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  14 <h2>March 31, 2006</h2>
  15 <p>
  16 Mesa 6.5 has been released.  This is a new development release.
  17 </p>
  18 <pre>
  19     New:
  20         - OpenGL Shading Language support through GL_ARB_shader_objects,
  21           GL_ARB_shading_language_100, GL_ARB_vertex_shader and
  22           GL_ARB_fragment_shader (done by Michal Krol)
  23         - GL_EXT_packed_depth_stencil extension
  24         - GL_EXT_timer_query extension
  25         - GL_EXT_framebuffer_blit extension
  26         - GL_ARB_half_float_pixel
  27         - GLX_MESA_copy_sub_buffer for DRI drivers (Dave Reveman)
  28         - reflect demo improved to support multiple windows
  29         - singlebuffer demo (shows no/little-flicker single-buffered rendering)
  30         - r200: enable GL_ARB_texture_env_crossbar, separate the texture
  31           sampling unit bits from the texture env combine enable bits
  32         - r200: add support for GL_ATI_fragment_shader
  33         - added fast XOR-mode line drawing optimization
  34         - radeon: add support for all 3 tmus, GL_ARB_texture_cube_map
  35           and GL_EXT_fog_coord
  36         - MESA_GLX_ALPHA_BITS env var for xlib driver
  37         - many DRI driver updates (including screen rotation support
  38           for the Intel DRI driver)
  39     Changes:
  40         - removed GL_HP_occlusion_test (use GL_ARB_occlusion_query instead)
  41         - removed GL_SGIX/SGIS_pixel_texture extensions
  42     Bug fixes:
  43         - fixed glxcontextmodes.c datatype problem (bug 5835)
  44         - fixed aix-gcc build/install bugs (bug 5874)
  45         - fixed some bugs in texture env program generation
  46         - glXCopyContext() didn't handle texture object bindings properly
  47         - glXCopyContext() didn't copy all lighting state
  48         - fixed FreeBSD config (Pedro Giffuni)
  49         - fixed some minor framebuffer object bugs
  50         - replaced dprintf() with _glu_printf() in GLU (bug 6244)
  51         - fixed a number of thread safety bugs/regressions
  52         - fixed a number of GLU tesselator bugs (John Shell, bug 6339)
  53         - paletted texturing was broken w/ floating point palettes (K. Schultz)
  54         - lots of assorted framebuffer object bug fixes
  55 </pre>
  56 <p>
  57 The MD5 checksums are:
  58 </p>
  59 <pre>
  60 657be3b92f6dabc78a67ed9cb8d67813  MesaLib-6.5.tar.gz
  61 61beda590bfc5b4a12e979d5f2d70d7a  MesaLib-6.5.tar.bz2
  62 19d48b872d579d4f91466060804a59ac  MesaLib-6.5.zip
  63 694ad3a7007010c7418a9c72d1cba5b7  MesaDemos-6.5.tar.gz
  64 ab95b590dcd640726a2d89e62068c66e  MesaDemos-6.5.tar.bz2
  65 b792c303fefd87294488e2b7eab976e5  MesaDemos-6.5.zip
  66 ac1d585483617db0c91e5c15cb5ec3a3  MesaGLUT-6.5.tar.gz
  67 59f0bf2b2ffb67fe23ee479f9b044f31  MesaGLUT-6.5.tar.bz2
  68 005decb2136718e22222ac1c4805cd15  MesaGLUT-6.5.zip
  69 </pre>
  70
  71
  72 <h2>February 2, 2006</h2>
  73 <p>
  74 Mesa 6.4.2 has been released.  This is primarily a bug-fix release.
  75 </p>
  76 <pre>
  77     New items:
  78         - added OSMesaColorClamp() function/feature
  79         - added wglGetExtensionStringARB() function
  80     Bug fixes:
  81         - fixed some problems when building on Windows
  82         - GLw header files weren't installed by installmesa script (bug 5396)
  83         - GL/glfbdev.h file was missing from tarballs
  84 </pre>
  85 <p>
  86 The MD5 checksums are:
  87 </p>
  88 <pre>
  89 cb0d745d520fa7c2bb9178058b763544  MesaLib-6.4.2.tar.gz
  90 7674d2c603b5834259e4e5a820cefd5b  MesaLib-6.4.2.tar.bz2
  91 d224e1325b33ff71a0f3893fc6b4d594  MesaLib-6.4.2.zip
  92 d4b345d4588fc750cd3d34f3ac26673e  MesaDemos-6.4.2.tar.gz
  93 9cae1ab874af533ce356bd7dfe2e0bb0  MesaDemos-6.4.2.tar.bz2
  94 2da6e1d1245e441d27813595c6ba50de  MesaDemos-6.4.2.zip
  95 84427d18c3453f0ea52388eeba7169b5  MesaGLUT-6.4.2.tar.gz
  96 b157ba8ad1ea63260cf5339132e7aac6  MesaGLUT-6.4.2.tar.bz2
  97 fe1523744fc05edc3811dfc6a1bf4181  MesaGLUT-6.4.2.zip
  98 </pre>
  99
 100
 101 <h2>November 29, 2005</h2>
 102 <p>
 103 Mesa 6.4.1 has been released.  This is a stable, bug-fix release.
 104 </p>
 105 <pre>
 106     Bug fixes:
 107         - redefining a vertex program string didn't take effect in TNL module
 108         - fixed occasional segfault upon vertex/fragment parsing error
 109         - vertex program LIT instruction didn't handle 0^0=1 correctly
 110         - fragment program fog option didn't work with glDrawPixels, glBitmap
 111         - USE_MGL_NAMESPACE didn't work for x86-64
 112         - OSMesa demos were missing from previous release tarballs
 113         - fixed problem with float->ushort conversion in glClear (bug 4992)
 114         - popping of GL_EYE_PLANE texgen state was broken (bug 4996)
 115         - popping of GL_SPOT_DIRECTION light state was broken (bug 5005)
 116         - fixed occasional triangle color interpolation problem on VMS
 117         - work around invalid free() call (bug 5131)
 118         - fixed BSD X server compilation problem by including stdint.h
 119 </pre>
 120 <p>
 121 The MD5 checksums are:
 122 </p>
 123 <pre>
 124 698ceb574cf882b0226761f5913c0da9  MesaLib-6.4.1.tar.gz
 125 ea148c828ec6f645526451db1b8556f1  MesaLib-6.4.1.tar.bz2
 126 42e93279468975ed2bf3111b8721e5d9  MesaLib-6.4.1.zip
 127 e3b0d50807fd2bdcd1a95aaddd786f13  MesaDemos-6.4.1.tar.gz
 128 99df1fdcb98d391666b476ca6f1dda8a  MesaDemos-6.4.1.tar.bz2
 129 b999d2c6d92fb4b7740a3dbd889348e3  MesaDemos-6.4.1.zip
 130 eadfe01fe5ddfb1eb8227dd567b31635  MesaGLUT-6.4.1.tar.gz
 131 bd003bb4f981a4f91dee4c38644d4f3f  MesaGLUT-6.4.1.tar.bz2
 132 71c401c037088bf688a88afdaeb3420f  MesaGLUT-6.4.1.zip
 133 </pre>
 134
 135
 136
 137
 138 <h2>October 24, 2005</h2>
 139 <p>
 140 Mesa 6.4 has been released.  This is a stable, bug-fix release.
 141 </p>
 142 <pre>
 143     New:
 144         - Added a fast XOR line drawing function in Xlib driver
 145         - Added support for GL_ARB_texture_mirrored_repeat to savage
 146           driver (supported only on Savage4 hardware).
 147     Changes:
 148         - Mesa now packaged in three parts: Library, Demos and GLUT
 149     Bug fixes:
 150         - GLX_X_RENDERABLE token wasn't accepted by glXChooseFBConfig
 151         - Some files were present multiple times in the 6.3.2 tarballs
 152         - r200_vtxtmp_x86.S file was missing from 6.3.2 tarball (bug 4207)
 153         - glxgears_fbconfig demo didn't work (bug 4237)
 154         - fixed bug when bilinear sampling 2d textures with borders
 155         - glXCreatePbuffer() could segfault instead of returning 0 (bug 4235)
 156         - fixed undefined frexp and rand in X.org libGLcore.a (bug 4242)
 157         - fixed a few problems with proxy color tables (bug 4270)
 158         - fixed precision problem in Z clearing (bug 4395)
 159         - glBitmap, glDraw/CopyPixels mistakenly generated selection hits
 160         - fixed potential segfault caused by reading pixels outside
 161           of renderbuffer bounds
 162         - glGetTexLevelParameter didn't accept GL_TEXTURE_DEPTH_SIZE_ARB
 163         - fixed memory corruption bug involving software alpha buffers
 164         - glReadPixels clipped by window bounds was sometimes broken
 165         - glDraw/CopyPixels of stencil data ignored the stencil write mask
 166         - glReadPixels from a texture bound to a framebuffer object didn't work
 167         - glIsRender/FramebufferEXT weren't totally correct
 168         - fixed a number of point size attenuation/fade bugs
 169         - fixed glFogCoord bug 4729
 170         - GLX encoding for transpose matrix functions was broken
 171         - fixed broken fragment program KIL and SWZ instructions
 172 </pre>
 173 <p>
 174 The MD5 checksums are:
 175 </p>
 176 <pre>
 177 1cce0c1eb4fd15e9dfe837a1ce0c9812  MesaLib-6.4.tar.gz
 178 85a84e47a3f718f752f306b9e0954ef6  MesaLib-6.4.tar.bz2
 179 b976fea4f3ee06354c53f91b6e3f2ffc  MesaLib-6.4.zip
 180 d8734f2c69bcf7ef9f5ae454a85743ba  MesaDemos-6.4.tar.gz
 181 1a8c4d4fc699233f5fdb902b8753099e  MesaDemos-6.4.tar.bz2
 182 607ab7c7a7de0cc5febbdde2bfa03098  MesaDemos-6.4.zip
 183 3260156f66174322a092be0767962d34  MesaGLUT-6.4.tar.gz
 184 0465d053f83775f44a12dec4050dfd78  MesaGLUT-6.4.tar.bz2
 185 02abfcdcdf72ba938ae00f6e3b70fbe0  MesaGLUT-6.4.zip
 186 </pre>
 187
 188
 189 <h2>August 19, 2005</h2>
 190 <p>
 191 Mesa 6.3.2 has been released.
 192 Note: there was no public release of version 6.3.1.
 193 </p>
 194 <pre>
 195     New:
 196         - The distribution now includes the DRI drivers and GLX code
 197     Changes:
 198         - Made the DRI "new" driver interface standard, remove old code
 199     Bug fixes:
 200         - GL_ARB_vertex/fragment_shader were mistakenly listed in the
 201           extensions string
 202         - negative relative addressing in vertex programs was broken
 203         - update/fix SPARC assembly code for vertex transformation
 204         - fixed memory leak when freeing GLX drawables/renderbuffers
 205         - fixed display list memory leak
 206         - the GL_PIXEL_MAP_I_TO_I table is now floating point, not integer
 207         - wglGetProcAddress() didn't handle wgl-functions
 208         - fixed glxext.h cross-compile issue (Colin Harrison)
 209         - assorted DRI driver fixes
 210 </pre>
 211 <p>
 212 The MD5 checksums are:
 213 </p>
 214 <pre>
 215 98192e45ed8d69113688f89f90869346  MesaLib-6.3.2.tar.gz
 216 0df27701df0924d17ddf41185efa8ce1  MesaLib-6.3.2.tar.bz2
 217 ccb2423aab77fc7e81ce628734586140  MesaLib-6.3.2.zip
 218 9d0fca0a7d051c34a0b485423fb3e85d  MesaDemos-6.3.2.tar.gz
 219 96708868450c188205e42229b5d813c4  MesaDemos-6.3.2.tar.bz2
 220 c5102501e609aa8996d832fafacb8ab9  MesaDemos-6.3.2.zip
 221 </pre>
 222
 223
 224 <h2>July 20, 2005</h2>
 225 <p>
 226 Mesa 6.3 has been released.
 227 This is a development release with new features, changes and bug fixes.
 228 </p>
 229 <pre>
 230     New:
 231         - GL_EXT_framebuffer_object extension
 232         - GL_ARB_draw_buffers extension
 233         - GL_ARB_pixel_buffer_object extension
 234         - GL_OES_read_format extension (Ian Romanick)
 235         - DirectFB driver (Claudio Ciccani)
 236         - x86_64 vertex transformation code (Mikko T.)
 237     Changes:
 238         - added -stereo option for glxgears demo (Jacek Rosik)
 239         - updated the PBuffer demo code in xdemos/ directory
 240         - glDeleteTextures/Programs/Buffers() now makes the object ID
 241           available for immediate re-use
 242         - assorted 64-bit clean-ups fixes (x86_64 and Win64)
 243         - lots of internal changes for GL_EXT_framebuffer_object
 244     Bug fixes:
 245         - some functions didn't support PBO functionality
 246         - glGetTexImage didn't convert color index images to RGBA as required
 247         - fragment program texcoords were sometimes wrong for points and lines
 248         - fixed problem with negative dot product in arbfplight, fplight demos
 249         - fixed bug in perspective correction of antialiased, textured lines
 250         - querying GL_POST_CONVOLUTION_ALPHA_BIAS_EXT returned wrong value
 251         - fixed a couple per-pixel fog bugs (Soju Matsumoto)
 252         - glGetBooleanv(GL_FRAGMENT_PROGRAM_BINDING_NV) was broken
 253         - fixed float parsing bug in ARB frag/vert programs (bug 2520)
 254         - XMesaGetDepthBuffer() returned incorrect value for bytesPerValue
 255         - GL_COLOR_MATERIAL with glColor3 didn't properly set diffuse alpha
 256         - glXChooseFBConfig() crashed if attribList pointer was NULL
 257         - program state.light[n].spot.direction.w was wrong value (bug 3083)
 258         - fragment program fog option required glEnable(GL_FOG) - wrong.
 259         - glColorTable() could produce a Mesa implementation error (bug 3135)
 260         - RasterPos could get corrupted by color index rendering path
 261         - Removed bad XTranslateCoordinates call when rendering to Pixmaps
 262         - glPopAttrib() didn't properly restore GL_TEXTURE_GEN enable state
 263         - fixed a few Darwin compilation problems
 264 </pre>
 265 <p>
 266 The MD5 checksums are:
 267 </p>
 268 <pre>
 269 0236f552d37514776945d5a013e5bb7b  MesaLib-6.3.tar.gz
 270 60e1a8f78c4a8c7750a1e95753190986  MesaLib-6.3.tar.bz2
 271 ca7c950fbace68c70caa822322db7223  MesaLib-6.3.zip
 272 25ea801645b376c014051804fe4974b2  MesaDemos-6.3.tar.gz
 273 9248e74872ea88c57ec25c900c295057  MesaDemos-6.3.tar.bz2
 274 8537dfa734ef258dcc7272097558d434  MesaDemos-6.3.zip
 275 </pre>
 276
 277
 278 <h2>December 9, 2004</h2>
 279 <p>
 280 Mesa 6.2.1 has been released.
 281 This is a stable release which just fixes bugs since the 6.2 release.
 282 </p>
 283 <pre>
 284     Bug fixes:
 285         - don't apply regular fog or color sum when using a fragment program
 286         - glProgramEnvParameter4fARB always generated an error on
 287           GL_FRAGMENT_PROGRAM_ARB (fdo bug 1645)
 288         - glVertexAttrib3svNV and glVertexAttrib3svARB were broken
 289         - fixed width/height mix-up in glSeparableFilter2D()
 290         - fixed regression in glCopyPixels + convolution
 291         - glReadPixels from a clipped front color buffer didn't always work
 292         - glTexImage didn't accept GL_RED/GREEN/BLUE as the format
 293         - Attempting queries/accesses of VBO 0 weren't detected as errors
 294         - paletted textures failed if the palette had fewer than 256 entries
 295     Changes:
 296         - fixed a bunch of compiler warnings found with gcc 3.4
 297         - bug reports should to go bugzilla.freedesktop.org
 298 </pre>
 299 <p>
 300 The MD5 checksums are:
 301 </p>
 302 <pre>
 303 80008a92f6e055d3bfdde2cf331ec3fa  MesaLib-6.2.1.tar.gz
 304 f43228cd2bf70f583ef3275c1c545421  MesaLib-6.2.1.tar.bz2
 305 dec26cfd40116ad021020fea2d94f652  MesaLib-6.2.1.zip
 306 2c7af3c986a7571c8713c8bfee7e49e3  MesaDemos-6.2.1.tar.gz
 307 3cac74667b50bcbd4f67f594fb4224a2  MesaDemos-6.2.1.tar.bz2
 308 75b3edd12eb2b370caf05f29b99e508a  MesaDemos-6.2.1.zip
 309 </pre>
 310
 311
 312 <h2>October 2, 2004</h2>
 313 <p>
 314 Mesa 6.2 has been released.
 315 This is a stable release which just fixes bugs since the 6.1 release.
 316 </p>
 317 <pre>
 318     New:
 319         - enabled GL_ARB_texture_rectangle (same as GL_NV_texture_rectangle)
 320         - updated Doxygen support (Jose Fonseca)
 321     Changes:
 322         - some GGI driver updates (Christoph Egger, bug 1025977)
 323     Bug fixes:
 324         - Omit GL_ARB_texture_non_power_of_two from list of OpenGL 1.5 features
 325         - fixed a few compilation issues on IRIX
 326         - fixed a matrix classification bug (reported by Wes Bethel)
 327         - we weren't reseting the vertex/fragment program error state
 328           before parsing (Dave Reveman)
 329         - adjust texcoords for sampling texture rectangles (Dave Reveman)
 330         - glGet*(GL_MAX_VERTEX_ATTRIBS_ARB) wasn't implemented
 331         - repeated calls to glDeleteTexture(t) could lead to a crash
 332         - fixed potential ref count bugs in VBOs and vertex/fragment programs
 333         - spriteblast demo didn't handle window size changes correctly
 334         - glTexSubImage didn't handle pixels=NULL correctly for PBOs
 335         - fixed color index mode glDrawPixels bug (Karl Schultz)
 336 </pre>
 337 <p>
 338 The MD5 checksums are:
 339 </p>
 340 <pre>
 341 9e8f34b059272dbb8e1f2c968b33bbf0  MesaLib-6.2.tar.gz
 342 3d6a6362390b6a37d3cb2e615f3ac7db  MesaLib-6.2.tar.bz2
 343 6cfd7895d28e695c0dbbed9469564091  MesaLib-6.2.zip
 344 3e06e33b0809f09855cb60883b8bdfef  MesaDemos-6.2.tar.gz
 345 9d160009c3dfdb35fe7e4088c9ba8f85  MesaDemos-6.2.tar.bz2
 346 856f7ec947122eb3c8985ebc2f654dcd  MesaDemos-6.2.zip
 347 </pre>
 348
 349
 350 <h2>August 18, 2004</h2>
 351 <p>
 352 Mesa 6.1 has been released.
 353 This is a new development release (version 6.2 will be a stabilization
 354 release).
 355 </p>
 356 <pre>
 357     New:
 358         - Revamped Makefile system
 359         - glXUseRotatedXFont() utility (see xdemos/xuserotfont.c)
 360         - internal driver interface changes related to texture object
 361           allocation, vertex/fragment programs, BlendEquationSeparate, etc.
 362         - option to walk triangle edges with double-precision floats
 363           (Justin Novosad of Discreet) (see config.h file)
 364         - support for AUX buffers in software GLX driver
 365         - updated glext.h to version 24 and glxext.h to version 6
 366         - new MESA_GLX_FORCE_ALPHA and MESA_GLX_DEPTH_BITS env vars
 367         - updated BeOS support (Philippe Houdoin)
 368     Changes:
 369         - fragment fog interpolation is perspective corrected now
 370         - new glTexImage code, much cleaner, may be a bit faster
 371     Bug fixes:
 372         - glArrayElement in display lists didn't handle generic vertex attribs
 373         - glFogCoord didn't always work properly
 374         - ARB_fragment_program fog options didn't work
 375         - frag prog TEX instruction no longer incorrectly divides s,t,r by q
 376         - ARB frag prog TEX and TEXP instructions now use LOD=0
 377         - glTexEnviv in display lists didn't work
 378         - glRasterPos didn't do texgen or apply texture matrix
 379         - GL_DOUBLE-valued vertex arrays were broken in some cases
 380         - fixed texture rectangle edge/border sampling bugs
 381         - sampling an incomplete texture in a fragment program would segfault
 382         - glTexImage was missing a few error checks
 383         - fixed some minor glGetTexParameter glitches
 384         - GL_INTENSITY was mistakenly accepted as a <format> to glTexImage
 385         - fragment program writes to RC/HC register were broken
 386         - fixed a few glitches in GL_HP_occlusion_test extension
 387         - glBeginQueryARB and glEndQueryARB didn't work inside display lists
 388         - vertex program state references were broken
 389         - fixed triangle color interpolation bug on AIX (Shane Blackett)
 390         - fixed a number of minor memory leaks (bug #1002030)
 391 </pre>
 392 The MD5 checksums are:
 393 </p>
 394 <pre>
 395 c9284d295ebcd2e0486cc3cd54e5863c  MesaLib-6.1.tar.gz
 396 5de1f53ec0709f60fc68fdfed57351f3  MesaLib-6.1.tar.bz2
 397 483e77cac4789a5d36c42f3c0136d6d8  MesaLib-6.1.zip
 398 8c46cfa6f9732acc6f6c25724aad0246  MesaDemos-6.1.tar.gz
 399 89bfe0f6c69b39fd0ebd9fff481a4e9b  MesaDemos-6.1.tar.bz2
 400 161268531fcc6f0c5a056430ee97e0c1  MesaDemos-6.1.zip
 401 </pre>
 402
 403
 404
 405 <h2>April 2, 2004</h2>
 406
 407 <p>
 408 Mesa 6.0.1 has been released.
 409 This release basically just fixes bugs since the 6.0. release.
 410 </p>
 411 <pre>
 412     New:
 413         - upgraded glext.h to version 22
 414         - new build targets (Dan Schikore)
 415         - new linux-x86-opteron build target (Heath Feather)
 416     Bug fixes:
 417         - glBindProgramARB didn't update all necessary state
 418         - fixed build problems on OpenBSD
 419         - omit CVS directories from tarballs
 420         - glGetTexImage(GL_COLOR_INDEX) was broken
 421         - fixed an infinite loop in t&l module
 422         - silenced some valgrind warnings about using unitialized memory
 423         - fixed some compilation/link glitches on IRIX (Mike Stephens)
 424         - glBindProgram wasn't getting compiled into display lists
 425         - GLX_FBCONFIG_ID wasn't recognized in glXChooseFBConfig() (bug 888079)
 426         - two-sided lighting and vertex program didn't work (bug 887330)
 427         - stores to program parameter registers in vertex state programs
 428           didn't work.
 429         - fixed glOrtho bug found with gcc 3.2.2 (RH9)
 430         - glXCreateWindow() wasn't fully implemented (bug 890894)
 431         - generic vertex attribute arrays didn't work in display lists
 432         - vertex buffer objects' default usage and access fields were wrong
 433         - glDrawArrays with start!=0 was broken
 434         - fragment program PK2H, UP2H, UP4B and UP4UB instructions were broken
 435         - linux-osmesa16-static config didn't work
 436         - fixed a few color index rendering problems (bug 910687)
 437         - glInterleavedArrays didn't respect GL_CLIENT_ACTIVE_TEXTURE
 438         - OSMesa RGB and BGR modes were broken
 439         - glProgramStringARB mistakenly required a null-terminated string
 440         - fragment program XPD instruction was incorrect
 441         - glGetMaterial() didn't work reliably
 442 </pre>
 443 The MD5 checksums are:
 444 </p>
 445 <pre>
 446 011be0e79666c7a6eb9693fbf9348653  MesaLib-6.0.1.tar.gz
 447 b7f14088c5c2f14490d2739a91102112  MesaLib-6.0.1.tar.bz2
 448 bf0510cf0a2b87d64cdd317eca3f1db1  MesaLib-6.0.1.zip
 449 b7b648599e0aaee1c4ffc554a2a9139e  MesaDemos-6.0.1.tar.gz
 450 dd6aadfd9ca8e1cfa90c6ee492bc6f43  MesaDemos-6.0.1.tar.bz2
 451 eff71d59c211825e949199852f5a2316  MesaDemos-6.0.1.zip
 452 </pre>
 453
 454
 455
 456 <h2>January 16, 2004</h2>
 457
 458 <p>
 459 Mesa 6.0 has been released.  This is a stabilization of the 5.1 release
 460 and primarily just incorporates bug fixes.
 461 </p>
 462 <pre>
 463     New:
 464         - full OpenGL 1.5 support
 465         - updated GL/glext.h file to version 21
 466     Changes:
 467         - changed max framebuffer size to 4Kx4K (MAX_WIDTH/HEIGHT in config.h)
 468     Bug fixes:
 469         - fixed bug in UNCLAMPED_FLOAT_TO_UBYTE macro; solves a color
 470           clamping issue
 471         - updated suno5-gcc configs
 472         - glColor3 functions sometimes resulted in undefined alpha values
 473         - fixed FP divide by zero error seen on VMS with xlockmore, others
 474         - fixed vertex/fragment program debug problem (bug 873011)
 475         - building on AIX with gcc works now
 476         - glDeleteProgramsARB failed for ARB fragment programs (bug 876160)
 477         - glDrawRangeElements tried to modify potentially read-only storage
 478         - updated files for building on Windows
 479 </pre>
 480
 481
 482
 483 <h2>December 28, 2003</h2>
 484
 485 <p>
 486 The Mesa CVS server has been moved to <a href="http://www.freedesktop.org"
 487 target="_parent">
 488 freedesktop.org</a> because of problems with SourceForge's anonymous
 489 CVS service.
 490 </p>
 491
 492 <p>Please see the <a href="cvs_access.html">CVS access page</a> for details.
 493 </p>
 494
 495
 496 <h2>December 17, 2003</h2>
 497
 498 <p>
 499 Mesa 5.1 has been released.  This is a new development release.
 500 Mesa 6.0 will be the next stable release and will support all
 501 OpenGL 1.5 features.
 502 </p>
 503 <pre>
 504     New features:
 505         - reorganized directory tree
 506         - GL_ARB_vertex/fragment_program extensions (Michal Krol & Karl Rasche)
 507         - GL_ATI_texture_env_combine3 extension (Ian Romanick)
 508         - GL_SGI_texture_color_table extension (Eric Plante)
 509         - GL_NV_fragment_program extension
 510         - GL_NV_light_max_exponent extension
 511         - GL_EXT_texture_rectangle (identical to GL_NV_texture_rectangle)
 512         - GL_ARB_occlusion_query extension
 513         - GL_ARB_point_sprite extension
 514         - GL_ARB_texture_non_power_of_two extension
 515         - GL_IBM_multimode_draw_arrays extension
 516         - GL_EXT_texture_mirror_clamp extension (Ian Romanick)
 517         - GL_ARB_vertex_buffer_object extension
 518         - new X86 feature detection code (Petr Sebor)
 519         - less memory used for display lists and vertex buffers
 520         - demo of per-pixel lighting with a fragment program (demos/fplight.c)
 521         - new version (18) of glext.h header
 522         - new spriteblast.c demo of GL_ARB_point_sprite
 523         - faster glDrawPixels in X11 driver in some cases (see RELNOTES-5.1)
 524         - faster glCopyPixels in X11 driver in some cases (see RELNOTES-5.1)
 525     Bug fixes:
 526         - really enable OpenGL 1.4 features in DOS driver.
 527         - fixed issues in glDrawPixels and glCopyPixels for very wide images
 528         - glPixelMapf/ui/usv()'s size parameter is GLsizei, not GLint
 529         - fixed some texgen bugs reported by Daniel Borca
 530         - fixed wglMakeCurrent(NULL, NULL) bug (#835861)
 531         - fixed glTexSubImage3D z-offset bug (Cedric Gautier)
 532         - fixed RGBA blend enable bug (Ville Syrjala)
 533         - glAccum is supposed to be a no-op in selection/feedback mode
 534         - fixed texgen bug #597589 (John Popplewell)
 535     Changes:
 536         - dropped API trace feature (src/Trace/)
 537         - documentation overhaul.  merged with website content.  more html.
 538         - glxgears.c demo updated to use GLX swap rate extensions
 539         - glTexImage1/2/3D now allows width/height/depth = 0
 540         - disable SPARC asm code on Linux (bug 852204)
 541 </pre>
 542
 543 The MD5 checksums are:
 544 </p>
 545 <pre>
 546 78f452f6c55478471a744f07147612b5  MesaLib-5.1.tar.gz
 547 67b3b8d3f7f4c8c44904551b851d01af  MesaLib-5.1.tar.bz2
 548 6dd19ffa750ec7f634e370a987505c9d  MesaLib-5.1.zip
 549 e0214d4ebb22409dfa9262f2b52fd828  MesaDemos-5.1.tar.gz
 550 066c9aff4fd924405de1ae9bad5ec9a7  MesaDemos-5.1.tar.bz2
 551 d2b5ba32b53e0ad0576c637a4cc1fb41  MesaDemos-5.1.zip
 552 </pre>
 553
 554
 555 <H2>November 12, 2003</H2>
 556
 557 <p>
 558 New Mesa 5.0.2 tarballs have been uploaded to SourceForge which fix a
 559 number of automake/libtool problems.
 560 </p>
 561 <p>
 562 The new MD5 checksums are:
 563 </p>
 564 <pre>
 565 a9dcf3ff9ad1b7d6ce73a0df7cff8b5b  MesaLib-5.0.2.tar.gz
 566 7b4bf9261657c2fca03796d4955e6f50  MesaLib-5.0.2.tar.bz2
 567 79c141bddcbad557647535d02194f346  MesaLib-5.0.2.zip
 568 952d9dc823dd818981d1a648d7b2668a  MesaDemos-5.0.2.tar.gz
 569 b81fafff90995025d2f25ea02b786642  MesaDemos-5.0.2.tar.bz2
 570 a21be975589e8a2d1871b6bb7874fffa  MesaDemos-5.0.2.zip
 571 </pre>
 572
 573
 574
 575 <h2>September 5, 2003</h2>
 576
 577 <p>
 578 Mesa 5.0.2 has been released.  This is a stable, bug-fix release.
 579 </p>
 580 <pre>
 581     Bug fixes:
 582         - fixed texgen problem causing texcoord's Q to be zero (stex3d)
 583         - default GL_TEXTURE_COMPARE_MODE_ARB was wrong
 584         - GL_CURRENT_MATRIX_NV query was wrong
 585         - GL_CURRENT_MATRIX_STACK_DEPTH_NV query was off by one
 586         - GL_LIST_MODE query wasn't correct
 587         - GL_FOG_COORDINATE_SOURCE_EXT query wasn't supported
 588         - GL_SECONDARY_COLOR_ARRAY_SIZE_EXT query returned wrong value
 589         - blended, wide lines didn't always work correctly (bug 711595)
 590         - glVertexAttrib4svNV w component was always 1
 591         - fixed bug in GL_IBM_rasterpos_clip (missing return)
 592         - GL_DEPTH_TEXTURE_MODE = GL_ALPHA didn't work correctly
 593         - a few Solaris compilation fixes
 594         - fixed glClear() problem for DRI drivers (non-existant stencil, etc)
 595         - fixed int/REAL mixup in GLU NURBS curve evaluator (Eric Cazeaux)
 596         - fixed delete [] bug in SI GLU (bug 721765) (Diego Santa Cruz)
 597         - glFog() didn't clamp fog colors
 598         - fixed bad float/int conversion for GL_TEXTURE_PRIORITY in the
 599           gl[Get]TexParameteri[v] functions
 600         - fixed invalid memory references in glTexGen functions (bug 781602)
 601         - integer-valued color arrays weren't handled correctly
 602         - glDrawPixels(GL_DEPTH_COMPONENT) with glPixelZoom didn't work
 603         - GL_EXT_texture_lod_bias is part of 1.4, overlooked in 5.0.1
 604     Changes:
 605         - build GLUT with -fexceptions so C++ apps propogate exceptions
 606 </pre>
 607
 608
 609
 610 <h2>June 2003</h2>
 611
 612 <p>
 613 Mesa's directory tree has been overhauled.
 614 Things are better organized now with some thought toward future needs.
 615 </p>
 616 <p>
 617 In CVS, the latest Mesa 5.1 development code is now rooted under the
 618 <b>Mesa-newtree/</b> directory.  The old top-level <b>Mesa/</b> directory
 619 holds the Mesa 5.0.x code which will be abandoned at some point.
 620 </p>
 621
 622
 623
 624 <h2>March 30, 2003</h2>
 625
 626 <p>
 627 Mesa 5.0.1 has been released.  This is a stable, bug-fix release.
 628 </p>
 629 <pre>
 630     New:
 631         - DOS driver updates from Daniel Borca
 632         - updated GL/gl_mangle.h file (Bill Hoffman)
 633     Bug fixes:
 634         - auto mipmap generation for cube maps was broken (bug 641363)
 635         - writing/clearing software alpha channels was unreliable
 636         - minor compilation fixes for OS/2 (Evgeny Kotsuba)
 637         - fixed some bad assertions found with shadowtex demo
 638         - fixed error checking bug in glCopyTexSubImage2D (bug 659020)
 639         - glRotate(angle, -x, 0, 0) was incorrect (bug 659677)
 640         - fixed potential segfault in texture object validation (bug 659012)
 641         - fixed some bogus code in _mesa_test_os_sse_exception_support (Linus)
 642         - fix fog stride bug in tnl code for h/w drivers (Michel Danzer)
 643         - fixed glActiveTexture / glMatrixMode(GL_TEXTURE) bug (#669080)
 644         - glGet(GL_CURRENT_SECONDARY_COLOR) should return 4 values, not 3
 645         - fixed compilation problem on Solaris7/x86 (bug 536406)
 646         - fixed prefetch bug in 3DNow! code (Felix Kuhling)
 647         - fixed NeXT build problem (FABSF macro)
 648         - glDrawPixels Z values when glPixelZoom!=1 were invalid (bug 687811)
 649         - zoomed glDraw/CopyPixels with clipping sometimes failed (bug 689964)
 650         - AA line and triangle Z values are now rounded, not truncated
 651         - fixed color interpolation bug when GLchan==GLfloat (bug 694461)
 652         - glArePrograms/TexturesResident() wasn't 100% correct (Jose Fonseca)
 653         - fixed a minor GL_COLOR_MATERIAL bug
 654         - NV vertex program EXP instruction was broken
 655         - glColorMask misbehaved with X window / pixmap rendering
 656         - fix autoconf/libtool GLU C++ linker problem on Linux (a total hack)
 657         - attempt to fix GGI compilation problem when MesaDemos not present
 658         - NV vertex program ARL-relative fetches didn't work
 659     Changes:
 660         - use glPolygonOffset in gloss demo to avoid z-fighting artifacts
 661         - updated winpos and pointblast demos to use ARB extensions
 662         - disable SPARC normal transformation code (bug 673938)
 663         - GLU fixes for OS/2 (Evgeny Kotsuba)
 664 </pre>
 665 <p>
 666 MD5 checksums follow:
 667 </p>
 668 <pre>
 669 b80f8b5d53a3e9f19b9fde5af0c542f0  MesaLib-5.0.1.tar.gz
 670 513b4bbd7d38951f05027179063d876b  MesaLib-5.0.1.tar.bz2
 671 eebd395678f4520d33b267e5d5c22651  MesaLib-5.0.1.zip
 672 49d7feaec6dc1d2091d7c3cc72a9b320  MesaDemos-5.0.1.tar.gz
 673 37190374a98c3c892f0698be9ca3acf0  MesaDemos-5.0.1.tar.bz2
 674 becd8bf17f5791361b4a54ba2a78e5c9  MesaDemos-5.0.1.zip
 675 </pre>
 676
 677
 678
 679 <h2>March 7, 2003</h2>
 680 <p>
 681 Website and documentation overhaul.
 682 </p>
 683 <p>
 684 The website content and Mesa documentation (from the doc/ directory) have
 685 been merged together.
 686 All the documentation files have been entered into the CVS repository.
 687 Many of the old plain-text files have been converted to html and modernized.
 688 </p>
 689
 690
 691 <h2>November 13, 2002</h2>
 692 <p>Mesa 5.0 has been released.  This is a stable release which
 693 implements the OpenGL 1.4 specification.
 694 </p><pre>New:
 695     - OpenGL 1.4 support (glGetString(GL_VERSION) returns "1.4")
 696     - removed some overlooked debugging code
 697     - glxinfo updated to support GLX_ARB_multisample
 698     - GLUT now support GLX_ARB_multisample
 699     - updated DOS driver (Daniel Borca)
 700 Bug fixes:
 701     - GL_POINT and GL_LINE-mode polygons didn't obey cull state
 702     - fixed potential bug in _mesa_align_malloc/calloc()
 703     - fixed missing triangle bug when running vertex programs
 704     - fixed a few HPUX compilation problems
 705     - FX (Glide) driver didn't compile
 706     - setting GL_TEXTURE_BORDER_COLOR with glTexParameteriv() didn't work
 707     - a few EXT functions, like glGenTexturesEXT, were no-ops
 708     - a few OpenGL 1.4 functions like glFogCoord*, glBlendFuncSeparate,
 709       glMultiDrawArrays and glMultiDrawElements were missing
 710     - glGet*(GL_ACTIVE_STENCIL_FACE_EXT) was broken
 711     - Pentium 4 Mobile was mistakenly identified as having 3DNow!
 712     - fixed one-bit error in point/line fragment Z calculation
 713     - fixed potential segfault in fakeglx code
 714     - fixed color overflow problem in DOT3 texture env mode
 715 </pre>
 716
 717
 718 <h2>October 29, 2002</h2>
 719 <p>Mesa 4.1 has been released.  This is a new development release.
 720 For a stable release, get 4.0.4.
 721 </p><pre>New:
 722     - GL_NV_vertex_program extension
 723     - GL_NV_vertex_program1_1 extension
 724     - GL_ARB_window_pos extension
 725     - GL_ARB_depth_texture extension
 726     - GL_ARB_shadow extension
 727     - GL_ARB_shadow_ambient extension
 728     - GL_EXT_shadow_funcs extension
 729     - GL_ARB_point_parameters extension
 730     - GL_ARB_texture_env_crossbar
 731     - GL_NV_point_sprite extension
 732     - GL_NV_texture_rectangle extension
 733     - GL_EXT_multi_draw_arrays extension
 734     - GL_EXT_stencil_two_side extension
 735     - GLX_SGIX_fbconfig and GLX_SGIX_pbuffer extensions
 736     - GL_ATI_texture_mirror_once extension (Ian Romanick)
 737     - massive overhaul/simplification of software rasterizer module,
 738       many contributions from Klaus Niederkrueger
 739     - faster software texturing in some cases (i.e. trilinear filtering)
 740     - new OSMesaGetProcAddress() function
 741     - more blend modes implemented with MMX code (Jose Fonseca)
 742     - added glutGetProcAddress() to GLUT
 743     - added GLUT_FPS env var to compute frames/second in glutSwapBuffers()
 744     - pbinfo and pbdemo PBuffer programs
 745     - glxinfo -v prints transprent pixel info (Gerd Sussner)
 746 Bug fixes:
 747     - better mipmap LOD computation (prevents excessive blurriness)
 748     - OSMesaMakeCurrent() didn't recognize buffer size changes
 749     - assorted conformance fixes for 16-bit/channel rendering
 750     - texcombine alpha subtraction mode was broken
 751     - fixed some blend problems when GLchan==GLfloat (Gerk Huisma)
 752     - clamp colors to [0,1] in OSMesa if GLchan==GLfloat (Gerk Huisma)
 753     - fixed divide by zero error in NURBS tessellator (Jon Perry)
 754     - fixed GL_LINEAR fog bug by adding clamping
 755     - fixed FP exceptions found using Alpha CPU
 756     - 3dfx/glide driver render-to-window feature was broken
 757     - added missing GLX_TRANSPARENT_RGB token to glx.h
 758     - fixed error checking related to paletted textures
 759     - fixed reference count error in glDeleteTextures (Randy Fayan)
 760 Changes:
 761     - New spec file and Python code to generate some GL dispatch files
 762     - Glide driver defaults to "no" with autoconf/automake
 763     - floating point color channels now clamped to [0,inf)
 764     - updated demos/stex3d with new options
 765 </pre>
 766
 767
 768 <h2>October 4, 2002</h2>
 769 <p>
 770 The <a href="http://mesa3d.sourceforge.net/docs/MesaFAQ.html">Mesa FAQ</a> has been rewritten.
 771 </p>
 772
 773 <h2>October 3, 2002</h2>
 774 <p>Mesa 4.0.4 has been released.  This is a stable bug-fix release.
 775 </p><pre>    New:
 776         - GL_NV_texture_rectangle extension
 777         - updated glext.h header (version 17)
 778         - updated DOS driver (Daniel Borca)
 779         - updated BeOS R5 driver (Philippe Houdoin)
 780         - added GL_IBM_texture_mirror_repeat
 781         - glxinfo now takes -l option to print interesting OpenGL limits info
 782         - GL_MESA_ycbcr_texture extension
 783         - GL_APPLE_client_storage extension (for some DRI drivers only)
 784         - GL_MESA_pack_invert extension
 785     Bug fixes:
 786         - fixed GL_LINEAR fog bug by adding clamping
 787         - fixed FP exceptions found using Alpha CPU
 788         - 3dfx MESA_GLX_FX=window (render to window) didn't work
 789         - fixed memory leak in wglCreateContest (Karl Schultz)
 790         - define GLAPIENTRY and GLAPI if undefined in glu.h
 791         - wglGetProcAddress didn't handle all API functions
 792         - when testing for OpenGL 1.2 vs 1.3, check for GL_ARB_texture_cube_map
 793         - removed GL_MAX_CONVOLUTION_WIDTH/HEIGHT from glGetInteger/Float/etc()
 794         - error checking in compressed tex image functions had some glitches
 795         - fixed AIX compile problem in src/config.c
 796         - glGetTexImage was using pixel unpacking instead of packing params
 797         - auto-mipmap generation for cube maps was incorrect
 798     Changes:
 799         - max texture units reduced to six to accomodate texture rectangles
 800         - removed unfinished GL_MESA_sprite_point extension code
 801 </pre>
 802
 803 <h2>June 25, 2002</h2>
 804 <p>Mesa 4.0.3 has been released.  This is a stable bug-fix release.
 805 </p><pre>    New:
 806     - updated GL/glext.h file (version 15)
 807     - corrected MMX blend code (Jose Fonseca)
 808     - support for software-based alpha planes in Windows driver
 809     - updated GGI driver (Filip Spacek)
 810     Bug fixes:
 811     - glext.h had wrong values for GL_DOT3_RGB[A]_EXT tokens
 812     - OSMesaMakeCurrent() didn't recognize buffer size changes
 813     - assorted conformance fixes for 16-bit/channel rendering
 814     - texcombine alpha subtraction mode was broken
 815     - fixed lighting bug with non-uniform scaling and display lists
 816     - fixed bug when deleting shared display lists
 817     - disabled SPARC cliptest assembly code (Mesa bug 544665)
 818     - fixed a couple Solaris compilation/link problems
 819     - blending clipped glDrawPixels didn't always work
 820     - glGetTexImage() didn't accept packed pixel types
 821     - glPixelMapu[is]v() could explode given too large of pixelmap
 822     - glGetTexParameter[if]v() didn't accept GL_TEXTURE_MAX_ANISOTROPY_EXT
 823     - glXCopyContext() could lead to segfaults
 824     - glCullFace(GL_FRONT_AND_BACK) didn't work (bug 572665)
 825     Changes:
 826     - lots of C++ (g++) code clean-ups
 827     - lots of T&amp;L updates for the Radeon DRI driver
 828     Known bugs:
 829     - mipmap LOD computation (fixed for Mesa 4.1)
 830 </pre>
 831
 832 <h2>April 2, 2002</h2>
 833 <p>Mesa 4.0.2 has been released.  This is a stable bug-fix release.
 834 </p><pre>    New:
 835       - New DOS (DJGPP) driver written by Daniel Borca
 836       - New driver interface functions for TCL drivers (such as Radeon DRI)
 837       - GL_RENDERER string returns "Mesa Offscreen16" or "Mesa Offscreen32"
 838         if using deep color channels
 839       - latest GL/glext.h and GL/glxext.h headers from SGI
 840     Bug fixes:
 841       - GL_BLEND with non-black texture env color wasn't always correct
 842       - GL_REPLACE with GL_RGB texture format wasn't always correct (alpha)
 843       - glTexEnviv( pname != GL_TEXTURE_ENV_COLOR ) was broken
 844       - glReadPixels was sometimes mistakenly clipped by the scissor box
 845       - glDraw/ReadPixels didn't catch all the errors that they should have
 846       - Fixed 24bpp rendering problem in Windows driver (Karl Schultz)
 847       - 16-bit GLchan mode fixes (m_trans_tmp.h, s_triangle.c)
 848       - Fixed 1-bit float-&gt;int conversion bug in glDrawPixels(GL_DEPTH_COMP)
 849       - glColorMask as sometimes effecting glXSwapBuffers()
 850       - fixed a potential bug in XMesaGarbageCollect()
 851       - N threads rendering into one window didn't work reliably
 852       - glCopyPixels didn't work for deep color channels
 853       - improved 8 -&gt; 16bit/channel texture image conversion (Gerk Huisma)
 854       - glPopAttrib() didn't correctly restore user clip planes
 855       - user clip planes failed for some perspective projections (Chromium)
 856 </pre>
 857
 858 <h2>December 17, 2001</h2>
 859 <p>Mesa 4.0.1 has been released.  This is a stable bug-fix release.
 860 </p><pre>    New:
 861       - better sub-pixel sample positions for AA triangles (Ray Tice)
 862       - slightly faster blending for (GL_ZERO, GL_ONE) and (GL_ONE, GL_ZERO)
 863     Bug fixes:
 864       - added missing break statements in glGet*() for multisample cases
 865       - fixed uninitialized hash table mutex bug (display lists / texobjs)
 866       - fixed bad teximage error check conditional (bug 476846)
 867       - fixed demos readtex.c compilation problem on Windows (Karl Schultz)
 868       - added missing glGet() query for GL_MAX_TEXTURE_LOD_BIAS_EXT
 869       - silence some compiler warnings (gcc 2.96)
 870       - enable the #define GL_VERSION_1_3 in GL/gl.h
 871       - added GL 1.3 and GLX 1.4 entries to gl_mangle.h and glx_mangle.h
 872       - fixed glu.h typedef problem found with MSDev 6.0
 873       - build libGL.so with -Bsymbolic (fixes bug found with Chromium)
 874       - added missing 'const' to glXGetContextIDEXT() in glxext.h
 875       - fixed a few glXGetProcAddress() errors (texture compression, etc)
 876       - fixed start index bug in compiled vertex arrays (Keith)
 877       - fixed compilation problems in src/SPARC/glapi_sparc.S
 878       - fixed triangle strip "parity" bug found in VTK medical1 demo (Keith)
 879       - use glXGetProcAddressARB in GLUT to avoid extension linking problems
 880       - provoking vertex of flat-shaded, color-index triangles was wrong
 881       - fixed a few display list bugs (GLUT walker, molecule, etc) (Keith)
 882       - glTexParameter didn't flush the vertex buffer (Ray Tice)
 883       - feedback attributes for glDraw/CopyPixels and glBitmap were wrong
 884       - fixed bug in normal length caching (ParaView lighting bug)
 885 </pre>
 886
 887 <h2>October 22, 2001</h2>
 888 <p>Mesa 4.0 has been released.  This is a stable release.
 889 </p><pre>    New:
 890       - Mesa 4.0 implements the OpenGL 1.3 specification
 891       - GL_IBM_rasterpos_clip extension
 892       - GL_EXT_texture_edge_clamp extension (aka GL_SGIS_texture_edge_clamp)
 893       - GL_ARB_texture_mirrored_repeat extension
 894       - WindML UGL driver (Stephane Raimbault)
 895       - added OSMESA_MAX_WIDTH/HEIGHT queries
 896       - attempted compiliation fixes for Solaris 5, 7 and 8
 897       - updated glext.h and glxext.h files
 898       - updated Windows driver (Karl Schultz)
 899     Bug fixes:
 900       - added some missing GLX 1.3 tokens to include/GL/glx.h
 901       - GL_COLOR_MATRIX changes weren't recognized by teximage functions
 902       - glCopyPixels with scale and bias was broken
 903       - glRasterPos with lighting could segfault
 904       - glDeleteTextures could leave a dangling pointer
 905       - Proxy textures for cube maps didn't work
 906       - fixed a number of 16-bit color channel bugs
 907       - fixed a few minor memory leaks
 908       - GLX context sharing was broken in 3.5
 909       - fixed state-update bugs in glPopClientAttrib()
 910       - fixed glDrawRangeElements() bug
 911       - fixed a glPush/PopAttrib() bug related to texture binding
 912       - flat-shaded, textured lines were broken
 913       - fixed a dangling pointer problem in the XMesa code (Chris Burghart)
 914       - lighting didn't always produce the correct alpha value
 915       - fixed 3DNow! code to not read past end of arrays (Andrew Lewycky)
 916 </pre>
 917
 918
 919 <h2>June 21, 2001</h2>
 920 <p>Mesa 3.5 has been released.  This is a new development release.
 921 </p><pre>    New:
 922         - internals of Mesa divided into modular pieces (Keith Whitwell)
 923         - 100% OpenGL 1.2 conformance (passes all conformance tests)
 924         - new AA line algorithm
 925         - GL_EXT_convolution extension
 926         - GL_ARB_imaging subset
 927         - OSMesaCreateContextExt() function
 928         - GL_ARB_texture_env_add extension (same as GL_EXT_texture_env_add)
 929         - GL_MAX_TEXTURE_UNITS_ARB now defaults to eight
 930         - GL_EXT_fog_coord extension (Keith Whitwell)
 931         - GL_EXT_secondary_color extension (Keith Whitwell)
 932         - GL_ARB_texture_env_add extension (same as GL_EXT_texture_env_add)
 933         - GL_SGIX_depth_texture extension
 934         - GL_SGIX_shadow and GL_SGIX_shadow_ambient extensions
 935         - demos/shadowtex.c demo of GL_SGIX_depth_texture and GL_SGIX_shadow
 936         - GL_ARB_texture_env_combine extension
 937         - GL_ARB_texture_env_dot3 extension
 938         - GL_ARB_texture_border_clamp (aka GL_SGIS_texture_border_clamp)
 939         - OSMesaCreateContextExt() function
 940         - libOSMesa.so library, contains the OSMesa driver interface
 941         - GL/glxext.h header file for GLX extensions
 942         - somewhat faster software texturing, fogging, depth testing
 943         - all color-index conformance tests now pass (only 8bpp tested)
 944         - SPARC assembly language TCL optimizations (David Miller)
 945         - GL_SGIS_generate_mipmap extension
 946     Bug Fixes:
 947         - fbiRev and tmuRev were unitialized when using Glide3
 948         - fixed a few color index mode conformance failures; all pass now
 949         - now appling antialiasing coverage to alpha after texturing
 950         - colors weren't getting clamped to [0,1] before color table lookup
 951         - fixed RISC alignment errors caused by COPY_4UBV macro
 952         - drawing wide, flat-shaded lines could cause a segfault
 953         - vertices now snapped to 1/16 pixel to fix rendering of tiny triangles
 954     Changes:
 955         - SGI's Sample Implementation (SI) 1.3 GLU library replaces Mesa GLU
 956         - new libOSMesa.so library, contains the OSMesa driver interface
 957 </pre>
 958
 959
 960 <h2>May 17, 2001</h2>
 961 <p>Mesa 3.4.2 has been released.  This is basically just a bug-fix release.
 962 Here's what's new:</p>
 963 <pre>    Bug fixes:
 964         - deleting the currently bound texture could cause bad problems
 965         - using fog could result in random vertex alpha values
 966          - AA triangle rendering could touch pixels outside right window bound
 967         - fixed byteswapping problem in clear_32bit_ximage() function
 968         - fixed bugs in wglUseFontBitmapsA(), by Frank Warmerdam
 969         - fixed memory leak in glXUseXFont()
 970         - fragment sampling in AA triangle function was off by 1/2 pixel
 971         - Windows: reading pixels from framebuffer didn't always work
 972         - glConvolutionFilter2D could segfault or cause FP exception
 973         - fixed segfaults in FX and X drivers when using tex unit 1 but not 0
 974         - GL_NAND logicop didn't work right in RGBA mode
 975         - fixed a memory corruption bug in vertex buffer reset code
 976         - clearing the softwara alpha buffer with scissoring was broken
 977         - fixed a few color index mode fog bugs
 978         - fixed some bad assertions in color index mode
 979         - fixed FX line 'stipple' bug #420091
 980     Changes:
 981         - optimized writing mono-colored pixel spans to X pixmaps
 982         - increased max viewport size to 2048 x 2048
 983 </pre>
 984
 985
 986 <h2>April 29, 2001</h2>
 987 <p>New Mesa website</p>
 988 <p>Mark Manning produced the new website.<br>Thanks, Mark!</p>
 989
 990
 991 <h2>February 14, 2001</h2>
 992 <p>Mesa 3.4.1 has been released.  Here's what's new:</p>
 993 <pre>    New:
 994         - fixed some Linux build problems
 995         - fixed some Windows build problems
 996         - GL_EXT_texture_env_dot3 extension (Gareth Hughes)
 997     Bug fixes:
 998         - added RENDER_START/RENDER_FINISH macros for glCopyTexImage in DRI
 999         - various state-update code changes needed for DRI bugs
1000         - disabled pixel transfer ops in glColorTable commands, not needed
1001         - fixed bugs in glCopyConvolutionFilter1D/2D, glGetConvolutionFilter
1002         - updated sources and fixed compile problems in widgets-mesa/
1003         - GLX_PBUFFER enum value was wrong in glx.h
1004         - fixed a glColorMaterial lighting bug
1005         - fixed bad args to Read/WriteStencilSpan in h/w stencil clear function
1006         - glXCopySubBufferMESA() Y position was off by one
1007         - Error checking of glTexSubImage3D() was broken (bug 128775)
1008         - glPopAttrib() didn't restore all derived Mesa state correctly
1009         - Better glReadPixels accuracy for 16bpp color - fixes lots of OpenGL
1010           conformance problems at 16bpp.
1011         - clearing depth buffer with scissoring was broken, would segfault
1012         - OSMesaGetDepthBuffer() returned bad bytesPerValue value
1013         - fixed a line clipping bug (reported by Craig McDaniel)
1014         - fixed RGB color over/underflow bug for very tiny triangles
1015     Known problems:
1016         - NURBS or evaluator surfaces inside display lists don't always work
1017 </pre>
1018 <p>
1019 </p><h2>November 3, 2000</h2>
1020 <p>Mesa 3.4 has been released. Here's what's new since the 3.3 release:</p>
1021 <pre>    New:
1022     - optimized glDrawPixels for glPixelZoom(1,-1)
1023     Bug Fixes:
1024     - widgets-mesa/src/*.c files were missing from 3.3 distro
1025     - include/GL/mesa_wgl.h file was missing from 3.3 distro
1026     - fixed some Win32 compile problems
1027     - texture object priorities weren't getting initialized to 1.0
1028     - glAreTexturesResident return value was wrong when using hardware
1029     - glXUseXFont segfaulted when using 3dfx driver (via MESA_GLX_FX)
1030     - glReadPixels with GLushort packed types was broken
1031     - fixed a few bugs in the GL_EXT_texture_env_combine texture code
1032     - glPush/PopAttrib(GL_ENABLE_BIT) mishandled multi-texture enables
1033     - fixed some typos/bugs in the VB code
1034     - glDrawPixels(GL_COLOR_INDEX) to RGB window didn't work
1035     - optimized glDrawPixels paths weren't being used
1036     - per-fragment fog calculation didn't work without a Z buffer
1037     - improved blending accuracy, fixes Glean  blendFunc test failures
1038     - glPixelStore(GL_PACK/UNPACK_SKIP_IMAGES) wasn't handled correctly
1039     - glXGetProcAddressARB() didn't always return the right address
1040     - gluBuild[12]DMipmaps() didn't grok the GL_BGR pixel format
1041     - texture matrix changes weren't always detected (GLUT projtex demo)
1042     - fixed random color problem in vertex fog code
1043     - fixed Glide-related bug that let Quake get a 24-bit Z buffer
1044     Changes:
1045     - finished internal support for compressed textures for DRI
1046 </pre>
1047 <p>
1048 </p><h2>April 24, 2000</h2>
1049 <p>Mesa 3.2 has been released. Here's what's new since the beta release:</p>
1050 <pre>    Bug fixes:
1051     - fixed memcpy bugs in span.c
1052     - fixed missing glEnd problem in demos/tessdemo.c
1053     - fixed bug when clearing 24bpp Ximages
1054     - fixed clipping problem found in Unreal Tournament
1055     - fixed Loki's "ice bug" and "crazy triangles" seen in Heretic2
1056     - fixed Loki's 3dfx RGB vs BGR bug
1057     - fixed Loki's 3dfx smooth/flat shading bug in SoF
1058     Changes:
1059     - updated docs/README file
1060     - use bcopy() optimizations on FreeBSD
1061     - re-enabled the optimized persp_textured_triangle() function
1062 </pre>
1063 <p>
1064 </p><h2>March 23, 2000</h2>
1065 <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>
1066 <p>3.2 (note even number) is a stabilization release of Mesa 3.1 meaning it's mainly
1067 just bug fixes.</p>
1068 <p>Here's what's changed:
1069
1070 </p><ul>
1071         Bug fixes:
1072         <ul>
1073                 - mixed drawing of lines and bitmaps sometimes had wrong colors<br>
1074                 - added missing glHintPGI() function<br>
1075                 - fixed a polygon culling bug<br>
1076                 - fixed bugs in gluPartialDisk()<br>
1077                 - Z values in selection mode were wrong<br>
1078                 - added missing tokens:
1079                 <ul>
1080                         GL_SMOOTH_POINT_SIZE_RANGE<br>
1081                         GL_SMOOTH_POINT_SIZE_GRANULARITY<br>
1082                         GL_SMOOTH_LINE_WIDTH_RANGE<br>
1083                         GL_SMOOTH_LINE_WIDTH_GRANULARITY<br>
1084                         GL_ALIASED_POINT_SIZE_RANGE<br>
1085                         GL_ALIASED_LINE_WIDTH_RANGE
1086                 </ul>
1087                 - fixed glCopyPixels when copying from back to front buffer<br>
1088                 - GL_EXT_compiled_vertex_array tokens had _SGI suffix instead of _EXT<br>
1089                 - glDrawRangeElements(GL_LINES, 0, 1, 2, type, indices) was broken<br>
1090                 - glDeleteTextures() didn't decrement reference count correctly<br>
1091                 - GL_SRCA_ALPHA_SATURATE blend mode didn't work correctly<br>
1092                 - Actual depth of transformation matrix stacks was off by one<br>
1093                 - 24bpp visuals didn't address pixels correctly<br>
1094                 - mipmap level of detail (lambda) calculation simplified, more accurate<br>
1095                 - 101691 - Polygon clipping and GL_LINE<br>
1096                 - 101928 - Polygon clipping and GL_LINE (same fix as above)<br>
1097                 - 101808 - Non-glVertexArrays tristrip bug<br>
1098                 - 101971 - find_last_3f on Dec OSF (worked around)<br>
1099                 - 102369 - segv on dec osf (possibly a duplicate of the above)<br>
1100                 - 102893 - orientations of modelview cause segfault
1101         </ul>
1102         New:
1103         <ul>
1104                 - updated SVGA Linux driver<br>
1105                 - added the MESA_FX_NO_SIGNALS env var, see docs/README.3DFX<br>
1106                 - build libGLw.a (Xt/OpenGL drawing area widget) library by default<br>
1107                 - changed -O2 to -O3 for a number of gcc configs
1108         </ul>
1109         Changes:
1110         <ul>
1111                 - glXCopyContext's mask parameter is now unsigned long, per GLX spec
1112         </ul>
1113 </ul>
1114
1115 <p>Please report any problems with this release ASAP. Bugs should be filed on the
1116 Mesa3D website at sourceforge.<br>
1117 After 3.2 is wrapped up I hope to release 3.3 beta 1 soon afterward.</p>
1118 <p>-- Brian</p>
1119 <p>
1120 </p><h2>December 17, 1999</h2>
1121 <p>A Slashdot interview with Brian about Mesa (questions submitted by Slashdot readers)
1122 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>
1123 <p>
1124 </p><h2>December 14, 1999</h2>
1125 <p>Mesa 3.1 is released!</p>
1126 <p>
1127 </p><h2>September 21, 1999</h2>
1128 <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>
1129 and <a href="ftp://ftp.mesa3d.org/mesa/beta/MesaDemos-3.1beta3.tar.gz">MesaDemos-3.1beta3.tar.gz</a>,
1130 that seem to be... yes, I've just received confirmation from the beta center, they
1131 are indeed the <b>THIRD</b> beta release of Mesa 3.1! Happy Days. Happy Days. Thanks
1132 Keith Whitwell for preparing these for us during Brian's absence.</p>
1133 <p>
1134 </p><h2>August 30, 1999</h2>
1135 <p>I'm pleased to announce that I've accepted a position with Precision Insight,
1136 Inc. effective October, 1999. I'll be leaving Avid Technology in September.</p>
1137 <p>I've been working on Mesa in my spare time for over five years. With Precision
1138 Insight I now have the opportunity to devote my full attention to advancing Mesa
1139 and OpenGL on Linux.</p>
1140 <p>While I'll be focused on Linux, the X Window System, and hardware acceleration,
1141 my work will continue to be open sourced and available to any other programmers who
1142 may want to contribute to it, or use it for other projects or platforms</p>
1143 <p>PS: I'm going to be traveling until Sep 6 and won't be reading email until then.</p>
1144 <p>
1145 </p><h2>August 23, 1999</h2>
1146 <p>Anonymous CVS access is back online so suck up all the bandwidth you can afford.
1147 Note that this is a new archive, so you will need to re-checkout the archive. That
1148 means don't <i>cvs update</i> from a previous download.</p>
1149 <p>
1150 </p><h2>August 17, 1999</h2>
1151 <p>A report from the SIGGRAPH '99 Linux/OpenGL
1152 BOF meeting is now available.</p>
1153 <p>-Brian</p>
1154 <p>
1155 </p><h2>August 14, 1999</h2>
1156 <p>www.mesa3d.org is having technical problems due to hardware failures at VA Linux
1157 systems. The Mac pages, ftp, and CVS services aren't fully restored yet. Please be
1158 patient.</p>
1159 <p>-Brian</p>
1160 <p>
1161 </p><h2>June 7, 1999</h2>
1162 <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>
1163 <p>
1164 </p><h2>June 2, 1999</h2>
1165 <p><a href="http://www.nvidia.com/">nVidia</a> has released some Linux binaries for
1166 xfree86 3.3.3.1, along with the <b>full source</b>, which includes GLX acceleration
1167 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>
1168 <p>
1169 </p><h2>May 24, 1999</h2>
1170 <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>.
1171 If you are into the quake scene, you may want to try this out, as it contains some
1172 optimizations specifically in the Q3A rendering path.
1173 <p>
1174 </p><h2>May 13, 1999</h2>
1175 <p>For those interested in the integration of Mesa into XFree86 4.0, Precision Insight
1176 has posted their lowlevel design documents at http://www.precisioninsight.com.</p>
1177 <p>
1178 </p><h2>May 13, 1999</h2>
1179 <pre>May 1999 - John Carmack of id Software, Inc. has made a donation of
1180 US$10,000 to the Mesa project to support its continuing development.
1181 Mesa is a free implementation of the OpenGL 3D graphics library and id's
1182 newest game, Quake 3 Arena, will use Mesa as the 3D renderer on Linux.
1183
1184 The donation will go to Keith Whitwell, who has been optimizing Mesa to
1185 improve performance on 3d hardware.  Thanks to Keith's work, many
1186 applications using Mesa 3.1 will see a dramatic performance increase
1187 over Mesa 3.0.  The donation will allow Keith to continue working on
1188 Mesa full time for some time to come.
1189
1190 For more information about Mesa see www.mesa3d.org.  For more
1191 information about id Software, Inc. see www.idsoftware.com.
1192
1193 --------------------------------
1194
1195 This donation from John/id is very generous.  Keith and I are very
1196 grateful.
1197
1198 </pre>
1199 <p>
1200 </p><h2>May 1, 1999</h2>
1201 <p>John Carmack made an interesting .plan update yesterday:
1202
1203 </p><ul>
1204         <i>"I put together a document on optimizing OpenGL drivers for Q3 that
1205         should be helpful to the various Linux 3D teams. <br>
1206         </i>http://www.quake3arena.com/news/glopt.html</i>"
1207 </ul>
1208
1209 <p>
1210 </p><h2>April 7, 1999</h2>
1211 <p>Updated the Mesa contributors section and added links to RPM Mesa packages.</p>
1212 <p>
1213 </p><h2>March 18, 1999</h2>
1214 <p>The new webpages are now online. Enjoy, and let me know if you find any errors.
1215 For an eye-candy free version you can use <a href="http://www.mesa3d.org/txt/">http://www.mesa3d.org/txt/</a>.</p>
1216 <p>
1217 </p><h2>February 16, 1999</h2>
1218 <p><a href="http://www.sgi.com/">SGI</a> releases its <a href="http://www.sgi.com/software/opensource/glx/">GLX
1219 source code</a>.</p>
1220 <p>
1221 </p><h2>January 22, 1999</h2>
1222 <p>www.mesa3d.org established</p>
1223
1224
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