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11<H1>Mesa 7.8.3 Release Notes / (date tbd)</H1>
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14Mesa 7.8.3 is a bug fix release which fixes bugs found since the 7.8.2 release.
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17Mesa 7.8.3 implements the OpenGL 2.1 API, but the version reported by
18glGetString(GL_VERSION) depends on the particular driver being used.
19Some drivers don't support all the features required in OpenGL 2.1.
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22See the <a href="install.html">Compiling/Installing page</a> for prerequisites
23for DRI hardware acceleration.
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29x  MesaLib-7.8.3.tar.gz
30x  MesaLib-7.8.3.tar.bz2
31x  MesaLib-7.8.3.zip
32x  MesaDemos-7.8.3.tar.gz
33x  MesaDemos-7.8.3.tar.bz2
34x  MesaDemos-7.8.3.zip
35x  MesaGLUT-7.8.3.tar.gz
36x  MesaGLUT-7.8.3.tar.bz2
37x  MesaGLUT-7.8.3.zip
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41<h2>New features</h2>
42<p>None.</p>
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47<li>The radeon driver should use less memory when searching for a valid mip
48image.</li>
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52<h2>Bug fixes</h2>
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54<li>Fix unsupported FB with D24S8 (bug 
55    <a href="https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=23670">29116</a>)</li>
56<li>Fix ReadPixels crash when reading depth/stencil from an FBO</li>
57<li>Fixed a bug rendering to 16-bit buffers using swrast.</li>
58<li>Fixed a state tracker/TGSI bug that caused crashes when using Windows'
59    memory debugging features.</li>
60<li>Fixed an issue rendering to 32-bit channels with swrast (bug
61    <a href="https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=29487">29487</a>)</li>
62<li>GLSL: fix indirect <TT>gl_TextureMatrix</TT> addressing (bug
63    <a href="https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=28967">28967</a>)</li>
64<li>GLSL: fix for bug
65    <a href="https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=27216">27216</a></li>
66<li>GLSL: fix zw fragcoord entries in some cases (bug
67    <a href="https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=29183">29183</a>)</li>
68<li>Fix texture env generation in some cases (bug
69    <a href="https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=28169">28169</a>)</li>
70<li>osmesa: a fix for calling <TT>OSMesaMakeCurrent</TT> twice was applied (bug 
71    <a href="https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=10966">10966</a></li>
72<li>A bug was fixed which could cause Mesa to ignore the
73    <TT>MESA_EXTENSION_OVERRIDE</TT> environment variable.</li>
74<li>A bug related to specular highlights on backfaces was fixed.</li>
75<li>A radeon-specific issue with <TT>glCopyTex(Sub)Image</TT> was
76    corrected.</li>
77<li>radeon/wine: flush command stream in more cases, fixing wine d3d9
78    tests.</li>
79<li>r600: fix sin+cos normalization.</li>
80<li>r600: (properly) ignore <TT>GL_COORD_REPLACE</TT> when point sprites are
81    disabled.</li>
82<li>radeon: avoid flushing when the context is not current.</li>
83<li>r300c: a bug affecting unaligned BOs was fixed.</li>
84<li>r300c: a hardlock caused by ARB_half_float_vertex incorrectly advertised on some chipsets.</li>
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