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 8.0 Release Notes / February 9, 2012</h1> 18 19 <p> 20 Mesa 8.0 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 8.0.1. 23 </p> 24 <p> 25 Mesa 8.0 implements the OpenGL 3.0 API, but the version reported by 26 glGetString(GL_VERSION) depends on the particular driver being used. 27 Some drivers don't support all the features required in OpenGL 3.0. 28 </p> 29 <p> 30 See the <a href="../install.html">Compiling/Installing page</a> for prerequisites 31 for DRI hardware acceleration. 32 </p> 33 34 35 <h2>MD5 checksums</h2> 36 <pre> 37 3516fea6c28ce4a0fa9759e4894729a1 MesaLib-8.0.tar.gz 38 1a5668fe72651a670611164cefc703b2 MesaLib-8.0.tar.bz2 39 66f5a01a85530a91472a3acceb556db8 MesaLib-8.0.zip 40 </pre> 41 42 43 <h2>New features</h2> 44 <ul> 45 <li>GL_ARB_ES2_compatibility (r300g, r600g) 46 <li>GL_ARB_depth_buffer_float (r600g) 47 <li>GL_ARB_vertex_type_2_10_10_10_rev (r600g) 48 <li>GL_ARB_texture_storage (gallium drivers and swrast) 49 <li>GL_EXT_packed_float (i965) 50 <li>GL_EXT_texture_array (r600g, i965) 51 <li>GL_EXT_texture_shared_exponent (i965) 52 <li>GL_NV_fog_distance (all gallium drivers, nouveau classic) 53 <li>GL_NV_primitive_restart (r600g) 54 <li>GL_OES_EGL_image_external (gallium drivers) 55 <li>GL_OES_compressed_ETC1_RGB8_texture (softpipe, llvmpipe) 56 <li>ARB_texture_rgb10_a2ui (softpipe, r600g) 57 <li>Many updates to the VMware svga Gallium driver 58 </ul> 59 60 61 <h2>Bug fixes</h2> 62 63 64 <h2>Changes</h2> 65 <ul> 66 <li>Removed all DRI drivers that did not support DRI2. Specifically, 67 i810, mach64, mga, r128, savage, sis, tdfx, and unichrome were 68 removed.</li> 69 <li>Removed support for BeOS.</li> 70 <li>Removed the obsolete (and unmaintained) Windows "gldirect" and 71 "ICD" drivers.</li> 72 <li>Removed the linux-fbdev software driver.</li> 73 <li>Removed all remnants of paletted texture support. As required by 74 desktop OpenGL, <tt>GL_COLOR_INDEX</tt> data can still be uploaded 75 to a color (e.g., RGBA) texture. However, the data cannot be stored 76 internally as color-index.</li> 77 <li>Removed support for GL_APPLE_client_storage extension.</li> 78 <li>Removed the classic Mesa r300 and r600 drivers, which are superseded 79 by the gallium drivers for this hardware.</li> 80 <li>Removed the dead Gallium i965, cell and failover drivers, which were 81 either broken and with nobody in sight to fix the situation or 82 deprecated.</li> 83 </ul> 84 85 </div> 86 </body> 87 </html> 88
