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Mesa 6.5.1 Release Notes / September 15, 2006
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Mesa 6.5.1 is a 6.5 follow-on development release mostly consisting of
bug fixes.

MD5 checksums
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   939eaaff33322bfeafac784402b45f4f  MesaLib-6.5.1.zip
   9e4bbe83c007bfbaa67449a81cc3d36a  MesaDemos-6.5.1.tar.gz
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   14c77eab9cc7a265c331abf239927c1c  MesaDemos-6.5.1.zip
   c5f87c23aaf4eaf1bda0d007ea98366c  MesaGLUT-6.5.1.tar.gz
   2525642fe7f454e3e1a1aad01359b406  MesaGLUT-6.5.1.tar.bz2
   e33b165c22551e23b58ede8767378543  MesaGLUT-6.5.1.zip

New Features
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-  Intel i965 "broadwater" DRI driver
-  GL_APPLE_vertex_array_object - allows encapsulation of a set of
   vertex arrays in an object.
-  GL_EXT_texture_sRGB - non-linearly mapped texture formats
-  GL_EXT_gpu_program_parameters - addes a few new functions for setting
   multiple vertex/fragment program parameters with one call.
-  "engine" demo
-  updated fbdev driver and GLUT for fbdev (Sean D'Epagnier)
-  many updates to the DRI drivers

Changes
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-  The glVertexAttribARB functions no longer alias the conventional
   vertex attributes.
-  glxinfo program prints more info with -l option
-  GL_FRAGMENT_PROGRAM_NV and GL_FRAGMENT_PROGRAM_ARB are now
   compatible, in terms of glBindProgramARB()
-  The GL_ARB_vertex_program attribute ``vertex.weight`` is now accepted
   by the parser, even though the GL_ARB_vertex_blend and
   GL_EXT_vertex_weighting extensions aren't supported. Allows Warcraft
   to run.

Bug fixes
---------

-  fixed broken texture border handling for depth textures (bug 6498)
-  removed the test for duplicated framebuffer attachments, per version
   117 of the GL_EXT_framebuffer_object specification
-  fixed a few render-to-texture bugs, including render to depth texture
-  clipping of lines against user-defined clip planes was broken (6512)
-  assembly language dispatch for SPARC was broken (bug 6484)
-  assorted compilation fixes on various Unix platforms (Dan Schikore)
-  glPopAttrib could restore an invalid value for GL_DRAW_BUFFER
-  assorted minor fixes for 16 and 32 bit/channel modes
-  fixed assorted bugs in texture compression paths
-  fixed indirect rendering vertex array crashes (bug 6863)
-  glDrawPixels GL_INDEX_OFFSET didn't always work
-  fixed convolution memory leak (bug 7077)
-  rectangular depth textures didn't work
-  invalid mode to glBegin didn't generate an error (bug 7142)
-  'normalized' parameter to glVertexAttribPointerARB didn't work
-  disable bogus GLX_SGI_video_sync extension in xlib driver
-  fixed R128 driver locking bug (Martijn van Oosterhout)
-  using evaluators with vertex programs caused crashes (bug 7564)
-  fragment.position wasn't set correctly for point/line primitives
-  fixed parser bug for scalar sources for GL_NV_fragment_program
-  max fragment program length was incorrectly 128, now 1024
-  writes to result.depth in fragment programs weren't clamped to [0,1]
-  fixed potential dangling pointer bug in glBindProgram()
-  fixed some memory leaks (and potential crashes) in Xlib driver
-  fixed a number of build issues on HP-UX (Christopher Bell)
-  accum buffer didn't work with OSMesa interface

Internal code changes
---------------------

A number of Mesa program-related structs were renamed. For example
*struct vertex_program* is now *struct gl_vertex_program*. All the
effected drivers have been updated.

Ian Romanick updated the GL API dispatch code in a number of ways.
First, many old/unused extensions were removed. Second, the static
entrypoints for some extensions were removed. This means GL function
pointers will have to be used more often (e.g. use
glXGetProcAddressARB()).

To Do (someday) items
---------------------

-  Switch to freeglut
-  Increase MAX_DRAWBUFFERS
-  Fix linux-glide target/driver.
-  Fix lambda calculation for frag progs.

Driver Status
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   Driver         Status
   ----------------------  ----------------------
   DRI drivers     varies with the driver
   XMesa/GLX (on Xlib) implements OpenGL 1.5
   OSMesa (off-screen) implements OpenGL 1.5
   Glide (3dfx Voodoo1/2)  implements OpenGL 1.3
   SVGA            implements OpenGL 1.3
   Wind River UGL      implements OpenGL 1.3
   Windows/Win32       implements OpenGL 1.5
   DJGPP           implements OpenGL 1.5
   GGI         implements OpenGL 1.3
   BeOS            implements OpenGL 1.5
   Allegro         needs updating
   D3D         needs updating