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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</a>. 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> 550The MD5 checksums are: 551</p> 552<pre> 553c9284d295ebcd2e0486cc3cd54e5863c MesaLib-6.1.tar.gz 5545de1f53ec0709f60fc68fdfed57351f3 MesaLib-6.1.tar.bz2 555483e77cac4789a5d36c42f3c0136d6d8 MesaLib-6.1.zip 5568c46cfa6f9732acc6f6c25724aad0246 MesaDemos-6.1.tar.gz 55789bfe0f6c69b39fd0ebd9fff481a4e9b MesaDemos-6.1.tar.bz2 558161268531fcc6f0c5a056430ee97e0c1 MesaDemos-6.1.zip 559</pre> 560 561 562 563<h2>April 2, 2004</h2> 564 565<p> 566Mesa 6.0.1 has been released. 567This release basically just fixes bugs since the 6.0. release. 568</p> 569<pre> 570 New: 571 - upgraded glext.h to version 22 572 - new build targets (Dan Schikore) 573 - new linux-x86-opteron build target (Heath Feather) 574 Bug fixes: 575 - glBindProgramARB didn't update all necessary state 576 - fixed build problems on OpenBSD 577 - omit CVS directories from tarballs 578 - glGetTexImage(GL_COLOR_INDEX) was broken 579 - fixed an infinite loop in t&l module 580 - silenced some valgrind warnings about using unitialized memory 581 - fixed some compilation/link glitches on IRIX (Mike Stephens) 582 - glBindProgram wasn't getting compiled into display lists 583 - GLX_FBCONFIG_ID wasn't recognized in glXChooseFBConfig() (bug 888079) 584 - two-sided lighting and vertex program didn't work (bug 887330) 585 - stores to program parameter registers in vertex state programs 586 didn't work. 587 - fixed glOrtho bug found with gcc 3.2.2 (RH9) 588 - glXCreateWindow() wasn't fully implemented (bug 890894) 589 - generic vertex attribute arrays didn't work in display lists 590 - vertex buffer objects' default usage and access fields were wrong 591 - glDrawArrays with start!=0 was broken 592 - fragment program PK2H, UP2H, UP4B and UP4UB instructions were broken 593 - linux-osmesa16-static config didn't work 594 - fixed a few color index rendering problems (bug 910687) 595 - glInterleavedArrays didn't respect GL_CLIENT_ACTIVE_TEXTURE 596 - OSMesa RGB and BGR modes were broken 597 - glProgramStringARB mistakenly required a null-terminated string 598 - fragment program XPD instruction was incorrect 599 - glGetMaterial() didn't work reliably 600</pre> 601The MD5 checksums are: 602</p> 603<pre> 604011be0e79666c7a6eb9693fbf9348653 MesaLib-6.0.1.tar.gz 605b7f14088c5c2f14490d2739a91102112 MesaLib-6.0.1.tar.bz2 606bf0510cf0a2b87d64cdd317eca3f1db1 MesaLib-6.0.1.zip 607b7b648599e0aaee1c4ffc554a2a9139e MesaDemos-6.0.1.tar.gz 608dd6aadfd9ca8e1cfa90c6ee492bc6f43 MesaDemos-6.0.1.tar.bz2 609eff71d59c211825e949199852f5a2316 MesaDemos-6.0.1.zip 610</pre> 611 612 613 614<h2>January 16, 2004</h2> 615 616<p> 617Mesa 6.0 has been released. This is a stabilization of the 5.1 release 618and primarily just incorporates bug fixes. 619</p> 620<pre> 621 New: 622 - full OpenGL 1.5 support 623 - updated GL/glext.h file to version 21 624 Changes: 625 - changed max framebuffer size to 4Kx4K (MAX_WIDTH/HEIGHT in config.h) 626 Bug fixes: 627 - fixed bug in UNCLAMPED_FLOAT_TO_UBYTE macro; solves a color 628 clamping issue 629 - updated suno5-gcc configs 630 - glColor3 functions sometimes resulted in undefined alpha values 631 - fixed FP divide by zero error seen on VMS with xlockmore, others 632 - fixed vertex/fragment program debug problem (bug 873011) 633 - building on AIX with gcc works now 634 - glDeleteProgramsARB failed for ARB fragment programs (bug 876160) 635 - glDrawRangeElements tried to modify potentially read-only storage 636 - updated files for building on Windows 637</pre> 638 639 640 641<h2>December 28, 2003</h2> 642 643<p> 644The Mesa CVS server has been moved to <a href="http://www.freedesktop.org" 645target="_parent"> 646freedesktop.org</a> because of problems with SourceForge's anonymous 647CVS service. 648</p> 649 650<p>Please see the <a href="cvs_access.html">CVS access page</a> for details. 651</p> 652 653 654<h2>December 17, 2003</h2> 655 656<p> 657Mesa 5.1 has been released. This is a new development release. 658Mesa 6.0 will be the next stable release and will support all 659OpenGL 1.5 features. 660</p> 661<pre> 662 New features: 663 - reorganized directory tree 664 - GL_ARB_vertex/fragment_program extensions (Michal Krol & Karl Rasche) 665 - GL_ATI_texture_env_combine3 extension (Ian Romanick) 666 - GL_SGI_texture_color_table extension (Eric Plante) 667 - GL_NV_fragment_program extension 668 - GL_NV_light_max_exponent extension 669 - GL_EXT_texture_rectangle (identical to GL_NV_texture_rectangle) 670 - GL_ARB_occlusion_query extension 671 - GL_ARB_point_sprite extension 672 - GL_ARB_texture_non_power_of_two extension 673 - GL_IBM_multimode_draw_arrays extension 674 - GL_EXT_texture_mirror_clamp extension (Ian Romanick) 675 - GL_ARB_vertex_buffer_object extension 676 - new X86 feature detection code (Petr Sebor) 677 - less memory used for display lists and vertex buffers 678 - demo of per-pixel lighting with a fragment program (demos/fplight.c) 679 - new version (18) of glext.h header 680 - new spriteblast.c demo of GL_ARB_point_sprite 681 - faster glDrawPixels in X11 driver in some cases (see RELNOTES-5.1) 682 - faster glCopyPixels in X11 driver in some cases (see RELNOTES-5.1) 683 Bug fixes: 684 - really enable OpenGL 1.4 features in DOS driver. 685 - fixed issues in glDrawPixels and glCopyPixels for very wide images 686 - glPixelMapf/ui/usv()'s size parameter is GLsizei, not GLint 687 - fixed some texgen bugs reported by Daniel Borca 688 - fixed wglMakeCurrent(NULL, NULL) bug (#835861) 689 - fixed glTexSubImage3D z-offset bug (Cedric Gautier) 690 - fixed RGBA blend enable bug (Ville Syrjala) 691 - glAccum is supposed to be a no-op in selection/feedback mode 692 - fixed texgen bug #597589 (John Popplewell) 693 Changes: 694 - dropped API trace feature (src/Trace/) 695 - documentation overhaul. merged with website content. more html. 696 - glxgears.c demo updated to use GLX swap rate extensions 697 - glTexImage1/2/3D now allows width/height/depth = 0 698 - disable SPARC asm code on Linux (bug 852204) 699</pre> 700 701The MD5 checksums are: 702</p> 703<pre> 70478f452f6c55478471a744f07147612b5 MesaLib-5.1.tar.gz 70567b3b8d3f7f4c8c44904551b851d01af MesaLib-5.1.tar.bz2 7066dd19ffa750ec7f634e370a987505c9d MesaLib-5.1.zip 707e0214d4ebb22409dfa9262f2b52fd828 MesaDemos-5.1.tar.gz 708066c9aff4fd924405de1ae9bad5ec9a7 MesaDemos-5.1.tar.bz2 709d2b5ba32b53e0ad0576c637a4cc1fb41 MesaDemos-5.1.zip 710</pre> 711 712 713<H2>November 12, 2003</H2> 714 715<p> 716New Mesa 5.0.2 tarballs have been uploaded to SourceForge which fix a 717number of automake/libtool problems. 718</p> 719<p> 720The new MD5 checksums are: 721</p> 722<pre> 723a9dcf3ff9ad1b7d6ce73a0df7cff8b5b MesaLib-5.0.2.tar.gz 7247b4bf9261657c2fca03796d4955e6f50 MesaLib-5.0.2.tar.bz2 72579c141bddcbad557647535d02194f346 MesaLib-5.0.2.zip 726952d9dc823dd818981d1a648d7b2668a MesaDemos-5.0.2.tar.gz 727b81fafff90995025d2f25ea02b786642 MesaDemos-5.0.2.tar.bz2 728a21be975589e8a2d1871b6bb7874fffa MesaDemos-5.0.2.zip 729</pre> 730 731 732 733<h2>September 5, 2003</h2> 734 735<p> 736Mesa 5.0.2 has been released. This is a stable, bug-fix release. 737</p> 738<pre> 739 Bug fixes: 740 - fixed texgen problem causing texcoord's Q to be zero (stex3d) 741 - default GL_TEXTURE_COMPARE_MODE_ARB was wrong 742 - GL_CURRENT_MATRIX_NV query was wrong 743 - GL_CURRENT_MATRIX_STACK_DEPTH_NV query was off by one 744 - GL_LIST_MODE query wasn't correct 745 - GL_FOG_COORDINATE_SOURCE_EXT query wasn't supported 746 - GL_SECONDARY_COLOR_ARRAY_SIZE_EXT query returned wrong value 747 - blended, wide lines didn't always work correctly (bug 711595) 748 - glVertexAttrib4svNV w component was always 1 749 - fixed bug in GL_IBM_rasterpos_clip (missing return) 750 - GL_DEPTH_TEXTURE_MODE = GL_ALPHA didn't work correctly 751 - a few Solaris compilation fixes 752 - fixed glClear() problem for DRI drivers (non-existant stencil, etc) 753 - fixed int/REAL mixup in GLU NURBS curve evaluator (Eric Cazeaux) 754 - fixed delete [] bug in SI GLU (bug 721765) (Diego Santa Cruz) 755 - glFog() didn't clamp fog colors 756 - fixed bad float/int conversion for GL_TEXTURE_PRIORITY in the 757 gl[Get]TexParameteri[v] functions 758 - fixed invalid memory references in glTexGen functions (bug 781602) 759 - integer-valued color arrays weren't handled correctly 760 - glDrawPixels(GL_DEPTH_COMPONENT) with glPixelZoom didn't work 761 - GL_EXT_texture_lod_bias is part of 1.4, overlooked in 5.0.1 762 Changes: 763 - build GLUT with -fexceptions so C++ apps propogate exceptions 764</pre> 765 766 767 768<h2>June 2003</h2> 769 770<p> 771Mesa's directory tree has been overhauled. 772Things are better organized now with some thought toward future needs. 773</p> 774<p> 775In CVS, the latest Mesa 5.1 development code is now rooted under the 776<b>Mesa-newtree/</b> directory. The old top-level <b>Mesa/</b> directory 777holds the Mesa 5.0.x code which will be abandoned at some point. 778</p> 779 780 781 782<h2>March 30, 2003</h2> 783 784<p> 785Mesa 5.0.1 has been released. This is a stable, bug-fix release. 786</p> 787<pre> 788 New: 789 - DOS driver updates from Daniel Borca 790 - updated GL/gl_mangle.h file (Bill Hoffman) 791 Bug fixes: 792 - auto mipmap generation for cube maps was broken (bug 641363) 793 - writing/clearing software alpha channels was unreliable 794 - minor compilation fixes for OS/2 (Evgeny Kotsuba) 795 - fixed some bad assertions found with shadowtex demo 796 - fixed error checking bug in glCopyTexSubImage2D (bug 659020) 797 - glRotate(angle, -x, 0, 0) was incorrect (bug 659677) 798 - fixed potential segfault in texture object validation (bug 659012) 799 - fixed some bogus code in _mesa_test_os_sse_exception_support (Linus) 800 - fix fog stride bug in tnl code for h/w drivers (Michel Danzer) 801 - fixed glActiveTexture / glMatrixMode(GL_TEXTURE) bug (#669080) 802 - glGet(GL_CURRENT_SECONDARY_COLOR) should return 4 values, not 3 803 - fixed compilation problem on Solaris7/x86 (bug 536406) 804 - fixed prefetch bug in 3DNow! code (Felix Kuhling) 805 - fixed NeXT build problem (FABSF macro) 806 - glDrawPixels Z values when glPixelZoom!=1 were invalid (bug 687811) 807 - zoomed glDraw/CopyPixels with clipping sometimes failed (bug 689964) 808 - AA line and triangle Z values are now rounded, not truncated 809 - fixed color interpolation bug when GLchan==GLfloat (bug 694461) 810 - glArePrograms/TexturesResident() wasn't 100% correct (Jose Fonseca) 811 - fixed a minor GL_COLOR_MATERIAL bug 812 - NV vertex program EXP instruction was broken 813 - glColorMask misbehaved with X window / pixmap rendering 814 - fix autoconf/libtool GLU C++ linker problem on Linux (a total hack) 815 - attempt to fix GGI compilation problem when MesaDemos not present 816 - NV vertex program ARL-relative fetches didn't work 817 Changes: 818 - use glPolygonOffset in gloss demo to avoid z-fighting artifacts 819 - updated winpos and pointblast demos to use ARB extensions 820 - disable SPARC normal transformation code (bug 673938) 821 - GLU fixes for OS/2 (Evgeny Kotsuba) 822</pre> 823<p> 824MD5 checksums follow: 825</p> 826<pre> 827b80f8b5d53a3e9f19b9fde5af0c542f0 MesaLib-5.0.1.tar.gz 828513b4bbd7d38951f05027179063d876b MesaLib-5.0.1.tar.bz2 829eebd395678f4520d33b267e5d5c22651 MesaLib-5.0.1.zip 83049d7feaec6dc1d2091d7c3cc72a9b320 MesaDemos-5.0.1.tar.gz 83137190374a98c3c892f0698be9ca3acf0 MesaDemos-5.0.1.tar.bz2 832becd8bf17f5791361b4a54ba2a78e5c9 MesaDemos-5.0.1.zip 833</pre> 834 835 836 837<h2>March 7, 2003</h2> 838<p> 839Website and documentation overhaul. 840</p> 841<p> 842The website content and Mesa documentation (from the doc/ directory) have 843been merged together. 844All the documentation files have been entered into the CVS repository. 845Many of the old plain-text files have been converted to html and modernized. 846</p> 847 848 849<h2>November 13, 2002</h2> 850<p>Mesa 5.0 has been released. This is a stable release which 851implements the OpenGL 1.4 specification. 852</p><pre>New: 853 - OpenGL 1.4 support (glGetString(GL_VERSION) returns "1.4") 854 - removed some overlooked debugging code 855 - glxinfo updated to support GLX_ARB_multisample 856 - GLUT now support GLX_ARB_multisample 857 - updated DOS driver (Daniel Borca) 858Bug fixes: 859 - GL_POINT and GL_LINE-mode polygons didn't obey cull state 860 - fixed potential bug in _mesa_align_malloc/calloc() 861 - fixed missing triangle bug when running vertex programs 862 - fixed a few HPUX compilation problems 863 - FX (Glide) driver didn't compile 864 - setting GL_TEXTURE_BORDER_COLOR with glTexParameteriv() didn't work 865 - a few EXT functions, like glGenTexturesEXT, were no-ops 866 - a few OpenGL 1.4 functions like glFogCoord*, glBlendFuncSeparate, 867 glMultiDrawArrays and glMultiDrawElements were missing 868 - glGet*(GL_ACTIVE_STENCIL_FACE_EXT) was broken 869 - Pentium 4 Mobile was mistakenly identified as having 3DNow! 870 - fixed one-bit error in point/line fragment Z calculation 871 - fixed potential segfault in fakeglx code 872 - fixed color overflow problem in DOT3 texture env mode 873</pre> 874 875 876<h2>October 29, 2002</h2> 877<p>Mesa 4.1 has been released. This is a new development release. 878For a stable release, get 4.0.4. 879</p><pre>New: 880 - GL_NV_vertex_program extension 881 - GL_NV_vertex_program1_1 extension 882 - GL_ARB_window_pos extension 883 - GL_ARB_depth_texture extension 884 - GL_ARB_shadow extension 885 - GL_ARB_shadow_ambient extension 886 - GL_EXT_shadow_funcs extension 887 - GL_ARB_point_parameters extension 888 - GL_ARB_texture_env_crossbar 889 - GL_NV_point_sprite extension 890 - GL_NV_texture_rectangle extension 891 - GL_EXT_multi_draw_arrays extension 892 - GL_EXT_stencil_two_side extension 893 - GLX_SGIX_fbconfig and GLX_SGIX_pbuffer extensions 894 - GL_ATI_texture_mirror_once extension (Ian Romanick) 895 - massive overhaul/simplification of software rasterizer module, 896 many contributions from Klaus Niederkrueger 897 - faster software texturing in some cases (i.e. trilinear filtering) 898 - new OSMesaGetProcAddress() function 899 - more blend modes implemented with MMX code (Jose Fonseca) 900 - added glutGetProcAddress() to GLUT 901 - added GLUT_FPS env var to compute frames/second in glutSwapBuffers() 902 - pbinfo and pbdemo PBuffer programs 903 - glxinfo -v prints transprent pixel info (Gerd Sussner) 904Bug fixes: 905 - better mipmap LOD computation (prevents excessive blurriness) 906 - OSMesaMakeCurrent() didn't recognize buffer size changes 907 - assorted conformance fixes for 16-bit/channel rendering 908 - texcombine alpha subtraction mode was broken 909 - fixed some blend problems when GLchan==GLfloat (Gerk Huisma) 910 - clamp colors to [0,1] in OSMesa if GLchan==GLfloat (Gerk Huisma) 911 - fixed divide by zero error in NURBS tessellator (Jon Perry) 912 - fixed GL_LINEAR fog bug by adding clamping 913 - fixed FP exceptions found using Alpha CPU 914 - 3dfx/glide driver render-to-window feature was broken 915 - added missing GLX_TRANSPARENT_RGB token to glx.h 916 - fixed error checking related to paletted textures 917 - fixed reference count error in glDeleteTextures (Randy Fayan) 918Changes: 919 - New spec file and Python code to generate some GL dispatch files 920 - Glide driver defaults to "no" with autoconf/automake 921 - floating point color channels now clamped to [0,inf) 922 - updated demos/stex3d with new options 923</pre> 924 925 926<h2>October 4, 2002</h2> 927<p> 928The <a href="http://mesa3d.sourceforge.net/docs/MesaFAQ.html">Mesa FAQ</a> has been rewritten. 929</p> 930 931<h2>October 3, 2002</h2> 932<p>Mesa 4.0.4 has been released. This is a stable bug-fix release. 933</p><pre> New: 934 - GL_NV_texture_rectangle extension 935 - updated glext.h header (version 17) 936 - updated DOS driver (Daniel Borca) 937 - updated BeOS R5 driver (Philippe Houdoin) 938 - added GL_IBM_texture_mirror_repeat 939 - glxinfo now takes -l option to print interesting OpenGL limits info 940 - GL_MESA_ycbcr_texture extension 941 - GL_APPLE_client_storage extension (for some DRI drivers only) 942 - GL_MESA_pack_invert extension 943 Bug fixes: 944 - fixed GL_LINEAR fog bug by adding clamping 945 - fixed FP exceptions found using Alpha CPU 946 - 3dfx MESA_GLX_FX=window (render to window) didn't work 947 - fixed memory leak in wglCreateContest (Karl Schultz) 948 - define GLAPIENTRY and GLAPI if undefined in glu.h 949 - wglGetProcAddress didn't handle all API functions 950 - when testing for OpenGL 1.2 vs 1.3, check for GL_ARB_texture_cube_map 951 - removed GL_MAX_CONVOLUTION_WIDTH/HEIGHT from glGetInteger/Float/etc() 952 - error checking in compressed tex image functions had some glitches 953 - fixed AIX compile problem in src/config.c 954 - glGetTexImage was using pixel unpacking instead of packing params 955 - auto-mipmap generation for cube maps was incorrect 956 Changes: 957 - max texture units reduced to six to accomodate texture rectangles 958 - removed unfinished GL_MESA_sprite_point extension code 959</pre> 960 961<h2>June 25, 2002</h2> 962<p>Mesa 4.0.3 has been released. This is a stable bug-fix release. 963</p><pre> New: 964 - updated GL/glext.h file (version 15) 965 - corrected MMX blend code (Jose Fonseca) 966 - support for software-based alpha planes in Windows driver 967 - updated GGI driver (Filip Spacek) 968 Bug fixes: 969 - glext.h had wrong values for GL_DOT3_RGB[A]_EXT tokens 970 - OSMesaMakeCurrent() didn't recognize buffer size changes 971 - assorted conformance fixes for 16-bit/channel rendering 972 - texcombine alpha subtraction mode was broken 973 - fixed lighting bug with non-uniform scaling and display lists 974 - fixed bug when deleting shared display lists 975 - disabled SPARC cliptest assembly code (Mesa bug 544665) 976 - fixed a couple Solaris compilation/link problems 977 - blending clipped glDrawPixels didn't always work 978 - glGetTexImage() didn't accept packed pixel types 979 - glPixelMapu[is]v() could explode given too large of pixelmap 980 - glGetTexParameter[if]v() didn't accept GL_TEXTURE_MAX_ANISOTROPY_EXT 981 - glXCopyContext() could lead to segfaults 982 - glCullFace(GL_FRONT_AND_BACK) didn't work (bug 572665) 983 Changes: 984 - lots of C++ (g++) code clean-ups 985 - lots of T&L updates for the Radeon DRI driver 986 Known bugs: 987 - mipmap LOD computation (fixed for Mesa 4.1) 988</pre> 989 990<h2>April 2, 2002</h2> 991<p>Mesa 4.0.2 has been released. This is a stable bug-fix release. 992</p><pre> New: 993 - New DOS (DJGPP) driver written by Daniel Borca 994 - New driver interface functions for TCL drivers (such as Radeon DRI) 995 - GL_RENDERER string returns "Mesa Offscreen16" or "Mesa Offscreen32" 996 if using deep color channels 997 - latest GL/glext.h and GL/glxext.h headers from SGI 998 Bug fixes: 999 - GL_BLEND with non-black texture env color wasn't always correct 1000 - GL_REPLACE with GL_RGB texture format wasn't always correct (alpha) 1001 - glTexEnviv( pname != GL_TEXTURE_ENV_COLOR ) was broken 1002 - glReadPixels was sometimes mistakenly clipped by the scissor box 1003 - glDraw/ReadPixels didn't catch all the errors that they should have 1004 - Fixed 24bpp rendering problem in Windows driver (Karl Schultz) 1005 - 16-bit GLchan mode fixes (m_trans_tmp.h, s_triangle.c) 1006 - Fixed 1-bit float->int conversion bug in glDrawPixels(GL_DEPTH_COMP) 1007 - glColorMask as sometimes effecting glXSwapBuffers() 1008 - fixed a potential bug in XMesaGarbageCollect() 1009 - N threads rendering into one window didn't work reliably 1010 - glCopyPixels didn't work for deep color channels 1011 - improved 8 -> 16bit/channel texture image conversion (Gerk Huisma) 1012 - glPopAttrib() didn't correctly restore user clip planes 1013 - user clip planes failed for some perspective projections (Chromium) 1014</pre> 1015 1016<h2>December 17, 2001</h2> 1017<p>Mesa 4.0.1 has been released. This is a stable bug-fix release. 1018</p><pre> New: 1019 - better sub-pixel sample positions for AA triangles (Ray Tice) 1020 - slightly faster blending for (GL_ZERO, GL_ONE) and (GL_ONE, GL_ZERO) 1021 Bug fixes: 1022 - added missing break statements in glGet*() for multisample cases 1023 - fixed uninitialized hash table mutex bug (display lists / texobjs) 1024 - fixed bad teximage error check conditional (bug 476846) 1025 - fixed demos readtex.c compilation problem on Windows (Karl Schultz) 1026 - added missing glGet() query for GL_MAX_TEXTURE_LOD_BIAS_EXT 1027 - silence some compiler warnings (gcc 2.96) 1028 - enable the #define GL_VERSION_1_3 in GL/gl.h 1029 - added GL 1.3 and GLX 1.4 entries to gl_mangle.h and glx_mangle.h 1030 - fixed glu.h typedef problem found with MSDev 6.0 1031 - build libGL.so with -Bsymbolic (fixes bug found with Chromium) 1032 - added missing 'const' to glXGetContextIDEXT() in glxext.h 1033 - fixed a few glXGetProcAddress() errors (texture compression, etc) 1034 - fixed start index bug in compiled vertex arrays (Keith) 1035 - fixed compilation problems in src/SPARC/glapi_sparc.S 1036 - fixed triangle strip "parity" bug found in VTK medical1 demo (Keith) 1037 - use glXGetProcAddressARB in GLUT to avoid extension linking problems 1038 - provoking vertex of flat-shaded, color-index triangles was wrong 1039 - fixed a few display list bugs (GLUT walker, molecule, etc) (Keith) 1040 - glTexParameter didn't flush the vertex buffer (Ray Tice) 1041 - feedback attributes for glDraw/CopyPixels and glBitmap were wrong 1042 - fixed bug in normal length caching (ParaView lighting bug) 1043</pre> 1044 1045<h2>October 22, 2001</h2> 1046<p>Mesa 4.0 has been released. This is a stable release. 1047</p><pre> New: 1048 - Mesa 4.0 implements the OpenGL 1.3 specification 1049 - GL_IBM_rasterpos_clip extension 1050 - GL_EXT_texture_edge_clamp extension (aka GL_SGIS_texture_edge_clamp) 1051 - GL_ARB_texture_mirrored_repeat extension 1052 - WindML UGL driver (Stephane Raimbault) 1053 - added OSMESA_MAX_WIDTH/HEIGHT queries 1054 - attempted compiliation fixes for Solaris 5, 7 and 8 1055 - updated glext.h and glxext.h files 1056 - updated Windows driver (Karl Schultz) 1057 Bug fixes: 1058 - added some missing GLX 1.3 tokens to include/GL/glx.h 1059 - GL_COLOR_MATRIX changes weren't recognized by teximage functions 1060 - glCopyPixels with scale and bias was broken 1061 - glRasterPos with lighting could segfault 1062 - glDeleteTextures could leave a dangling pointer 1063 - Proxy textures for cube maps didn't work 1064 - fixed a number of 16-bit color channel bugs 1065 - fixed a few minor memory leaks 1066 - GLX context sharing was broken in 3.5 1067 - fixed state-update bugs in glPopClientAttrib() 1068 - fixed glDrawRangeElements() bug 1069 - fixed a glPush/PopAttrib() bug related to texture binding 1070 - flat-shaded, textured lines were broken 1071 - fixed a dangling pointer problem in the XMesa code (Chris Burghart) 1072 - lighting didn't always produce the correct alpha value 1073 - fixed 3DNow! code to not read past end of arrays (Andrew Lewycky) 1074</pre> 1075 1076 1077<h2>June 21, 2001</h2> 1078<p>Mesa 3.5 has been released. This is a new development release. 1079</p><pre> New: 1080 - internals of Mesa divided into modular pieces (Keith Whitwell) 1081 - 100% OpenGL 1.2 conformance (passes all conformance tests) 1082 - new AA line algorithm 1083 - GL_EXT_convolution extension 1084 - GL_ARB_imaging subset 1085 - OSMesaCreateContextExt() function 1086 - GL_ARB_texture_env_add extension (same as GL_EXT_texture_env_add) 1087 - GL_MAX_TEXTURE_UNITS_ARB now defaults to eight 1088 - GL_EXT_fog_coord extension (Keith Whitwell) 1089 - GL_EXT_secondary_color extension (Keith Whitwell) 1090 - GL_ARB_texture_env_add extension (same as GL_EXT_texture_env_add) 1091 - GL_SGIX_depth_texture extension 1092 - GL_SGIX_shadow and GL_SGIX_shadow_ambient extensions 1093 - demos/shadowtex.c demo of GL_SGIX_depth_texture and GL_SGIX_shadow 1094 - GL_ARB_texture_env_combine extension 1095 - GL_ARB_texture_env_dot3 extension 1096 - GL_ARB_texture_border_clamp (aka GL_SGIS_texture_border_clamp) 1097 - OSMesaCreateContextExt() function 1098 - libOSMesa.so library, contains the OSMesa driver interface 1099 - GL/glxext.h header file for GLX extensions 1100 - somewhat faster software texturing, fogging, depth testing 1101 - all color-index conformance tests now pass (only 8bpp tested) 1102 - SPARC assembly language TCL optimizations (David Miller) 1103 - GL_SGIS_generate_mipmap extension 1104 Bug Fixes: 1105 - fbiRev and tmuRev were unitialized when using Glide3 1106 - fixed a few color index mode conformance failures; all pass now 1107 - now appling antialiasing coverage to alpha after texturing 1108 - colors weren't getting clamped to [0,1] before color table lookup 1109 - fixed RISC alignment errors caused by COPY_4UBV macro 1110 - drawing wide, flat-shaded lines could cause a segfault 1111 - vertices now snapped to 1/16 pixel to fix rendering of tiny triangles 1112 Changes: 1113 - SGI's Sample Implementation (SI) 1.3 GLU library replaces Mesa GLU 1114 - new libOSMesa.so library, contains the OSMesa driver interface 1115</pre> 1116 1117 1118<h2>May 17, 2001</h2> 1119<p>Mesa 3.4.2 has been released. This is basically just a bug-fix release. 1120Here's what's new:</p> 1121<pre> Bug fixes: 1122 - deleting the currently bound texture could cause bad problems 1123 - using fog could result in random vertex alpha values 1124 - AA triangle rendering could touch pixels outside right window bound 1125 - fixed byteswapping problem in clear_32bit_ximage() function 1126 - fixed bugs in wglUseFontBitmapsA(), by Frank Warmerdam 1127 - fixed memory leak in glXUseXFont() 1128 - fragment sampling in AA triangle function was off by 1/2 pixel 1129 - Windows: reading pixels from framebuffer didn't always work 1130 - glConvolutionFilter2D could segfault or cause FP exception 1131 - fixed segfaults in FX and X drivers when using tex unit 1 but not 0 1132 - GL_NAND logicop didn't work right in RGBA mode 1133 - fixed a memory corruption bug in vertex buffer reset code 1134 - clearing the softwara alpha buffer with scissoring was broken 1135 - fixed a few color index mode fog bugs 1136 - fixed some bad assertions in color index mode 1137 - fixed FX line 'stipple' bug #420091 1138 Changes: 1139 - optimized writing mono-colored pixel spans to X pixmaps 1140 - increased max viewport size to 2048 x 2048 1141</pre> 1142 1143 1144<h2>April 29, 2001</h2> 1145<p>New Mesa website</p> 1146<p>Mark Manning produced the new website.<br>Thanks, Mark!</p> 1147 1148 1149<h2>February 14, 2001</h2> 1150<p>Mesa 3.4.1 has been released. Here's what's new:</p> 1151<pre> New: 1152 - fixed some Linux build problems 1153 - fixed some Windows build problems 1154 - GL_EXT_texture_env_dot3 extension (Gareth Hughes) 1155 Bug fixes: 1156 - added RENDER_START/RENDER_FINISH macros for glCopyTexImage in DRI 1157 - various state-update code changes needed for DRI bugs 1158 - disabled pixel transfer ops in glColorTable commands, not needed 1159 - fixed bugs in glCopyConvolutionFilter1D/2D, glGetConvolutionFilter 1160 - updated sources and fixed compile problems in widgets-mesa/ 1161 - GLX_PBUFFER enum value was wrong in glx.h 1162 - fixed a glColorMaterial lighting bug 1163 - fixed bad args to Read/WriteStencilSpan in h/w stencil clear function 1164 - glXCopySubBufferMESA() Y position was off by one 1165 - Error checking of glTexSubImage3D() was broken (bug 128775) 1166 - glPopAttrib() didn't restore all derived Mesa state correctly 1167 - Better glReadPixels accuracy for 16bpp color - fixes lots of OpenGL 1168 conformance problems at 16bpp. 1169 - clearing depth buffer with scissoring was broken, would segfault 1170 - OSMesaGetDepthBuffer() returned bad bytesPerValue value 1171 - fixed a line clipping bug (reported by Craig McDaniel) 1172 - fixed RGB color over/underflow bug for very tiny triangles 1173 Known problems: 1174 - NURBS or evaluator surfaces inside display lists don't always work 1175</pre> 1176<p> 1177</p><h2>November 3, 2000</h2> 1178<p>Mesa 3.4 has been released. Here's what's new since the 3.3 release:</p> 1179<pre> New: 1180 - optimized glDrawPixels for glPixelZoom(1,-1) 1181 Bug Fixes: 1182 - widgets-mesa/src/*.c files were missing from 3.3 distro 1183 - include/GL/mesa_wgl.h file was missing from 3.3 distro 1184 - fixed some Win32 compile problems 1185 - texture object priorities weren't getting initialized to 1.0 1186 - glAreTexturesResident return value was wrong when using hardware 1187 - glXUseXFont segfaulted when using 3dfx driver (via MESA_GLX_FX) 1188 - glReadPixels with GLushort packed types was broken 1189 - fixed a few bugs in the GL_EXT_texture_env_combine texture code 1190 - glPush/PopAttrib(GL_ENABLE_BIT) mishandled multi-texture enables 1191 - fixed some typos/bugs in the VB code 1192 - glDrawPixels(GL_COLOR_INDEX) to RGB window didn't work 1193 - optimized glDrawPixels paths weren't being used 1194 - per-fragment fog calculation didn't work without a Z buffer 1195 - improved blending accuracy, fixes Glean blendFunc test failures 1196 - glPixelStore(GL_PACK/UNPACK_SKIP_IMAGES) wasn't handled correctly 1197 - glXGetProcAddressARB() didn't always return the right address 1198 - gluBuild[12]DMipmaps() didn't grok the GL_BGR pixel format 1199 - texture matrix changes weren't always detected (GLUT projtex demo) 1200 - fixed random color problem in vertex fog code 1201 - fixed Glide-related bug that let Quake get a 24-bit Z buffer 1202 Changes: 1203 - finished internal support for compressed textures for DRI 1204</pre> 1205<p> 1206</p><h2>April 24, 2000</h2> 1207<p>Mesa 3.2 has been released. Here's what's new since the beta release:</p> 1208<pre> Bug fixes: 1209 - fixed memcpy bugs in span.c 1210 - fixed missing glEnd problem in demos/tessdemo.c 1211 - fixed bug when clearing 24bpp Ximages 1212 - fixed clipping problem found in Unreal Tournament 1213 - fixed Loki's "ice bug" and "crazy triangles" seen in Heretic2 1214 - fixed Loki's 3dfx RGB vs BGR bug 1215 - fixed Loki's 3dfx smooth/flat shading bug in SoF 1216 Changes: 1217 - updated docs/README file 1218 - use bcopy() optimizations on FreeBSD 1219 - re-enabled the optimized persp_textured_triangle() function 1220</pre> 1221<p> 1222</p><h2>March 23, 2000</h2> 1223<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> 1224<p>3.2 (note even number) is a stabilization release of Mesa 3.1 meaning it's mainly 1225just bug fixes.</p> 1226<p>Here's what's changed: 1227 1228</p><ul> 1229 Bug fixes: 1230 <ul> 1231 - mixed drawing of lines and bitmaps sometimes had wrong colors<br> 1232 - added missing glHintPGI() function<br> 1233 - fixed a polygon culling bug<br> 1234 - fixed bugs in gluPartialDisk()<br> 1235 - Z values in selection mode were wrong<br> 1236 - added missing tokens: 1237 <ul> 1238 GL_SMOOTH_POINT_SIZE_RANGE<br> 1239 GL_SMOOTH_POINT_SIZE_GRANULARITY<br> 1240 GL_SMOOTH_LINE_WIDTH_RANGE<br> 1241 GL_SMOOTH_LINE_WIDTH_GRANULARITY<br> 1242 GL_ALIASED_POINT_SIZE_RANGE<br> 1243 GL_ALIASED_LINE_WIDTH_RANGE 1244 </ul> 1245 - fixed glCopyPixels when copying from back to front buffer<br> 1246 - GL_EXT_compiled_vertex_array tokens had _SGI suffix instead of _EXT<br> 1247 - glDrawRangeElements(GL_LINES, 0, 1, 2, type, indices) was broken<br> 1248 - glDeleteTextures() didn't decrement reference count correctly<br> 1249 - GL_SRCA_ALPHA_SATURATE blend mode didn't work correctly<br> 1250 - Actual depth of transformation matrix stacks was off by one<br> 1251 - 24bpp visuals didn't address pixels correctly<br> 1252 - mipmap level of detail (lambda) calculation simplified, more accurate<br> 1253 - 101691 - Polygon clipping and GL_LINE<br> 1254 - 101928 - Polygon clipping and GL_LINE (same fix as above)<br> 1255 - 101808 - Non-glVertexArrays tristrip bug<br> 1256 - 101971 - find_last_3f on Dec OSF (worked around)<br> 1257 - 102369 - segv on dec osf (possibly a duplicate of the above)<br> 1258 - 102893 - orientations of modelview cause segfault 1259 </ul> 1260 New: 1261 <ul> 1262 - updated SVGA Linux driver<br> 1263 - added the MESA_FX_NO_SIGNALS env var, see docs/README.3DFX<br> 1264 - build libGLw.a (Xt/OpenGL drawing area widget) library by default<br> 1265 - changed -O2 to -O3 for a number of gcc configs 1266 </ul> 1267 Changes: 1268 <ul> 1269 - glXCopyContext's mask parameter is now unsigned long, per GLX spec 1270 </ul> 1271</ul> 1272 1273<p>Please report any problems with this release ASAP. Bugs should be filed on the 1274Mesa3D website at sourceforge.<br> 1275After 3.2 is wrapped up I hope to release 3.3 beta 1 soon afterward.</p> 1276<p>-- Brian</p> 1277<p> 1278</p><h2>December 17, 1999</h2> 1279<p>A Slashdot interview with Brian about Mesa (questions submitted by Slashdot readers) 1280can 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> 1281<p> 1282</p><h2>December 14, 1999</h2> 1283<p>Mesa 3.1 is released!</p> 1284<p> 1285</p><h2>September 21, 1999</h2> 1286<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> 1287and <a href="ftp://ftp.mesa3d.org/mesa/beta/MesaDemos-3.1beta3.tar.gz">MesaDemos-3.1beta3.tar.gz</a>, 1288that seem to be... yes, I've just received confirmation from the beta center, they 1289are indeed the <b>THIRD</b> beta release of Mesa 3.1! Happy Days. Happy Days. Thanks 1290Keith Whitwell for preparing these for us during Brian's absence.</p> 1291<p> 1292</p><h2>August 30, 1999</h2> 1293<p>I'm pleased to announce that I've accepted a position with Precision Insight, 1294Inc. effective October, 1999. I'll be leaving Avid Technology in September.</p> 1295<p>I've been working on Mesa in my spare time for over five years. With Precision 1296Insight I now have the opportunity to devote my full attention to advancing Mesa 1297and OpenGL on Linux.</p> 1298<p>While I'll be focused on Linux, the X Window System, and hardware acceleration, 1299my work will continue to be open sourced and available to any other programmers who 1300may want to contribute to it, or use it for other projects or platforms</p> 1301<p>PS: I'm going to be traveling until Sep 6 and won't be reading email until then.</p> 1302<p> 1303</p><h2>August 23, 1999</h2> 1304<p>Anonymous CVS access is back online so suck up all the bandwidth you can afford. 1305Note that this is a new archive, so you will need to re-checkout the archive. That 1306means don't <i>cvs update</i> from a previous download.</p> 1307<p> 1308</p><h2>August 17, 1999</h2> 1309<p>A report from the SIGGRAPH '99 Linux/OpenGL 1310BOF meeting is now available.</p> 1311<p>-Brian</p> 1312<p> 1313</p><h2>August 14, 1999</h2> 1314<p>www.mesa3d.org is having technical problems due to hardware failures at VA Linux 1315systems. The Mac pages, ftp, and CVS services aren't fully restored yet. Please be 1316patient.</p> 1317<p>-Brian</p> 1318<p> 1319</p><h2>June 7, 1999</h2> 1320<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> 1321<p> 1322</p><h2>June 2, 1999</h2> 1323<p><a href="http://www.nvidia.com/">nVidia</a> has released some Linux binaries for 1324xfree86 3.3.3.1, along with the <b>full source</b>, which includes GLX acceleration 1325based 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> 1326<p> 1327</p><h2>May 24, 1999</h2> 1328<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>. 1329If you are into the quake scene, you may want to try this out, as it contains some 1330optimizations specifically in the Q3A rendering path. 1331<p> 1332</p><h2>May 13, 1999</h2> 1333<p>For those interested in the integration of Mesa into XFree86 4.0, Precision Insight 1334has posted their lowlevel design documents at http://www.precisioninsight.com.</p> 1335<p> 1336</p><h2>May 13, 1999</h2> 1337<pre>May 1999 - John Carmack of id Software, Inc. has made a donation of 1338US$10,000 to the Mesa project to support its continuing development. 1339Mesa is a free implementation of the OpenGL 3D graphics library and id's 1340newest game, Quake 3 Arena, will use Mesa as the 3D renderer on Linux. 1341 1342The donation will go to Keith Whitwell, who has been optimizing Mesa to 1343improve performance on 3d hardware. Thanks to Keith's work, many 1344applications using Mesa 3.1 will see a dramatic performance increase 1345over Mesa 3.0. The donation will allow Keith to continue working on 1346Mesa full time for some time to come. 1347 1348For more information about Mesa see www.mesa3d.org. For more 1349information about id Software, Inc. see www.idsoftware.com. 1350 1351-------------------------------- 1352 1353This donation from John/id is very generous. Keith and I are very 1354grateful. 1355 1356</pre> 1357<p> 1358</p><h2>May 1, 1999</h2> 1359<p>John Carmack made an interesting .plan update yesterday: 1360 1361</p><ul> 1362 <i>"I put together a document on optimizing OpenGL drivers for Q3 that 1363 should be helpful to the various Linux 3D teams. <br> 1364 </i>http://www.quake3arena.com/news/glopt.html</i>" 1365</ul> 1366 1367<p> 1368</p><h2>April 7, 1999</h2> 1369<p>Updated the Mesa contributors section and added links to RPM Mesa packages.</p> 1370<p> 1371</p><h2>March 18, 1999</h2> 1372<p>The new webpages are now online. Enjoy, and let me know if you find any errors. 1373<p> 1374</p><h2>February 16, 1999</h2> 1375<p><a href="http://www.sgi.com/">SGI</a> releases its <a href="http://www.sgi.com/software/opensource/glx/">GLX 1376source code</a>.</p> 1377<p> 1378</p><h2>January 22, 1999</h2> 1379<p>www.mesa3d.org established</p> 1380 1381 1382</p> 1383 1384 1385<hr> 1386</body> 1387</html> 1388