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| author | Emil Velikov <[email protected]> | 2013-04-12 12:41:49 +0100 |
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| committer | Brian Paul <[email protected]> | 2013-04-17 08:48:14 -0600 |
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diff --git a/docs/relnotes/8.0.html b/docs/relnotes/8.0.html new file mode 100644 index 00000000000..d19ed3c9528 --- /dev/null +++ b/docs/relnotes/8.0.html @@ -0,0 +1,87 @@ +<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/loose.dtd"> +<html lang="en"> +<head> + <meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"> + <title>Mesa Release Notes</title> + <link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="../mesa.css"> +</head> +<body> + +<div class="header"> + <h1>The Mesa 3D Graphics Library</h1> +</div> + +<iframe src="../contents.html"></iframe> +<div class="content"> + +<h1>Mesa 8.0 Release Notes / February 9, 2012</h1> + +<p> +Mesa 8.0 is a new development release. +People who are concerned with stability and reliability should stick +with a previous release or wait for Mesa 8.0.1. +</p> +<p> +Mesa 8.0 implements the OpenGL 3.0 API, but the version reported by +glGetString(GL_VERSION) depends on the particular driver being used. +Some drivers don't support all the features required in OpenGL 3.0. +</p> +<p> +See the <a href="../install.html">Compiling/Installing page</a> for prerequisites +for DRI hardware acceleration. +</p> + + +<h2>MD5 checksums</h2> +<pre> +3516fea6c28ce4a0fa9759e4894729a1 MesaLib-8.0.tar.gz +1a5668fe72651a670611164cefc703b2 MesaLib-8.0.tar.bz2 +66f5a01a85530a91472a3acceb556db8 MesaLib-8.0.zip +</pre> + + +<h2>New features</h2> +<ul> +<li>GL_ARB_ES2_compatibility (r300g, r600g) +<li>GL_ARB_depth_buffer_float (r600g) +<li>GL_ARB_vertex_type_2_10_10_10_rev (r600g) +<li>GL_ARB_texture_storage (gallium drivers and swrast) +<li>GL_EXT_packed_float (i965) +<li>GL_EXT_texture_array (r600g, i965) +<li>GL_EXT_texture_shared_exponent (i965) +<li>GL_NV_fog_distance (all gallium drivers, nouveau classic) +<li>GL_NV_primitive_restart (r600g) +<li>GL_OES_EGL_image_external (gallium drivers) +<li>GL_OES_compressed_ETC1_RGB8_texture (softpipe, llvmpipe) +<li>ARB_texture_rgb10_a2ui (softpipe, r600g) +<li>Many updates to the VMware svga Gallium driver +</ul> + + +<h2>Bug fixes</h2> + + +<h2>Changes</h2> +<ul> +<li>Removed all DRI drivers that did not support DRI2. Specifically, + i810, mach64, mga, r128, savage, sis, tdfx, and unichrome were + removed.</li> +<li>Removed support for BeOS.</li> +<li>Removed the obsolete (and unmaintained) Windows "gldirect" and + "ICD" drivers.</li> +<li>Removed the linux-fbdev software driver.</li> +<li>Removed all remnants of paletted texture support. As required by + desktop OpenGL, <tt>GL_COLOR_INDEX</tt> data can still be uploaded + to a color (e.g., RGBA) texture. However, the data cannot be stored + internally as color-index.</li> +<li>Removed support for GL_APPLE_client_storage extension.</li> +<li>Removed the classic Mesa r300 and r600 drivers, which are superseded + by the gallium drivers for this hardware.</li> +<li>Removed the dead Gallium i965, cell and failover drivers, which were + either broken and with nobody in sight to fix the situation or + deprecated.</li> +</ul> + +</div> +</body> +</html> |