Mesa 17.1.0 Release Notes / TBD

Mesa 17.1.0 is a new development release. People who are concerned with stability and reliability should stick with a previous release or wait for Mesa 17.1.1.

Mesa 17.1.0 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_gpu_shader_fp64 on i965/ivybridge
• GL_ARB_gpu_shader_int64 on i965/gen8+, nvc0, radeonsi, softpipe, llvmpipe
• GL_ARB_shader_ballot on nvc0, radeonsi
• GL_ARB_shader_clock on nv50, nvc0, radeonsi
• GL_ARB_shader_group_vote on radeonsi
• GL_ARB_shader_viewport_layer_array on radeonsi
• GL_ARB_sparse_buffer on radeonsi/CIK+
• GL_ARB_transform_feedback2 on i965/gen6
• GL_ARB_transform_feedback_overflow_query on i965/gen6+
• GL_NV_fill_rectangle on nvc0
• Geometry shaders enabled on swr

Bug fixes

Changes

• Removed the ilo gallium driver.
• The configure option --enable-gallium-llvm is superseded by --enable-llvm.
• The swr driver now requires LLVM >= 3.9.0.
• The radeonsi driver now requires LLVM 3.8.0.
• The MESA_GLSL=opt and MESA_GLSL=no_opt environment vars have been removed.