<HTML> <TITLE>Mesa Release Notes</TITLE> <head><link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="mesa.css"></head> <BODY> <body bgcolor="#eeeeee"> <H1>Mesa 7.8 Release Notes / March 28, 2010</H1> <p> Mesa 7.8 is a new development release. People who are concerned with stability and reliability should stick with a previous release or wait for Mesa 7.8.1. </p> <p> Mesa 7.8 implements the OpenGL 2.1 API, but the version reported by glGetString(GL_VERSION) depends on the particular driver being used. Some drivers don't support all the features required in OpenGL 2.1. </p> <p> See the <a href="install.html">Compiling/Installing page</a> for prerequisites for DRI hardware acceleration. </p> <h2>MD5 checksums</h2> <pre> tbd </pre> <h2>New features</h2> <ul> <li>GL_NV_conditional_render extension (swrast driver only) <li>GL_EXT_draw_buffers2 extension (swrast and i965 driver only) <li>GL_ARB_fragment_coord_conventions extension (for swrast, i965, and Gallium drivers) <li>GL_EXT_texture_array extension (swrast driver only) <li>GL_APPLE_object_purgeable extension (swrast and i945/i965 DRI drivers) <li>Much improved support for <a href="egl.html">EGL in Mesa</a> <li>New state trackers for <a href="opengles.html">OpenGL ES 1.1 and 2.0</a> <li>Dedicated documentation for Gallium </ul> <h2>Bug fixes</h2> <ul> <li>Massive improvements to the Gallium driver for R300-R500 Radeons; this driver is now moderately stable but not terribly performant. </ul> <h2>Changes</h2> <ul> <li>Removed support for color-index rendering</li> <li>Removed support for GCC versions earlier than 3.3.0.</li> </ul> </body> </html>