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 6.5.2 Release Notes / December 2, 2006</h1> 18 19 <p> 20 Mesa 6.5.2 is a 6.5 follow-on development release with a few new features 21 but mostly consisting of bug fixes. 22 </p> 23 24 25 <h2>MD5 checksums</h2> 26 <pre> 27 11a033b078e090b3caaeb467234fe299 MesaLib-6.5.2.tar.gz 28 e4d894181f1859651658b3704633e10d MesaLib-6.5.2.tar.bz2 29 63bf1d444fa738cca52ce1043e284021 MesaLib-6.5.2.zip 30 2b8f1375d16bda5f5a2304174cd5bcf7 MesaDemos-6.5.2.tar.gz 31 e870efe98d3a50be01ab211b9b2e25d9 MesaDemos-6.5.2.tar.bz2 32 d92cc6f5fee5ca75af0be04f9f4908f0 MesaDemos-6.5.2.zip 33 8d4d77e3a7132f4217bbc7c1ab157030 MesaGLUT-6.5.2.tar.gz 34 e84edbb11c69c8e408dfadd2ed08e95b MesaGLUT-6.5.2.tar.bz2 35 c6d7134843ed5faf11f6686ecb5d2a2e MesaGLUT-6.5.2.zip 36 </pre> 37 38 39 <h2>New features</h2> 40 <ul> 41 <li>New DRI memory manager system. Currently used by the i915tex driver. 42 Other DRI drivers will be updated to use the new memory manager in coming 43 months. 44 <br> 45 To use the new driver you'll need the most recent DRM library and drivers 46 (version 2.2 or later) and a recent xf86-video-intel driver module from X.org. 47 <br> 48 New features resulting from this work include: 49 <ul> 50 <li>EXT_framebuffer_objects, render to texture 51 <li>ARB_pixel_buffer_objects 52 <li>Accelerated CopyTexSubimage, DrawPixels, ReadPixels, CopyPixels 53 <li>Accelerated texture uploads from pixel buffer objects 54 <li>Potentially texturing directly from the pixel buffer object (zero 55 copy texturing). 56 </ul> 57 <li>New Intel i965 DRI driver 58 <li>New <code>minstall</code> script to replace normal install program 59 <li>Faster fragment program execution in software 60 <li>Added (or fixed) support for <a href="http://www.opengl.org/registry/specs/SGI/make_current_read.txt"> 61 GLX_SGI_make_current_read</a> to the following drivers: 62 <ul> 63 <li>radeon</li> 64 <li>savage</li> 65 <li>mga</li> 66 <li>tdfx</li> 67 </ul> 68 <li>Added support for ARB_occlusion_query to the tdfx driver (Ian 69 Romanick).</li> 70 </ul> 71 72 <h2>Bug fixes</h2> 73 <ul> 74 <li>fixed invalid memory read while rendering textured points (bug 8320) 75 <li>fixed problems with freebsd-dri configuration (bug 8344) 76 <li>Mesa's fake glxGetCurrentContext() wasn't thread-aware 77 <li>OPTION NV_position_invariant didn't work in NV vertex programs 78 <li>glDrawPixels into a user-created framebuffer object could crash Xlib driver 79 <li>Line clipping was broken in some circumstances 80 <li>fragment.fogcoord register didn't always contain the correct value 81 <li>RGBA logicops didn't work reliably in some DRI drivers 82 <li>Fixed broken RGBA LogicOps in Intel DRI drivers 83 <li>Fixed some fragment program bugs in Intel i915 DRI driver 84 <li>Fixed glGetVertexAttribfvARB bug 8883 85 <li>Implemented glGetUniform[fi]vARB() functions 86 <li>Fixed glDrawPixels(GL_COLOR_INDEX, GL_BITMAP) segfault (bug 9044) 87 <li>Fixed some gluBuild2DMipmaps() bugs (Greg McGarragh) 88 <li>Fixed broken "mgl" name mangling 89 <li>Indirect rending was broken for glMap* functions (bug 8899) 90 </ul> 91 92 93 <h2>Internal code changes</h2> 94 95 <ul> 96 <li>The device driver functions ResizeBuffers and GetBufferSize have been 97 decprecated. 98 <li>OpenGL 2.0 and 2.1 support is nearly done. We need to do quite a bit 99 more testing of the shading language functions. 100 </ul> 101 102 103 <h2>To Do (someday) items</h2> 104 <ul> 105 <li>Switch to freeglut 106 <li>Increase MAX_DRAWBUFFERS 107 <li>Fix linux-glide target/driver. 108 <li>Improved lambda and derivative calculation for frag progs. 109 </ul> 110 111 112 <h2>Driver Status</h2> 113 114 <pre> 115 Driver Status 116 ---------------------- ---------------------- 117 DRI drivers varies with the driver 118 XMesa/GLX (on Xlib) implements OpenGL 1.5 119 OSMesa (off-screen) implements OpenGL 1.5 120 Glide (3dfx Voodoo1/2) implements OpenGL 1.3 121 SVGA implements OpenGL 1.3 122 Wind River UGL implements OpenGL 1.3 123 Windows/Win32 implements OpenGL 1.5 124 DJGPP implements OpenGL 1.5 125 GGI implements OpenGL 1.3 126 BeOS implements OpenGL 1.5 127 Allegro needs updating 128 D3D needs updating 129 </pre> 130 131 </div> 132 </body> 133 </html> 134
