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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>May 18, 2012</h2> 13 14<p> 15<a href="relnotes-8.0.3.html">Mesa 8.0.3</a> is released. 16This is a bug fix release. 17</p> 18 19 20<h2>March 21, 2012</h2> 21 22<p> 23<a href="relnotes-8.0.2.html">Mesa 8.0.2</a> is released. 24This is a bug fix release. 25</p> 26 27 28<h2>February 16, 2012</h2> 29 30<p> 31<a href="relnotes-8.0.1.html">Mesa 8.0.1</a> is released. This is a bug fix 32release. See the release notes for more information about the release. 33</p> 34 35<h2>February 9, 2012</h2> 36 37<p> 38<a href="relnotes-8.0.html">Mesa 8.0</a> is released. 39This is the first version of Mesa to support OpenGL 3.0 and GLSL 1.30 40(with the i965 driver). 41See the release notes for more information about the release. 42</p> 43 44 45<h2>November 27, 2011</h2> 46 47<p> 48<a href="relnotes-7.11.2.html">Mesa 7.11.2</a> is released. This is a bug fix 49release. This release was made primarily to fix build problems with 7.11.1 on 50Mandriva and to fix problems related to glCopyTexImage to luminance-alpha 51textures. The later was believed to have been fixed in 7.11.1 but was not. 52</p> 53 54<h2>November 17, 2011</h2> 55 56<p> 57<a href="relnotes-7.11.1.html">Mesa 7.11.1</a> is released. This is a bug 58fix release. 59</p> 60 61<h2>July 31, 2011</h2> 62 63<p> 64<a href="relnotes-7.11.html">Mesa 7.11</a> (final) is released. This is a new 65development release. 66</p> 67 68<h2>June 13, 2011</h2> 69 70<p> 71<a href="relnotes-7.10.3.html">Mesa 7.10.3</a> is released. This is a bug 72fix release. 73</p> 74 75<h2>April 6, 2011</h2> 76 77<p> 78<a href="relnotes-7.10.2.html">Mesa 7.10.2</a> is released. This is a bug 79fix release. 80</p> 81 82<h2>March 2, 2011</h2> 83 84<p> 85<a href="relnotes-7.9.2.html">Mesa 7.9.2</a> and 86<a href="relnotes-7.10.1.html">Mesa 7.10.1</a> are released. These are 87stable releases containing bug fixes since the 7.9.1 and 7.10 releases. 88</p> 89 90 91<h2>October 4, 2010</h2> 92 93<p> 94<a href="relnotes-7.9.html">Mesa 7.9</a> (final) is released. This is a new 95development release. 96</p> 97 98 99<h2>September 27, 2010</h2> 100 101<p> 102<a href="relnotes-7.9.html">Mesa 7.9.0-rc1</a> is released. This is a 103release candidate for the 7.9 development release. 104</p> 105 106 107<h2>June 16, 2010</h2> 108 109<p> 110<a href="relnotes-7.8.2.html">Mesa 7.8.2</a> is released. This is a bug-fix 111release collecting fixes since the 7.8.1 release. 112</p> 113 114 115<h2>April 5, 2010</h2> 116 117<p> 118<a href="relnotes-7.8.1.html">Mesa 7.8.1</a> is released. This is a bug-fix 119release for a few critical issues in the 7.8 release. 120</p> 121 122 123<h2>March 28, 2010</h2> 124<p> 125<a href="relnotes-7.7.1.html">Mesa 7.7.1</a> is released. This is a bug-fix 126release fixing issues found in the 7.7 release. 127</p> 128<p> 129Also, <a href="relnotes-7.8.html">Mesa 7.8</a> is released. This is a new 130development release. 131</p> 132 133 134 135<h2>December 21, 2009</h2> 136<p> 137<a href="relnotes-7.6.1.html">Mesa 7.6.1</a> is released. This is a bug-fix 138release fixing issues found in the 7.6 release. 139</p> 140<p> 141Also, <a href="relnotes-7.7.html">Mesa 7.7</a> is released. This is a new 142development release. 143</p> 144 145 146<h2>September 28, 2009</h2> 147<p> 148<a href="relnotes-7.6.html">Mesa 7.6</a> is released. This is a new feature 149release. Those especially concerned about stability may want to wait for the 150follow-on 7.6.1 bug-fix release. 151</p> 152<p> 153<a href="relnotes-7.5.2.html">Mesa 7.5.2</a> is also released. 154This is a stable release fixing bugs since the 7.5.1 release. 155</p> 156 157 158<h2>September 3, 2009</h2> 159<p> 160<a href="relnotes-7.5.1.html">Mesa 7.5.1</a> is released. 161This is a bug-fix release which fixes bugs found in version 7.5. 162</p> 163 164 165<h2>July 17, 2009</h2> 166<p> 167<a href="relnotes-7.5.html">Mesa 7.5</a> is released. 168This is a new features release. People especially concerned about 169stability may want to wait for the follow-on 7.5.1 bug-fix release. 170</p> 171 172 173<h2>June 23, 2009</h2> 174<p> 175<a href="relnotes-7.4.4.html">Mesa 7.4.4</a> is released. 176This is a stable release that fixes a regression in the i915/i965 drivers 177that slipped into the 7.4.3 release. 178</p> 179 180 181<h2>June 19, 2009</h2> 182<p> 183<a href="relnotes-7.4.3.html">Mesa 7.4.3</a> is released. 184This is a stable release fixing bugs since the 7.4.2 release. 185</p> 186 187 188<h2>May 15, 2009</h2> 189<p> 190<a href="relnotes-7.4.2.html">Mesa 7.4.2</a> is released. 191This is a stable release fixing bugs since the 7.4.1 release. 192</p> 193 194 195<h2>April 18, 2009</h2> 196<p> 197<a href="relnotes-7.4.1.html">Mesa 7.4.1</a> is released. 198This is a stable release fixing bugs since the 7.4 release. 199</p> 200 201 202<h2>March 27, 2009</h2> 203<p> 204<a href="relnotes-7.4.html">Mesa 7.4</a> is released. 205This is a stable release fixing bugs since the 7.3 release. 206</p> 207 208 209<h2>January 22, 2009</h2> 210<p> 211<a href="relnotes-7.3.html">Mesa 7.3</a> is released. 212This is a new development release. 213Mesa 7.4 will follow and will have bug fixes relative to 7.3. 214</p> 215 216 217<h2>September 20, 2008</h2> 218<p> 219<a href="relnotes-7.2.html">Mesa 7.2</a> is released. 220This is a stable, bug-fix release. 221</p> 222 223 224<h2>August 26, 2008</h2> 225<p> 226<a href="relnotes-7.1.html">Mesa 7.1</a> is released. 227This is a new development release. 228It should be relatively stable, but those especially concerned about 229stability should wait for the 7.2 release or use Mesa 7.0.4 (the 230previous stable release). 231</p> 232 233 234<h2>August 16, 2008</h2> 235<p> 236<a href="relnotes-7.0.4.html">Mesa 7.0.4</a> is released. 237This is a bug-fix release. 238</p> 239 240 241<h2>April 4, 2008</h2> 242<p> 243<a href="relnotes-7.0.3.html">Mesa 7.0.3</a> is released. 244This is a bug-fix release. 245</p> 246 247 248<h2>January 24, 2008</h2> 249 250<p> 251Added a new page describing the Mesa Cell driver. 252</p> 253 254 255 256<h2>November 13, 2007</h2> 257 258<p> 259Gallium3D is the codename for the new Mesa device driver architecture 260which is currently under development. 261</p> 262<p> 263Gallium3D development is taking place on the <em>gallium-0.1</em> branch 264of the git repository. 265Currently, there's only a software-only driver and an Intel i915/945 driver 266but other drivers will be coming... 267</p> 268 269 270<h2>November 10, 2007</h2> 271<p> 272<a href="relnotes-7.0.2.html">Mesa 7.0.2</a> is released. 273This is a bug-fix release. 274</p> 275 276 277<h2>August 3, 2007</h2> 278<p> 279<a href="relnotes-7.0.1.html">Mesa 7.0.1</a> is released. 280This is a bug-fix release. 281</p> 282 283 284<h2>June 22, 2007</h2> 285<p> 286<a href="relnotes-7.0.html">Mesa 7.0</a> is released. 287This is a stable release featuring OpenGL 2.1 support. 288</p> 289 290 291<h2>April 27, 2007</h2> 292<p> 293<a href="relnotes-6.5.3.html">Mesa 6.5.3</a> is released. 294This is a development release which will lead up to the Mesa 7.0 release 295(which will advertise OpenGL 2.1 API support). 296</p> 297 298 299<h2>March 26, 2007</h2> 300<p> 301The new Shading Language compiler branch has been merged into the git 302master branch. This is a step toward hardware support for the OpenGL 3032.0 Shading Language and will be included in the next Mesa release. 304In conjunction, <a href="http://glean.sf.net" target="_parent">Glean 305</a> has been updated with a new test that does over 130 tests of the 306shading language and built-in functions. 307</p> 308 309<h2>April 2007</h2> 310<p> 311Thomas Hellström of Tungsten Graphics has written a whitepaper 312describing the new DRI memory management system. 313</p> 314 315<h2>December 5, 2006</h2> 316<p> 317Mesa is now using git as its source code management system. 318The previous CVS repository should no longer be used. 319See the <a href="repository.html">repository page</a> for more information. 320</p> 321 322<h2>December 2, 2006</h2> 323<p> 324<a href="relnotes-6.5.2.html">Mesa 6.5.2</a> has been released. 325This is a new development release. 326</p> 327 328<h2>September 15, 2006</h2> 329<p> 330<a href="relnotes-6.5.1.html">Mesa 6.5.1</a> has been released. 331This is a new development release. 332</p> 333 334<h2>March 31, 2006</h2> 335<p> 336<a href="relnotes-6.5.html">Mesa 6.5</a> has been released. 337This is a new development release. 338</p> 339 340 341<h2>February 2, 2006</h2> 342<p> 343<a href="relnotes-6.4.2.html">Mesa 6.4.2</a> has been released. 344This is stable, bug-fix release. 345</p> 346 347 348<h2>November 29, 2005</h2> 349<p> 350<a href="relnotes-6.4.1.html">Mesa 6.4.1</a> has been released. 351This is stable, bug-fix release. 352</p> 353 354 355 356<h2>October 24, 2005</h2> 357<p> 358<a href="relnotes-6.4.html">Mesa 6.4</a> has been released. 359This is stable, bug-fix release. 360</p> 361 362 363<h2>August 19, 2005</h2> 364<p> 365Mesa 6.3.2 has been released. 366Note: there was no public release of version 6.3.1. 367</p> 368<a href="versions.html#6.3.2">Changes in version 6.3.1</a> 369<p> 370The MD5 checksums are: 371</p> 372<pre> 37398192e45ed8d69113688f89f90869346 MesaLib-6.3.2.tar.gz 3740df27701df0924d17ddf41185efa8ce1 MesaLib-6.3.2.tar.bz2 375ccb2423aab77fc7e81ce628734586140 MesaLib-6.3.2.zip 3769d0fca0a7d051c34a0b485423fb3e85d MesaDemos-6.3.2.tar.gz 37796708868450c188205e42229b5d813c4 MesaDemos-6.3.2.tar.bz2 378c5102501e609aa8996d832fafacb8ab9 MesaDemos-6.3.2.zip 379</pre> 380 381 382<h2>July 20, 2005</h2> 383<p> 384Mesa 6.3 has been released. 385This is a development release with new features, changes and bug fixes. 386</p> 387<pre> 388 New: 389 - GL_EXT_framebuffer_object extension 390 - GL_ARB_draw_buffers extension 391 - GL_ARB_pixel_buffer_object extension 392 - GL_OES_read_format extension (Ian Romanick) 393 - DirectFB driver (Claudio Ciccani) 394 - x86_64 vertex transformation code (Mikko T.) 395 Changes: 396 - added -stereo option for glxgears demo (Jacek Rosik) 397 - updated the PBuffer demo code in xdemos/ directory 398 - glDeleteTextures/Programs/Buffers() now makes the object ID 399 available for immediate re-use 400 - assorted 64-bit clean-ups fixes (x86_64 and Win64) 401 - lots of internal changes for GL_EXT_framebuffer_object 402 Bug fixes: 403 - some functions didn't support PBO functionality 404 - glGetTexImage didn't convert color index images to RGBA as required 405 - fragment program texcoords were sometimes wrong for points and lines 406 - fixed problem with negative dot product in arbfplight, fplight demos 407 - fixed bug in perspective correction of antialiased, textured lines 408 - querying GL_POST_CONVOLUTION_ALPHA_BIAS_EXT returned wrong value 409 - fixed a couple per-pixel fog bugs (Soju Matsumoto) 410 - glGetBooleanv(GL_FRAGMENT_PROGRAM_BINDING_NV) was broken 411 - fixed float parsing bug in ARB frag/vert programs (bug 2520) 412 - XMesaGetDepthBuffer() returned incorrect value for bytesPerValue 413 - GL_COLOR_MATERIAL with glColor3 didn't properly set diffuse alpha 414 - glXChooseFBConfig() crashed if attribList pointer was NULL 415 - program state.light[n].spot.direction.w was wrong value (bug 3083) 416 - fragment program fog option required glEnable(GL_FOG) - wrong. 417 - glColorTable() could produce a Mesa implementation error (bug 3135) 418 - RasterPos could get corrupted by color index rendering path 419 - Removed bad XTranslateCoordinates call when rendering to Pixmaps 420 - glPopAttrib() didn't properly restore GL_TEXTURE_GEN enable state 421 - fixed a few Darwin compilation problems 422</pre> 423<p> 424The MD5 checksums are: 425</p> 426<pre> 4270236f552d37514776945d5a013e5bb7b MesaLib-6.3.tar.gz 42860e1a8f78c4a8c7750a1e95753190986 MesaLib-6.3.tar.bz2 429ca7c950fbace68c70caa822322db7223 MesaLib-6.3.zip 43025ea801645b376c014051804fe4974b2 MesaDemos-6.3.tar.gz 4319248e74872ea88c57ec25c900c295057 MesaDemos-6.3.tar.bz2 4328537dfa734ef258dcc7272097558d434 MesaDemos-6.3.zip 433</pre> 434 435 436<h2>December 9, 2004</h2> 437<p> 438Mesa 6.2.1 has been released. 439This is a stable release which just fixes bugs since the 6.2 release. 440</p> 441<pre> 442 Bug fixes: 443 - don't apply regular fog or color sum when using a fragment program 444 - glProgramEnvParameter4fARB always generated an error on 445 GL_FRAGMENT_PROGRAM_ARB (fdo bug 1645) 446 - glVertexAttrib3svNV and glVertexAttrib3svARB were broken 447 - fixed width/height mix-up in glSeparableFilter2D() 448 - fixed regression in glCopyPixels + convolution 449 - glReadPixels from a clipped front color buffer didn't always work 450 - glTexImage didn't accept GL_RED/GREEN/BLUE as the format 451 - Attempting queries/accesses of VBO 0 weren't detected as errors 452 - paletted textures failed if the palette had fewer than 256 entries 453 Changes: 454 - fixed a bunch of compiler warnings found with gcc 3.4 455 - bug reports should to go bugzilla.freedesktop.org 456</pre> 457<p> 458The MD5 checksums are: 459</p> 460<pre> 46180008a92f6e055d3bfdde2cf331ec3fa MesaLib-6.2.1.tar.gz 462f43228cd2bf70f583ef3275c1c545421 MesaLib-6.2.1.tar.bz2 463dec26cfd40116ad021020fea2d94f652 MesaLib-6.2.1.zip 4642c7af3c986a7571c8713c8bfee7e49e3 MesaDemos-6.2.1.tar.gz 4653cac74667b50bcbd4f67f594fb4224a2 MesaDemos-6.2.1.tar.bz2 46675b3edd12eb2b370caf05f29b99e508a MesaDemos-6.2.1.zip 467</pre> 468 469 470<h2>October 2, 2004</h2> 471<p> 472Mesa 6.2 has been released. 473This is a stable release which just fixes bugs since the 6.1 release. 474</p> 475<pre> 476 New: 477 - enabled GL_ARB_texture_rectangle (same as GL_NV_texture_rectangle) 478 - updated Doxygen support (Jose Fonseca) 479 Changes: 480 - some GGI driver updates (Christoph Egger, bug 1025977) 481 Bug fixes: 482 - Omit GL_ARB_texture_non_power_of_two from list of OpenGL 1.5 features 483 - fixed a few compilation issues on IRIX 484 - fixed a matrix classification bug (reported by Wes Bethel) 485 - we weren't reseting the vertex/fragment program error state 486 before parsing (Dave Reveman) 487 - adjust texcoords for sampling texture rectangles (Dave Reveman) 488 - glGet*(GL_MAX_VERTEX_ATTRIBS_ARB) wasn't implemented 489 - repeated calls to glDeleteTexture(t) could lead to a crash 490 - fixed potential ref count bugs in VBOs and vertex/fragment programs 491 - spriteblast demo didn't handle window size changes correctly 492 - glTexSubImage didn't handle pixels=NULL correctly for PBOs 493 - fixed color index mode glDrawPixels bug (Karl Schultz) 494</pre> 495<p> 496The MD5 checksums are: 497</p> 498<pre> 4999e8f34b059272dbb8e1f2c968b33bbf0 MesaLib-6.2.tar.gz 5003d6a6362390b6a37d3cb2e615f3ac7db MesaLib-6.2.tar.bz2 5016cfd7895d28e695c0dbbed9469564091 MesaLib-6.2.zip 5023e06e33b0809f09855cb60883b8bdfef MesaDemos-6.2.tar.gz 5039d160009c3dfdb35fe7e4088c9ba8f85 MesaDemos-6.2.tar.bz2 504856f7ec947122eb3c8985ebc2f654dcd MesaDemos-6.2.zip 505</pre> 506 507 508<h2>August 18, 2004</h2> 509<p> 510Mesa 6.1 has been released. 511This is a new development release (version 6.2 will be a stabilization 512release). 513</p> 514<pre> 515 New: 516 - Revamped Makefile system 517 - glXUseRotatedXFont() utility (see xdemos/xuserotfont.c) 518 - internal driver interface changes related to texture object 519 allocation, vertex/fragment programs, BlendEquationSeparate, etc. 520 - option to walk triangle edges with double-precision floats 521 (Justin Novosad of Discreet) (see config.h file) 522 - support for AUX buffers in software GLX driver 523 - updated glext.h to version 24 and glxext.h to version 6 524 - new MESA_GLX_FORCE_ALPHA and MESA_GLX_DEPTH_BITS env vars 525 - updated BeOS support (Philippe Houdoin) 526 Changes: 527 - fragment fog interpolation is perspective corrected now 528 - new glTexImage code, much cleaner, may be a bit faster 529 Bug fixes: 530 - glArrayElement in display lists didn't handle generic vertex attribs 531 - glFogCoord didn't always work properly 532 - ARB_fragment_program fog options didn't work 533 - frag prog TEX instruction no longer incorrectly divides s,t,r by q 534 - ARB frag prog TEX and TEXP instructions now use LOD=0 535 - glTexEnviv in display lists didn't work 536 - glRasterPos didn't do texgen or apply texture matrix 537 - GL_DOUBLE-valued vertex arrays were broken in some cases 538 - fixed texture rectangle edge/border sampling bugs 539 - sampling an incomplete texture in a fragment program would segfault 540 - glTexImage was missing a few error checks 541 - fixed some minor glGetTexParameter glitches 542 - GL_INTENSITY was mistakenly accepted as a <format> to glTexImage 543 - fragment program writes to RC/HC register were broken 544 - fixed a few glitches in GL_HP_occlusion_test extension 545 - glBeginQueryARB and glEndQueryARB didn't work inside display lists 546 - vertex program state references were broken 547 - fixed triangle color interpolation bug on AIX (Shane Blackett) 548 - fixed a number of minor memory leaks (bug #1002030) 549</pre> 550<p> 551The MD5 checksums are: 552</p> 553<pre> 554c9284d295ebcd2e0486cc3cd54e5863c MesaLib-6.1.tar.gz 5555de1f53ec0709f60fc68fdfed57351f3 MesaLib-6.1.tar.bz2 556483e77cac4789a5d36c42f3c0136d6d8 MesaLib-6.1.zip 5578c46cfa6f9732acc6f6c25724aad0246 MesaDemos-6.1.tar.gz 55889bfe0f6c69b39fd0ebd9fff481a4e9b MesaDemos-6.1.tar.bz2 559161268531fcc6f0c5a056430ee97e0c1 MesaDemos-6.1.zip 560</pre> 561 562 563 564<h2>April 2, 2004</h2> 565 566<p> 567Mesa 6.0.1 has been released. 568This release basically just fixes bugs since the 6.0. release. 569</p> 570<pre> 571 New: 572 - upgraded glext.h to version 22 573 - new build targets (Dan Schikore) 574 - new linux-x86-opteron build target (Heath Feather) 575 Bug fixes: 576 - glBindProgramARB didn't update all necessary state 577 - fixed build problems on OpenBSD 578 - omit CVS directories from tarballs 579 - glGetTexImage(GL_COLOR_INDEX) was broken 580 - fixed an infinite loop in t&l module 581 - silenced some valgrind warnings about using unitialized memory 582 - fixed some compilation/link glitches on IRIX (Mike Stephens) 583 - glBindProgram wasn't getting compiled into display lists 584 - GLX_FBCONFIG_ID wasn't recognized in glXChooseFBConfig() (bug 888079) 585 - two-sided lighting and vertex program didn't work (bug 887330) 586 - stores to program parameter registers in vertex state programs 587 didn't work. 588 - fixed glOrtho bug found with gcc 3.2.2 (RH9) 589 - glXCreateWindow() wasn't fully implemented (bug 890894) 590 - generic vertex attribute arrays didn't work in display lists 591 - vertex buffer objects' default usage and access fields were wrong 592 - glDrawArrays with start!=0 was broken 593 - fragment program PK2H, UP2H, UP4B and UP4UB instructions were broken 594 - linux-osmesa16-static config didn't work 595 - fixed a few color index rendering problems (bug 910687) 596 - glInterleavedArrays didn't respect GL_CLIENT_ACTIVE_TEXTURE 597 - OSMesa RGB and BGR modes were broken 598 - glProgramStringARB mistakenly required a null-terminated string 599 - fragment program XPD instruction was incorrect 600 - glGetMaterial() didn't work reliably 601</pre> 602<p> 603The MD5 checksums are: 604</p> 605<pre> 606011be0e79666c7a6eb9693fbf9348653 MesaLib-6.0.1.tar.gz 607b7f14088c5c2f14490d2739a91102112 MesaLib-6.0.1.tar.bz2 608bf0510cf0a2b87d64cdd317eca3f1db1 MesaLib-6.0.1.zip 609b7b648599e0aaee1c4ffc554a2a9139e MesaDemos-6.0.1.tar.gz 610dd6aadfd9ca8e1cfa90c6ee492bc6f43 MesaDemos-6.0.1.tar.bz2 611eff71d59c211825e949199852f5a2316 MesaDemos-6.0.1.zip 612</pre> 613 614 615 616<h2>January 16, 2004</h2> 617 618<p> 619Mesa 6.0 has been released. This is a stabilization of the 5.1 release 620and primarily just incorporates bug fixes. 621</p> 622<pre> 623 New: 624 - full OpenGL 1.5 support 625 - updated GL/glext.h file to version 21 626 Changes: 627 - changed max framebuffer size to 4Kx4K (MAX_WIDTH/HEIGHT in config.h) 628 Bug fixes: 629 - fixed bug in UNCLAMPED_FLOAT_TO_UBYTE macro; solves a color 630 clamping issue 631 - updated suno5-gcc configs 632 - glColor3 functions sometimes resulted in undefined alpha values 633 - fixed FP divide by zero error seen on VMS with xlockmore, others 634 - fixed vertex/fragment program debug problem (bug 873011) 635 - building on AIX with gcc works now 636 - glDeleteProgramsARB failed for ARB fragment programs (bug 876160) 637 - glDrawRangeElements tried to modify potentially read-only storage 638 - updated files for building on Windows 639</pre> 640 641 642 643<h2>December 28, 2003</h2> 644 645<p> 646The Mesa CVS server has been moved to <a href="http://www.freedesktop.org" 647target="_parent"> 648freedesktop.org</a> because of problems with SourceForge's anonymous 649CVS service. 650</p> 651 652<p>Please see the <a href="cvs_access.html">CVS access page</a> for details. 653</p> 654 655 656<h2>December 17, 2003</h2> 657 658<p> 659Mesa 5.1 has been released. This is a new development release. 660Mesa 6.0 will be the next stable release and will support all 661OpenGL 1.5 features. 662</p> 663<pre> 664 New features: 665 - reorganized directory tree 666 - GL_ARB_vertex/fragment_program extensions (Michal Krol & Karl Rasche) 667 - GL_ATI_texture_env_combine3 extension (Ian Romanick) 668 - GL_SGI_texture_color_table extension (Eric Plante) 669 - GL_NV_fragment_program extension 670 - GL_NV_light_max_exponent extension 671 - GL_EXT_texture_rectangle (identical to GL_NV_texture_rectangle) 672 - GL_ARB_occlusion_query extension 673 - GL_ARB_point_sprite extension 674 - GL_ARB_texture_non_power_of_two extension 675 - GL_IBM_multimode_draw_arrays extension 676 - GL_EXT_texture_mirror_clamp extension (Ian Romanick) 677 - GL_ARB_vertex_buffer_object extension 678 - new X86 feature detection code (Petr Sebor) 679 - less memory used for display lists and vertex buffers 680 - demo of per-pixel lighting with a fragment program (demos/fplight.c) 681 - new version (18) of glext.h header 682 - new spriteblast.c demo of GL_ARB_point_sprite 683 - faster glDrawPixels in X11 driver in some cases (see RELNOTES-5.1) 684 - faster glCopyPixels in X11 driver in some cases (see RELNOTES-5.1) 685 Bug fixes: 686 - really enable OpenGL 1.4 features in DOS driver. 687 - fixed issues in glDrawPixels and glCopyPixels for very wide images 688 - glPixelMapf/ui/usv()'s size parameter is GLsizei, not GLint 689 - fixed some texgen bugs reported by Daniel Borca 690 - fixed wglMakeCurrent(NULL, NULL) bug (#835861) 691 - fixed glTexSubImage3D z-offset bug (Cedric Gautier) 692 - fixed RGBA blend enable bug (Ville Syrjala) 693 - glAccum is supposed to be a no-op in selection/feedback mode 694 - fixed texgen bug #597589 (John Popplewell) 695 Changes: 696 - dropped API trace feature (src/Trace/) 697 - documentation overhaul. merged with website content. more html. 698 - glxgears.c demo updated to use GLX swap rate extensions 699 - glTexImage1/2/3D now allows width/height/depth = 0 700 - disable SPARC asm code on Linux (bug 852204) 701</pre> 702<p> 703The MD5 checksums are: 704</p> 705<pre> 70678f452f6c55478471a744f07147612b5 MesaLib-5.1.tar.gz 70767b3b8d3f7f4c8c44904551b851d01af MesaLib-5.1.tar.bz2 7086dd19ffa750ec7f634e370a987505c9d MesaLib-5.1.zip 709e0214d4ebb22409dfa9262f2b52fd828 MesaDemos-5.1.tar.gz 710066c9aff4fd924405de1ae9bad5ec9a7 MesaDemos-5.1.tar.bz2 711d2b5ba32b53e0ad0576c637a4cc1fb41 MesaDemos-5.1.zip 712</pre> 713 714 715<H2>November 12, 2003</H2> 716 717<p> 718New Mesa 5.0.2 tarballs have been uploaded to SourceForge which fix a 719number of automake/libtool problems. 720</p> 721<p> 722The new MD5 checksums are: 723</p> 724<pre> 725a9dcf3ff9ad1b7d6ce73a0df7cff8b5b MesaLib-5.0.2.tar.gz 7267b4bf9261657c2fca03796d4955e6f50 MesaLib-5.0.2.tar.bz2 72779c141bddcbad557647535d02194f346 MesaLib-5.0.2.zip 728952d9dc823dd818981d1a648d7b2668a MesaDemos-5.0.2.tar.gz 729b81fafff90995025d2f25ea02b786642 MesaDemos-5.0.2.tar.bz2 730a21be975589e8a2d1871b6bb7874fffa MesaDemos-5.0.2.zip 731</pre> 732 733 734 735<h2>September 5, 2003</h2> 736 737<p> 738Mesa 5.0.2 has been released. This is a stable, bug-fix release. 739</p> 740<pre> 741 Bug fixes: 742 - fixed texgen problem causing texcoord's Q to be zero (stex3d) 743 - default GL_TEXTURE_COMPARE_MODE_ARB was wrong 744 - GL_CURRENT_MATRIX_NV query was wrong 745 - GL_CURRENT_MATRIX_STACK_DEPTH_NV query was off by one 746 - GL_LIST_MODE query wasn't correct 747 - GL_FOG_COORDINATE_SOURCE_EXT query wasn't supported 748 - GL_SECONDARY_COLOR_ARRAY_SIZE_EXT query returned wrong value 749 - blended, wide lines didn't always work correctly (bug 711595) 750 - glVertexAttrib4svNV w component was always 1 751 - fixed bug in GL_IBM_rasterpos_clip (missing return) 752 - GL_DEPTH_TEXTURE_MODE = GL_ALPHA didn't work correctly 753 - a few Solaris compilation fixes 754 - fixed glClear() problem for DRI drivers (non-existant stencil, etc) 755 - fixed int/REAL mixup in GLU NURBS curve evaluator (Eric Cazeaux) 756 - fixed delete [] bug in SI GLU (bug 721765) (Diego Santa Cruz) 757 - glFog() didn't clamp fog colors 758 - fixed bad float/int conversion for GL_TEXTURE_PRIORITY in the 759 gl[Get]TexParameteri[v] functions 760 - fixed invalid memory references in glTexGen functions (bug 781602) 761 - integer-valued color arrays weren't handled correctly 762 - glDrawPixels(GL_DEPTH_COMPONENT) with glPixelZoom didn't work 763 - GL_EXT_texture_lod_bias is part of 1.4, overlooked in 5.0.1 764 Changes: 765 - build GLUT with -fexceptions so C++ apps propogate exceptions 766</pre> 767 768 769 770<h2>June 2003</h2> 771 772<p> 773Mesa's directory tree has been overhauled. 774Things are better organized now with some thought toward future needs. 775</p> 776<p> 777In CVS, the latest Mesa 5.1 development code is now rooted under the 778<b>Mesa-newtree/</b> directory. The old top-level <b>Mesa/</b> directory 779holds the Mesa 5.0.x code which will be abandoned at some point. 780</p> 781 782 783 784<h2>March 30, 2003</h2> 785 786<p> 787Mesa 5.0.1 has been released. This is a stable, bug-fix release. 788</p> 789<pre> 790 New: 791 - DOS driver updates from Daniel Borca 792 - updated GL/gl_mangle.h file (Bill Hoffman) 793 Bug fixes: 794 - auto mipmap generation for cube maps was broken (bug 641363) 795 - writing/clearing software alpha channels was unreliable 796 - minor compilation fixes for OS/2 (Evgeny Kotsuba) 797 - fixed some bad assertions found with shadowtex demo 798 - fixed error checking bug in glCopyTexSubImage2D (bug 659020) 799 - glRotate(angle, -x, 0, 0) was incorrect (bug 659677) 800 - fixed potential segfault in texture object validation (bug 659012) 801 - fixed some bogus code in _mesa_test_os_sse_exception_support (Linus) 802 - fix fog stride bug in tnl code for h/w drivers (Michel Danzer) 803 - fixed glActiveTexture / glMatrixMode(GL_TEXTURE) bug (#669080) 804 - glGet(GL_CURRENT_SECONDARY_COLOR) should return 4 values, not 3 805 - fixed compilation problem on Solaris7/x86 (bug 536406) 806 - fixed prefetch bug in 3DNow! code (Felix Kuhling) 807 - fixed NeXT build problem (FABSF macro) 808 - glDrawPixels Z values when glPixelZoom!=1 were invalid (bug 687811) 809 - zoomed glDraw/CopyPixels with clipping sometimes failed (bug 689964) 810 - AA line and triangle Z values are now rounded, not truncated 811 - fixed color interpolation bug when GLchan==GLfloat (bug 694461) 812 - glArePrograms/TexturesResident() wasn't 100% correct (Jose Fonseca) 813 - fixed a minor GL_COLOR_MATERIAL bug 814 - NV vertex program EXP instruction was broken 815 - glColorMask misbehaved with X window / pixmap rendering 816 - fix autoconf/libtool GLU C++ linker problem on Linux (a total hack) 817 - attempt to fix GGI compilation problem when MesaDemos not present 818 - NV vertex program ARL-relative fetches didn't work 819 Changes: 820 - use glPolygonOffset in gloss demo to avoid z-fighting artifacts 821 - updated winpos and pointblast demos to use ARB extensions 822 - disable SPARC normal transformation code (bug 673938) 823 - GLU fixes for OS/2 (Evgeny Kotsuba) 824</pre> 825<p> 826MD5 checksums follow: 827</p> 828<pre> 829b80f8b5d53a3e9f19b9fde5af0c542f0 MesaLib-5.0.1.tar.gz 830513b4bbd7d38951f05027179063d876b MesaLib-5.0.1.tar.bz2 831eebd395678f4520d33b267e5d5c22651 MesaLib-5.0.1.zip 83249d7feaec6dc1d2091d7c3cc72a9b320 MesaDemos-5.0.1.tar.gz 83337190374a98c3c892f0698be9ca3acf0 MesaDemos-5.0.1.tar.bz2 834becd8bf17f5791361b4a54ba2a78e5c9 MesaDemos-5.0.1.zip 835</pre> 836 837 838 839<h2>March 7, 2003</h2> 840<p> 841Website and documentation overhaul. 842</p> 843<p> 844The website content and Mesa documentation (from the doc/ directory) have 845been merged together. 846All the documentation files have been entered into the CVS repository. 847Many of the old plain-text files have been converted to html and modernized. 848</p> 849 850 851<h2>November 13, 2002</h2> 852<p>Mesa 5.0 has been released. This is a stable release which 853implements the OpenGL 1.4 specification. 854</p><pre>New: 855 - OpenGL 1.4 support (glGetString(GL_VERSION) returns "1.4") 856 - removed some overlooked debugging code 857 - glxinfo updated to support GLX_ARB_multisample 858 - GLUT now support GLX_ARB_multisample 859 - updated DOS driver (Daniel Borca) 860Bug fixes: 861 - GL_POINT and GL_LINE-mode polygons didn't obey cull state 862 - fixed potential bug in _mesa_align_malloc/calloc() 863 - fixed missing triangle bug when running vertex programs 864 - fixed a few HPUX compilation problems 865 - FX (Glide) driver didn't compile 866 - setting GL_TEXTURE_BORDER_COLOR with glTexParameteriv() didn't work 867 - a few EXT functions, like glGenTexturesEXT, were no-ops 868 - a few OpenGL 1.4 functions like glFogCoord*, glBlendFuncSeparate, 869 glMultiDrawArrays and glMultiDrawElements were missing 870 - glGet*(GL_ACTIVE_STENCIL_FACE_EXT) was broken 871 - Pentium 4 Mobile was mistakenly identified as having 3DNow! 872 - fixed one-bit error in point/line fragment Z calculation 873 - fixed potential segfault in fakeglx code 874 - fixed color overflow problem in DOT3 texture env mode 875</pre> 876 877 878<h2>October 29, 2002</h2> 879<p>Mesa 4.1 has been released. This is a new development release. 880For a stable release, get 4.0.4. 881</p><pre>New: 882 - GL_NV_vertex_program extension 883 - GL_NV_vertex_program1_1 extension 884 - GL_ARB_window_pos extension 885 - GL_ARB_depth_texture extension 886 - GL_ARB_shadow extension 887 - GL_ARB_shadow_ambient extension 888 - GL_EXT_shadow_funcs extension 889 - GL_ARB_point_parameters extension 890 - GL_ARB_texture_env_crossbar 891 - GL_NV_point_sprite extension 892 - GL_NV_texture_rectangle extension 893 - GL_EXT_multi_draw_arrays extension 894 - GL_EXT_stencil_two_side extension 895 - GLX_SGIX_fbconfig and GLX_SGIX_pbuffer extensions 896 - GL_ATI_texture_mirror_once extension (Ian Romanick) 897 - massive overhaul/simplification of software rasterizer module, 898 many contributions from Klaus Niederkrueger 899 - faster software texturing in some cases (i.e. trilinear filtering) 900 - new OSMesaGetProcAddress() function 901 - more blend modes implemented with MMX code (Jose Fonseca) 902 - added glutGetProcAddress() to GLUT 903 - added GLUT_FPS env var to compute frames/second in glutSwapBuffers() 904 - pbinfo and pbdemo PBuffer programs 905 - glxinfo -v prints transprent pixel info (Gerd Sussner) 906Bug fixes: 907 - better mipmap LOD computation (prevents excessive blurriness) 908 - OSMesaMakeCurrent() didn't recognize buffer size changes 909 - assorted conformance fixes for 16-bit/channel rendering 910 - texcombine alpha subtraction mode was broken 911 - fixed some blend problems when GLchan==GLfloat (Gerk Huisma) 912 - clamp colors to [0,1] in OSMesa if GLchan==GLfloat (Gerk Huisma) 913 - fixed divide by zero error in NURBS tessellator (Jon Perry) 914 - fixed GL_LINEAR fog bug by adding clamping 915 - fixed FP exceptions found using Alpha CPU 916 - 3dfx/glide driver render-to-window feature was broken 917 - added missing GLX_TRANSPARENT_RGB token to glx.h 918 - fixed error checking related to paletted textures 919 - fixed reference count error in glDeleteTextures (Randy Fayan) 920Changes: 921 - New spec file and Python code to generate some GL dispatch files 922 - Glide driver defaults to "no" with autoconf/automake 923 - floating point color channels now clamped to [0,inf) 924 - updated demos/stex3d with new options 925</pre> 926 927 928<h2>October 4, 2002</h2> 929<p> 930The <a href="http://mesa3d.sourceforge.net/docs/MesaFAQ.html">Mesa FAQ</a> has been rewritten. 931</p> 932 933<h2>October 3, 2002</h2> 934<p>Mesa 4.0.4 has been released. This is a stable bug-fix release. 935</p><pre> New: 936 - GL_NV_texture_rectangle extension 937 - updated glext.h header (version 17) 938 - updated DOS driver (Daniel Borca) 939 - updated BeOS R5 driver (Philippe Houdoin) 940 - added GL_IBM_texture_mirror_repeat 941 - glxinfo now takes -l option to print interesting OpenGL limits info 942 - GL_MESA_ycbcr_texture extension 943 - GL_APPLE_client_storage extension (for some DRI drivers only) 944 - GL_MESA_pack_invert extension 945 Bug fixes: 946 - fixed GL_LINEAR fog bug by adding clamping 947 - fixed FP exceptions found using Alpha CPU 948 - 3dfx MESA_GLX_FX=window (render to window) didn't work 949 - fixed memory leak in wglCreateContest (Karl Schultz) 950 - define GLAPIENTRY and GLAPI if undefined in glu.h 951 - wglGetProcAddress didn't handle all API functions 952 - when testing for OpenGL 1.2 vs 1.3, check for GL_ARB_texture_cube_map 953 - removed GL_MAX_CONVOLUTION_WIDTH/HEIGHT from glGetInteger/Float/etc() 954 - error checking in compressed tex image functions had some glitches 955 - fixed AIX compile problem in src/config.c 956 - glGetTexImage was using pixel unpacking instead of packing params 957 - auto-mipmap generation for cube maps was incorrect 958 Changes: 959 - max texture units reduced to six to accomodate texture rectangles 960 - removed unfinished GL_MESA_sprite_point extension code 961</pre> 962 963<h2>June 25, 2002</h2> 964<p>Mesa 4.0.3 has been released. This is a stable bug-fix release. 965</p><pre> New: 966 - updated GL/glext.h file (version 15) 967 - corrected MMX blend code (Jose Fonseca) 968 - support for software-based alpha planes in Windows driver 969 - updated GGI driver (Filip Spacek) 970 Bug fixes: 971 - glext.h had wrong values for GL_DOT3_RGB[A]_EXT tokens 972 - OSMesaMakeCurrent() didn't recognize buffer size changes 973 - assorted conformance fixes for 16-bit/channel rendering 974 - texcombine alpha subtraction mode was broken 975 - fixed lighting bug with non-uniform scaling and display lists 976 - fixed bug when deleting shared display lists 977 - disabled SPARC cliptest assembly code (Mesa bug 544665) 978 - fixed a couple Solaris compilation/link problems 979 - blending clipped glDrawPixels didn't always work 980 - glGetTexImage() didn't accept packed pixel types 981 - glPixelMapu[is]v() could explode given too large of pixelmap 982 - glGetTexParameter[if]v() didn't accept GL_TEXTURE_MAX_ANISOTROPY_EXT 983 - glXCopyContext() could lead to segfaults 984 - glCullFace(GL_FRONT_AND_BACK) didn't work (bug 572665) 985 Changes: 986 - lots of C++ (g++) code clean-ups 987 - lots of T&L updates for the Radeon DRI driver 988 Known bugs: 989 - mipmap LOD computation (fixed for Mesa 4.1) 990</pre> 991 992<h2>April 2, 2002</h2> 993<p>Mesa 4.0.2 has been released. This is a stable bug-fix release. 994</p><pre> New: 995 - New DOS (DJGPP) driver written by Daniel Borca 996 - New driver interface functions for TCL drivers (such as Radeon DRI) 997 - GL_RENDERER string returns "Mesa Offscreen16" or "Mesa Offscreen32" 998 if using deep color channels 999 - latest GL/glext.h and GL/glxext.h headers from SGI 1000 Bug fixes: 1001 - GL_BLEND with non-black texture env color wasn't always correct 1002 - GL_REPLACE with GL_RGB texture format wasn't always correct (alpha) 1003 - glTexEnviv( pname != GL_TEXTURE_ENV_COLOR ) was broken 1004 - glReadPixels was sometimes mistakenly clipped by the scissor box 1005 - glDraw/ReadPixels didn't catch all the errors that they should have 1006 - Fixed 24bpp rendering problem in Windows driver (Karl Schultz) 1007 - 16-bit GLchan mode fixes (m_trans_tmp.h, s_triangle.c) 1008 - Fixed 1-bit float->int conversion bug in glDrawPixels(GL_DEPTH_COMP) 1009 - glColorMask as sometimes effecting glXSwapBuffers() 1010 - fixed a potential bug in XMesaGarbageCollect() 1011 - N threads rendering into one window didn't work reliably 1012 - glCopyPixels didn't work for deep color channels 1013 - improved 8 -> 16bit/channel texture image conversion (Gerk Huisma) 1014 - glPopAttrib() didn't correctly restore user clip planes 1015 - user clip planes failed for some perspective projections (Chromium) 1016</pre> 1017 1018<h2>December 17, 2001</h2> 1019<p>Mesa 4.0.1 has been released. This is a stable bug-fix release. 1020</p><pre> New: 1021 - better sub-pixel sample positions for AA triangles (Ray Tice) 1022 - slightly faster blending for (GL_ZERO, GL_ONE) and (GL_ONE, GL_ZERO) 1023 Bug fixes: 1024 - added missing break statements in glGet*() for multisample cases 1025 - fixed uninitialized hash table mutex bug (display lists / texobjs) 1026 - fixed bad teximage error check conditional (bug 476846) 1027 - fixed demos readtex.c compilation problem on Windows (Karl Schultz) 1028 - added missing glGet() query for GL_MAX_TEXTURE_LOD_BIAS_EXT 1029 - silence some compiler warnings (gcc 2.96) 1030 - enable the #define GL_VERSION_1_3 in GL/gl.h 1031 - added GL 1.3 and GLX 1.4 entries to gl_mangle.h and glx_mangle.h 1032 - fixed glu.h typedef problem found with MSDev 6.0 1033 - build libGL.so with -Bsymbolic (fixes bug found with Chromium) 1034 - added missing 'const' to glXGetContextIDEXT() in glxext.h 1035 - fixed a few glXGetProcAddress() errors (texture compression, etc) 1036 - fixed start index bug in compiled vertex arrays (Keith) 1037 - fixed compilation problems in src/SPARC/glapi_sparc.S 1038 - fixed triangle strip "parity" bug found in VTK medical1 demo (Keith) 1039 - use glXGetProcAddressARB in GLUT to avoid extension linking problems 1040 - provoking vertex of flat-shaded, color-index triangles was wrong 1041 - fixed a few display list bugs (GLUT walker, molecule, etc) (Keith) 1042 - glTexParameter didn't flush the vertex buffer (Ray Tice) 1043 - feedback attributes for glDraw/CopyPixels and glBitmap were wrong 1044 - fixed bug in normal length caching (ParaView lighting bug) 1045</pre> 1046 1047<h2>October 22, 2001</h2> 1048<p>Mesa 4.0 has been released. This is a stable release. 1049</p><pre> New: 1050 - Mesa 4.0 implements the OpenGL 1.3 specification 1051 - GL_IBM_rasterpos_clip extension 1052 - GL_EXT_texture_edge_clamp extension (aka GL_SGIS_texture_edge_clamp) 1053 - GL_ARB_texture_mirrored_repeat extension 1054 - WindML UGL driver (Stephane Raimbault) 1055 - added OSMESA_MAX_WIDTH/HEIGHT queries 1056 - attempted compiliation fixes for Solaris 5, 7 and 8 1057 - updated glext.h and glxext.h files 1058 - updated Windows driver (Karl Schultz) 1059 Bug fixes: 1060 - added some missing GLX 1.3 tokens to include/GL/glx.h 1061 - GL_COLOR_MATRIX changes weren't recognized by teximage functions 1062 - glCopyPixels with scale and bias was broken 1063 - glRasterPos with lighting could segfault 1064 - glDeleteTextures could leave a dangling pointer 1065 - Proxy textures for cube maps didn't work 1066 - fixed a number of 16-bit color channel bugs 1067 - fixed a few minor memory leaks 1068 - GLX context sharing was broken in 3.5 1069 - fixed state-update bugs in glPopClientAttrib() 1070 - fixed glDrawRangeElements() bug 1071 - fixed a glPush/PopAttrib() bug related to texture binding 1072 - flat-shaded, textured lines were broken 1073 - fixed a dangling pointer problem in the XMesa code (Chris Burghart) 1074 - lighting didn't always produce the correct alpha value 1075 - fixed 3DNow! code to not read past end of arrays (Andrew Lewycky) 1076</pre> 1077 1078 1079<h2>June 21, 2001</h2> 1080<p>Mesa 3.5 has been released. This is a new development release. 1081</p><pre> New: 1082 - internals of Mesa divided into modular pieces (Keith Whitwell) 1083 - 100% OpenGL 1.2 conformance (passes all conformance tests) 1084 - new AA line algorithm 1085 - GL_EXT_convolution extension 1086 - GL_ARB_imaging subset 1087 - OSMesaCreateContextExt() function 1088 - GL_ARB_texture_env_add extension (same as GL_EXT_texture_env_add) 1089 - GL_MAX_TEXTURE_UNITS_ARB now defaults to eight 1090 - GL_EXT_fog_coord extension (Keith Whitwell) 1091 - GL_EXT_secondary_color extension (Keith Whitwell) 1092 - GL_ARB_texture_env_add extension (same as GL_EXT_texture_env_add) 1093 - GL_SGIX_depth_texture extension 1094 - GL_SGIX_shadow and GL_SGIX_shadow_ambient extensions 1095 - demos/shadowtex.c demo of GL_SGIX_depth_texture and GL_SGIX_shadow 1096 - GL_ARB_texture_env_combine extension 1097 - GL_ARB_texture_env_dot3 extension 1098 - GL_ARB_texture_border_clamp (aka GL_SGIS_texture_border_clamp) 1099 - OSMesaCreateContextExt() function 1100 - libOSMesa.so library, contains the OSMesa driver interface 1101 - GL/glxext.h header file for GLX extensions 1102 - somewhat faster software texturing, fogging, depth testing 1103 - all color-index conformance tests now pass (only 8bpp tested) 1104 - SPARC assembly language TCL optimizations (David Miller) 1105 - GL_SGIS_generate_mipmap extension 1106 Bug Fixes: 1107 - fbiRev and tmuRev were unitialized when using Glide3 1108 - fixed a few color index mode conformance failures; all pass now 1109 - now appling antialiasing coverage to alpha after texturing 1110 - colors weren't getting clamped to [0,1] before color table lookup 1111 - fixed RISC alignment errors caused by COPY_4UBV macro 1112 - drawing wide, flat-shaded lines could cause a segfault 1113 - vertices now snapped to 1/16 pixel to fix rendering of tiny triangles 1114 Changes: 1115 - SGI's Sample Implementation (SI) 1.3 GLU library replaces Mesa GLU 1116 - new libOSMesa.so library, contains the OSMesa driver interface 1117</pre> 1118 1119 1120<h2>May 17, 2001</h2> 1121<p>Mesa 3.4.2 has been released. This is basically just a bug-fix release. 1122Here's what's new:</p> 1123<pre> Bug fixes: 1124 - deleting the currently bound texture could cause bad problems 1125 - using fog could result in random vertex alpha values 1126 - AA triangle rendering could touch pixels outside right window bound 1127 - fixed byteswapping problem in clear_32bit_ximage() function 1128 - fixed bugs in wglUseFontBitmapsA(), by Frank Warmerdam 1129 - fixed memory leak in glXUseXFont() 1130 - fragment sampling in AA triangle function was off by 1/2 pixel 1131 - Windows: reading pixels from framebuffer didn't always work 1132 - glConvolutionFilter2D could segfault or cause FP exception 1133 - fixed segfaults in FX and X drivers when using tex unit 1 but not 0 1134 - GL_NAND logicop didn't work right in RGBA mode 1135 - fixed a memory corruption bug in vertex buffer reset code 1136 - clearing the softwara alpha buffer with scissoring was broken 1137 - fixed a few color index mode fog bugs 1138 - fixed some bad assertions in color index mode 1139 - fixed FX line 'stipple' bug #420091 1140 Changes: 1141 - optimized writing mono-colored pixel spans to X pixmaps 1142 - increased max viewport size to 2048 x 2048 1143</pre> 1144 1145 1146<h2>April 29, 2001</h2> 1147<p>New Mesa website</p> 1148<p>Mark Manning produced the new website.<br>Thanks, Mark!</p> 1149 1150 1151<h2>February 14, 2001</h2> 1152<p>Mesa 3.4.1 has been released. Here's what's new:</p> 1153<pre> New: 1154 - fixed some Linux build problems 1155 - fixed some Windows build problems 1156 - GL_EXT_texture_env_dot3 extension (Gareth Hughes) 1157 Bug fixes: 1158 - added RENDER_START/RENDER_FINISH macros for glCopyTexImage in DRI 1159 - various state-update code changes needed for DRI bugs 1160 - disabled pixel transfer ops in glColorTable commands, not needed 1161 - fixed bugs in glCopyConvolutionFilter1D/2D, glGetConvolutionFilter 1162 - updated sources and fixed compile problems in widgets-mesa/ 1163 - GLX_PBUFFER enum value was wrong in glx.h 1164 - fixed a glColorMaterial lighting bug 1165 - fixed bad args to Read/WriteStencilSpan in h/w stencil clear function 1166 - glXCopySubBufferMESA() Y position was off by one 1167 - Error checking of glTexSubImage3D() was broken (bug 128775) 1168 - glPopAttrib() didn't restore all derived Mesa state correctly 1169 - Better glReadPixels accuracy for 16bpp color - fixes lots of OpenGL 1170 conformance problems at 16bpp. 1171 - clearing depth buffer with scissoring was broken, would segfault 1172 - OSMesaGetDepthBuffer() returned bad bytesPerValue value 1173 - fixed a line clipping bug (reported by Craig McDaniel) 1174 - fixed RGB color over/underflow bug for very tiny triangles 1175 Known problems: 1176 - NURBS or evaluator surfaces inside display lists don't always work 1177</pre> 1178 1179<h2>November 3, 2000</h2> 1180<p>Mesa 3.4 has been released. Here's what's new since the 3.3 release:</p> 1181<pre> New: 1182 - optimized glDrawPixels for glPixelZoom(1,-1) 1183 Bug Fixes: 1184 - widgets-mesa/src/*.c files were missing from 3.3 distro 1185 - include/GL/mesa_wgl.h file was missing from 3.3 distro 1186 - fixed some Win32 compile problems 1187 - texture object priorities weren't getting initialized to 1.0 1188 - glAreTexturesResident return value was wrong when using hardware 1189 - glXUseXFont segfaulted when using 3dfx driver (via MESA_GLX_FX) 1190 - glReadPixels with GLushort packed types was broken 1191 - fixed a few bugs in the GL_EXT_texture_env_combine texture code 1192 - glPush/PopAttrib(GL_ENABLE_BIT) mishandled multi-texture enables 1193 - fixed some typos/bugs in the VB code 1194 - glDrawPixels(GL_COLOR_INDEX) to RGB window didn't work 1195 - optimized glDrawPixels paths weren't being used 1196 - per-fragment fog calculation didn't work without a Z buffer 1197 - improved blending accuracy, fixes Glean blendFunc test failures 1198 - glPixelStore(GL_PACK/UNPACK_SKIP_IMAGES) wasn't handled correctly 1199 - glXGetProcAddressARB() didn't always return the right address 1200 - gluBuild[12]DMipmaps() didn't grok the GL_BGR pixel format 1201 - texture matrix changes weren't always detected (GLUT projtex demo) 1202 - fixed random color problem in vertex fog code 1203 - fixed Glide-related bug that let Quake get a 24-bit Z buffer 1204 Changes: 1205 - finished internal support for compressed textures for DRI 1206</pre> 1207 1208<h2>April 24, 2000</h2> 1209<p>Mesa 3.2 has been released. Here's what's new since the beta release:</p> 1210<pre> Bug fixes: 1211 - fixed memcpy bugs in span.c 1212 - fixed missing glEnd problem in demos/tessdemo.c 1213 - fixed bug when clearing 24bpp Ximages 1214 - fixed clipping problem found in Unreal Tournament 1215 - fixed Loki's "ice bug" and "crazy triangles" seen in Heretic2 1216 - fixed Loki's 3dfx RGB vs BGR bug 1217 - fixed Loki's 3dfx smooth/flat shading bug in SoF 1218 Changes: 1219 - updated docs/README file 1220 - use bcopy() optimizations on FreeBSD 1221 - re-enabled the optimized persp_textured_triangle() function 1222</pre> 1223 1224<h2>March 23, 2000</h2> 1225<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> 1226<p>3.2 (note even number) is a stabilization release of Mesa 3.1 meaning it's mainly 1227just bug fixes.</p> 1228<p>Here's what's changed:</p> 1229<pre> 1230 Bug fixes: 1231 - mixed drawing of lines and bitmaps sometimes had wrong colors 1232 - added missing glHintPGI() function 1233 - fixed a polygon culling bug 1234 - fixed bugs in gluPartialDisk() 1235 - Z values in selection mode were wrong 1236 - added missing tokens: 1237 GL_SMOOTH_POINT_SIZE_RANGE 1238 GL_SMOOTH_POINT_SIZE_GRANULARITY 1239 GL_SMOOTH_LINE_WIDTH_RANGE 1240 GL_SMOOTH_LINE_WIDTH_GRANULARITY 1241 GL_ALIASED_POINT_SIZE_RANGE 1242 GL_ALIASED_LINE_WIDTH_RANGE 1243 - fixed glCopyPixels when copying from back to front buffer 1244 - GL_EXT_compiled_vertex_array tokens had _SGI suffix instead of _EXT 1245 - glDrawRangeElements(GL_LINES, 0, 1, 2, type, indices) was broken 1246 - glDeleteTextures() didn't decrement reference count correctly 1247 - GL_SRCA_ALPHA_SATURATE blend mode didn't work correctly 1248 - Actual depth of transformation matrix stacks was off by one 1249 - 24bpp visuals didn't address pixels correctly 1250 - mipmap level of detail (lambda) calculation simplified, more accurate 1251 - 101691 - Polygon clipping and GL_LINE 1252 - 101928 - Polygon clipping and GL_LINE (same fix as above) 1253 - 101808 - Non-glVertexArrays tristrip bug 1254 - 101971 - find_last_3f on Dec OSF (worked around) 1255 - 102369 - segv on dec osf (possibly a duplicate of the above) 1256 - 102893 - orientations of modelview cause segfault 1257 New: 1258 - updated SVGA Linux driver 1259 - added the MESA_FX_NO_SIGNALS env var, see docs/README.3DFX 1260 - build libGLw.a (Xt/OpenGL drawing area widget) library by default 1261 - changed -O2 to -O3 for a number of gcc configs 1262 Changes: 1263 - glXCopyContext's mask parameter is now unsigned long, per GLX spec 1264</pre> 1265 1266<p>Please report any problems with this release ASAP. Bugs should be filed on the 1267Mesa3D website at sourceforge.<br> 1268After 3.2 is wrapped up I hope to release 3.3 beta 1 soon afterward.</p> 1269<p>-- Brian</p> 1270 1271<h2>December 17, 1999</h2> 1272<p>A Slashdot interview with Brian about Mesa (questions submitted by Slashdot readers) 1273can 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> 1274 1275<h2>December 14, 1999</h2> 1276<p>Mesa 3.1 is released!</p> 1277 1278<h2>September 21, 1999</h2> 1279<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> 1280and <a href="ftp://ftp.mesa3d.org/mesa/beta/MesaDemos-3.1beta3.tar.gz">MesaDemos-3.1beta3.tar.gz</a>, 1281that seem to be... yes, I've just received confirmation from the beta center, they 1282are indeed the <b>THIRD</b> beta release of Mesa 3.1! Happy Days. Happy Days. Thanks 1283Keith Whitwell for preparing these for us during Brian's absence.</p> 1284 1285<h2>August 30, 1999</h2> 1286<p>I'm pleased to announce that I've accepted a position with Precision Insight, 1287Inc. effective October, 1999. I'll be leaving Avid Technology in September.</p> 1288<p>I've been working on Mesa in my spare time for over five years. With Precision 1289Insight I now have the opportunity to devote my full attention to advancing Mesa 1290and OpenGL on Linux.</p> 1291<p>While I'll be focused on Linux, the X Window System, and hardware acceleration, 1292my work will continue to be open sourced and available to any other programmers who 1293may want to contribute to it, or use it for other projects or platforms</p> 1294<p>PS: I'm going to be traveling until Sep 6 and won't be reading email until then.</p> 1295 1296<h2>August 23, 1999</h2> 1297<p>Anonymous CVS access is back online so suck up all the bandwidth you can afford. 1298Note that this is a new archive, so you will need to re-checkout the archive. That 1299means don't <i>cvs update</i> from a previous download.</p> 1300 1301<h2>August 17, 1999</h2> 1302<p>A report from the SIGGRAPH '99 Linux/OpenGL 1303BOF meeting is now available.</p> 1304<p>-Brian</p> 1305 1306<h2>August 14, 1999</h2> 1307<p>www.mesa3d.org is having technical problems due to hardware failures at VA Linux 1308systems. The Mac pages, ftp, and CVS services aren't fully restored yet. Please be 1309patient.</p> 1310<p>-Brian</p> 1311 1312<h2>June 7, 1999</h2> 1313<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> 1314 1315<h2>June 2, 1999</h2> 1316<p><a href="http://www.nvidia.com/">nVidia</a> has released some Linux binaries for 1317xfree86 3.3.3.1, along with the <b>full source</b>, which includes GLX acceleration 1318based 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> 1319 1320<h2>May 24, 1999</h2> 1321<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>. 1322If you are into the quake scene, you may want to try this out, as it contains some 1323optimizations specifically in the Q3A rendering path. 1324 1325<h2>May 13, 1999</h2> 1326<p>For those interested in the integration of Mesa into XFree86 4.0, Precision Insight 1327has posted their lowlevel design documents at http://www.precisioninsight.com.</p> 1328 1329<h2>May 13, 1999</h2> 1330<pre>May 1999 - John Carmack of id Software, Inc. has made a donation of 1331US$10,000 to the Mesa project to support its continuing development. 1332Mesa is a free implementation of the OpenGL 3D graphics library and id's 1333newest game, Quake 3 Arena, will use Mesa as the 3D renderer on Linux. 1334 1335The donation will go to Keith Whitwell, who has been optimizing Mesa to 1336improve performance on 3d hardware. Thanks to Keith's work, many 1337applications using Mesa 3.1 will see a dramatic performance increase 1338over Mesa 3.0. The donation will allow Keith to continue working on 1339Mesa full time for some time to come. 1340 1341For more information about Mesa see www.mesa3d.org. For more 1342information about id Software, Inc. see www.idsoftware.com. 1343 1344-------------------------------- 1345 1346This donation from John/id is very generous. Keith and I are very 1347grateful. 1348 1349</pre> 1350 1351<h2>May 1, 1999</h2> 1352<p>John Carmack made an interesting .plan update yesterday:</p> 1353<blockquote> 1354 <i>"I put together a document on optimizing OpenGL drivers for Q3 that 1355 should be helpful to the various Linux 3D teams.</i><br> 1356 http://www.quake3arena.com/news/glopt.html" 1357</blockquote> 1358 1359<h2>April 7, 1999</h2> 1360<p>Updated the Mesa contributors section and added links to RPM Mesa packages.</p> 1361 1362<h2>March 18, 1999</h2> 1363<p>The new webpages are now online. Enjoy, and let me know if you find any errors. 1364 1365<h2>February 16, 1999</h2> 1366<p><a href="http://www.sgi.com/">SGI</a> releases its <a href="http://www.sgi.com/software/opensource/glx/">GLX 1367source code</a>.</p> 1368 1369<h2>January 22, 1999</h2> 1370<p>www.mesa3d.org established</p> 1371 1372<hr> 1373</body> 1374</html> 1375