Mesa 9.1 Release Notes / date TBD

Mesa 9.1 is a new development release. People who are concerned with stability and reliability should stick with a previous release or wait for Mesa 9.1.1.

Mesa 9.1 implements the OpenGL 3.1 API, but the version reported by glGetString(GL_VERSION) or glGetIntegerv(GL_MAJOR_VERSION) / glGetIntegerv(GL_MINOR_VERSION) depends on the particular driver being used. Some drivers don't support all the features required in OpenGL 3.1. OpenGL 3.1 is only available if requested at context creation because GL_ARB_compatibility is not supported.

MD5 checksums

tbd

New features

Note: some of the new features are only available with certain drivers.

• GL_ANGLE_texture_compression_dxt3
• GL_ANGLE_texture_compression_dxt5
• GL_ARB_ES3_compatibility
• GL_ARB_internalformat_query
• GL_ARB_map_buffer_alignment
• GL_ARB_shading_language_packing
• GL_ARB_texture_buffer_object_rgb32
• GL_ARB_texture_cube_map_array
• GL_EXT_color_buffer_float
• GL_OES_depth_texture_cube_map

Bug fixes

TBD -- This list is likely incomplete.

Changes

• Removed VAAPI state tracker (unmaintained and broken)
• Removed i965's broken hardware implementation of GL_NV_vertex_program
• Removed swrast support for GL_NV_vertex_program
• Removed swrast support for GL_NV_fragment_program
• Removed OpenVMS support (unmaintained and broken)