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 7.8 Release Notes / March 28, 2010</h1> 18848b8605Smrg 19848b8605Smrg<p> 20848b8605SmrgMesa 7.8 is a new development release. 21848b8605SmrgPeople who are concerned with stability and reliability should stick 22848b8605Smrgwith a previous release or wait for Mesa 7.8.1. 23848b8605Smrg</p> 24848b8605Smrg<p> 25848b8605SmrgMesa 7.8 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> 37848b8605Smrg5fcfde5383eccb3e9fd665f08a0ea59b MesaLib-7.8.tar.gz 38848b8605Smrg85cb891eecb89aae4fdd3499cccd934b MesaLib-7.8.tar.bz2 39848b8605Smrg754f39593006effc1c8ec3c27c2f1296 MesaLib-7.8.zip 40848b8605Smrgc3869c29fa6c3dbdd763f7428d271e12 MesaDemos-7.8.tar.gz 41848b8605Smrg9fe8ec184c7f78691e43c4c0a7f97d56 MesaDemos-7.8.tar.bz2 42848b8605Smrg063a96947f7b83d4ad789c6cf291b184 MesaDemos-7.8.zip 43848b8605Smrg5f4246756b7daaddb4fb3f970cad1e28 MesaGLUT-7.8.tar.gz 44848b8605Smrgca7048a4aa7a437dcc84cc2c7d731336 MesaGLUT-7.8.tar.bz2 45848b8605Smrgb54581aeb79b585b158d6a32f94feff2 MesaGLUT-7.8.zip 46848b8605Smrg</pre> 47848b8605Smrg 48848b8605Smrg 49848b8605Smrg<h2>New features</h2> 50848b8605Smrg<ul> 51848b8605Smrg<li>GL_NV_conditional_render extension (swrast driver only) 52848b8605Smrg<li>GL_EXT_draw_buffers2 extension (swrast and i965 driver only) 53848b8605Smrg<li>GL_ARB_fragment_coord_conventions extension (for swrast, i965, and Gallium drivers) 54848b8605Smrg<li>GL_EXT_texture_array extension (swrast driver only) 55848b8605Smrg<li>GL_APPLE_object_purgeable extension (swrast and i945/i965 DRI drivers) 56848b8605Smrg<li>Much improved support for <a href="../egl.html">EGL in Mesa</a> 57848b8605Smrg<li>New state trackers for <a href="../opengles.html">OpenGL ES 1.1 and 2.0</a> 58848b8605Smrg<li>Dedicated documentation for Gallium 59848b8605Smrg</ul> 60848b8605Smrg 61848b8605Smrg 62848b8605Smrg<h2>Bug fixes</h2> 63848b8605Smrg<ul> 64848b8605Smrg<li>Massive improvements to the Gallium driver for R300-R500 Radeons; this 65848b8605Smrg driver is now moderately stable but not terribly performant. 66848b8605Smrg</ul> 67848b8605Smrg 68848b8605Smrg 69848b8605Smrg<h2>Changes</h2> 70848b8605Smrg<ul> 71848b8605Smrg<li>Removed support for color-index rendering</li> 72848b8605Smrg<li>Removed support for GCC versions earlier than 3.3.0.</li> 73848b8605Smrg</ul> 74848b8605Smrg 75848b8605Smrg</div> 76848b8605Smrg</body> 77848b8605Smrg</html> 78