Mesa 7.1 Release Notes / August 26, 2008

Mesa 7.1 is a new development release. There have been many internal code changes since Mesa 7.0.x. It should be relatively stable, but those who are especially concerned about stability should wait for Mesa 7.2 or use Mesa 7.0.4 (the previous stable release).

Note that this version of Mesa does not use the GEM memory manager. The master branch of git uses GEM.

DRM version 2.3.1 should be used with Mesa 7.1

MD5 checksums

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d48224bf9d54c3da6776adb4869ba024  MesaLib-7.1.zip
3de268420efca43e9a19ab506cdfc993  MesaDemos-7.1.tar.gz
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fdf348f78cd09304b6ff801ef8acc8eb  MesaGLUT-7.1.tar.gz
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4dc102a5ca51e1c41dde87d3f8c7b22a  MesaGLUT-7.1.zip

New features

autoconf-based configuration (and clean-up of Makefiles)
Assorted DRI driver enhancements
Reduced dependencies between X server and Mesa
GL_EXT_texture_from_pixmap extension for Xlib driver
Support for the GL shading language with i965 driver (implemented by Intel)
ATI R500 series support (Radeon X1300–X1950) in r300 DRI driver

Bug fixes

Numerous GLSL fixes
Fixed some error code/detection bugs in the GLSL-related API functions
Lots of DRI driver fixes.

To Do (someday) items

Remove the MEMCPY() and _mesa_memcpy() wrappers and just use memcpy(). Probably do the same for malloc, calloc, etc. The wrappers were useful in the past for memory debugging but now we have valgrind. Not worried about SunOS 4 support anymore either...
Switch to freeglut
Fix linux-glide target/driver.
Improved lambda and derivative calculation for frag progs.

Driver Status