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  12 <h2>December 9, 2004</h2>
  13 <p>
  14 Mesa 6.2.1 has been released.
  15 This is a stable release which just fixes bugs since the 6.2 release.
  16 </p>
  17 <pre>
  18     Bug fixes:
  19         - don't apply regular fog or color sum when using a fragment program
  20         - glProgramEnvParameter4fARB always generated an error on
  21           GL_FRAGMENT_PROGRAM_ARB (fdo bug 1645)
  22         - glVertexAttrib3svNV and glVertexAttrib3svARB were broken
  23         - fixed width/height mix-up in glSeparableFilter2D()
  24         - fixed regression in glCopyPixels + convolution
  25         - glReadPixels from a clipped front color buffer didn't always work
  26         - glTexImage didn't accept GL_RED/GREEN/BLUE as the format
  27         - Attempting queries/accesses of VBO 0 weren't detected as errors
  28         - paletted textures failed if the palette had fewer that 256 entries
  29     Changes:
  30         - fixed a bunch of compiler warnings found with gcc 3.4
  31         - bug reports should to go bugzilla.freedesktop.org
  32 </pre>
  33 <p>
  34 The MD5 checksums are:
  35 </p>
  36 <pre>
  37 80008a92f6e055d3bfdde2cf331ec3fa  MesaLib-6.2.1.tar.gz
  38 f43228cd2bf70f583ef3275c1c545421  MesaLib-6.2.1.tar.bz2
  39 dec26cfd40116ad021020fea2d94f652  MesaLib-6.2.1.zip
  40 2c7af3c986a7571c8713c8bfee7e49e3  MesaDemos-6.2.1.tar.gz
  41 3cac74667b50bcbd4f67f594fb4224a2  MesaDemos-6.2.1.tar.bz2
  42 75b3edd12eb2b370caf05f29b99e508a  MesaDemos-6.2.1.zip
  43 </pre>
  44
  45
  46 <h2>October 2, 2004</h2>
  47 <p>
  48 Mesa 6.2 has been released.
  49 This is a stable release which just fixes bugs since the 6.1 release.
  50 </p>
  51 <pre>
  52     New:
  53         - enabled GL_ARB_texture_rectangle (same as GL_NV_texture_rectangle)
  54         - updated Doxygen support (Jose Fonseca)
  55     Changes:
  56         - some GGI driver updates (Christoph Egger, bug 1025977)
  57     Bug fixes:
  58         - Omit GL_ARB_texture_non_power_of_two from list of OpenGL 1.5 features
  59         - fixed a few compilation issues on IRIX
  60         - fixed a matrix classification bug (reported by Wes Bethel)
  61         - we weren't reseting the vertex/fragment program error state
  62           before parsing (Dave Reveman)
  63         - adjust texcoords for sampling texture rectangles (Dave Reveman)
  64         - glGet*(GL_MAX_VERTEX_ATTRIBS_ARB) wasn't implemented
  65         - repeated calls to glDeleteTexture(t) could lead to a crash
  66         - fixed potential ref count bugs in VBOs and vertex/fragment programs
  67         - spriteblast demo didn't handle window size changes correctly
  68         - glTexSubImage didn't handle pixels=NULL correctly for PBOs
  69         - fixed color index mode glDrawPixels bug (Karl Schultz)
  70 </pre>
  71 <p>
  72 The MD5 checksums are:
  73 </p>
  74 <pre>
  75 9e8f34b059272dbb8e1f2c968b33bbf0  MesaLib-6.2.tar.gz
  76 3d6a6362390b6a37d3cb2e615f3ac7db  MesaLib-6.2.tar.bz2
  77 6cfd7895d28e695c0dbbed9469564091  MesaLib-6.2.zip
  78 3e06e33b0809f09855cb60883b8bdfef  MesaDemos-6.2.tar.gz
  79 9d160009c3dfdb35fe7e4088c9ba8f85  MesaDemos-6.2.tar.bz2
  80 856f7ec947122eb3c8985ebc2f654dcd  MesaDemos-6.2.zip
  81 </pre>
  82
  83
  84 <h2>August 18, 2004</h2>
  85 <p>
  86 Mesa 6.1 has been released.
  87 This is a new development release (version 6.2 will be a stabilization
  88 release).
  89 </p>
  90 <pre>
  91     New:
  92         - Revamped Makefile system
  93         - glXUseRotatedXFont() utility (see xdemos/xuserotfont.c)
  94         - internal driver interface changes related to texture object
  95           allocation, vertex/fragment programs, BlendEquationSeparate, etc.
  96         - option to walk triangle edges with double-precision floats
  97           (Justin Novosad of Discreet) (see config.h file)
  98         - support for AUX buffers in software GLX driver
  99         - updated glext.h to version 24 and glxext.h to version 6
 100         - new MESA_GLX_FORCE_ALPHA and MESA_GLX_DEPTH_BITS env vars
 101         - updated BeOS support (Philippe Houdoin)
 102     Changes:
 103         - fragment fog interpolation is perspective corrected now
 104         - new glTexImage code, much cleaner, may be a bit faster
 105     Bug fixes:
 106         - glArrayElement in display lists didn't handle generic vertex attribs
 107         - glFogCoord didn't always work properly
 108         - ARB_fragment_program fog options didn't work
 109         - frag prog TEX instruction no longer incorrectly divides s,t,r by q
 110         - ARB frag prog TEX and TEXP instructions now use LOD=0
 111         - glTexEnviv in display lists didn't work
 112         - glRasterPos didn't do texgen or apply texture matrix
 113         - GL_DOUBLE-valued vertex arrays were broken in some cases
 114         - fixed texture rectangle edge/border sampling bugs
 115         - sampling an incomplete texture in a fragment program would segfault
 116         - glTexImage was missing a few error checks
 117         - fixed some minor glGetTexParameter glitches
 118         - GL_INTENSITY was mistakenly accepted as a <format> to glTexImage
 119         - fragment program writes to RC/HC register were broken
 120         - fixed a few glitches in GL_HP_occlusion_test extension
 121         - glBeginQueryARB and glEndQueryARB didn't work inside display lists
 122         - vertex program state references were broken
 123         - fixed triangle color interpolation bug on AIX (Shane Blackett)
 124         - fixed a number of minor memory leaks (bug #1002030)
 125 </pre>
 126 The MD5 checksums are:
 127 </p>
 128 <pre>
 129 c9284d295ebcd2e0486cc3cd54e5863c  MesaLib-6.1.tar.gz
 130 5de1f53ec0709f60fc68fdfed57351f3  MesaLib-6.1.tar.bz2
 131 483e77cac4789a5d36c42f3c0136d6d8  MesaLib-6.1.zip
 132 8c46cfa6f9732acc6f6c25724aad0246  MesaDemos-6.1.tar.gz
 133 89bfe0f6c69b39fd0ebd9fff481a4e9b  MesaDemos-6.1.tar.bz2
 134 161268531fcc6f0c5a056430ee97e0c1  MesaDemos-6.1.zip
 135 </pre>
 136
 137
 138
 139 <h2>April 2, 2004</h2>
 140
 141 <p>
 142 Mesa 6.0.1 has been released.
 143 This release basically just fixes bugs since the 6.0. release.
 144 </p>
 145 <pre>
 146     New:
 147         - upgraded glext.h to version 22
 148         - new build targets (Dan Schikore)
 149         - new linux-x86-opteron build target (Heath Feather)
 150     Bug fixes:
 151         - glBindProgramARB didn't update all necessary state
 152         - fixed build problems on OpenBSD
 153         - omit CVS directories from tarballs
 154         - glGetTexImage(GL_COLOR_INDEX) was broken
 155         - fixed an infinite loop in t&l module
 156         - silenced some valgrind warnings about using unitialized memory
 157         - fixed some compilation/link glitches on IRIX (Mike Stephens)
 158         - glBindProgram wasn't getting compiled into display lists
 159         - GLX_FBCONFIG_ID wasn't recognized in glXChooseFBConfig() (bug 888079)
 160         - two-sided lighting and vertex program didn't work (bug 887330)
 161         - stores to program parameter registers in vertex state programs
 162           didn't work.
 163         - fixed glOrtho bug found with gcc 3.2.2 (RH9)
 164         - glXCreateWindow() wasn't fully implemented (bug 890894)
 165         - generic vertex attribute arrays didn't work in display lists
 166         - vertex buffer objects' default usage and access fields were wrong
 167         - glDrawArrays with start!=0 was broken
 168         - fragment program PK2H, UP2H, UP4B and UP4UB instructions were broken
 169         - linux-osmesa16-static config didn't work
 170         - fixed a few color index rendering problems (bug 910687)
 171         - glInterleavedArrays didn't respect GL_CLIENT_ACTIVE_TEXTURE
 172         - OSMesa RGB and BGR modes were broken
 173         - glProgramStringARB mistakenly required a null-terminated string
 174         - fragment program XPD instruction was incorrect
 175         - glGetMaterial() didn't work reliably
 176 </pre>
 177 The MD5 checksums are:
 178 </p>
 179 <pre>
 180 011be0e79666c7a6eb9693fbf9348653  MesaLib-6.0.1.tar.gz
 181 b7f14088c5c2f14490d2739a91102112  MesaLib-6.0.1.tar.bz2
 182 bf0510cf0a2b87d64cdd317eca3f1db1  MesaLib-6.0.1.zip
 183 b7b648599e0aaee1c4ffc554a2a9139e  MesaDemos-6.0.1.tar.gz
 184 dd6aadfd9ca8e1cfa90c6ee492bc6f43  MesaDemos-6.0.1.tar.bz2
 185 eff71d59c211825e949199852f5a2316  MesaDemos-6.0.1.zip
 186 </pre>
 187
 188
 189
 190 <h2>January 16, 2004</h2>
 191
 192 <p>
 193 Mesa 6.0 has been released.  This is a stabilization of the 5.1 release
 194 and primarily just incorporates bug fixes.
 195 </p>
 196 <pre>
 197     New:
 198         - full OpenGL 1.5 support
 199         - updated GL/glext.h file to version 21
 200     Changes:
 201         - changed max framebuffer size to 4Kx4K (MAX_WIDTH/HEIGHT in config.h)
 202     Bug fixes:
 203         - fixed bug in UNCLAMPED_FLOAT_TO_UBYTE macro; solves a color
 204           clamping issue
 205         - updated suno5-gcc configs
 206         - glColor3 functions sometimes resulted in undefined alpha values
 207         - fixed FP divide by zero error seen on VMS with xlockmore, others
 208         - fixed vertex/fragment program debug problem (bug 873011)
 209         - building on AIX with gcc works now
 210         - glDeleteProgramsARB failed for ARB fragment programs (bug 876160)
 211         - glDrawRangeElements tried to modify potentially read-only storage
 212         - updated files for building on Windows
 213 </pre>
 214
 215
 216
 217 <h2>December 28, 2003</h2>
 218
 219 <p>
 220 The Mesa CVS server has been moved to <a href="http://www.freedesktop.org"
 221 target="_parent">
 222 freedesktop.org</a> because of problems with SourceForge's anonymous
 223 CVS service.
 224 </p>
 225
 226 <p>Please see the <a href="cvs_access.html">CVS access page</a> for details.
 227 </p>
 228
 229
 230 <h2>December 17, 2003</h2>
 231
 232 <p>
 233 Mesa 5.1 has been released.  This is a new development release.
 234 Mesa 6.0 will be the next stable release and will support all
 235 OpenGL 1.5 features.
 236 </p>
 237 <pre>
 238     New features:
 239         - reorganized directory tree
 240         - GL_ARB_vertex/fragment_program extensions (Michal Krol & Karl Rasche)
 241         - GL_ATI_texture_env_combine3 extension (Ian Romanick)
 242         - GL_SGI_texture_color_table extension (Eric Plante)
 243         - GL_NV_fragment_program extension
 244         - GL_NV_light_max_exponent extension
 245         - GL_EXT_texture_rectangle (identical to GL_NV_texture_rectangle)
 246         - GL_ARB_occlusion_query extension
 247         - GL_ARB_point_sprite extension
 248         - GL_ARB_texture_non_power_of_two extension
 249         - GL_IBM_multimode_draw_arrays extension
 250         - GL_EXT_texture_mirror_clamp extension (Ian Romanick)
 251         - GL_ARB_vertex_buffer_object extension
 252         - new X86 feature detection code (Petr Sebor)
 253         - less memory used for display lists and vertex buffers
 254         - demo of per-pixel lighting with a fragment program (demos/fplight.c)
 255         - new version (18) of glext.h header
 256         - new spriteblast.c demo of GL_ARB_point_sprite
 257         - faster glDrawPixels in X11 driver in some cases (see RELNOTES-5.1)
 258         - faster glCopyPixels in X11 driver in some cases (see RELNOTES-5.1)
 259     Bug fixes:
 260         - really enable OpenGL 1.4 features in DOS driver.
 261         - fixed issues in glDrawPixels and glCopyPixels for very wide images
 262         - glPixelMapf/ui/usv()'s size parameter is GLsizei, not GLint
 263         - fixed some texgen bugs reported by Daniel Borca
 264         - fixed wglMakeCurrent(NULL, NULL) bug (#835861)
 265         - fixed glTexSubImage3D z-offset bug (Cedric Gautier)
 266         - fixed RGBA blend enable bug (Ville Syrjala)
 267         - glAccum is supposed to be a no-op in selection/feedback mode
 268         - fixed texgen bug #597589 (John Popplewell)
 269     Changes:
 270         - dropped API trace feature (src/Trace/)
 271         - documentation overhaul.  merged with website content.  more html.
 272         - glxgears.c demo updated to use GLX swap rate extensions
 273         - glTexImage1/2/3D now allows width/height/depth = 0
 274         - disable SPARC asm code on Linux (bug 852204)
 275 </pre>
 276
 277 The MD5 checksums are:
 278 </p>
 279 <pre>
 280 78f452f6c55478471a744f07147612b5  MesaLib-5.1.tar.gz
 281 67b3b8d3f7f4c8c44904551b851d01af  MesaLib-5.1.tar.bz2
 282 6dd19ffa750ec7f634e370a987505c9d  MesaLib-5.1.zip
 283 e0214d4ebb22409dfa9262f2b52fd828  MesaDemos-5.1.tar.gz
 284 066c9aff4fd924405de1ae9bad5ec9a7  MesaDemos-5.1.tar.bz2
 285 d2b5ba32b53e0ad0576c637a4cc1fb41  MesaDemos-5.1.zip
 286 </pre>
 287
 288
 289 <H2>November 12, 2003</H2>
 290
 291 <p>
 292 New Mesa 5.0.2 tarballs have been uploaded to SourceForge which fix a
 293 number of automake/libtool problems.
 294 </p>
 295 <p>
 296 The new MD5 checksums are:
 297 </p>
 298 <pre>
 299 a9dcf3ff9ad1b7d6ce73a0df7cff8b5b  MesaLib-5.0.2.tar.gz
 300 7b4bf9261657c2fca03796d4955e6f50  MesaLib-5.0.2.tar.bz2
 301 79c141bddcbad557647535d02194f346  MesaLib-5.0.2.zip
 302 952d9dc823dd818981d1a648d7b2668a  MesaDemos-5.0.2.tar.gz
 303 b81fafff90995025d2f25ea02b786642  MesaDemos-5.0.2.tar.bz2
 304 a21be975589e8a2d1871b6bb7874fffa  MesaDemos-5.0.2.zip
 305 </pre>
 306
 307
 308
 309 <h2>September 5, 2003</h2>
 310
 311 <p>
 312 Mesa 5.0.2 has been released.  This is a stable, bug-fix release.
 313 </p>
 314 <pre>
 315     Bug fixes:
 316         - fixed texgen problem causing texcoord's Q to be zero (stex3d)
 317         - default GL_TEXTURE_COMPARE_MODE_ARB was wrong
 318         - GL_CURRENT_MATRIX_NV query was wrong
 319         - GL_CURRENT_MATRIX_STACK_DEPTH_NV query was off by one
 320         - GL_LIST_MODE query wasn't correct
 321         - GL_FOG_COORDINATE_SOURCE_EXT query wasn't supported
 322         - GL_SECONDARY_COLOR_ARRAY_SIZE_EXT query returned wrong value
 323         - blended, wide lines didn't always work correctly (bug 711595)
 324         - glVertexAttrib4svNV w component was always 1
 325         - fixed bug in GL_IBM_rasterpos_clip (missing return)
 326         - GL_DEPTH_TEXTURE_MODE = GL_ALPHA didn't work correctly
 327         - a few Solaris compilation fixes
 328         - fixed glClear() problem for DRI drivers (non-existant stencil, etc)
 329         - fixed int/REAL mixup in GLU NURBS curve evaluator (Eric Cazeaux)
 330         - fixed delete [] bug in SI GLU (bug 721765) (Diego Santa Cruz)
 331         - glFog() didn't clamp fog colors
 332         - fixed bad float/int conversion for GL_TEXTURE_PRIORITY in the
 333           gl[Get]TexParameteri[v] functions
 334         - fixed invalid memory references in glTexGen functions (bug 781602)
 335         - integer-valued color arrays weren't handled correctly
 336         - glDrawPixels(GL_DEPTH_COMPONENT) with glPixelZoom didn't work
 337         - GL_EXT_texture_lod_bias is part of 1.4, overlooked in 5.0.1
 338     Changes:
 339         - build GLUT with -fexceptions so C++ apps propogate exceptions
 340 </pre>
 341
 342
 343
 344 <h2>June 2003</h2>
 345
 346 <p>
 347 Mesa's directory tree has been overhauled.
 348 Things are better organized now with some thought toward future needs.
 349 </p>
 350 <p>
 351 In CVS, the latest Mesa 5.1 development code is now rooted under the
 352 <b>Mesa-newtree/</b> directory.  The old top-level <b>Mesa/</b> directory
 353 holds the Mesa 5.0.x code which will be abandoned at some point.
 354 </p>
 355
 356
 357
 358 <h2>March 30, 2003</h2>
 359
 360 <p>
 361 Mesa 5.0.1 has been released.  This is a stable, bug-fix release.
 362 </p>
 363 <pre>
 364     New:
 365         - DOS driver updates from Daniel Borca
 366         - updated GL/gl_mangle.h file (Bill Hoffman)
 367     Bug fixes:
 368         - auto mipmap generation for cube maps was broken (bug 641363)
 369         - writing/clearing software alpha channels was unreliable
 370         - minor compilation fixes for OS/2 (Evgeny Kotsuba)
 371         - fixed some bad assertions found with shadowtex demo
 372         - fixed error checking bug in glCopyTexSubImage2D (bug 659020)
 373         - glRotate(angle, -x, 0, 0) was incorrect (bug 659677)
 374         - fixed potential segfault in texture object validation (bug 659012)
 375         - fixed some bogus code in _mesa_test_os_sse_exception_support (Linus)
 376         - fix fog stride bug in tnl code for h/w drivers (Michel Danzer)
 377         - fixed glActiveTexture / glMatrixMode(GL_TEXTURE) bug (#669080)
 378         - glGet(GL_CURRENT_SECONDARY_COLOR) should return 4 values, not 3
 379         - fixed compilation problem on Solaris7/x86 (bug 536406)
 380         - fixed prefetch bug in 3DNow! code (Felix Kuhling)
 381         - fixed NeXT build problem (FABSF macro)
 382         - glDrawPixels Z values when glPixelZoom!=1 were invalid (bug 687811)
 383         - zoomed glDraw/CopyPixels with clipping sometimes failed (bug 689964)
 384         - AA line and triangle Z values are now rounded, not truncated
 385         - fixed color interpolation bug when GLchan==GLfloat (bug 694461)
 386         - glArePrograms/TexturesResident() wasn't 100% correct (Jose Fonseca)
 387         - fixed a minor GL_COLOR_MATERIAL bug
 388         - NV vertex program EXP instruction was broken
 389         - glColorMask misbehaved with X window / pixmap rendering
 390         - fix autoconf/libtool GLU C++ linker problem on Linux (a total hack)
 391         - attempt to fix GGI compilation problem when MesaDemos not present
 392         - NV vertex program ARL-relative fetches didn't work
 393     Changes:
 394         - use glPolygonOffset in gloss demo to avoid z-fighting artifacts
 395         - updated winpos and pointblast demos to use ARB extensions
 396         - disable SPARC normal transformation code (bug 673938)
 397         - GLU fixes for OS/2 (Evgeny Kotsuba)
 398 </pre>
 399 <p>
 400 MD5 checksums follow:
 401 </p>
 402 <pre>
 403 b80f8b5d53a3e9f19b9fde5af0c542f0  MesaLib-5.0.1.tar.gz
 404 513b4bbd7d38951f05027179063d876b  MesaLib-5.0.1.tar.bz2
 405 eebd395678f4520d33b267e5d5c22651  MesaLib-5.0.1.zip
 406 49d7feaec6dc1d2091d7c3cc72a9b320  MesaDemos-5.0.1.tar.gz
 407 37190374a98c3c892f0698be9ca3acf0  MesaDemos-5.0.1.tar.bz2
 408 becd8bf17f5791361b4a54ba2a78e5c9  MesaDemos-5.0.1.zip
 409 </pre>
 410
 411
 412
 413 <h2>March 7, 2003</h2>
 414 <p>
 415 Website and documentation overhaul.
 416 </p>
 417 <p>
 418 The website content and Mesa documentation (from the doc/ directory) have
 419 been merged together.
 420 All the documentation files have been entered into the CVS repository.
 421 Many of the old plain-text files have been converted to html and modernized.
 422 </p>
 423
 424
 425 <h2>November 13, 2002</h2>
 426 <p>Mesa 5.0 has been released.  This is a stable release which
 427 implements the OpenGL 1.4 specification.
 428 </p><pre>New:
 429     - OpenGL 1.4 support (glGetString(GL_VERSION) returns "1.4")
 430     - removed some overlooked debugging code
 431     - glxinfo updated to support GLX_ARB_multisample
 432     - GLUT now support GLX_ARB_multisample
 433     - updated DOS driver (Daniel Borca)
 434 Bug fixes:
 435     - GL_POINT and GL_LINE-mode polygons didn't obey cull state
 436     - fixed potential bug in _mesa_align_malloc/calloc()
 437     - fixed missing triangle bug when running vertex programs
 438     - fixed a few HPUX compilation problems
 439     - FX (Glide) driver didn't compile
 440     - setting GL_TEXTURE_BORDER_COLOR with glTexParameteriv() didn't work
 441     - a few EXT functions, like glGenTexturesEXT, were no-ops
 442     - a few OpenGL 1.4 functions like glFogCoord*, glBlendFuncSeparate,
 443       glMultiDrawArrays and glMultiDrawElements were missing
 444     - glGet*(GL_ACTIVE_STENCIL_FACE_EXT) was broken
 445     - Pentium 4 Mobile was mistakenly identified as having 3DNow!
 446     - fixed one-bit error in point/line fragment Z calculation
 447     - fixed potential segfault in fakeglx code
 448     - fixed color overflow problem in DOT3 texture env mode
 449 </pre>
 450
 451
 452 <h2>October 29, 2002</h2>
 453 <p>Mesa 4.1 has been released.  This is a new development release.
 454 For a stable release, get 4.0.4.
 455 </p><pre>New:
 456     - GL_NV_vertex_program extension
 457     - GL_NV_vertex_program1_1 extension
 458     - GL_ARB_window_pos extension
 459     - GL_ARB_depth_texture extension
 460     - GL_ARB_shadow extension
 461     - GL_ARB_shadow_ambient extension
 462     - GL_EXT_shadow_funcs extension
 463     - GL_ARB_point_parameters extension
 464     - GL_ARB_texture_env_crossbar
 465     - GL_NV_point_sprite extension
 466     - GL_NV_texture_rectangle extension
 467     - GL_EXT_multi_draw_arrays extension
 468     - GL_EXT_stencil_two_side extension
 469     - GLX_SGIX_fbconfig and GLX_SGIX_pbuffer extensions
 470     - GL_ATI_texture_mirror_once extension (Ian Romanick)
 471     - massive overhaul/simplification of software rasterizer module,
 472       many contributions from Klaus Niederkrueger
 473     - faster software texturing in some cases (i.e. trilinear filtering)
 474     - new OSMesaGetProcAddress() function
 475     - more blend modes implemented with MMX code (Jose Fonseca)
 476     - added glutGetProcAddress() to GLUT
 477     - added GLUT_FPS env var to compute frames/second in glutSwapBuffers()
 478     - pbinfo and pbdemo PBuffer programs
 479     - glxinfo -v prints transprent pixel info (Gerd Sussner)
 480 Bug fixes:
 481     - better mipmap LOD computation (prevents excessive blurriness)
 482     - OSMesaMakeCurrent() didn't recognize buffer size changes
 483     - assorted conformance fixes for 16-bit/channel rendering
 484     - texcombine alpha subtraction mode was broken
 485     - fixed some blend problems when GLchan==GLfloat (Gerk Huisma)
 486     - clamp colors to [0,1] in OSMesa if GLchan==GLfloat (Gerk Huisma)
 487     - fixed divide by zero error in NURBS tessellator (Jon Perry)
 488     - fixed GL_LINEAR fog bug by adding clamping
 489     - fixed FP exceptions found using Alpha CPU
 490     - 3dfx/glide driver render-to-window feature was broken
 491     - added missing GLX_TRANSPARENT_RGB token to glx.h
 492     - fixed error checking related to paletted textures
 493     - fixed reference count error in glDeleteTextures (Randy Fayan)
 494 Changes:
 495     - New spec file and Python code to generate some GL dispatch files
 496     - Glide driver defaults to "no" with autoconf/automake
 497     - floating point color channels now clamped to [0,inf)
 498     - updated demos/stex3d with new options
 499 </pre>
 500
 501
 502 <h2>October 4, 2002</h2>
 503 <p>
 504 The <a href="http://mesa3d.sourceforge.net/docs/MesaFAQ.html">Mesa FAQ</a> has been rewritten.
 505 </p>
 506
 507 <h2>October 3, 2002</h2>
 508 <p>Mesa 4.0.4 has been released.  This is a stable bug-fix release.
 509 </p><pre>    New:
 510         - GL_NV_texture_rectangle extension
 511         - updated glext.h header (version 17)
 512         - updated DOS driver (Daniel Borca)
 513         - updated BeOS R5 driver (Philippe Houdoin)
 514         - added GL_IBM_texture_mirror_repeat
 515         - glxinfo now takes -l option to print interesting OpenGL limits info
 516         - GL_MESA_ycbcr_texture extension
 517         - GL_APPLE_client_storage extension (for some DRI drivers only)
 518         - GL_MESA_pack_invert extension
 519     Bug fixes:
 520         - fixed GL_LINEAR fog bug by adding clamping
 521         - fixed FP exceptions found using Alpha CPU
 522         - 3dfx MESA_GLX_FX=window (render to window) didn't work
 523         - fixed memory leak in wglCreateContest (Karl Schultz)
 524         - define GLAPIENTRY and GLAPI if undefined in glu.h
 525         - wglGetProcAddress didn't handle all API functions
 526         - when testing for OpenGL 1.2 vs 1.3, check for GL_ARB_texture_cube_map
 527         - removed GL_MAX_CONVOLUTION_WIDTH/HEIGHT from glGetInteger/Float/etc()
 528         - error checking in compressed tex image functions had some glitches
 529         - fixed AIX compile problem in src/config.c
 530         - glGetTexImage was using pixel unpacking instead of packing params
 531         - auto-mipmap generation for cube maps was incorrect
 532     Changes:
 533         - max texture units reduced to six to accomodate texture rectangles
 534         - removed unfinished GL_MESA_sprite_point extension code
 535 </pre>
 536
 537 <h2>June 25, 2002</h2>
 538 <p>Mesa 4.0.3 has been released.  This is a stable bug-fix release.
 539 </p><pre>    New:
 540     - updated GL/glext.h file (version 15)
 541     - corrected MMX blend code (Jose Fonseca)
 542     - support for software-based alpha planes in Windows driver
 543     - updated GGI driver (Filip Spacek)
 544     Bug fixes:
 545     - glext.h had wrong values for GL_DOT3_RGB[A]_EXT tokens
 546     - OSMesaMakeCurrent() didn't recognize buffer size changes
 547     - assorted conformance fixes for 16-bit/channel rendering
 548     - texcombine alpha subtraction mode was broken
 549     - fixed lighting bug with non-uniform scaling and display lists
 550     - fixed bug when deleting shared display lists
 551     - disabled SPARC cliptest assembly code (Mesa bug 544665)
 552     - fixed a couple Solaris compilation/link problems
 553     - blending clipped glDrawPixels didn't always work
 554     - glGetTexImage() didn't accept packed pixel types
 555     - glPixelMapu[is]v() could explode given too large of pixelmap
 556     - glGetTexParameter[if]v() didn't accept GL_TEXTURE_MAX_ANISOTROPY_EXT
 557     - glXCopyContext() could lead to segfaults
 558     - glCullFace(GL_FRONT_AND_BACK) didn't work (bug 572665)
 559     Changes:
 560     - lots of C++ (g++) code clean-ups
 561     - lots of T&amp;L updates for the Radeon DRI driver
 562     Known bugs:
 563     - mipmap LOD computation (fixed for Mesa 4.1)
 564 </pre>
 565
 566 <h2>April 2, 2002</h2>
 567 <p>Mesa 4.0.2 has been released.  This is a stable bug-fix release.
 568 </p><pre>    New:
 569       - New DOS (DJGPP) driver written by Daniel Borca
 570       - New driver interface functions for TCL drivers (such as Radeon DRI)
 571       - GL_RENDERER string returns "Mesa Offscreen16" or "Mesa Offscreen32"
 572         if using deep color channels
 573       - latest GL/glext.h and GL/glxext.h headers from SGI
 574     Bug fixes:
 575       - GL_BLEND with non-black texture env color wasn't always correct
 576       - GL_REPLACE with GL_RGB texture format wasn't always correct (alpha)
 577       - glTexEnviv( pname != GL_TEXTURE_ENV_COLOR ) was broken
 578       - glReadPixels was sometimes mistakenly clipped by the scissor box
 579       - glDraw/ReadPixels didn't catch all the errors that they should have
 580       - Fixed 24bpp rendering problem in Windows driver (Karl Schultz)
 581       - 16-bit GLchan mode fixes (m_trans_tmp.h, s_triangle.c)
 582       - Fixed 1-bit float-&gt;int conversion bug in glDrawPixels(GL_DEPTH_COMP)
 583       - glColorMask as sometimes effecting glXSwapBuffers()
 584       - fixed a potential bug in XMesaGarbageCollect()
 585       - N threads rendering into one window didn't work reliably
 586       - glCopyPixels didn't work for deep color channels
 587       - improved 8 -&gt; 16bit/channel texture image conversion (Gerk Huisma)
 588       - glPopAttrib() didn't correctly restore user clip planes
 589       - user clip planes failed for some perspective projections (Chromium)
 590 </pre>
 591
 592 <h2>December 17, 2001</h2>
 593 <p>Mesa 4.0.1 has been released.  This is a stable bug-fix release.
 594 </p><pre>    New:
 595       - better sub-pixel sample positions for AA triangles (Ray Tice)
 596       - slightly faster blending for (GL_ZERO, GL_ONE) and (GL_ONE, GL_ZERO)
 597     Bug fixes:
 598       - added missing break statements in glGet*() for multisample cases
 599       - fixed uninitialized hash table mutex bug (display lists / texobjs)
 600       - fixed bad teximage error check conditional (bug 476846)
 601       - fixed demos readtex.c compilation problem on Windows (Karl Schultz)
 602       - added missing glGet() query for GL_MAX_TEXTURE_LOD_BIAS_EXT
 603       - silence some compiler warnings (gcc 2.96)
 604       - enable the #define GL_VERSION_1_3 in GL/gl.h
 605       - added GL 1.3 and GLX 1.4 entries to gl_mangle.h and glx_mangle.h
 606       - fixed glu.h typedef problem found with MSDev 6.0
 607       - build libGL.so with -Bsymbolic (fixes bug found with Chromium)
 608       - added missing 'const' to glXGetContextIDEXT() in glxext.h
 609       - fixed a few glXGetProcAddress() errors (texture compression, etc)
 610       - fixed start index bug in compiled vertex arrays (Keith)
 611       - fixed compilation problems in src/SPARC/glapi_sparc.S
 612       - fixed triangle strip "parity" bug found in VTK medical1 demo (Keith)
 613       - use glXGetProcAddressARB in GLUT to avoid extension linking problems
 614       - provoking vertex of flat-shaded, color-index triangles was wrong
 615       - fixed a few display list bugs (GLUT walker, molecule, etc) (Keith)
 616       - glTexParameter didn't flush the vertex buffer (Ray Tice)
 617       - feedback attributes for glDraw/CopyPixels and glBitmap were wrong
 618       - fixed bug in normal length caching (ParaView lighting bug)
 619 </pre>
 620
 621 <h2>October 22, 2001</h2>
 622 <p>Mesa 4.0 has been released.  This is a stable release.
 623 </p><pre>    New:
 624       - Mesa 4.0 implements the OpenGL 1.3 specification
 625       - GL_IBM_rasterpos_clip extension
 626       - GL_EXT_texture_edge_clamp extension (aka GL_SGIS_texture_edge_clamp)
 627       - GL_ARB_texture_mirrored_repeat extension
 628       - WindML UGL driver (Stephane Raimbault)
 629       - added OSMESA_MAX_WIDTH/HEIGHT queries
 630       - attempted compiliation fixes for Solaris 5, 7 and 8
 631       - updated glext.h and glxext.h files
 632       - updated Windows driver (Karl Schultz)
 633     Bug fixes:
 634       - added some missing GLX 1.3 tokens to include/GL/glx.h
 635       - GL_COLOR_MATRIX changes weren't recognized by teximage functions
 636       - glCopyPixels with scale and bias was broken
 637       - glRasterPos with lighting could segfault
 638       - glDeleteTextures could leave a dangling pointer
 639       - Proxy textures for cube maps didn't work
 640       - fixed a number of 16-bit color channel bugs
 641       - fixed a few minor memory leaks
 642       - GLX context sharing was broken in 3.5
 643       - fixed state-update bugs in glPopClientAttrib()
 644       - fixed glDrawRangeElements() bug
 645       - fixed a glPush/PopAttrib() bug related to texture binding
 646       - flat-shaded, textured lines were broken
 647       - fixed a dangling pointer problem in the XMesa code (Chris Burghart)
 648       - lighting didn't always produce the correct alpha value
 649       - fixed 3DNow! code to not read past end of arrays (Andrew Lewycky)
 650 </pre>
 651
 652
 653 <h2>June 21, 2001</h2>
 654 <p>Mesa 3.5 has been released.  This is a new development release.
 655 </p><pre>    New:
 656         - internals of Mesa divided into modular pieces (Keith Whitwell)
 657         - 100% OpenGL 1.2 conformance (passes all conformance tests)
 658         - new AA line algorithm
 659         - GL_EXT_convolution extension
 660         - GL_ARB_imaging subset
 661         - OSMesaCreateContextExt() function
 662         - GL_ARB_texture_env_add extension (same as GL_EXT_texture_env_add)
 663         - GL_MAX_TEXTURE_UNITS_ARB now defaults to eight
 664         - GL_EXT_fog_coord extension (Keith Whitwell)
 665         - GL_EXT_secondary_color extension (Keith Whitwell)
 666         - GL_ARB_texture_env_add extension (same as GL_EXT_texture_env_add)
 667         - GL_SGIX_depth_texture extension
 668         - GL_SGIX_shadow and GL_SGIX_shadow_ambient extensions
 669         - demos/shadowtex.c demo of GL_SGIX_depth_texture and GL_SGIX_shadow
 670         - GL_ARB_texture_env_combine extension
 671         - GL_ARB_texture_env_dot3 extension
 672         - GL_ARB_texture_border_clamp (aka GL_SGIS_texture_border_clamp)
 673         - OSMesaCreateContextExt() function
 674         - libOSMesa.so library, contains the OSMesa driver interface
 675         - GL/glxext.h header file for GLX extensions
 676         - somewhat faster software texturing, fogging, depth testing
 677         - all color-index conformance tests now pass (only 8bpp tested)
 678         - SPARC assembly language TCL optimizations (David Miller)
 679         - GL_SGIS_generate_mipmap extension
 680     Bug Fixes:
 681         - fbiRev and tmuRev were unitialized when using Glide3
 682         - fixed a few color index mode conformance failures; all pass now
 683         - now appling antialiasing coverage to alpha after texturing
 684         - colors weren't getting clamped to [0,1] before color table lookup
 685         - fixed RISC alignment errors caused by COPY_4UBV macro
 686         - drawing wide, flat-shaded lines could cause a segfault
 687         - vertices now snapped to 1/16 pixel to fix rendering of tiny triangles
 688     Changes:
 689         - SGI's Sample Implementation (SI) 1.3 GLU library replaces Mesa GLU
 690         - new libOSMesa.so library, contains the OSMesa driver interface
 691 </pre>
 692
 693
 694 <h2>May 17, 2001</h2>
 695 <p>Mesa 3.4.2 has been released.  This is basically just a bug-fix release.
 696 Here's what's new:</p>
 697 <pre>    Bug fixes:
 698         - deleting the currently bound texture could cause bad problems
 699         - using fog could result in random vertex alpha values
 700          - AA triangle rendering could touch pixels outside right window bound
 701         - fixed byteswapping problem in clear_32bit_ximage() function
 702         - fixed bugs in wglUseFontBitmapsA(), by Frank Warmerdam
 703         - fixed memory leak in glXUseXFont()
 704         - fragment sampling in AA triangle function was off by 1/2 pixel
 705         - Windows: reading pixels from framebuffer didn't always work
 706         - glConvolutionFilter2D could segfault or cause FP exception
 707         - fixed segfaults in FX and X drivers when using tex unit 1 but not 0
 708         - GL_NAND logicop didn't work right in RGBA mode
 709         - fixed a memory corruption bug in vertex buffer reset code
 710         - clearing the softwara alpha buffer with scissoring was broken
 711         - fixed a few color index mode fog bugs
 712         - fixed some bad assertions in color index mode
 713         - fixed FX line 'stipple' bug #420091
 714     Changes:
 715         - optimized writing mono-colored pixel spans to X pixmaps
 716         - increased max viewport size to 2048 x 2048
 717 </pre>
 718
 719
 720 <h2>April 29, 2001</h2>
 721 <p>New Mesa website</p>
 722 <p>Mark Manning produced the new website.<br>Thanks, Mark!</p>
 723
 724
 725 <h2>February 14, 2001</h2>
 726 <p>Mesa 3.4.1 has been released.  Here's what's new:</p>
 727 <pre>    New:
 728         - fixed some Linux build problems
 729         - fixed some Windows build problems
 730         - GL_EXT_texture_env_dot3 extension (Gareth Hughes)
 731     Bug fixes:
 732         - added RENDER_START/RENDER_FINISH macros for glCopyTexImage in DRI
 733         - various state-update code changes needed for DRI bugs
 734         - disabled pixel transfer ops in glColorTable commands, not needed
 735         - fixed bugs in glCopyConvolutionFilter1D/2D, glGetConvolutionFilter
 736         - updated sources and fixed compile problems in widgets-mesa/
 737         - GLX_PBUFFER enum value was wrong in glx.h
 738         - fixed a glColorMaterial lighting bug
 739         - fixed bad args to Read/WriteStencilSpan in h/w stencil clear function
 740         - glXCopySubBufferMESA() Y position was off by one
 741         - Error checking of glTexSubImage3D() was broken (bug 128775)
 742         - glPopAttrib() didn't restore all derived Mesa state correctly
 743         - Better glReadPixels accuracy for 16bpp color - fixes lots of OpenGL
 744           conformance problems at 16bpp.
 745         - clearing depth buffer with scissoring was broken, would segfault
 746         - OSMesaGetDepthBuffer() returned bad bytesPerValue value
 747         - fixed a line clipping bug (reported by Craig McDaniel)
 748         - fixed RGB color over/underflow bug for very tiny triangles
 749     Known problems:
 750         - NURBS or evaluator surfaces inside display lists don't always work
 751 </pre>
 752 <p>
 753 </p><h2>November 3, 2000</h2>
 754 <p>Mesa 3.4 has been released. Here's what's new since the 3.3 release:</p>
 755 <pre>    New:
 756     - optimized glDrawPixels for glPixelZoom(1,-1)
 757     Bug Fixes:
 758     - widgets-mesa/src/*.c files were missing from 3.3 distro
 759     - include/GL/mesa_wgl.h file was missing from 3.3 distro
 760     - fixed some Win32 compile problems
 761     - texture object priorities weren't getting initialized to 1.0
 762     - glAreTexturesResident return value was wrong when using hardware
 763     - glXUseXFont segfaulted when using 3dfx driver (via MESA_GLX_FX)
 764     - glReadPixels with GLushort packed types was broken
 765     - fixed a few bugs in the GL_EXT_texture_env_combine texture code
 766     - glPush/PopAttrib(GL_ENABLE_BIT) mishandled multi-texture enables
 767     - fixed some typos/bugs in the VB code
 768     - glDrawPixels(GL_COLOR_INDEX) to RGB window didn't work
 769     - optimized glDrawPixels paths weren't being used
 770     - per-fragment fog calculation didn't work without a Z buffer
 771     - improved blending accuracy, fixes Glean  blendFunc test failures
 772     - glPixelStore(GL_PACK/UNPACK_SKIP_IMAGES) wasn't handled correctly
 773     - glXGetProcAddressARB() didn't always return the right address
 774     - gluBuild[12]DMipmaps() didn't grok the GL_BGR pixel format
 775     - texture matrix changes weren't always detected (GLUT projtex demo)
 776     - fixed random color problem in vertex fog code
 777     - fixed Glide-related bug that let Quake get a 24-bit Z buffer
 778     Changes:
 779     - finished internal support for compressed textures for DRI
 780 </pre>
 781 <p>
 782 </p><h2>April 24, 2000</h2>
 783 <p>Mesa 3.2 has been released. Here's what's new since the beta release:</p>
 784 <pre>    Bug fixes:
 785     - fixed memcpy bugs in span.c
 786     - fixed missing glEnd problem in demos/tessdemo.c
 787     - fixed bug when clearing 24bpp Ximages
 788     - fixed clipping problem found in Unreal Tournament
 789     - fixed Loki's "ice bug" and "crazy triangles" seen in Heretic2
 790     - fixed Loki's 3dfx RGB vs BGR bug
 791     - fixed Loki's 3dfx smooth/flat shading bug in SoF
 792     Changes:
 793     - updated docs/README file
 794     - use bcopy() optimizations on FreeBSD
 795     - re-enabled the optimized persp_textured_triangle() function
 796 </pre>
 797 <p>
 798 </p><h2>March 23, 2000</h2>
 799 <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>
 800 <p>3.2 (note even number) is a stabilization release of Mesa 3.1 meaning it's mainly
 801 just bug fixes.</p>
 802 <p>Here's what's changed:
 803
 804 </p><ul>
 805         Bug fixes:
 806         <ul>
 807                 - mixed drawing of lines and bitmaps sometimes had wrong colors<br>
 808                 - added missing glHintPGI() function<br>
 809                 - fixed a polygon culling bug<br>
 810                 - fixed bugs in gluPartialDisk()<br>
 811                 - Z values in selection mode were wrong<br>
 812                 - added missing tokens:
 813                 <ul>
 814                         GL_SMOOTH_POINT_SIZE_RANGE<br>
 815                         GL_SMOOTH_POINT_SIZE_GRANULARITY<br>
 816                         GL_SMOOTH_LINE_WIDTH_RANGE<br>
 817                         GL_SMOOTH_LINE_WIDTH_GRANULARITY<br>
 818                         GL_ALIASED_POINT_SIZE_RANGE<br>
 819                         GL_ALIASED_LINE_WIDTH_RANGE
 820                 </ul>
 821                 - fixed glCopyPixels when copying from back to front buffer<br>
 822                 - GL_EXT_compiled_vertex_array tokens had _SGI suffix instead of _EXT<br>
 823                 - glDrawRangeElements(GL_LINES, 0, 1, 2, type, indices) was broken<br>
 824                 - glDeleteTextures() didn't decrement reference count correctly<br>
 825                 - GL_SRCA_ALPHA_SATURATE blend mode didn't work correctly<br>
 826                 - Actual depth of transformation matrix stacks was off by one<br>
 827                 - 24bpp visuals didn't address pixels correctly<br>
 828                 - mipmap level of detail (lambda) calculation simplified, more accurate<br>
 829                 - 101691 - Polygon clipping and GL_LINE<br>
 830                 - 101928 - Polygon clipping and GL_LINE (same fix as above)<br>
 831                 - 101808 - Non-glVertexArrays tristrip bug<br>
 832                 - 101971 - find_last_3f on Dec OSF (worked around)<br>
 833                 - 102369 - segv on dec osf (possibly a duplicate of the above)<br>
 834                 - 102893 - orientations of modelview cause segfault
 835         </ul>
 836         New:
 837         <ul>
 838                 - updated SVGA Linux driver<br>
 839                 - added the MESA_FX_NO_SIGNALS env var, see docs/README.3DFX<br>
 840                 - build libGLw.a (Xt/OpenGL drawing area widget) library by default<br>
 841                 - changed -O2 to -O3 for a number of gcc configs
 842         </ul>
 843         Changes:
 844         <ul>
 845                 - glXCopyContext's mask parameter is now unsigned long, per GLX spec
 846         </ul>
 847 </ul>
 848
 849 <p>Please report any problems with this release ASAP. Bugs should be filed on the
 850 Mesa3D website at sourceforge.<br>
 851 After 3.2 is wrapped up I hope to release 3.3 beta 1 soon afterward.</p>
 852 <p>-- Brian</p>
 853 <p>
 854 </p><h2>December 17, 1999</h2>
 855 <p>A Slashdot interview with Brian about Mesa (questions submitted by Slashdot readers)
 856 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>
 857 <p>
 858 </p><h2>December 14, 1999</h2>
 859 <p>Mesa 3.1 is released!</p>
 860 <p>
 861 </p><h2>September 21, 1999</h2>
 862 <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>
 863 and <a href="ftp://ftp.mesa3d.org/mesa/beta/MesaDemos-3.1beta3.tar.gz">MesaDemos-3.1beta3.tar.gz</a>,
 864 that seem to be... yes, I've just received confirmation from the beta center, they
 865 are indeed the <b>THIRD</b> beta release of Mesa 3.1! Happy Days. Happy Days. Thanks
 866 Keith Whitwell for preparing these for us during Brian's absence.</p>
 867 <p>
 868 </p><h2>August 30, 1999</h2>
 869 <p>I'm pleased to announce that I've accepted a position with Precision Insight,
 870 Inc. effective October, 1999. I'll be leaving Avid Technology in September.</p>
 871 <p>I've been working on Mesa in my spare time for over five years. With Precision
 872 Insight I now have the opportunity to devote my full attention to advancing Mesa
 873 and OpenGL on Linux.</p>
 874 <p>While I'll be focused on Linux, the X Window System, and hardware acceleration,
 875 my work will continue to be open sourced and available to any other programmers who
 876 may want to contribute to it, or use it for other projects or platforms</p>
 877 <p>PS: I'm going to be traveling until Sep 6 and won't be reading email until then.</p>
 878 <p>
 879 </p><h2>August 23, 1999</h2>
 880 <p>Anonymous CVS access is back online so suck up all the bandwidth you can afford.
 881 Note that this is a new archive, so you will need to re-checkout the archive. That
 882 means don't <i>cvs update</i> from a previous download.</p>
 883 <p>
 884 </p><h2>August 17, 1999</h2>
 885 <p>A report from the SIGGRAPH '99 Linux/OpenGL
 886 BOF meeting is now available.</p>
 887 <p>-Brian</p>
 888 <p>
 889 </p><h2>August 14, 1999</h2>
 890 <p>www.mesa3d.org is having technical problems due to hardware failures at VA Linux
 891 systems. The Mac pages, ftp, and CVS services aren't fully restored yet. Please be
 892 patient.</p>
 893 <p>-Brian</p>
 894 <p>
 895 </p><h2>June 7, 1999</h2>
 896 <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>
 897 <p>
 898 </p><h2>June 2, 1999</h2>
 899 <p><a href="http://www.nvidia.com/">nVidia</a> has released some Linux binaries for
 900 xfree86 3.3.3.1, along with the <b>full source</b>, which includes GLX acceleration
 901 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>
 902 <p>
 903 </p><h2>May 24, 1999</h2>
 904 <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>.
 905 If you are into the quake scene, you may want to try this out, as it contains some
 906 optimizations specifically in the Q3A rendering path.
 907 <p>
 908 </p><h2>May 13, 1999</h2>
 909 <p>For those interested in the integration of Mesa into XFree86 4.0, Precision Insight
 910 has posted their lowlevel design documents at http://www.precisioninsight.com.</p>
 911 <p>
 912 </p><h2>May 13, 1999</h2>
 913 <pre>May 1999 - John Carmack of id Software, Inc. has made a donation of
 914 US$10,000 to the Mesa project to support its continuing development.
 915 Mesa is a free implementation of the OpenGL 3D graphics library and id's
 916 newest game, Quake 3 Arena, will use Mesa as the 3D renderer on Linux.
 917
 918 The donation will go to Keith Whitwell, who has been optimizing Mesa to
 919 improve performance on 3d hardware.  Thanks to Keith's work, many
 920 applications using Mesa 3.1 will see a dramatic performance increase
 921 over Mesa 3.0.  The donation will allow Keith to continue working on
 922 Mesa full time for some time to come.
 923
 924 For more information about Mesa see www.mesa3d.org.  For more
 925 information about id Software, Inc. see www.idsoftware.com.
 926
 927 --------------------------------
 928
 929 This donation from John/id is very generous.  Keith and I are very
 930 grateful.
 931
 932 </pre>
 933 <p>
 934 </p><h2>May 1, 1999</h2>
 935 <p>John Carmack made an interesting .plan update yesterday:
 936
 937 </p><ul>
 938         <i>"I put together a document on optimizing OpenGL drivers for Q3 that
 939         should be helpful to the various Linux 3D teams. <br>
 940         </i>http://www.quake3arena.com/news/glopt.html</i>"
 941 </ul>
 942
 943 <p>
 944 </p><h2>April 7, 1999</h2>
 945 <p>Updated the Mesa contributors section and added links to RPM Mesa packages.</p>
 946 <p>
 947 </p><h2>March 18, 1999</h2>
 948 <p>The new webpages are now online. Enjoy, and let me know if you find any errors.
 949 For an eye-candy free version you can use <a href="http://www.mesa3d.org/txt/">http://www.mesa3d.org/txt/</a>.</p>
 950 <p>
 951 </p><h2>February 16, 1999</h2>
 952 <p><a href="http://www.sgi.com/">SGI</a> releases its <a href="http://www.sgi.com/software/opensource/glx/">GLX
 953 source code</a>.</p>
 954 <p>
 955 </p><h2>January 22, 1999</h2>
 956 <p>www.mesa3d.org established</p>
 957
 958
 959 </p>
 960
 961
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