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1<HTML> 2 3<TITLE>Mesa Release Notes</TITLE> 4 5<head><link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="mesa.css"></head> 6 7<BODY> 8 9<body bgcolor="#eeeeee"> 10 11<H1>Mesa 7.6 Release Notes / date TBD</H1> 12 13<p> 14Mesa 7.6 is a new development release. 15People who are concerned with stability and reliability should stick 16with a previous release or wait for Mesa 7.6.1. 17</p> 18<p> 19Mesa 7.6 implements the OpenGL 2.1 API, but the version reported by 20glGetString(GL_VERSION) depends on the particular driver being used. 21Some drivers don't support all the features required in OpenGL 2.1. 22</p> 23<p> 24See the <a href="install.html">Compiling/Installing page</a> for prerequisites 25for DRI hardware acceleration. 26</p> 27 28 29<h2>MD5 checksums</h2> 30<pre> 31tbd 32</pre> 33 34 35<h2>New features</h2> 36<ul> 37<li><a href="openvg.html">OpenVG</a> front-end (state tracker for Gallium). 38This was written by Zack Rusin at Tungsten Graphics. 39<li>GL_APPLE_vertex_array_object for Gallium drivers and Intel DRI drivers. 40<li>GL_ARB_vertex_array_object for Gallium drivers, software drivers and 41 Intel DRI drivers. 42<li>GL_ARB_copy_buffer extension (supported in Gallium and swrast drivers) 43<LI>GL_ARB_map_buffer_range extension (supported in Gallium and software drivers) 44<li>GL_EXT_provoking_vertex extension (supported in Gallium and software drivers) 45<li>Rewritten radeon/r200/r300 driver using a buffer manager 46<li>radeon/r200/r300 GL_EXT_framebuffer_object support when used with 47 kernel memory manager 48<li>r300 driver support for GL_EXT_vertex_array_bgra, GL_EXT_texture_sRGB 49<li>i915/945 driver support for GL_ARB_point_sprite, GL_EXT_stencil_two_side 50 and GL_ATI_separate_stencil extensions 51</ul> 52 53 54<h2>Bug fixes</h2> 55<ul> 56<li>i965 DRI driver fixes, including support for "unlimited" size constant 57 buffers (GLSL uniforms) 58</ul> 59 60 61<h2>Changes</h2> 62<ul> 63</ul> 64 65</body> 66</html> 67