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 8.0 Release Notes / February 9, 2012</h1> 18848b8605Smrg 19848b8605Smrg<p> 20848b8605SmrgMesa 8.0 is a new development release. 21848b8605SmrgPeople who are concerned with stability and reliability should stick 22848b8605Smrgwith a previous release or wait for Mesa 8.0.1. 23848b8605Smrg</p> 24848b8605Smrg<p> 25848b8605SmrgMesa 8.0 implements the OpenGL 3.0 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 3.0. 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> 37848b8605Smrg3516fea6c28ce4a0fa9759e4894729a1 MesaLib-8.0.tar.gz 38848b8605Smrg1a5668fe72651a670611164cefc703b2 MesaLib-8.0.tar.bz2 39848b8605Smrg66f5a01a85530a91472a3acceb556db8 MesaLib-8.0.zip 40848b8605Smrg</pre> 41848b8605Smrg 42848b8605Smrg 43848b8605Smrg<h2>New features</h2> 44848b8605Smrg<ul> 45848b8605Smrg<li>GL_ARB_ES2_compatibility (r300g, r600g) 46848b8605Smrg<li>GL_ARB_depth_buffer_float (r600g) 47848b8605Smrg<li>GL_ARB_vertex_type_2_10_10_10_rev (r600g) 48848b8605Smrg<li>GL_ARB_texture_storage (gallium drivers and swrast) 49848b8605Smrg<li>GL_EXT_packed_float (i965) 50848b8605Smrg<li>GL_EXT_texture_array (r600g, i965) 51848b8605Smrg<li>GL_EXT_texture_shared_exponent (i965) 52848b8605Smrg<li>GL_NV_fog_distance (all gallium drivers, nouveau classic) 53848b8605Smrg<li>GL_NV_primitive_restart (r600g) 54848b8605Smrg<li>GL_OES_EGL_image_external (gallium drivers) 55848b8605Smrg<li>GL_OES_compressed_ETC1_RGB8_texture (softpipe, llvmpipe) 56848b8605Smrg<li>ARB_texture_rgb10_a2ui (softpipe, r600g) 57848b8605Smrg<li>Many updates to the VMware svga Gallium driver 58848b8605Smrg</ul> 59848b8605Smrg 60848b8605Smrg 61848b8605Smrg<h2>Bug fixes</h2> 62848b8605Smrg 63848b8605Smrg 64848b8605Smrg<h2>Changes</h2> 65848b8605Smrg<ul> 66848b8605Smrg<li>Removed all DRI drivers that did not support DRI2. Specifically, 67848b8605Smrg i810, mach64, mga, r128, savage, sis, tdfx, and unichrome were 68848b8605Smrg removed.</li> 69848b8605Smrg<li>Removed support for BeOS.</li> 70848b8605Smrg<li>Removed the obsolete (and unmaintained) Windows "gldirect" and 71848b8605Smrg "ICD" drivers.</li> 72848b8605Smrg<li>Removed the linux-fbdev software driver.</li> 73848b8605Smrg<li>Removed all remnants of paletted texture support. As required by 74848b8605Smrg desktop OpenGL, <tt>GL_COLOR_INDEX</tt> data can still be uploaded 75848b8605Smrg to a color (e.g., RGBA) texture. However, the data cannot be stored 76848b8605Smrg internally as color-index.</li> 77848b8605Smrg<li>Removed support for GL_APPLE_client_storage extension.</li> 78848b8605Smrg<li>Removed the classic Mesa r300 and r600 drivers, which are superseded 79848b8605Smrg by the gallium drivers for this hardware.</li> 80848b8605Smrg<li>Removed the dead Gallium i965, cell and failover drivers, which were 81848b8605Smrg either broken and with nobody in sight to fix the situation or 82848b8605Smrg deprecated.</li> 83848b8605Smrg</ul> 84848b8605Smrg 85848b8605Smrg</div> 86848b8605Smrg</body> 87848b8605Smrg</html> 88