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10<h1>Mesa 6.5 Release Notes / March 31, 2006</h1>
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13Mesa 6.5 is a new development release.
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2061beda590bfc5b4a12e979d5f2d70d7a  MesaLib-6.5.tar.bz2
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24b792c303fefd87294488e2b7eab976e5  MesaDemos-6.5.zip
25ac1d585483617db0c91e5c15cb5ec3a3  MesaGLUT-6.5.tar.gz
2659f0bf2b2ffb67fe23ee479f9b044f31  MesaGLUT-6.5.tar.bz2
27005decb2136718e22222ac1c4805cd15  MesaGLUT-6.5.zip
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32<h2>New Features</h2>
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34<li>OpenGL Shading language support
35<br>
36   This includes the GL_ARB_shader_objects, GL_ARB_shading_language_100,
37   GL_ARB_vertex_shader and GL_ARB_fragment_shader extensions.  Most of
38   the work was done by Michal Krol.
39   There's probably a fair number of bugs since this is a pretty large,
40   complicated body of code.
41<br>
42   The OpenGL 2.0 interface to these features will be implemented in a
43   future version of Mesa,
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45<li>GL_EXT_timer_query
46<br>
47   Used to measure the time of OpenGL operations at high precision.
48   Only supported in the software/Xlib driver at this time.
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50<li>GL_EXT_packed_depth_stencil
51<br>
52   Defines a new GL_DEPTH_STENCIL_EXT pixel format.
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54<li>GL_EXT_framebuffer_blit
55<br>
56   A simplified glCopyPixels-like feature for copying pixel rectangles.
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58<li>GL_ARB_half_float_pixel
59<br>
60   Adds a new half-precision floating point format for image transfers,
61   such as for glDrawPixels, glReadPixels, glTexImage, etc.
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64<h2>Changes</h2>
65<ul>
66<li>removed GL_HP_occlusion_test (use GL_ARB_occlusion_query instead)
67<li>removed GL_SGIX/SGIS_pixel_texture extensions
68</ul>
69<h2>Bug fixes</h2>
70<ul>
71<li>fixed glxcontextmodes.c datatype problem (bug 5835)
72<li>fixed aix-gcc build/install bugs (bug 5874)
73<li>fixed some bugs in texture env program generation
74<li>glXCopyContext() didn't handle texture object bindings properly
75<li>glXCopyContext() didn't copy all lighting state
76<li>fixed FreeBSD config (Pedro Giffuni)
77<li>fixed some minor framebuffer object bugs
78<li>replaced dprintf() with _glu_printf() in GLU (bug 6244)
79<li>fixed a number of thread safety bugs/regressions
80<li>fixed a number of GLU tesselator bugs (John Shell, bug 6339)
81<li>paletted texturing was broken w/ floating point palettes (K. Schultz)
82<li>lots of assorted framebuffer object bug fixes
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86<h2>Known Issues</h2>
87<ul>
88<li>Rendering to depth textures will not work.  Rendering to GL_DEPTH_STENCIL
89textures should work.
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93<h2>Driver Interface Changes</h2>
94<ul>
95<li>Stencil: The Driver.StencilOp/Func/Mask() functions have been replaced by
96the two-sided versions: Driver.Stencil*Separate().
97<li>Render-to-texture: The functions for rendering to textures have changed.
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101<h2>To Do (someday) items</h2>
102<ul>
103<li>Switch to freeglut
104<li>Increase MAX_DRAWBUFFERS
105<li>Fix linux-glide target/driver.
106<li>Fix lambda calculation for frag progs.
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110<h2>Driver Status</h2>
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113Driver			Status
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115DRI drivers		varies with the driver
116XMesa/GLX (on Xlib)	implements OpenGL 1.5
117OSMesa (off-screen)	implements OpenGL 1.5
118Glide (3dfx Voodoo1/2)	implements OpenGL 1.3
119SVGA			implements OpenGL 1.3
120Wind River UGL		implements OpenGL 1.3
121Windows/Win32		implements OpenGL 1.5
122DJGPP			implements OpenGL 1.5
123GGI			implements OpenGL 1.3
124BeOS			implements OpenGL 1.5
125Allegro			needs updating
126D3D			needs updating
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