Mesa 17.0.0 Release Notes / TBD
Mesa 17.0.0 is a new development release. People who are concerned with stability and reliability should stick with a previous release or wait for Mesa 17.0.1.
Mesa 17.0.0 implements the OpenGL 4.5 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 4.5. OpenGL 4.5 is only available if requested at context creation because compatibility contexts are not supported.
SHA256 checksums
TBD.
New features
Note: some of the new features are only available with certain drivers.
- GL_ARB_post_depth_coverage on i965/gen9+
- GL_INTEL_conservative_rasterization on i965/gen9+
- GL_NV_image_formats on any driver supporting GL_ARB_shader_image_load_store (i965, nvc0, radeonsi, softpipe)
- GL_ARB_gpu_shader_fp64 in i965/haswell
- GL_ARB_vertex_attrib_64bit in i965/haswell
- Intel Haswell now supports OpenGL 4.0
- GL_OES_geometry_shader on i965/haswell
- GL_OES_texture_cube_map_array on i965/haswell
- GL_OES_viewport_array on i965/haswell
- Vulkan Float64 capability support on Intel's ANV driver
Bug fixes
- Bug 98480 - Support R8 image texture in ES 3.1