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1<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/loose.dtd"> 2<html lang="en"> 3<head> 4 <meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"> 5 <title>Mesa News</title> 6 <link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="mesa.css"> 7</head> 8<body> 9 10<h1>News</h1> 11 12<h2>October 8, 2012</h2> 13 14<p> 15<a href="relnotes-9.0.html">Mesa 9.0</a> is released. 16This is the first version of Mesa to support OpenGL 3.1 and GLSL 1.40 17(with the i965 driver). 18See the release notes for more information about the release. 19</p> 20 21 22<h2>July 10, 2012</h2> 23 24<p> 25<a href="relnotes-8.0.4.html">Mesa 8.0.4</a> is released. 26This is a bug fix release. 27</p> 28 29 30<h2>May 18, 2012</h2> 31 32<p> 33<a href="relnotes-8.0.3.html">Mesa 8.0.3</a> is released. 34This is a bug fix release. 35</p> 36 37 38<h2>March 21, 2012</h2> 39 40<p> 41<a href="relnotes-8.0.2.html">Mesa 8.0.2</a> is released. 42This is a bug fix release. 43</p> 44 45 46<h2>February 16, 2012</h2> 47 48<p> 49<a href="relnotes-8.0.1.html">Mesa 8.0.1</a> is released. This is a bug fix 50release. See the release notes for more information about the release. 51</p> 52 53<h2>February 9, 2012</h2> 54 55<p> 56<a href="relnotes-8.0.html">Mesa 8.0</a> is released. 57This is the first version of Mesa to support OpenGL 3.0 and GLSL 1.30 58(with the i965 driver). 59See the release notes for more information about the release. 60</p> 61 62 63<h2>November 27, 2011</h2> 64 65<p> 66<a href="relnotes-7.11.2.html">Mesa 7.11.2</a> is released. This is a bug fix 67release. This release was made primarily to fix build problems with 7.11.1 on 68Mandriva and to fix problems related to glCopyTexImage to luminance-alpha 69textures. The later was believed to have been fixed in 7.11.1 but was not. 70</p> 71 72<h2>November 17, 2011</h2> 73 74<p> 75<a href="relnotes-7.11.1.html">Mesa 7.11.1</a> is released. This is a bug 76fix release. 77</p> 78 79<h2>July 31, 2011</h2> 80 81<p> 82<a href="relnotes-7.11.html">Mesa 7.11</a> (final) is released. This is a new 83development release. 84</p> 85 86<h2>June 13, 2011</h2> 87 88<p> 89<a href="relnotes-7.10.3.html">Mesa 7.10.3</a> is released. This is a bug 90fix release. 91</p> 92 93<h2>April 6, 2011</h2> 94 95<p> 96<a href="relnotes-7.10.2.html">Mesa 7.10.2</a> is released. This is a bug 97fix release. 98</p> 99 100<h2>March 2, 2011</h2> 101 102<p> 103<a href="relnotes-7.9.2.html">Mesa 7.9.2</a> and 104<a href="relnotes-7.10.1.html">Mesa 7.10.1</a> are released. These are 105stable releases containing bug fixes since the 7.9.1 and 7.10 releases. 106</p> 107 108 109<h2>October 4, 2010</h2> 110 111<p> 112<a href="relnotes-7.9.html">Mesa 7.9</a> (final) is released. This is a new 113development release. 114</p> 115 116 117<h2>September 27, 2010</h2> 118 119<p> 120<a href="relnotes-7.9.html">Mesa 7.9.0-rc1</a> is released. This is a 121release candidate for the 7.9 development release. 122</p> 123 124 125<h2>June 16, 2010</h2> 126 127<p> 128<a href="relnotes-7.8.2.html">Mesa 7.8.2</a> is released. This is a bug-fix 129release collecting fixes since the 7.8.1 release. 130</p> 131 132 133<h2>April 5, 2010</h2> 134 135<p> 136<a href="relnotes-7.8.1.html">Mesa 7.8.1</a> is released. This is a bug-fix 137release for a few critical issues in the 7.8 release. 138</p> 139 140 141<h2>March 28, 2010</h2> 142<p> 143<a href="relnotes-7.7.1.html">Mesa 7.7.1</a> is released. This is a bug-fix 144release fixing issues found in the 7.7 release. 145</p> 146<p> 147Also, <a href="relnotes-7.8.html">Mesa 7.8</a> is released. This is a new 148development release. 149</p> 150 151 152 153<h2>December 21, 2009</h2> 154<p> 155<a href="relnotes-7.6.1.html">Mesa 7.6.1</a> is released. This is a bug-fix 156release fixing issues found in the 7.6 release. 157</p> 158<p> 159Also, <a href="relnotes-7.7.html">Mesa 7.7</a> is released. This is a new 160development release. 161</p> 162 163 164<h2>September 28, 2009</h2> 165<p> 166<a href="relnotes-7.6.html">Mesa 7.6</a> is released. This is a new feature 167release. Those especially concerned about stability may want to wait for the 168follow-on 7.6.1 bug-fix release. 169</p> 170<p> 171<a href="relnotes-7.5.2.html">Mesa 7.5.2</a> is also released. 172This is a stable release fixing bugs since the 7.5.1 release. 173</p> 174 175 176<h2>September 3, 2009</h2> 177<p> 178<a href="relnotes-7.5.1.html">Mesa 7.5.1</a> is released. 179This is a bug-fix release which fixes bugs found in version 7.5. 180</p> 181 182 183<h2>July 17, 2009</h2> 184<p> 185<a href="relnotes-7.5.html">Mesa 7.5</a> is released. 186This is a new features release. People especially concerned about 187stability may want to wait for the follow-on 7.5.1 bug-fix release. 188</p> 189 190 191<h2>June 23, 2009</h2> 192<p> 193<a href="relnotes-7.4.4.html">Mesa 7.4.4</a> is released. 194This is a stable release that fixes a regression in the i915/i965 drivers 195that slipped into the 7.4.3 release. 196</p> 197 198 199<h2>June 19, 2009</h2> 200<p> 201<a href="relnotes-7.4.3.html">Mesa 7.4.3</a> is released. 202This is a stable release fixing bugs since the 7.4.2 release. 203</p> 204 205 206<h2>May 15, 2009</h2> 207<p> 208<a href="relnotes-7.4.2.html">Mesa 7.4.2</a> is released. 209This is a stable release fixing bugs since the 7.4.1 release. 210</p> 211 212 213<h2>April 18, 2009</h2> 214<p> 215<a href="relnotes-7.4.1.html">Mesa 7.4.1</a> is released. 216This is a stable release fixing bugs since the 7.4 release. 217</p> 218 219 220<h2>March 27, 2009</h2> 221<p> 222<a href="relnotes-7.4.html">Mesa 7.4</a> is released. 223This is a stable release fixing bugs since the 7.3 release. 224</p> 225 226 227<h2>January 22, 2009</h2> 228<p> 229<a href="relnotes-7.3.html">Mesa 7.3</a> is released. 230This is a new development release. 231Mesa 7.4 will follow and will have bug fixes relative to 7.3. 232</p> 233 234 235<h2>September 20, 2008</h2> 236<p> 237<a href="relnotes-7.2.html">Mesa 7.2</a> is released. 238This is a stable, bug-fix release. 239</p> 240 241 242<h2>August 26, 2008</h2> 243<p> 244<a href="relnotes-7.1.html">Mesa 7.1</a> is released. 245This is a new development release. 246It should be relatively stable, but those especially concerned about 247stability should wait for the 7.2 release or use Mesa 7.0.4 (the 248previous stable release). 249</p> 250 251 252<h2>August 16, 2008</h2> 253<p> 254<a href="relnotes-7.0.4.html">Mesa 7.0.4</a> is released. 255This is a bug-fix release. 256</p> 257 258 259<h2>April 4, 2008</h2> 260<p> 261<a href="relnotes-7.0.3.html">Mesa 7.0.3</a> is released. 262This is a bug-fix release. 263</p> 264 265 266<h2>January 24, 2008</h2> 267 268<p> 269Added a new page describing the Mesa Cell driver. 270</p> 271 272 273 274<h2>November 13, 2007</h2> 275 276<p> 277Gallium3D is the codename for the new Mesa device driver architecture 278which is currently under development. 279</p> 280<p> 281Gallium3D development is taking place on the <em>gallium-0.1</em> branch 282of the git repository. 283Currently, there's only a software-only driver and an Intel i915/945 driver 284but other drivers will be coming... 285</p> 286 287 288<h2>November 10, 2007</h2> 289<p> 290<a href="relnotes-7.0.2.html">Mesa 7.0.2</a> is released. 291This is a bug-fix release. 292</p> 293 294 295<h2>August 3, 2007</h2> 296<p> 297<a href="relnotes-7.0.1.html">Mesa 7.0.1</a> is released. 298This is a bug-fix release. 299</p> 300 301 302<h2>June 22, 2007</h2> 303<p> 304<a href="relnotes-7.0.html">Mesa 7.0</a> is released. 305This is a stable release featuring OpenGL 2.1 support. 306</p> 307 308 309<h2>April 27, 2007</h2> 310<p> 311<a href="relnotes-6.5.3.html">Mesa 6.5.3</a> is released. 312This is a development release which will lead up to the Mesa 7.0 release 313(which will advertise OpenGL 2.1 API support). 314</p> 315 316 317<h2>March 26, 2007</h2> 318<p> 319The new Shading Language compiler branch has been merged into the git 320master branch. This is a step toward hardware support for the OpenGL 3212.0 Shading Language and will be included in the next Mesa release. 322In conjunction, <a href="http://glean.sf.net" target="_parent">Glean 323</a> has been updated with a new test that does over 130 tests of the 324shading language and built-in functions. 325</p> 326 327<h2>April 2007</h2> 328<p> 329Thomas Hellström of Tungsten Graphics has written a whitepaper 330describing the new DRI memory management system. 331</p> 332 333<h2>December 5, 2006</h2> 334<p> 335Mesa is now using git as its source code management system. 336The previous CVS repository should no longer be used. 337See the <a href="repository.html">repository page</a> for more information. 338</p> 339 340<h2>December 2, 2006</h2> 341<p> 342<a href="relnotes-6.5.2.html">Mesa 6.5.2</a> has been released. 343This is a new development release. 344</p> 345 346<h2>September 15, 2006</h2> 347<p> 348<a href="relnotes-6.5.1.html">Mesa 6.5.1</a> has been released. 349This is a new development release. 350</p> 351 352<h2>March 31, 2006</h2> 353<p> 354<a href="relnotes-6.5.html">Mesa 6.5</a> has been released. 355This is a new development release. 356</p> 357 358 359<h2>February 2, 2006</h2> 360<p> 361<a href="relnotes-6.4.2.html">Mesa 6.4.2</a> has been released. 362This is stable, bug-fix release. 363</p> 364 365 366<h2>November 29, 2005</h2> 367<p> 368<a href="relnotes-6.4.1.html">Mesa 6.4.1</a> has been released. 369This is stable, bug-fix release. 370</p> 371 372 373 374<h2>October 24, 2005</h2> 375<p> 376<a href="relnotes-6.4.html">Mesa 6.4</a> has been released. 377This is stable, bug-fix release. 378</p> 379 380 381<h2>August 19, 2005</h2> 382<p> 383Mesa 6.3.2 has been released. 384Note: there was no public release of version 6.3.1. 385</p> 386<a href="versions.html#6.3.2">Changes in version 6.3.1</a> 387<p> 388The MD5 checksums are: 389</p> 390<pre> 39198192e45ed8d69113688f89f90869346 MesaLib-6.3.2.tar.gz 3920df27701df0924d17ddf41185efa8ce1 MesaLib-6.3.2.tar.bz2 393ccb2423aab77fc7e81ce628734586140 MesaLib-6.3.2.zip 3949d0fca0a7d051c34a0b485423fb3e85d MesaDemos-6.3.2.tar.gz 39596708868450c188205e42229b5d813c4 MesaDemos-6.3.2.tar.bz2 396c5102501e609aa8996d832fafacb8ab9 MesaDemos-6.3.2.zip 397</pre> 398 399 400<h2>July 20, 2005</h2> 401<p> 402Mesa 6.3 has been released. 403This is a development release with new features, changes and bug fixes. 404</p> 405<pre> 406 New: 407 - GL_EXT_framebuffer_object extension 408 - GL_ARB_draw_buffers extension 409 - GL_ARB_pixel_buffer_object extension 410 - GL_OES_read_format extension (Ian Romanick) 411 - DirectFB driver (Claudio Ciccani) 412 - x86_64 vertex transformation code (Mikko T.) 413 Changes: 414 - added -stereo option for glxgears demo (Jacek Rosik) 415 - updated the PBuffer demo code in xdemos/ directory 416 - glDeleteTextures/Programs/Buffers() now makes the object ID 417 available for immediate re-use 418 - assorted 64-bit clean-ups fixes (x86_64 and Win64) 419 - lots of internal changes for GL_EXT_framebuffer_object 420 Bug fixes: 421 - some functions didn't support PBO functionality 422 - glGetTexImage didn't convert color index images to RGBA as required 423 - fragment program texcoords were sometimes wrong for points and lines 424 - fixed problem with negative dot product in arbfplight, fplight demos 425 - fixed bug in perspective correction of antialiased, textured lines 426 - querying GL_POST_CONVOLUTION_ALPHA_BIAS_EXT returned wrong value 427 - fixed a couple per-pixel fog bugs (Soju Matsumoto) 428 - glGetBooleanv(GL_FRAGMENT_PROGRAM_BINDING_NV) was broken 429 - fixed float parsing bug in ARB frag/vert programs (bug 2520) 430 - XMesaGetDepthBuffer() returned incorrect value for bytesPerValue 431 - GL_COLOR_MATERIAL with glColor3 didn't properly set diffuse alpha 432 - glXChooseFBConfig() crashed if attribList pointer was NULL 433 - program state.light[n].spot.direction.w was wrong value (bug 3083) 434 - fragment program fog option required glEnable(GL_FOG) - wrong. 435 - glColorTable() could produce a Mesa implementation error (bug 3135) 436 - RasterPos could get corrupted by color index rendering path 437 - Removed bad XTranslateCoordinates call when rendering to Pixmaps 438 - glPopAttrib() didn't properly restore GL_TEXTURE_GEN enable state 439 - fixed a few Darwin compilation problems 440</pre> 441<p> 442The MD5 checksums are: 443</p> 444<pre> 4450236f552d37514776945d5a013e5bb7b MesaLib-6.3.tar.gz 44660e1a8f78c4a8c7750a1e95753190986 MesaLib-6.3.tar.bz2 447ca7c950fbace68c70caa822322db7223 MesaLib-6.3.zip 44825ea801645b376c014051804fe4974b2 MesaDemos-6.3.tar.gz 4499248e74872ea88c57ec25c900c295057 MesaDemos-6.3.tar.bz2 4508537dfa734ef258dcc7272097558d434 MesaDemos-6.3.zip 451</pre> 452 453 454<h2>December 9, 2004</h2> 455<p> 456Mesa 6.2.1 has been released. 457This is a stable release which just fixes bugs since the 6.2 release. 458</p> 459<pre> 460 Bug fixes: 461 - don't apply regular fog or color sum when using a fragment program 462 - glProgramEnvParameter4fARB always generated an error on 463 GL_FRAGMENT_PROGRAM_ARB (fdo bug 1645) 464 - glVertexAttrib3svNV and glVertexAttrib3svARB were broken 465 - fixed width/height mix-up in glSeparableFilter2D() 466 - fixed regression in glCopyPixels + convolution 467 - glReadPixels from a clipped front color buffer didn't always work 468 - glTexImage didn't accept GL_RED/GREEN/BLUE as the format 469 - Attempting queries/accesses of VBO 0 weren't detected as errors 470 - paletted textures failed if the palette had fewer than 256 entries 471 Changes: 472 - fixed a bunch of compiler warnings found with gcc 3.4 473 - bug reports should to go bugzilla.freedesktop.org 474</pre> 475<p> 476The MD5 checksums are: 477</p> 478<pre> 47980008a92f6e055d3bfdde2cf331ec3fa MesaLib-6.2.1.tar.gz 480f43228cd2bf70f583ef3275c1c545421 MesaLib-6.2.1.tar.bz2 481dec26cfd40116ad021020fea2d94f652 MesaLib-6.2.1.zip 4822c7af3c986a7571c8713c8bfee7e49e3 MesaDemos-6.2.1.tar.gz 4833cac74667b50bcbd4f67f594fb4224a2 MesaDemos-6.2.1.tar.bz2 48475b3edd12eb2b370caf05f29b99e508a MesaDemos-6.2.1.zip 485</pre> 486 487 488<h2>October 2, 2004</h2> 489<p> 490Mesa 6.2 has been released. 491This is a stable release which just fixes bugs since the 6.1 release. 492</p> 493<pre> 494 New: 495 - enabled GL_ARB_texture_rectangle (same as GL_NV_texture_rectangle) 496 - updated Doxygen support (Jose Fonseca) 497 Changes: 498 - some GGI driver updates (Christoph Egger, bug 1025977) 499 Bug fixes: 500 - Omit GL_ARB_texture_non_power_of_two from list of OpenGL 1.5 features 501 - fixed a few compilation issues on IRIX 502 - fixed a matrix classification bug (reported by Wes Bethel) 503 - we weren't reseting the vertex/fragment program error state 504 before parsing (Dave Reveman) 505 - adjust texcoords for sampling texture rectangles (Dave Reveman) 506 - glGet*(GL_MAX_VERTEX_ATTRIBS_ARB) wasn't implemented 507 - repeated calls to glDeleteTexture(t) could lead to a crash 508 - fixed potential ref count bugs in VBOs and vertex/fragment programs 509 - spriteblast demo didn't handle window size changes correctly 510 - glTexSubImage didn't handle pixels=NULL correctly for PBOs 511 - fixed color index mode glDrawPixels bug (Karl Schultz) 512</pre> 513<p> 514The MD5 checksums are: 515</p> 516<pre> 5179e8f34b059272dbb8e1f2c968b33bbf0 MesaLib-6.2.tar.gz 5183d6a6362390b6a37d3cb2e615f3ac7db MesaLib-6.2.tar.bz2 5196cfd7895d28e695c0dbbed9469564091 MesaLib-6.2.zip 5203e06e33b0809f09855cb60883b8bdfef MesaDemos-6.2.tar.gz 5219d160009c3dfdb35fe7e4088c9ba8f85 MesaDemos-6.2.tar.bz2 522856f7ec947122eb3c8985ebc2f654dcd MesaDemos-6.2.zip 523</pre> 524 525 526<h2>August 18, 2004</h2> 527<p> 528Mesa 6.1 has been released. 529This is a new development release (version 6.2 will be a stabilization 530release). 531</p> 532<pre> 533 New: 534 - Revamped Makefile system 535 - glXUseRotatedXFont() utility (see xdemos/xuserotfont.c) 536 - internal driver interface changes related to texture object 537 allocation, vertex/fragment programs, BlendEquationSeparate, etc. 538 - option to walk triangle edges with double-precision floats 539 (Justin Novosad of Discreet) (see config.h file) 540 - support for AUX buffers in software GLX driver 541 - updated glext.h to version 24 and glxext.h to version 6 542 - new MESA_GLX_FORCE_ALPHA and MESA_GLX_DEPTH_BITS env vars 543 - updated BeOS support (Philippe Houdoin) 544 Changes: 545 - fragment fog interpolation is perspective corrected now 546 - new glTexImage code, much cleaner, may be a bit faster 547 Bug fixes: 548 - glArrayElement in display lists didn't handle generic vertex attribs 549 - glFogCoord didn't always work properly 550 - ARB_fragment_program fog options didn't work 551 - frag prog TEX instruction no longer incorrectly divides s,t,r by q 552 - ARB frag prog TEX and TEXP instructions now use LOD=0 553 - glTexEnviv in display lists didn't work 554 - glRasterPos didn't do texgen or apply texture matrix 555 - GL_DOUBLE-valued vertex arrays were broken in some cases 556 - fixed texture rectangle edge/border sampling bugs 557 - sampling an incomplete texture in a fragment program would segfault 558 - glTexImage was missing a few error checks 559 - fixed some minor glGetTexParameter glitches 560 - GL_INTENSITY was mistakenly accepted as a <format> to glTexImage 561 - fragment program writes to RC/HC register were broken 562 - fixed a few glitches in GL_HP_occlusion_test extension 563 - glBeginQueryARB and glEndQueryARB didn't work inside display lists 564 - vertex program state references were broken 565 - fixed triangle color interpolation bug on AIX (Shane Blackett) 566 - fixed a number of minor memory leaks (bug #1002030) 567</pre> 568<p> 569The MD5 checksums are: 570</p> 571<pre> 572c9284d295ebcd2e0486cc3cd54e5863c MesaLib-6.1.tar.gz 5735de1f53ec0709f60fc68fdfed57351f3 MesaLib-6.1.tar.bz2 574483e77cac4789a5d36c42f3c0136d6d8 MesaLib-6.1.zip 5758c46cfa6f9732acc6f6c25724aad0246 MesaDemos-6.1.tar.gz 57689bfe0f6c69b39fd0ebd9fff481a4e9b MesaDemos-6.1.tar.bz2 577161268531fcc6f0c5a056430ee97e0c1 MesaDemos-6.1.zip 578</pre> 579 580 581 582<h2>April 2, 2004</h2> 583 584<p> 585Mesa 6.0.1 has been released. 586This release basically just fixes bugs since the 6.0. release. 587</p> 588<pre> 589 New: 590 - upgraded glext.h to version 22 591 - new build targets (Dan Schikore) 592 - new linux-x86-opteron build target (Heath Feather) 593 Bug fixes: 594 - glBindProgramARB didn't update all necessary state 595 - fixed build problems on OpenBSD 596 - omit CVS directories from tarballs 597 - glGetTexImage(GL_COLOR_INDEX) was broken 598 - fixed an infinite loop in t&l module 599 - silenced some valgrind warnings about using unitialized memory 600 - fixed some compilation/link glitches on IRIX (Mike Stephens) 601 - glBindProgram wasn't getting compiled into display lists 602 - GLX_FBCONFIG_ID wasn't recognized in glXChooseFBConfig() (bug 888079) 603 - two-sided lighting and vertex program didn't work (bug 887330) 604 - stores to program parameter registers in vertex state programs 605 didn't work. 606 - fixed glOrtho bug found with gcc 3.2.2 (RH9) 607 - glXCreateWindow() wasn't fully implemented (bug 890894) 608 - generic vertex attribute arrays didn't work in display lists 609 - vertex buffer objects' default usage and access fields were wrong 610 - glDrawArrays with start!=0 was broken 611 - fragment program PK2H, UP2H, UP4B and UP4UB instructions were broken 612 - linux-osmesa16-static config didn't work 613 - fixed a few color index rendering problems (bug 910687) 614 - glInterleavedArrays didn't respect GL_CLIENT_ACTIVE_TEXTURE 615 - OSMesa RGB and BGR modes were broken 616 - glProgramStringARB mistakenly required a null-terminated string 617 - fragment program XPD instruction was incorrect 618 - glGetMaterial() didn't work reliably 619</pre> 620<p> 621The MD5 checksums are: 622</p> 623<pre> 624011be0e79666c7a6eb9693fbf9348653 MesaLib-6.0.1.tar.gz 625b7f14088c5c2f14490d2739a91102112 MesaLib-6.0.1.tar.bz2 626bf0510cf0a2b87d64cdd317eca3f1db1 MesaLib-6.0.1.zip 627b7b648599e0aaee1c4ffc554a2a9139e MesaDemos-6.0.1.tar.gz 628dd6aadfd9ca8e1cfa90c6ee492bc6f43 MesaDemos-6.0.1.tar.bz2 629eff71d59c211825e949199852f5a2316 MesaDemos-6.0.1.zip 630</pre> 631 632 633<h2>January 16, 2004</h2> 634 635<p> 636Mesa 6.0 has been released. This is a stabilization of the 5.1 release 637and primarily just incorporates bug fixes. 638</p> 639<pre> 640 New: 641 - full OpenGL 1.5 support 642 - updated GL/glext.h file to version 21 643 Changes: 644 - changed max framebuffer size to 4Kx4K (MAX_WIDTH/HEIGHT in config.h) 645 Bug fixes: 646 - fixed bug in UNCLAMPED_FLOAT_TO_UBYTE macro; solves a color 647 clamping issue 648 - updated suno5-gcc configs 649 - glColor3 functions sometimes resulted in undefined alpha values 650 - fixed FP divide by zero error seen on VMS with xlockmore, others 651 - fixed vertex/fragment program debug problem (bug 873011) 652 - building on AIX with gcc works now 653 - glDeleteProgramsARB failed for ARB fragment programs (bug 876160) 654 - glDrawRangeElements tried to modify potentially read-only storage 655 - updated files for building on Windows 656</pre> 657 658 659<h2>December 28, 2003</h2> 660 661<p> 662The Mesa CVS server has been moved to <a href="http://www.freedesktop.org" 663target="_parent"> 664freedesktop.org</a> because of problems with SourceForge's anonymous 665CVS service. 666</p> 667 668<p>Please see the <a href="cvs_access.html">CVS access page</a> for details. 669</p> 670 671 672<h2>December 17, 2003</h2> 673 674<p> 675Mesa 5.1 has been released. This is a new development release. 676Mesa 6.0 will be the next stable release and will support all 677OpenGL 1.5 features. 678</p> 679<pre> 680 New features: 681 - reorganized directory tree 682 - GL_ARB_vertex/fragment_program extensions (Michal Krol & Karl Rasche) 683 - GL_ATI_texture_env_combine3 extension (Ian Romanick) 684 - GL_SGI_texture_color_table extension (Eric Plante) 685 - GL_NV_fragment_program extension 686 - GL_NV_light_max_exponent extension 687 - GL_EXT_texture_rectangle (identical to GL_NV_texture_rectangle) 688 - GL_ARB_occlusion_query extension 689 - GL_ARB_point_sprite extension 690 - GL_ARB_texture_non_power_of_two extension 691 - GL_IBM_multimode_draw_arrays extension 692 - GL_EXT_texture_mirror_clamp extension (Ian Romanick) 693 - GL_ARB_vertex_buffer_object extension 694 - new X86 feature detection code (Petr Sebor) 695 - less memory used for display lists and vertex buffers 696 - demo of per-pixel lighting with a fragment program (demos/fplight.c) 697 - new version (18) of glext.h header 698 - new spriteblast.c demo of GL_ARB_point_sprite 699 - faster glDrawPixels in X11 driver in some cases (see RELNOTES-5.1) 700 - faster glCopyPixels in X11 driver in some cases (see RELNOTES-5.1) 701 Bug fixes: 702 - really enable OpenGL 1.4 features in DOS driver. 703 - fixed issues in glDrawPixels and glCopyPixels for very wide images 704 - glPixelMapf/ui/usv()'s size parameter is GLsizei, not GLint 705 - fixed some texgen bugs reported by Daniel Borca 706 - fixed wglMakeCurrent(NULL, NULL) bug (#835861) 707 - fixed glTexSubImage3D z-offset bug (Cedric Gautier) 708 - fixed RGBA blend enable bug (Ville Syrjala) 709 - glAccum is supposed to be a no-op in selection/feedback mode 710 - fixed texgen bug #597589 (John Popplewell) 711 Changes: 712 - dropped API trace feature (src/Trace/) 713 - documentation overhaul. merged with website content. more html. 714 - glxgears.c demo updated to use GLX swap rate extensions 715 - glTexImage1/2/3D now allows width/height/depth = 0 716 - disable SPARC asm code on Linux (bug 852204) 717</pre> 718<p> 719The MD5 checksums are: 720</p> 721<pre> 72278f452f6c55478471a744f07147612b5 MesaLib-5.1.tar.gz 72367b3b8d3f7f4c8c44904551b851d01af MesaLib-5.1.tar.bz2 7246dd19ffa750ec7f634e370a987505c9d MesaLib-5.1.zip 725e0214d4ebb22409dfa9262f2b52fd828 MesaDemos-5.1.tar.gz 726066c9aff4fd924405de1ae9bad5ec9a7 MesaDemos-5.1.tar.bz2 727d2b5ba32b53e0ad0576c637a4cc1fb41 MesaDemos-5.1.zip 728</pre> 729 730 731<H2>November 12, 2003</H2> 732 733<p> 734New Mesa 5.0.2 tarballs have been uploaded to SourceForge which fix a 735number of automake/libtool problems. 736</p> 737<p> 738The new MD5 checksums are: 739</p> 740<pre> 741a9dcf3ff9ad1b7d6ce73a0df7cff8b5b MesaLib-5.0.2.tar.gz 7427b4bf9261657c2fca03796d4955e6f50 MesaLib-5.0.2.tar.bz2 74379c141bddcbad557647535d02194f346 MesaLib-5.0.2.zip 744952d9dc823dd818981d1a648d7b2668a MesaDemos-5.0.2.tar.gz 745b81fafff90995025d2f25ea02b786642 MesaDemos-5.0.2.tar.bz2 746a21be975589e8a2d1871b6bb7874fffa MesaDemos-5.0.2.zip 747</pre> 748 749 750<h2>September 5, 2003</h2> 751 752<p> 753Mesa 5.0.2 has been released. This is a stable, bug-fix release. 754</p> 755<pre> 756 Bug fixes: 757 - fixed texgen problem causing texcoord's Q to be zero (stex3d) 758 - default GL_TEXTURE_COMPARE_MODE_ARB was wrong 759 - GL_CURRENT_MATRIX_NV query was wrong 760 - GL_CURRENT_MATRIX_STACK_DEPTH_NV query was off by one 761 - GL_LIST_MODE query wasn't correct 762 - GL_FOG_COORDINATE_SOURCE_EXT query wasn't supported 763 - GL_SECONDARY_COLOR_ARRAY_SIZE_EXT query returned wrong value 764 - blended, wide lines didn't always work correctly (bug 711595) 765 - glVertexAttrib4svNV w component was always 1 766 - fixed bug in GL_IBM_rasterpos_clip (missing return) 767 - GL_DEPTH_TEXTURE_MODE = GL_ALPHA didn't work correctly 768 - a few Solaris compilation fixes 769 - fixed glClear() problem for DRI drivers (non-existant stencil, etc) 770 - fixed int/REAL mixup in GLU NURBS curve evaluator (Eric Cazeaux) 771 - fixed delete [] bug in SI GLU (bug 721765) (Diego Santa Cruz) 772 - glFog() didn't clamp fog colors 773 - fixed bad float/int conversion for GL_TEXTURE_PRIORITY in the 774 gl[Get]TexParameteri[v] functions 775 - fixed invalid memory references in glTexGen functions (bug 781602) 776 - integer-valued color arrays weren't handled correctly 777 - glDrawPixels(GL_DEPTH_COMPONENT) with glPixelZoom didn't work 778 - GL_EXT_texture_lod_bias is part of 1.4, overlooked in 5.0.1 779 Changes: 780 - build GLUT with -fexceptions so C++ apps propogate exceptions 781</pre> 782 783 784<h2>June 2003</h2> 785 786<p> 787Mesa's directory tree has been overhauled. 788Things are better organized now with some thought toward future needs. 789</p> 790<p> 791In CVS, the latest Mesa 5.1 development code is now rooted under the 792<b>Mesa-newtree/</b> directory. The old top-level <b>Mesa/</b> directory 793holds the Mesa 5.0.x code which will be abandoned at some point. 794</p> 795 796 797<h2>March 30, 2003</h2> 798 799<p> 800Mesa 5.0.1 has been released. This is a stable, bug-fix release. 801</p> 802<pre> 803 New: 804 - DOS driver updates from Daniel Borca 805 - updated GL/gl_mangle.h file (Bill Hoffman) 806 Bug fixes: 807 - auto mipmap generation for cube maps was broken (bug 641363) 808 - writing/clearing software alpha channels was unreliable 809 - minor compilation fixes for OS/2 (Evgeny Kotsuba) 810 - fixed some bad assertions found with shadowtex demo 811 - fixed error checking bug in glCopyTexSubImage2D (bug 659020) 812 - glRotate(angle, -x, 0, 0) was incorrect (bug 659677) 813 - fixed potential segfault in texture object validation (bug 659012) 814 - fixed some bogus code in _mesa_test_os_sse_exception_support (Linus) 815 - fix fog stride bug in tnl code for h/w drivers (Michel Danzer) 816 - fixed glActiveTexture / glMatrixMode(GL_TEXTURE) bug (#669080) 817 - glGet(GL_CURRENT_SECONDARY_COLOR) should return 4 values, not 3 818 - fixed compilation problem on Solaris7/x86 (bug 536406) 819 - fixed prefetch bug in 3DNow! code (Felix Kuhling) 820 - fixed NeXT build problem (FABSF macro) 821 - glDrawPixels Z values when glPixelZoom!=1 were invalid (bug 687811) 822 - zoomed glDraw/CopyPixels with clipping sometimes failed (bug 689964) 823 - AA line and triangle Z values are now rounded, not truncated 824 - fixed color interpolation bug when GLchan==GLfloat (bug 694461) 825 - glArePrograms/TexturesResident() wasn't 100% correct (Jose Fonseca) 826 - fixed a minor GL_COLOR_MATERIAL bug 827 - NV vertex program EXP instruction was broken 828 - glColorMask misbehaved with X window / pixmap rendering 829 - fix autoconf/libtool GLU C++ linker problem on Linux (a total hack) 830 - attempt to fix GGI compilation problem when MesaDemos not present 831 - NV vertex program ARL-relative fetches didn't work 832 Changes: 833 - use glPolygonOffset in gloss demo to avoid z-fighting artifacts 834 - updated winpos and pointblast demos to use ARB extensions 835 - disable SPARC normal transformation code (bug 673938) 836 - GLU fixes for OS/2 (Evgeny Kotsuba) 837</pre> 838<p> 839MD5 checksums follow: 840</p> 841<pre> 842b80f8b5d53a3e9f19b9fde5af0c542f0 MesaLib-5.0.1.tar.gz 843513b4bbd7d38951f05027179063d876b MesaLib-5.0.1.tar.bz2 844eebd395678f4520d33b267e5d5c22651 MesaLib-5.0.1.zip 84549d7feaec6dc1d2091d7c3cc72a9b320 MesaDemos-5.0.1.tar.gz 84637190374a98c3c892f0698be9ca3acf0 MesaDemos-5.0.1.tar.bz2 847becd8bf17f5791361b4a54ba2a78e5c9 MesaDemos-5.0.1.zip 848</pre> 849 850 851 852<h2>March 7, 2003</h2> 853<p> 854Website and documentation overhaul. 855</p> 856<p> 857The website content and Mesa documentation (from the doc/ directory) have 858been merged together. 859All the documentation files have been entered into the CVS repository. 860Many of the old plain-text files have been converted to html and modernized. 861</p> 862 863 864<h2>November 13, 2002</h2> 865<p>Mesa 5.0 has been released. This is a stable release which 866implements the OpenGL 1.4 specification. 867</p><pre>New: 868 - OpenGL 1.4 support (glGetString(GL_VERSION) returns "1.4") 869 - removed some overlooked debugging code 870 - glxinfo updated to support GLX_ARB_multisample 871 - GLUT now support GLX_ARB_multisample 872 - updated DOS driver (Daniel Borca) 873Bug fixes: 874 - GL_POINT and GL_LINE-mode polygons didn't obey cull state 875 - fixed potential bug in _mesa_align_malloc/calloc() 876 - fixed missing triangle bug when running vertex programs 877 - fixed a few HPUX compilation problems 878 - FX (Glide) driver didn't compile 879 - setting GL_TEXTURE_BORDER_COLOR with glTexParameteriv() didn't work 880 - a few EXT functions, like glGenTexturesEXT, were no-ops 881 - a few OpenGL 1.4 functions like glFogCoord*, glBlendFuncSeparate, 882 glMultiDrawArrays and glMultiDrawElements were missing 883 - glGet*(GL_ACTIVE_STENCIL_FACE_EXT) was broken 884 - Pentium 4 Mobile was mistakenly identified as having 3DNow! 885 - fixed one-bit error in point/line fragment Z calculation 886 - fixed potential segfault in fakeglx code 887 - fixed color overflow problem in DOT3 texture env mode 888</pre> 889 890 891<h2>October 29, 2002</h2> 892<p>Mesa 4.1 has been released. This is a new development release. 893For a stable release, get 4.0.4. 894</p><pre>New: 895 - GL_NV_vertex_program extension 896 - GL_NV_vertex_program1_1 extension 897 - GL_ARB_window_pos extension 898 - GL_ARB_depth_texture extension 899 - GL_ARB_shadow extension 900 - GL_ARB_shadow_ambient extension 901 - GL_EXT_shadow_funcs extension 902 - GL_ARB_point_parameters extension 903 - GL_ARB_texture_env_crossbar 904 - GL_NV_point_sprite extension 905 - GL_NV_texture_rectangle extension 906 - GL_EXT_multi_draw_arrays extension 907 - GL_EXT_stencil_two_side extension 908 - GLX_SGIX_fbconfig and GLX_SGIX_pbuffer extensions 909 - GL_ATI_texture_mirror_once extension (Ian Romanick) 910 - massive overhaul/simplification of software rasterizer module, 911 many contributions from Klaus Niederkrueger 912 - faster software texturing in some cases (i.e. trilinear filtering) 913 - new OSMesaGetProcAddress() function 914 - more blend modes implemented with MMX code (Jose Fonseca) 915 - added glutGetProcAddress() to GLUT 916 - added GLUT_FPS env var to compute frames/second in glutSwapBuffers() 917 - pbinfo and pbdemo PBuffer programs 918 - glxinfo -v prints transprent pixel info (Gerd Sussner) 919Bug fixes: 920 - better mipmap LOD computation (prevents excessive blurriness) 921 - OSMesaMakeCurrent() didn't recognize buffer size changes 922 - assorted conformance fixes for 16-bit/channel rendering 923 - texcombine alpha subtraction mode was broken 924 - fixed some blend problems when GLchan==GLfloat (Gerk Huisma) 925 - clamp colors to [0,1] in OSMesa if GLchan==GLfloat (Gerk Huisma) 926 - fixed divide by zero error in NURBS tessellator (Jon Perry) 927 - fixed GL_LINEAR fog bug by adding clamping 928 - fixed FP exceptions found using Alpha CPU 929 - 3dfx/glide driver render-to-window feature was broken 930 - added missing GLX_TRANSPARENT_RGB token to glx.h 931 - fixed error checking related to paletted textures 932 - fixed reference count error in glDeleteTextures (Randy Fayan) 933Changes: 934 - New spec file and Python code to generate some GL dispatch files 935 - Glide driver defaults to "no" with autoconf/automake 936 - floating point color channels now clamped to [0,inf) 937 - updated demos/stex3d with new options 938</pre> 939 940 941<h2>October 4, 2002</h2> 942<p> 943The <a href="http://mesa3d.sourceforge.net/docs/MesaFAQ.html">Mesa FAQ</a> has been rewritten. 944</p> 945 946<h2>October 3, 2002</h2> 947<p>Mesa 4.0.4 has been released. This is a stable bug-fix release. 948</p><pre> New: 949 - GL_NV_texture_rectangle extension 950 - updated glext.h header (version 17) 951 - updated DOS driver (Daniel Borca) 952 - updated BeOS R5 driver (Philippe Houdoin) 953 - added GL_IBM_texture_mirror_repeat 954 - glxinfo now takes -l option to print interesting OpenGL limits info 955 - GL_MESA_ycbcr_texture extension 956 - GL_APPLE_client_storage extension (for some DRI drivers only) 957 - GL_MESA_pack_invert extension 958 Bug fixes: 959 - fixed GL_LINEAR fog bug by adding clamping 960 - fixed FP exceptions found using Alpha CPU 961 - 3dfx MESA_GLX_FX=window (render to window) didn't work 962 - fixed memory leak in wglCreateContest (Karl Schultz) 963 - define GLAPIENTRY and GLAPI if undefined in glu.h 964 - wglGetProcAddress didn't handle all API functions 965 - when testing for OpenGL 1.2 vs 1.3, check for GL_ARB_texture_cube_map 966 - removed GL_MAX_CONVOLUTION_WIDTH/HEIGHT from glGetInteger/Float/etc() 967 - error checking in compressed tex image functions had some glitches 968 - fixed AIX compile problem in src/config.c 969 - glGetTexImage was using pixel unpacking instead of packing params 970 - auto-mipmap generation for cube maps was incorrect 971 Changes: 972 - max texture units reduced to six to accomodate texture rectangles 973 - removed unfinished GL_MESA_sprite_point extension code 974</pre> 975 976<h2>June 25, 2002</h2> 977<p>Mesa 4.0.3 has been released. This is a stable bug-fix release. 978</p><pre> New: 979 - updated GL/glext.h file (version 15) 980 - corrected MMX blend code (Jose Fonseca) 981 - support for software-based alpha planes in Windows driver 982 - updated GGI driver (Filip Spacek) 983 Bug fixes: 984 - glext.h had wrong values for GL_DOT3_RGB[A]_EXT tokens 985 - OSMesaMakeCurrent() didn't recognize buffer size changes 986 - assorted conformance fixes for 16-bit/channel rendering 987 - texcombine alpha subtraction mode was broken 988 - fixed lighting bug with non-uniform scaling and display lists 989 - fixed bug when deleting shared display lists 990 - disabled SPARC cliptest assembly code (Mesa bug 544665) 991 - fixed a couple Solaris compilation/link problems 992 - blending clipped glDrawPixels didn't always work 993 - glGetTexImage() didn't accept packed pixel types 994 - glPixelMapu[is]v() could explode given too large of pixelmap 995 - glGetTexParameter[if]v() didn't accept GL_TEXTURE_MAX_ANISOTROPY_EXT 996 - glXCopyContext() could lead to segfaults 997 - glCullFace(GL_FRONT_AND_BACK) didn't work (bug 572665) 998 Changes: 999 - lots of C++ (g++) code clean-ups 1000 - lots of T&L updates for the Radeon DRI driver 1001 Known bugs: 1002 - mipmap LOD computation (fixed for Mesa 4.1) 1003</pre> 1004 1005<h2>April 2, 2002</h2> 1006<p>Mesa 4.0.2 has been released. This is a stable bug-fix release. 1007</p><pre> New: 1008 - New DOS (DJGPP) driver written by Daniel Borca 1009 - New driver interface functions for TCL drivers (such as Radeon DRI) 1010 - GL_RENDERER string returns "Mesa Offscreen16" or "Mesa Offscreen32" 1011 if using deep color channels 1012 - latest GL/glext.h and GL/glxext.h headers from SGI 1013 Bug fixes: 1014 - GL_BLEND with non-black texture env color wasn't always correct 1015 - GL_REPLACE with GL_RGB texture format wasn't always correct (alpha) 1016 - glTexEnviv( pname != GL_TEXTURE_ENV_COLOR ) was broken 1017 - glReadPixels was sometimes mistakenly clipped by the scissor box 1018 - glDraw/ReadPixels didn't catch all the errors that they should have 1019 - Fixed 24bpp rendering problem in Windows driver (Karl Schultz) 1020 - 16-bit GLchan mode fixes (m_trans_tmp.h, s_triangle.c) 1021 - Fixed 1-bit float->int conversion bug in glDrawPixels(GL_DEPTH_COMP) 1022 - glColorMask as sometimes effecting glXSwapBuffers() 1023 - fixed a potential bug in XMesaGarbageCollect() 1024 - N threads rendering into one window didn't work reliably 1025 - glCopyPixels didn't work for deep color channels 1026 - improved 8 -> 16bit/channel texture image conversion (Gerk Huisma) 1027 - glPopAttrib() didn't correctly restore user clip planes 1028 - user clip planes failed for some perspective projections (Chromium) 1029</pre> 1030 1031<h2>December 17, 2001</h2> 1032<p>Mesa 4.0.1 has been released. This is a stable bug-fix release. 1033</p><pre> New: 1034 - better sub-pixel sample positions for AA triangles (Ray Tice) 1035 - slightly faster blending for (GL_ZERO, GL_ONE) and (GL_ONE, GL_ZERO) 1036 Bug fixes: 1037 - added missing break statements in glGet*() for multisample cases 1038 - fixed uninitialized hash table mutex bug (display lists / texobjs) 1039 - fixed bad teximage error check conditional (bug 476846) 1040 - fixed demos readtex.c compilation problem on Windows (Karl Schultz) 1041 - added missing glGet() query for GL_MAX_TEXTURE_LOD_BIAS_EXT 1042 - silence some compiler warnings (gcc 2.96) 1043 - enable the #define GL_VERSION_1_3 in GL/gl.h 1044 - added GL 1.3 and GLX 1.4 entries to gl_mangle.h and glx_mangle.h 1045 - fixed glu.h typedef problem found with MSDev 6.0 1046 - build libGL.so with -Bsymbolic (fixes bug found with Chromium) 1047 - added missing 'const' to glXGetContextIDEXT() in glxext.h 1048 - fixed a few glXGetProcAddress() errors (texture compression, etc) 1049 - fixed start index bug in compiled vertex arrays (Keith) 1050 - fixed compilation problems in src/SPARC/glapi_sparc.S 1051 - fixed triangle strip "parity" bug found in VTK medical1 demo (Keith) 1052 - use glXGetProcAddressARB in GLUT to avoid extension linking problems 1053 - provoking vertex of flat-shaded, color-index triangles was wrong 1054 - fixed a few display list bugs (GLUT walker, molecule, etc) (Keith) 1055 - glTexParameter didn't flush the vertex buffer (Ray Tice) 1056 - feedback attributes for glDraw/CopyPixels and glBitmap were wrong 1057 - fixed bug in normal length caching (ParaView lighting bug) 1058</pre> 1059 1060<h2>October 22, 2001</h2> 1061<p>Mesa 4.0 has been released. This is a stable release. 1062</p><pre> New: 1063 - Mesa 4.0 implements the OpenGL 1.3 specification 1064 - GL_IBM_rasterpos_clip extension 1065 - GL_EXT_texture_edge_clamp extension (aka GL_SGIS_texture_edge_clamp) 1066 - GL_ARB_texture_mirrored_repeat extension 1067 - WindML UGL driver (Stephane Raimbault) 1068 - added OSMESA_MAX_WIDTH/HEIGHT queries 1069 - attempted compiliation fixes for Solaris 5, 7 and 8 1070 - updated glext.h and glxext.h files 1071 - updated Windows driver (Karl Schultz) 1072 Bug fixes: 1073 - added some missing GLX 1.3 tokens to include/GL/glx.h 1074 - GL_COLOR_MATRIX changes weren't recognized by teximage functions 1075 - glCopyPixels with scale and bias was broken 1076 - glRasterPos with lighting could segfault 1077 - glDeleteTextures could leave a dangling pointer 1078 - Proxy textures for cube maps didn't work 1079 - fixed a number of 16-bit color channel bugs 1080 - fixed a few minor memory leaks 1081 - GLX context sharing was broken in 3.5 1082 - fixed state-update bugs in glPopClientAttrib() 1083 - fixed glDrawRangeElements() bug 1084 - fixed a glPush/PopAttrib() bug related to texture binding 1085 - flat-shaded, textured lines were broken 1086 - fixed a dangling pointer problem in the XMesa code (Chris Burghart) 1087 - lighting didn't always produce the correct alpha value 1088 - fixed 3DNow! code to not read past end of arrays (Andrew Lewycky) 1089</pre> 1090 1091 1092<h2>June 21, 2001</h2> 1093<p>Mesa 3.5 has been released. This is a new development release. 1094</p><pre> New: 1095 - internals of Mesa divided into modular pieces (Keith Whitwell) 1096 - 100% OpenGL 1.2 conformance (passes all conformance tests) 1097 - new AA line algorithm 1098 - GL_EXT_convolution extension 1099 - GL_ARB_imaging subset 1100 - OSMesaCreateContextExt() function 1101 - GL_ARB_texture_env_add extension (same as GL_EXT_texture_env_add) 1102 - GL_MAX_TEXTURE_UNITS_ARB now defaults to eight 1103 - GL_EXT_fog_coord extension (Keith Whitwell) 1104 - GL_EXT_secondary_color extension (Keith Whitwell) 1105 - GL_ARB_texture_env_add extension (same as GL_EXT_texture_env_add) 1106 - GL_SGIX_depth_texture extension 1107 - GL_SGIX_shadow and GL_SGIX_shadow_ambient extensions 1108 - demos/shadowtex.c demo of GL_SGIX_depth_texture and GL_SGIX_shadow 1109 - GL_ARB_texture_env_combine extension 1110 - GL_ARB_texture_env_dot3 extension 1111 - GL_ARB_texture_border_clamp (aka GL_SGIS_texture_border_clamp) 1112 - OSMesaCreateContextExt() function 1113 - libOSMesa.so library, contains the OSMesa driver interface 1114 - GL/glxext.h header file for GLX extensions 1115 - somewhat faster software texturing, fogging, depth testing 1116 - all color-index conformance tests now pass (only 8bpp tested) 1117 - SPARC assembly language TCL optimizations (David Miller) 1118 - GL_SGIS_generate_mipmap extension 1119 Bug Fixes: 1120 - fbiRev and tmuRev were unitialized when using Glide3 1121 - fixed a few color index mode conformance failures; all pass now 1122 - now appling antialiasing coverage to alpha after texturing 1123 - colors weren't getting clamped to [0,1] before color table lookup 1124 - fixed RISC alignment errors caused by COPY_4UBV macro 1125 - drawing wide, flat-shaded lines could cause a segfault 1126 - vertices now snapped to 1/16 pixel to fix rendering of tiny triangles 1127 Changes: 1128 - SGI's Sample Implementation (SI) 1.3 GLU library replaces Mesa GLU 1129 - new libOSMesa.so library, contains the OSMesa driver interface 1130</pre> 1131 1132 1133<h2>May 17, 2001</h2> 1134<p>Mesa 3.4.2 has been released. This is basically just a bug-fix release. 1135Here's what's new:</p> 1136<pre> Bug fixes: 1137 - deleting the currently bound texture could cause bad problems 1138 - using fog could result in random vertex alpha values 1139 - AA triangle rendering could touch pixels outside right window bound 1140 - fixed byteswapping problem in clear_32bit_ximage() function 1141 - fixed bugs in wglUseFontBitmapsA(), by Frank Warmerdam 1142 - fixed memory leak in glXUseXFont() 1143 - fragment sampling in AA triangle function was off by 1/2 pixel 1144 - Windows: reading pixels from framebuffer didn't always work 1145 - glConvolutionFilter2D could segfault or cause FP exception 1146 - fixed segfaults in FX and X drivers when using tex unit 1 but not 0 1147 - GL_NAND logicop didn't work right in RGBA mode 1148 - fixed a memory corruption bug in vertex buffer reset code 1149 - clearing the softwara alpha buffer with scissoring was broken 1150 - fixed a few color index mode fog bugs 1151 - fixed some bad assertions in color index mode 1152 - fixed FX line 'stipple' bug #420091 1153 Changes: 1154 - optimized writing mono-colored pixel spans to X pixmaps 1155 - increased max viewport size to 2048 x 2048 1156</pre> 1157 1158 1159<h2>April 29, 2001</h2> 1160<p>New Mesa website</p> 1161<p>Mark Manning produced the new website.<br>Thanks, Mark!</p> 1162 1163 1164<h2>February 14, 2001</h2> 1165<p>Mesa 3.4.1 has been released. Here's what's new:</p> 1166<pre> New: 1167 - fixed some Linux build problems 1168 - fixed some Windows build problems 1169 - GL_EXT_texture_env_dot3 extension (Gareth Hughes) 1170 Bug fixes: 1171 - added RENDER_START/RENDER_FINISH macros for glCopyTexImage in DRI 1172 - various state-update code changes needed for DRI bugs 1173 - disabled pixel transfer ops in glColorTable commands, not needed 1174 - fixed bugs in glCopyConvolutionFilter1D/2D, glGetConvolutionFilter 1175 - updated sources and fixed compile problems in widgets-mesa/ 1176 - GLX_PBUFFER enum value was wrong in glx.h 1177 - fixed a glColorMaterial lighting bug 1178 - fixed bad args to Read/WriteStencilSpan in h/w stencil clear function 1179 - glXCopySubBufferMESA() Y position was off by one 1180 - Error checking of glTexSubImage3D() was broken (bug 128775) 1181 - glPopAttrib() didn't restore all derived Mesa state correctly 1182 - Better glReadPixels accuracy for 16bpp color - fixes lots of OpenGL 1183 conformance problems at 16bpp. 1184 - clearing depth buffer with scissoring was broken, would segfault 1185 - OSMesaGetDepthBuffer() returned bad bytesPerValue value 1186 - fixed a line clipping bug (reported by Craig McDaniel) 1187 - fixed RGB color over/underflow bug for very tiny triangles 1188 Known problems: 1189 - NURBS or evaluator surfaces inside display lists don't always work 1190</pre> 1191 1192<h2>November 3, 2000</h2> 1193<p>Mesa 3.4 has been released. Here's what's new since the 3.3 release:</p> 1194<pre> New: 1195 - optimized glDrawPixels for glPixelZoom(1,-1) 1196 Bug Fixes: 1197 - widgets-mesa/src/*.c files were missing from 3.3 distro 1198 - include/GL/mesa_wgl.h file was missing from 3.3 distro 1199 - fixed some Win32 compile problems 1200 - texture object priorities weren't getting initialized to 1.0 1201 - glAreTexturesResident return value was wrong when using hardware 1202 - glXUseXFont segfaulted when using 3dfx driver (via MESA_GLX_FX) 1203 - glReadPixels with GLushort packed types was broken 1204 - fixed a few bugs in the GL_EXT_texture_env_combine texture code 1205 - glPush/PopAttrib(GL_ENABLE_BIT) mishandled multi-texture enables 1206 - fixed some typos/bugs in the VB code 1207 - glDrawPixels(GL_COLOR_INDEX) to RGB window didn't work 1208 - optimized glDrawPixels paths weren't being used 1209 - per-fragment fog calculation didn't work without a Z buffer 1210 - improved blending accuracy, fixes Glean blendFunc test failures 1211 - glPixelStore(GL_PACK/UNPACK_SKIP_IMAGES) wasn't handled correctly 1212 - glXGetProcAddressARB() didn't always return the right address 1213 - gluBuild[12]DMipmaps() didn't grok the GL_BGR pixel format 1214 - texture matrix changes weren't always detected (GLUT projtex demo) 1215 - fixed random color problem in vertex fog code 1216 - fixed Glide-related bug that let Quake get a 24-bit Z buffer 1217 Changes: 1218 - finished internal support for compressed textures for DRI 1219</pre> 1220 1221<h2>April 24, 2000</h2> 1222<p>Mesa 3.2 has been released. Here's what's new since the beta release:</p> 1223<pre> Bug fixes: 1224 - fixed memcpy bugs in span.c 1225 - fixed missing glEnd problem in demos/tessdemo.c 1226 - fixed bug when clearing 24bpp Ximages 1227 - fixed clipping problem found in Unreal Tournament 1228 - fixed Loki's "ice bug" and "crazy triangles" seen in Heretic2 1229 - fixed Loki's 3dfx RGB vs BGR bug 1230 - fixed Loki's 3dfx smooth/flat shading bug in SoF 1231 Changes: 1232 - updated docs/README file 1233 - use bcopy() optimizations on FreeBSD 1234 - re-enabled the optimized persp_textured_triangle() function 1235</pre> 1236 1237<h2>March 23, 2000</h2> 1238<p>I've just upload the Mesa 3.2 beta 1 files to SourceForge at <a href="http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=3" target="_parent">http://sourceforge.net/project/filelist.php?group_id=3</a><a href="http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=3"></a></p> 1239<p>3.2 (note even number) is a stabilization release of Mesa 3.1 meaning it's mainly 1240just bug fixes.</p> 1241<p>Here's what's changed:</p> 1242<pre> 1243 Bug fixes: 1244 - mixed drawing of lines and bitmaps sometimes had wrong colors 1245 - added missing glHintPGI() function 1246 - fixed a polygon culling bug 1247 - fixed bugs in gluPartialDisk() 1248 - Z values in selection mode were wrong 1249 - added missing tokens: 1250 GL_SMOOTH_POINT_SIZE_RANGE 1251 GL_SMOOTH_POINT_SIZE_GRANULARITY 1252 GL_SMOOTH_LINE_WIDTH_RANGE 1253 GL_SMOOTH_LINE_WIDTH_GRANULARITY 1254 GL_ALIASED_POINT_SIZE_RANGE 1255 GL_ALIASED_LINE_WIDTH_RANGE 1256 - fixed glCopyPixels when copying from back to front buffer 1257 - GL_EXT_compiled_vertex_array tokens had _SGI suffix instead of _EXT 1258 - glDrawRangeElements(GL_LINES, 0, 1, 2, type, indices) was broken 1259 - glDeleteTextures() didn't decrement reference count correctly 1260 - GL_SRCA_ALPHA_SATURATE blend mode didn't work correctly 1261 - Actual depth of transformation matrix stacks was off by one 1262 - 24bpp visuals didn't address pixels correctly 1263 - mipmap level of detail (lambda) calculation simplified, more accurate 1264 - 101691 - Polygon clipping and GL_LINE 1265 - 101928 - Polygon clipping and GL_LINE (same fix as above) 1266 - 101808 - Non-glVertexArrays tristrip bug 1267 - 101971 - find_last_3f on Dec OSF (worked around) 1268 - 102369 - segv on dec osf (possibly a duplicate of the above) 1269 - 102893 - orientations of modelview cause segfault 1270 New: 1271 - updated SVGA Linux driver 1272 - added the MESA_FX_NO_SIGNALS env var, see docs/README.3DFX 1273 - build libGLw.a (Xt/OpenGL drawing area widget) library by default 1274 - changed -O2 to -O3 for a number of gcc configs 1275 Changes: 1276 - glXCopyContext's mask parameter is now unsigned long, per GLX spec 1277</pre> 1278 1279<p>Please report any problems with this release ASAP. Bugs should be filed on the 1280Mesa3D website at sourceforge.<br> 1281After 3.2 is wrapped up I hope to release 3.3 beta 1 soon afterward.</p> 1282<p>-- Brian</p> 1283 1284<h2>December 17, 1999</h2> 1285<p>A Slashdot interview with Brian about Mesa (questions submitted by Slashdot readers) 1286can be found at <a href="http://slashdot.org/interviews/99/12/17/0927212.shtml" target="_parent">http://slashdot.org/interviews/99/12/17/0927212.shtml</a>.</p> 1287 1288<h2>December 14, 1999</h2> 1289<p>Mesa 3.1 is released!</p> 1290 1291<h2>September 21, 1999</h2> 1292<p>There appear to be two new files on the ftp site, <a href="ftp://ftp.mesa3d.org/mesa/beta/MesaLib-3.1beta3.tar.gz">MesaLib-3.1beta3.tar.gz</a> 1293and <a href="ftp://ftp.mesa3d.org/mesa/beta/MesaDemos-3.1beta3.tar.gz">MesaDemos-3.1beta3.tar.gz</a>, 1294that seem to be... yes, I've just received confirmation from the beta center, they 1295are indeed the <b>THIRD</b> beta release of Mesa 3.1! Happy Days. Happy Days. Thanks 1296Keith Whitwell for preparing these for us during Brian's absence.</p> 1297 1298<h2>August 30, 1999</h2> 1299<p>I'm pleased to announce that I've accepted a position with Precision Insight, 1300Inc. effective October, 1999. I'll be leaving Avid Technology in September.</p> 1301<p>I've been working on Mesa in my spare time for over five years. With Precision 1302Insight I now have the opportunity to devote my full attention to advancing Mesa 1303and OpenGL on Linux.</p> 1304<p>While I'll be focused on Linux, the X Window System, and hardware acceleration, 1305my work will continue to be open sourced and available to any other programmers who 1306may want to contribute to it, or use it for other projects or platforms</p> 1307<p>PS: I'm going to be traveling until Sep 6 and won't be reading email until then.</p> 1308 1309<h2>August 23, 1999</h2> 1310<p>Anonymous CVS access is back online so suck up all the bandwidth you can afford. 1311Note that this is a new archive, so you will need to re-checkout the archive. That 1312means don't <i>cvs update</i> from a previous download.</p> 1313 1314<h2>August 17, 1999</h2> 1315<p>A report from the SIGGRAPH '99 Linux/OpenGL 1316BOF meeting is now available.</p> 1317<p>-Brian</p> 1318 1319<h2>August 14, 1999</h2> 1320<p>www.mesa3d.org is having technical problems due to hardware failures at VA Linux 1321systems. The Mac pages, ftp, and CVS services aren't fully restored yet. Please be 1322patient.</p> 1323<p>-Brian</p> 1324 1325<h2>June 7, 1999</h2> 1326<p>RPMS of the nVidia RIVA server can be found at <a href="ftp://ftp.mesa3d.org/mesa/misc/nVidia/">ftp://ftp.mesa3d.org/mesa/misc/nVidia/</a>.</p> 1327 1328<h2>June 2, 1999</h2> 1329<p><a href="http://www.nvidia.com/">nVidia</a> has released some Linux binaries for 1330xfree86 3.3.3.1, along with the <b>full source</b>, which includes GLX acceleration 1331based on Mesa 3.0. They can be downloaded from <a href="http://www.nvidia.com/Products.nsf/htmlmedia/software_drivers.html">http://www.nvidia.com/Products.nsf/htmlmedia/software_drivers.html</a>.</p> 1332 1333<h2>May 24, 1999</h2> 1334<p>Beta 2 of Mesa 3.1 has been make available at <a href="ftp://ftp.mesa3d.org/mesa/beta/">ftp://ftp.mesa3d.org/mesa/beta/</a>. 1335If you are into the quake scene, you may want to try this out, as it contains some 1336optimizations specifically in the Q3A rendering path. 1337 1338<h2>May 13, 1999</h2> 1339<p>For those interested in the integration of Mesa into XFree86 4.0, Precision Insight 1340has posted their lowlevel design documents at http://www.precisioninsight.com.</p> 1341 1342<h2>May 13, 1999</h2> 1343<pre>May 1999 - John Carmack of id Software, Inc. has made a donation of 1344US$10,000 to the Mesa project to support its continuing development. 1345Mesa is a free implementation of the OpenGL 3D graphics library and id's 1346newest game, Quake 3 Arena, will use Mesa as the 3D renderer on Linux. 1347 1348The donation will go to Keith Whitwell, who has been optimizing Mesa to 1349improve performance on 3d hardware. Thanks to Keith's work, many 1350applications using Mesa 3.1 will see a dramatic performance increase 1351over Mesa 3.0. The donation will allow Keith to continue working on 1352Mesa full time for some time to come. 1353 1354For more information about Mesa see www.mesa3d.org. For more 1355information about id Software, Inc. see www.idsoftware.com. 1356 1357-------------------------------- 1358 1359This donation from John/id is very generous. Keith and I are very 1360grateful. 1361 1362</pre> 1363 1364<h2>May 1, 1999</h2> 1365<p>John Carmack made an interesting .plan update yesterday:</p> 1366<blockquote> 1367 <i>"I put together a document on optimizing OpenGL drivers for Q3 that 1368 should be helpful to the various Linux 3D teams.</i><br> 1369 http://www.quake3arena.com/news/glopt.html" 1370</blockquote> 1371 1372<h2>April 7, 1999</h2> 1373<p>Updated the Mesa contributors section and added links to RPM Mesa packages.</p> 1374 1375<h2>March 18, 1999</h2> 1376<p>The new webpages are now online. Enjoy, and let me know if you find any errors. 1377 1378<h2>February 16, 1999</h2> 1379<p><a href="http://www.sgi.com/">SGI</a> releases its <a href="http://www.sgi.com/software/opensource/glx/">GLX 1380source code</a>.</p> 1381 1382<h2>January 22, 1999</h2> 1383<p>www.mesa3d.org established</p> 1384 1385<hr> 1386</body> 1387</html> 1388