Mesa 18.1.0 Release Notes / TBD

Mesa 18.1.0 is a new development release. People who are concerned with stability and reliability should stick with a previous release or wait for Mesa 18.1.1.

Mesa 18.1.0 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. Compatibility contexts may report a lower version depending on each driver.

SHA256 checksums

TBD.

New features

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

• OpenGL 3.1 with ARB_compatibility on nv50, nvc0, r600, radeonsi, softpipe, llvmpipe, svga
• GL_ARB_bindless_texture on nvc0/maxwell+
• GL_EXT_semaphore on radeonsi
• GL_EXT_semaphore_fd on radeonsi
• GL_EXT_shader_framebuffer_fetch on i965 on desktop GL (GLES was already supported)
• GL_EXT_shader_framebuffer_fetch_non_coherent on i965
• Disk shader cache support for i965 enabled by default

Bug fixes

TBD

Changes

• Remove incomplete GLX_SGIX_swap_barrier stubs from the Xlib libGL
• Remove incomplete GLX_SGIX_swap_group stubs from the Xlib libGL