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10<h1>Mesa 7.7 Release Notes / 21 December 2009</h1>
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13Mesa 7.7 is a new development release.
14People who are concerned with stability and reliability should stick
15with a previous release or wait for Mesa 7.7.1.
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18Mesa 7.7 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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30395c9516edf1ad54b0934d8db15557bf  MesaLib-7.7.tar.gz
31e3fa64a1508bc23dd9de9dd2cea7cfb1  MesaLib-7.7.tar.bz2
32e54903eb5e49c3969821fa16b32da245  MesaLib-7.7.zip
3353b5b6f78e55de170d43c98cb6aaab7e  MesaDemos-7.7.tar.gz
346fd616b27b9826d0faa23e08e05d9435  MesaDemos-7.7.tar.bz2
35240fe06159ad73d5e22c27033b66c80a  MesaDemos-7.7.zip
369fe11a904b2a9d8cd06cc52bc330b716  MesaGLUT-7.7.tar.gz
37e8dceed05a59a2d3c2619d7d734587e3  MesaGLUT-7.7.tar.bz2
3896af041d435349ee23ead4667ec36363  MesaGLUT-7.7.zip
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42<h2>New features</h2>
43<ul>
44<li>VMware "SVGA" Gallium driver.  This is a Gallium3D driver which targets the
45    VMware virtual graphics device.  It allows Linux OpenGL guest applications
46    to utilize the 3D graphics hardware of the host operating system.
47<li>GL_ARB_draw_elements_base_vertex (supported in Intel i965 and software drivers)</li>
48<li>GL_ARB_depth_clamp (supported in Intel i965 DRI and software drivers)</li>
49<li>GL_NV_depth_clamp (supported in Intel i965 DRI and software drivers)</li>
50<li>GL_ARB_provoking_vertex (same as GL_EXT_provoking_vertex)</li>
51<li>Wavefront .obj file loader/viewer demo (progs/demos/objviewer)
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55<h2>Bug fixes</h2>
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57<li>Many assorted i965 driver fixes.
58<li>Many r300-gallium driver fixes; this driver is now considered unstable-quality instead of experimental-quality.
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62<h2>Changes</h2>
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64<li>New Mesa texture/surface format infrastructure
65<li>Removed some unused Mesa device driver hooks
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