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| <h1>Mesa 8.0 Release Notes / February 9, 2012</h1> |
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| <p> |
| Mesa 8.0 is a new development release. |
| People who are concerned with stability and reliability should stick |
| with a previous release or wait for Mesa 8.0.1. |
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| Mesa 8.0 implements the OpenGL 3.0 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 3.0. |
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| See the <a href="install.html">Compiling/Installing page</a> for prerequisites |
| for DRI hardware acceleration. |
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| <h2>MD5 checksums</h2> |
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| 3516fea6c28ce4a0fa9759e4894729a1 MesaLib-8.0.tar.gz |
| 1a5668fe72651a670611164cefc703b2 MesaLib-8.0.tar.bz2 |
| 66f5a01a85530a91472a3acceb556db8 MesaLib-8.0.zip |
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| <h2>New features</h2> |
| <ul> |
| <li>GL_ARB_ES2_compatibility (r300g, r600g) |
| <li>GL_ARB_depth_buffer_float (r600g) |
| <li>GL_ARB_vertex_type_2_10_10_10_rev (r600g) |
| <li>GL_ARB_texture_storage (gallium drivers and swrast) |
| <li>GL_EXT_packed_float (i965) |
| <li>GL_EXT_texture_array (r600g, i965) |
| <li>GL_EXT_texture_shared_exponent (i965) |
| <li>GL_NV_fog_distance (all gallium drivers, nouveau classic) |
| <li>GL_NV_primitive_restart (r600g) |
| <li>GL_OES_EGL_image_external (gallium drivers) |
| <li>GL_OES_compressed_ETC1_RGB8_texture (softpipe, llvmpipe) |
| <li>ARB_texture_rgb10_a2ui (softpipe, r600g) |
| <li>Many updates to the VMware svga Gallium driver |
| </ul> |
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| <h2>Bug fixes</h2> |
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| <h2>Changes</h2> |
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| <li>Removed all DRI drivers that did not support DRI2. Specifically, |
| i810, mach64, mga, r128, savage, sis, tdfx, and unichrome were |
| removed.</li> |
| <li>Removed support for BeOS.</li> |
| <li>Removed the obsolete (and unmaintained) Windows "gldirect" and |
| "ICD" drivers.</li> |
| <li>Removed the linux-fbdev software driver.</li> |
| <li>Removed all remnants of paletted texture support. As required by |
| desktop OpenGL, <tt>GL_COLOR_INDEX</tt> data can still be uploaded |
| to a color (e.g., RGBA) texture. However, the data cannot be stored |
| internally as color-index.</li> |
| <li>Removed support for GL_APPLE_client_storage extension.</li> |
| <li>Removed the classic Mesa r300 and r600 drivers, which are superseded |
| by the gallium drivers for this hardware.</li> |
| <li>Removed the dead Gallium i965, cell and failover drivers, which were |
| either broken and with nobody in sight to fix the situation or |
| deprecated.</li> |
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