<HTML> <head> <TITLE>Mesa Release Notes</TITLE> <link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="mesa.css"> <meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" /> </head> <BODY> <body bgcolor="#eeeeee"> <H1>Mesa 8.0 Release Notes / (release date TBD)</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> <ul> </ul> <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Removed the classic Mesa r300 and r600 drivers, which are superseded by the gallium drivers for this hardware.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> </body> </html>