<!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> <h1>Mesa 8.1 Release Notes / date TBD</h1> <p> Mesa 8.1 is a new development release. </p> <p> Mesa 8.1 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> <h2>MD5 checksums</h2> <pre> tbd </pre> <h2>New features</h2> <p> Note: some of the new features are only available with certain drivers. </p> <ul> <li>GL_ARB_base_instance</li> <li>GL_ARB_blend_func_extended</li> <li>GL_ARB_debug_output</li> <li>GL_ARB_shader_bit_encoding</li> <li>GL_ARB_timer_query</li> <li>GL_ARB_transform_feedback3</li> <li>GL_ARB_transform_feedback_instanced</li> <li>GL_EXT_unpack_subimage for ES 2.0</li> <li>GL_EXT_read_format_bgra for ES 1.1 and 2.0</li> <li>GL_EXT_texture_rg for ES 2.x</li> <li>GL_NV_read_buffer for ES 2.0</li> </ul> <h2>Bug fixes</h2> <p>TBD -- This list is likely incomplete.</p> <h2>Changes</h2> <p> The legacy/static Makefile system (ex: 'make linux-dri') has been removed. The two supported build methods are now autoconf/automake and SCons. </p> </body> </html>