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 7.7 Release Notes / 21 December 2009</h1> 18848b8605Smrg 19848b8605Smrg<p> 20848b8605SmrgMesa 7.7 is a new development release. 21848b8605SmrgPeople who are concerned with stability and reliability should stick 22848b8605Smrgwith a previous release or wait for Mesa 7.7.1. 23848b8605Smrg</p> 24848b8605Smrg<p> 25848b8605SmrgMesa 7.7 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> 37848b8605Smrg395c9516edf1ad54b0934d8db15557bf MesaLib-7.7.tar.gz 38848b8605Smrge3fa64a1508bc23dd9de9dd2cea7cfb1 MesaLib-7.7.tar.bz2 39848b8605Smrge54903eb5e49c3969821fa16b32da245 MesaLib-7.7.zip 40848b8605Smrg53b5b6f78e55de170d43c98cb6aaab7e MesaDemos-7.7.tar.gz 41848b8605Smrg6fd616b27b9826d0faa23e08e05d9435 MesaDemos-7.7.tar.bz2 42848b8605Smrg240fe06159ad73d5e22c27033b66c80a MesaDemos-7.7.zip 43848b8605Smrg9fe11a904b2a9d8cd06cc52bc330b716 MesaGLUT-7.7.tar.gz 44848b8605Smrge8dceed05a59a2d3c2619d7d734587e3 MesaGLUT-7.7.tar.bz2 45848b8605Smrg96af041d435349ee23ead4667ec36363 MesaGLUT-7.7.zip 46848b8605Smrg</pre> 47848b8605Smrg 48848b8605Smrg 49848b8605Smrg<h2>New features</h2> 50848b8605Smrg<ul> 51848b8605Smrg<li>VMware "SVGA" Gallium driver. This is a Gallium3D driver which targets the 52848b8605Smrg VMware virtual graphics device. It allows Linux OpenGL guest applications 53848b8605Smrg to utilize the 3D graphics hardware of the host operating system. 54848b8605Smrg<li>GL_ARB_draw_elements_base_vertex (supported in Intel i965 and software drivers)</li> 55848b8605Smrg<li>GL_ARB_depth_clamp (supported in Intel i965 DRI and software drivers)</li> 56848b8605Smrg<li>GL_NV_depth_clamp (supported in Intel i965 DRI and software drivers)</li> 57848b8605Smrg<li>GL_ARB_provoking_vertex (same as GL_EXT_provoking_vertex)</li> 58848b8605Smrg<li>Wavefront .obj file loader/viewer demo (progs/demos/objviewer) 59848b8605Smrg</ul> 60848b8605Smrg 61848b8605Smrg 62848b8605Smrg<h2>Bug fixes</h2> 63848b8605Smrg<ul> 64848b8605Smrg<li>Many assorted i965 driver fixes. 65848b8605Smrg<li>Many r300-gallium driver fixes; this driver is now considered unstable-quality instead of experimental-quality. 66848b8605Smrg</ul> 67848b8605Smrg 68848b8605Smrg 69848b8605Smrg<h2>Changes</h2> 70848b8605Smrg<ul> 71848b8605Smrg<li>New Mesa texture/surface format infrastructure 72848b8605Smrg<li>Removed some unused Mesa device driver hooks 73848b8605Smrg</ul> 74848b8605Smrg 75848b8605Smrg</div> 76848b8605Smrg</body> 77848b8605Smrg</html> 78