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11<H1>Mesa 7.7 Release Notes / 21 December 2009</H1>
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14Mesa 7.7 is a new development release.
15People who are concerned with stability and reliability should stick
16with a previous release or wait for Mesa 7.7.1.
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19Mesa 7.7 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.
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24See the <a href="install.html">Compiling/Installing page</a> for prerequisites
25for DRI hardware acceleration.
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31395c9516edf1ad54b0934d8db15557bf  MesaLib-7.7.tar.gz
32e3fa64a1508bc23dd9de9dd2cea7cfb1  MesaLib-7.7.tar.bz2
33e54903eb5e49c3969821fa16b32da245  MesaLib-7.7.zip
3453b5b6f78e55de170d43c98cb6aaab7e  MesaDemos-7.7.tar.gz
356fd616b27b9826d0faa23e08e05d9435  MesaDemos-7.7.tar.bz2
36240fe06159ad73d5e22c27033b66c80a  MesaDemos-7.7.zip
379fe11a904b2a9d8cd06cc52bc330b716  MesaGLUT-7.7.tar.gz
38e8dceed05a59a2d3c2619d7d734587e3  MesaGLUT-7.7.tar.bz2
3996af041d435349ee23ead4667ec36363  MesaGLUT-7.7.zip
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43<h2>New features</h2>
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45<li>VMware "SVGA" Gallium driver.  This is a Gallium3D driver which targets the
46    VMware virtual graphics device.  It allows Linux OpenGL guest applications
47    to utilize the 3D graphics hardware of the host operating system.
48<li>GL_ARB_draw_elements_base_vertex (supported in Intel i965 and software drivers)</li>
49<li>GL_ARB_depth_clamp (supported in Intel i965 DRI and software drivers)</li>
50<li>GL_NV_depth_clamp (supported in Intel i965 DRI and software drivers)</li>
51<li>GL_ARB_provoking_vertex (same as GL_EXT_provoking_vertex)</li>
52<li>Wavefront .obj file loader/viewer demo (progs/demos/objviewer)
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56<h2>Bug fixes</h2>
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58<li>Many assorted i965 driver fixes.
59<li>Many r300-gallium driver fixes; this driver is now considered unstable-quality instead of experimental-quality.
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63<h2>Changes</h2>
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65<li>New Mesa texture/surface format infrastructure
66<li>Removed some unused Mesa device driver hooks
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