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10<h1>Mesa 7.8 Release Notes / March 28, 2010</h1>
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13Mesa 7.8 is a new development release.
14People who are concerned with stability and reliability should stick
15with a previous release or wait for Mesa 7.8.1.
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18Mesa 7.8 implements the OpenGL 2.1 API, but the version reported by
19glGetString(GL_VERSION) depends on the particular driver being used.
20Some drivers don't support all the features required in OpenGL 2.1.
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23See the <a href="install.html">Compiling/Installing page</a> for prerequisites
24for DRI hardware acceleration.
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305fcfde5383eccb3e9fd665f08a0ea59b  MesaLib-7.8.tar.gz
3185cb891eecb89aae4fdd3499cccd934b  MesaLib-7.8.tar.bz2
32754f39593006effc1c8ec3c27c2f1296  MesaLib-7.8.zip
33c3869c29fa6c3dbdd763f7428d271e12  MesaDemos-7.8.tar.gz
349fe8ec184c7f78691e43c4c0a7f97d56  MesaDemos-7.8.tar.bz2
35063a96947f7b83d4ad789c6cf291b184  MesaDemos-7.8.zip
365f4246756b7daaddb4fb3f970cad1e28  MesaGLUT-7.8.tar.gz
37ca7048a4aa7a437dcc84cc2c7d731336  MesaGLUT-7.8.tar.bz2
38b54581aeb79b585b158d6a32f94feff2  MesaGLUT-7.8.zip
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42<h2>New features</h2>
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44<li>GL_NV_conditional_render extension (swrast driver only)
45<li>GL_EXT_draw_buffers2 extension (swrast and i965 driver only)
46<li>GL_ARB_fragment_coord_conventions extension (for swrast, i965, and Gallium drivers)
47<li>GL_EXT_texture_array extension (swrast driver only)
48<li>GL_APPLE_object_purgeable extension (swrast and i945/i965 DRI drivers)
49<li>Much improved support for <a href="egl.html">EGL in Mesa</a>
50<li>New state trackers for <a href="opengles.html">OpenGL ES 1.1 and 2.0</a>
51<li>Dedicated documentation for Gallium
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55<h2>Bug fixes</h2>
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57<li>Massive improvements to the Gallium driver for R300-R500 Radeons; this
58    driver is now moderately stable but not terribly performant.
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62<h2>Changes</h2>
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64<li>Removed support for color-index rendering</li>
65<li>Removed support for GCC versions earlier than 3.3.0.</li>
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