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 <div class="header"> 11 <h1>The Mesa 3D Graphics Library</h1> 12 </div> 13 14 <iframe src="../contents.html"></iframe> 15 <div class="content"> 16 17 <h1>Mesa 9.0 Release Notes / October 8, 2012</h1> 18 19 <p> 20 Mesa 9.0 is a new development release. 21 People who are concerned with stability and reliability should stick 22 with a previous release or wait for Mesa 9.0.1. 23 </p> 24 <p> 25 Mesa 9.0 implements the OpenGL 3.1 API, but the version reported by 26 glGetString(GL_VERSION) or glGetIntegerv(GL_MAJOR_VERSION) / 27 glGetIntegerv(GL_MINOR_VERSION) depends on the particular driver being used. 28 Some drivers don't support all the features required in OpenGL 3.1. OpenGL 29 3.1 is <strong>only</strong> available if requested at context creation 30 because GL_ARB_compatibility is not supported. 31 </p> 32 33 34 <h2>MD5 checksums</h2> 35 <pre> 36 be4cd34c6599a7cb9d254b05c48bdb1f MesaLib-9.0.tar.gz 37 60e557ce407be3732711da484ab3db6c MesaLib-9.0.tar.bz2 38 16b128544cd3f7e237927bb9f8aab7ce MesaLib-9.0.zip 39 </pre> 40 41 42 <h2>New features</h2> 43 44 <p> 45 Note: some of the new features are only available with certain drivers. 46 </p> 47 48 <ul> 49 <li>Added new Gallium3D - nv30 driver</li> 50 <li>Added new Gallium3D - radeonsi driver</li> 51 <li>Added OpenCL state tracker Clover</li> 52 <li>Completed VDPAU state tracker (video decoding support is currently limited to MPEG1 and MPEG2)</li> 53 <li>GL_ARB_base_instance</li> 54 <li>GL_ARB_blend_func_extended</li> 55 <li>GL_ARB_debug_output</li> 56 <li>GL_ARB_invalidate_subdata - Currently a "no-op" implementation. This 57 extension is always enabled in all drivers.</li> 58 <li>GL_ARB_shader_bit_encoding</li> 59 <li>GL_ARB_texture_buffer_object</li> 60 <li>GL_ARB_timer_query</li> 61 <li>GL_ARB_transform_feedback3</li> 62 <li>GL_ARB_transform_feedback_instanced</li> 63 <li>GL_ARB_uniform_buffer_object</li> 64 <li>GL_EXT_unpack_subimage for ES 2.0</li> 65 <li>GL_EXT_read_format_bgra for ES 1.1 and 2.0</li> 66 <li>GL_EXT_texture_rg for ES 2.x</li> 67 <li>GL_NV_read_buffer for ES 2.0</li> 68 <li>GLX_ARB_create_context_robustness</li> 69 <li>EGL_KHR_create_context</li> 70 <li>EGL_KHR_surfaceless_context - This replaces the 71 EGL_KHR_surfaceless_{gles1,gles2,opengl} extensions that were never approved 72 by Khronos.</li> 73 <li>EGL_EXT_create_context_robustness</li> 74 </ul> 75 76 77 <h2>Bug fixes</h2> 78 79 <p>TBD -- This list is likely incomplete.</p> 80 81 82 <h2>Changes</h2> 83 84 <ul> 85 <li> 86 The legacy/static Makefile system (ex: 'make linux-dri') has been removed. 87 <br> 88 The two supported build methods are now autoconf/automake and SCons. 89 </li> 90 <li>Removed support for GL_ARB_shadow_ambient extension</li> 91 <li>Removed Gallium3D - nvfx driver (use nv30 instead)</li> 92 <li> 93 libGLU has been moved into its own repository, found at <a href="http://cgit.freedesktop.org/mesa/glu/">http://cgit.freedesktop.org/mesa/glu/</a> 94 </li> 95 </ul> 96 97 </div> 98 </body> 99 </html> 100
