r600g) 40 <li>GL_ARB_vertex_type_2_10_10_10_rev (r600g) 41 <li>GL_ARB_texture_storage (gallium drivers and swrast) 42 <li>GL_EXT_packed_float (i965) 43 <li>GL_EXT_texture_array (r600g, i965) 44 <li>GL_EXT_texture_shared_exponent (i965) 45 <li>GL_NV_fog_distance (all gallium drivers, nouveau classic) 46 <li>GL_NV_primitive_restart (r600g) 47 <li>GL_OES_EGL_image_external (gallium drivers) 48 <li>GL_OES_compressed_ETC1_RGB8_texture (softpipe, llvmpipe) 49 <li>ARB_texture_rgb10_a2ui (softpipe, r600g) 50 <li>Many updates to the VMware svga Gallium driver 51 </ul> 52 53 54 <h2>Bug fixes</h2> 55 56 57 <h2>Changes</h2> 58 <ul> 59 <li>Removed all DRI drivers that did not support DRI2. Specifically, 60 i810, mach64, mga, r128, savage, sis, tdfx, and unichrome were 61 removed.</li> 62 <li>Removed support for BeOS.</li> 63 <li>Removed the obsolete (and unmaintained) Windows "gldirect" and 64 "ICD" drivers.</li> 65 <li>Removed the linux-fbdev software driver.</li> 66 <li>Removed all remnants of paletted texture support. As required by 67 desktop OpenGL, <tt>GL_COLOR_INDEX</tt> data can still be uploaded 68 to a color (e.g., RGBA) texture. However, the data cannot be stored 69 internally as color-index.</li> 70 <li>Removed support for GL_APPLE_client_storage extension.</li> 71 <li>Removed the classic Mesa r300 and r600 drivers, which are superseded 72 by the gallium drivers for this hardware.</li> 73 <li>Removed the dead Gallium i965, cell and failover drivers, which were 74 either broken and with nobody in sight to fix the situation or 75 deprecated.</li> 76 </ul> 77 78 79 </body> 80 </html> 81
