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