1848b8605Smrg<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/loose.dtd"> 2848b8605Smrg<html lang="en"> 3848b8605Smrg<head> 4848b8605Smrg <meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"> 5848b8605Smrg <title>Mesa Release Notes</title> 6848b8605Smrg <link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="../mesa.css"> 7848b8605Smrg</head> 8848b8605Smrg<body> 9848b8605Smrg 10848b8605Smrg<div class="header"> 11848b8605Smrg <h1>The Mesa 3D Graphics Library</h1> 12848b8605Smrg</div> 13848b8605Smrg 14848b8605Smrg<iframe src="../contents.html"></iframe> 15848b8605Smrg<div class="content"> 16848b8605Smrg 17848b8605Smrg<h1>Mesa 7.6 Release Notes, 28 September 2009</h1> 18848b8605Smrg 19848b8605Smrg<p> 20848b8605SmrgMesa 7.6 is a new development release. 21848b8605SmrgPeople who are concerned with stability and reliability should stick 22848b8605Smrgwith a previous release or wait for Mesa 7.6.1. 23848b8605Smrg</p> 24848b8605Smrg<p> 25848b8605SmrgMesa 7.6 implements the OpenGL 2.1 API, but the version reported by 26848b8605SmrgglGetString(GL_VERSION) depends on the particular driver being used. 27848b8605SmrgSome drivers don't support all the features required in OpenGL 2.1. 28848b8605Smrg</p> 29848b8605Smrg<p> 30848b8605SmrgSee the <a href="../install.html">Compiling/Installing page</a> for prerequisites 31848b8605Smrgfor DRI hardware acceleration. 32848b8605Smrg</p> 33848b8605Smrg 34848b8605Smrg 35848b8605Smrg<h2>MD5 checksums</h2> 36848b8605Smrg<pre> 37848b8605Smrg5ffa7d7abf8973f57a1bc4f813e6dade MesaLib-7.6.tar.gz 38848b8605Smrg8c75f90cd0303cfac9e4b6d54f6759ca MesaLib-7.6.tar.bz2 39848b8605Smrg27fcfd69708599c978cb34ba5cd363e1 MesaLib-7.6.zip 40848b8605Smrge7befb3ae604f591806194a4da445628 MesaDemos-7.6.tar.gz 41848b8605Smrg0ede7adf217951acd90dbe4551210c07 MesaDemos-7.6.tar.bz2 42848b8605Smrged9298409cf6613bc0964525ca4afc8a MesaDemos-7.6.zip 43848b8605Smrg666955668e44ff14acf7d15dc78407d3 MesaGLUT-7.6.tar.gz 44848b8605Smrgb8b59706f827d18d1b784a0ff98b4dc2 MesaGLUT-7.6.tar.bz2 45848b8605Smrgc49c19c2bbef4f3b7f1389974dff25f4 MesaGLUT-7.6.zip 46848b8605Smrg</pre> 47848b8605Smrg 48848b8605Smrg 49848b8605Smrg<h2>New features</h2> 50848b8605Smrg<ul> 51b8e80941Smrg<li>OpenVG front-end (state tracker for Gallium). 52848b8605SmrgThis was written by Zack Rusin at Tungsten Graphics. 53848b8605Smrg<li>GL_ARB_vertex_array_object and GL_APPLE_vertex_array_object extensions 54848b8605Smrg (supported in Gallium drivers, Intel DRI drivers, and software drivers)</li> 55848b8605Smrg<li>GL_ARB_copy_buffer extension 56848b8605Smrg (supported in Gallium drivers, Intel DRI drivers, and software drivers)</li> 57848b8605Smrg<li>GL_ARB_map_buffer_range extension 58848b8605Smrg (supported in Gallium drivers, Intel DRI drivers, and software drivers)</li> 59848b8605Smrg<li>GL_ARB_seamless_cube_map extension 60848b8605Smrg (supported in software drivers and i965 drivers)</li> 61848b8605Smrg<li>GL_ARB_vertex_array_bgra (ARB synonym for GL_EXT_vertex_array_bgra)</li> 62848b8605Smrg<li>GL_ARB_sync (supported in software drivers and Intel DRI drivers)</li> 63848b8605Smrg<li>GL_EXT_provoking_vertex extension (supported in Gallium, i915, i965, and software drivers) 64848b8605Smrg<li>Rewritten radeon/r200/r300 driver using a buffer manager 65848b8605Smrg<li>radeon/r200/r300 GL_EXT_framebuffer_object support when used with 66848b8605Smrg kernel memory manager 67848b8605Smrg<li>radeon/r200/r300 support for GL_ARB_occlusion_query</li> 68848b8605Smrg<li>r300 driver supports OpenGL 1.5</li> 69848b8605Smrg<li>r300 driver support for GL_EXT_vertex_array_bgra, GL_EXT_texture_sRGB 70848b8605Smrg<li>i915/945 driver support for GL_ARB_point_sprite, GL_EXT_stencil_two_side 71848b8605Smrg and GL_ATI_separate_stencil extensions 72848b8605Smrg<li>Rewritten assembler for GL_ARB_vertex_program / 73848b8605Smrg GL_ARB_fragment_program.</li> 74848b8605Smrg<li>Added configure --with-max-width=W, --with-max-height=H options to specify 75848b8605Smrg max framebuffer, viewport size. 76848b8605Smrg<li>Initial version of Gallium llvmpipe driver. This is a new driver based 77848b8605Smrg on LLVM which makes exensive use of run-time code generation. This is 78848b8605Smrg an "alpha" stage driver. See the src/gallium/drivers/llvmpipe/README 79848b8605Smrg file for more information. 80848b8605Smrg</ul> 81848b8605Smrg 82848b8605Smrg 83848b8605Smrg<h2>Bug fixes</h2> 84848b8605Smrg<ul> 85848b8605Smrg<li>i965 DRI driver fixes, including support for "unlimited" size constant 86848b8605Smrg buffers (GLSL uniforms) 87848b8605Smrg</ul> 88848b8605Smrg 89848b8605Smrg</div> 90848b8605Smrg</body> 91848b8605Smrg</html> 92