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diff --git a/mesalib/docs/news.html b/mesalib/docs/news.html index 140f35b47..b6b82671c 100644 --- a/mesalib/docs/news.html +++ b/mesalib/docs/news.html @@ -1,15 +1,13 @@ -<HTML> - -<TITLE>Mesa News</TITLE> - -<head><link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="mesa.css"></head> - -<BODY> - -<body bgcolor="#eeeeee"> - -<H1>News</H1> +<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/loose.dtd"> +<html lang="en"> +<head> + <meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"> + <title>Mesa News</title> + <link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="mesa.css"> +</head> +<body> +<h1>News</h1> <h2>May 18, 2012</h2> @@ -311,7 +309,7 @@ shading language and built-in functions. <h2>April 2007</h2> <p> Thomas Hellström of Tungsten Graphics has written a whitepaper -describing the new DRI memory management system</a>. +describing the new DRI memory management system. </p> <h2>December 5, 2006</h2> @@ -541,7 +539,7 @@ release). - sampling an incomplete texture in a fragment program would segfault - glTexImage was missing a few error checks - fixed some minor glGetTexParameter glitches - - GL_INTENSITY was mistakenly accepted as a <format> to glTexImage + - GL_INTENSITY was mistakenly accepted as a <format> to glTexImage - fragment program writes to RC/HC register were broken - fixed a few glitches in GL_HP_occlusion_test extension - glBeginQueryARB and glEndQueryARB didn't work inside display lists @@ -549,6 +547,7 @@ release). - fixed triangle color interpolation bug on AIX (Shane Blackett) - fixed a number of minor memory leaks (bug #1002030) </pre> +<p> The MD5 checksums are: </p> <pre> @@ -578,7 +577,7 @@ This release basically just fixes bugs since the 6.0. release. - fixed build problems on OpenBSD - omit CVS directories from tarballs - glGetTexImage(GL_COLOR_INDEX) was broken - - fixed an infinite loop in t&l module + - fixed an infinite loop in t&l module - silenced some valgrind warnings about using unitialized memory - fixed some compilation/link glitches on IRIX (Mike Stephens) - glBindProgram wasn't getting compiled into display lists @@ -600,6 +599,7 @@ This release basically just fixes bugs since the 6.0. release. - fragment program XPD instruction was incorrect - glGetMaterial() didn't work reliably </pre> +<p> The MD5 checksums are: </p> <pre> @@ -612,7 +612,6 @@ eff71d59c211825e949199852f5a2316 MesaDemos-6.0.1.zip </pre> - <h2>January 16, 2004</h2> <p> @@ -639,7 +638,6 @@ and primarily just incorporates bug fixes. </pre> - <h2>December 28, 2003</h2> <p> @@ -663,7 +661,7 @@ OpenGL 1.5 features. <pre> New features: - reorganized directory tree - - GL_ARB_vertex/fragment_program extensions (Michal Krol & Karl Rasche) + - GL_ARB_vertex/fragment_program extensions (Michal Krol & Karl Rasche) - GL_ATI_texture_env_combine3 extension (Ian Romanick) - GL_SGI_texture_color_table extension (Eric Plante) - GL_NV_fragment_program extension @@ -699,7 +697,7 @@ OpenGL 1.5 features. - glTexImage1/2/3D now allows width/height/depth = 0 - disable SPARC asm code on Linux (bug 852204) </pre> - +<p> The MD5 checksums are: </p> <pre> @@ -731,7 +729,6 @@ a21be975589e8a2d1871b6bb7874fffa MesaDemos-5.0.2.zip </pre> - <h2>September 5, 2003</h2> <p> @@ -766,7 +763,6 @@ Mesa 5.0.2 has been released. This is a stable, bug-fix release. </pre> - <h2>June 2003</h2> <p> @@ -780,7 +776,6 @@ holds the Mesa 5.0.x code which will be abandoned at some point. </p> - <h2>March 30, 2003</h2> <p> @@ -1175,8 +1170,8 @@ Here's what's new:</p> Known problems: - NURBS or evaluator surfaces inside display lists don't always work </pre> -<p> -</p><h2>November 3, 2000</h2> + +<h2>November 3, 2000</h2> <p>Mesa 3.4 has been released. Here's what's new since the 3.3 release:</p> <pre> New: - optimized glDrawPixels for glPixelZoom(1,-1) @@ -1204,8 +1199,8 @@ Here's what's new:</p> Changes: - finished internal support for compressed textures for DRI </pre> -<p> -</p><h2>April 24, 2000</h2> + +<h2>April 24, 2000</h2> <p>Mesa 3.2 has been released. Here's what's new since the beta release:</p> <pre> Bug fixes: - fixed memcpy bugs in span.c @@ -1220,78 +1215,69 @@ Here's what's new:</p> - use bcopy() optimizations on FreeBSD - re-enabled the optimized persp_textured_triangle() function </pre> -<p> -</p><h2>March 23, 2000</h2> + +<h2>March 23, 2000</h2> <p>I've just upload the Mesa 3.2 beta 1 files to SourceForge at <a href="http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=3" target="_parent">http://sourceforge.net/project/filelist.php?group_id=3</a><a href="http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=3"></a></p> <p>3.2 (note even number) is a stabilization release of Mesa 3.1 meaning it's mainly just bug fixes.</p> -<p>Here's what's changed: - -</p><ul> - Bug fixes: - <ul> - - mixed drawing of lines and bitmaps sometimes had wrong colors<br> - - added missing glHintPGI() function<br> - - fixed a polygon culling bug<br> - - fixed bugs in gluPartialDisk()<br> - - Z values in selection mode were wrong<br> - - added missing tokens: - <ul> - GL_SMOOTH_POINT_SIZE_RANGE<br> - GL_SMOOTH_POINT_SIZE_GRANULARITY<br> - GL_SMOOTH_LINE_WIDTH_RANGE<br> - GL_SMOOTH_LINE_WIDTH_GRANULARITY<br> - GL_ALIASED_POINT_SIZE_RANGE<br> - GL_ALIASED_LINE_WIDTH_RANGE - </ul> - - fixed glCopyPixels when copying from back to front buffer<br> - - GL_EXT_compiled_vertex_array tokens had _SGI suffix instead of _EXT<br> - - glDrawRangeElements(GL_LINES, 0, 1, 2, type, indices) was broken<br> - - glDeleteTextures() didn't decrement reference count correctly<br> - - GL_SRCA_ALPHA_SATURATE blend mode didn't work correctly<br> - - Actual depth of transformation matrix stacks was off by one<br> - - 24bpp visuals didn't address pixels correctly<br> - - mipmap level of detail (lambda) calculation simplified, more accurate<br> - - 101691 - Polygon clipping and GL_LINE<br> - - 101928 - Polygon clipping and GL_LINE (same fix as above)<br> - - 101808 - Non-glVertexArrays tristrip bug<br> - - 101971 - find_last_3f on Dec OSF (worked around)<br> - - 102369 - segv on dec osf (possibly a duplicate of the above)<br> - - 102893 - orientations of modelview cause segfault - </ul> - New: - <ul> - - updated SVGA Linux driver<br> - - added the MESA_FX_NO_SIGNALS env var, see docs/README.3DFX<br> - - build libGLw.a (Xt/OpenGL drawing area widget) library by default<br> - - changed -O2 to -O3 for a number of gcc configs - </ul> - Changes: - <ul> - - glXCopyContext's mask parameter is now unsigned long, per GLX spec - </ul> -</ul> +<p>Here's what's changed:</p> +<pre> + Bug fixes: + - mixed drawing of lines and bitmaps sometimes had wrong colors + - added missing glHintPGI() function + - fixed a polygon culling bug + - fixed bugs in gluPartialDisk() + - Z values in selection mode were wrong + - added missing tokens: + GL_SMOOTH_POINT_SIZE_RANGE + GL_SMOOTH_POINT_SIZE_GRANULARITY + GL_SMOOTH_LINE_WIDTH_RANGE + GL_SMOOTH_LINE_WIDTH_GRANULARITY + GL_ALIASED_POINT_SIZE_RANGE + GL_ALIASED_LINE_WIDTH_RANGE + - fixed glCopyPixels when copying from back to front buffer + - GL_EXT_compiled_vertex_array tokens had _SGI suffix instead of _EXT + - glDrawRangeElements(GL_LINES, 0, 1, 2, type, indices) was broken + - glDeleteTextures() didn't decrement reference count correctly + - GL_SRCA_ALPHA_SATURATE blend mode didn't work correctly + - Actual depth of transformation matrix stacks was off by one + - 24bpp visuals didn't address pixels correctly + - mipmap level of detail (lambda) calculation simplified, more accurate + - 101691 - Polygon clipping and GL_LINE + - 101928 - Polygon clipping and GL_LINE (same fix as above) + - 101808 - Non-glVertexArrays tristrip bug + - 101971 - find_last_3f on Dec OSF (worked around) + - 102369 - segv on dec osf (possibly a duplicate of the above) + - 102893 - orientations of modelview cause segfault + New: + - updated SVGA Linux driver + - added the MESA_FX_NO_SIGNALS env var, see docs/README.3DFX + - build libGLw.a (Xt/OpenGL drawing area widget) library by default + - changed -O2 to -O3 for a number of gcc configs + Changes: + - glXCopyContext's mask parameter is now unsigned long, per GLX spec +</pre> <p>Please report any problems with this release ASAP. Bugs should be filed on the Mesa3D website at sourceforge.<br> After 3.2 is wrapped up I hope to release 3.3 beta 1 soon afterward.</p> <p>-- Brian</p> -<p> -</p><h2>December 17, 1999</h2> + +<h2>December 17, 1999</h2> <p>A Slashdot interview with Brian about Mesa (questions submitted by Slashdot readers) can be found at <a href="http://slashdot.org/interviews/99/12/17/0927212.shtml" target="_parent">http://slashdot.org/interviews/99/12/17/0927212.shtml</a>.</p> -<p> -</p><h2>December 14, 1999</h2> + +<h2>December 14, 1999</h2> <p>Mesa 3.1 is released!</p> -<p> -</p><h2>September 21, 1999</h2> + +<h2>September 21, 1999</h2> <p>There appear to be two new files on the ftp site, <a href="ftp://ftp.mesa3d.org/mesa/beta/MesaLib-3.1beta3.tar.gz">MesaLib-3.1beta3.tar.gz</a> and <a href="ftp://ftp.mesa3d.org/mesa/beta/MesaDemos-3.1beta3.tar.gz">MesaDemos-3.1beta3.tar.gz</a>, that seem to be... yes, I've just received confirmation from the beta center, they are indeed the <b>THIRD</b> beta release of Mesa 3.1! Happy Days. Happy Days. Thanks Keith Whitwell for preparing these for us during Brian's absence.</p> -<p> -</p><h2>August 30, 1999</h2> + +<h2>August 30, 1999</h2> <p>I'm pleased to announce that I've accepted a position with Precision Insight, Inc. effective October, 1999. I'll be leaving Avid Technology in September.</p> <p>I've been working on Mesa in my spare time for over five years. With Precision @@ -1301,41 +1287,41 @@ and OpenGL on Linux.</p> my work will continue to be open sourced and available to any other programmers who may want to contribute to it, or use it for other projects or platforms</p> <p>PS: I'm going to be traveling until Sep 6 and won't be reading email until then.</p> -<p> -</p><h2>August 23, 1999</h2> + +<h2>August 23, 1999</h2> <p>Anonymous CVS access is back online so suck up all the bandwidth you can afford. Note that this is a new archive, so you will need to re-checkout the archive. That means don't <i>cvs update</i> from a previous download.</p> -<p> -</p><h2>August 17, 1999</h2> + +<h2>August 17, 1999</h2> <p>A report from the SIGGRAPH '99 Linux/OpenGL BOF meeting is now available.</p> <p>-Brian</p> -<p> -</p><h2>August 14, 1999</h2> + +<h2>August 14, 1999</h2> <p>www.mesa3d.org is having technical problems due to hardware failures at VA Linux systems. The Mac pages, ftp, and CVS services aren't fully restored yet. Please be patient.</p> <p>-Brian</p> -<p> -</p><h2>June 7, 1999</h2> + +<h2>June 7, 1999</h2> <p>RPMS of the nVidia RIVA server can be found at <a href="ftp://ftp.mesa3d.org/mesa/misc/nVidia/">ftp://ftp.mesa3d.org/mesa/misc/nVidia/</a>.</p> -<p> -</p><h2>June 2, 1999</h2> + +<h2>June 2, 1999</h2> <p><a href="http://www.nvidia.com/">nVidia</a> has released some Linux binaries for xfree86 3.3.3.1, along with the <b>full source</b>, which includes GLX acceleration based on Mesa 3.0. They can be downloaded from <a href="http://www.nvidia.com/Products.nsf/htmlmedia/software_drivers.html">http://www.nvidia.com/Products.nsf/htmlmedia/software_drivers.html</a>.</p> -<p> -</p><h2>May 24, 1999</h2> + +<h2>May 24, 1999</h2> <p>Beta 2 of Mesa 3.1 has been make available at <a href="ftp://ftp.mesa3d.org/mesa/beta/">ftp://ftp.mesa3d.org/mesa/beta/</a>. If you are into the quake scene, you may want to try this out, as it contains some optimizations specifically in the Q3A rendering path. -<p> -</p><h2>May 13, 1999</h2> + +<h2>May 13, 1999</h2> <p>For those interested in the integration of Mesa into XFree86 4.0, Precision Insight has posted their lowlevel design documents at http://www.precisioninsight.com.</p> -<p> -</p><h2>May 13, 1999</h2> + +<h2>May 13, 1999</h2> <pre>May 1999 - John Carmack of id Software, Inc. has made a donation of US$10,000 to the Mesa project to support its continuing development. Mesa is a free implementation of the OpenGL 3D graphics library and id's @@ -1356,33 +1342,27 @@ This donation from John/id is very generous. Keith and I are very grateful. </pre> -<p> -</p><h2>May 1, 1999</h2> -<p>John Carmack made an interesting .plan update yesterday: -</p><ul> - <i>"I put together a document on optimizing OpenGL drivers for Q3 that - should be helpful to the various Linux 3D teams. <br> - </i>http://www.quake3arena.com/news/glopt.html</i>" -</ul> +<h2>May 1, 1999</h2> +<p>John Carmack made an interesting .plan update yesterday:</p> +<blockquote> + <i>"I put together a document on optimizing OpenGL drivers for Q3 that + should be helpful to the various Linux 3D teams.</i><br> + http://www.quake3arena.com/news/glopt.html" +</blockquote> -<p> -</p><h2>April 7, 1999</h2> +<h2>April 7, 1999</h2> <p>Updated the Mesa contributors section and added links to RPM Mesa packages.</p> -<p> -</p><h2>March 18, 1999</h2> + +<h2>March 18, 1999</h2> <p>The new webpages are now online. Enjoy, and let me know if you find any errors. -<p> -</p><h2>February 16, 1999</h2> + +<h2>February 16, 1999</h2> <p><a href="http://www.sgi.com/">SGI</a> releases its <a href="http://www.sgi.com/software/opensource/glx/">GLX source code</a>.</p> -<p> -</p><h2>January 22, 1999</h2> -<p>www.mesa3d.org established</p> - - -</p> +<h2>January 22, 1999</h2> +<p>www.mesa3d.org established</p> <hr> </body> |