docs/relnotes/7.6.rst

   1 Mesa 7.6 Release Notes, 28 September 2009
   2 =========================================
   3
   4 Mesa 7.6 is a new development release. People who are concerned with
   5 stability and reliability should stick with a previous release or wait
   6 for Mesa 7.6.1.
   7
   8 Mesa 7.6 implements the OpenGL 2.1 API, but the version reported by
   9 glGetString(GL_VERSION) depends on the particular driver being used.
  10 Some drivers don't support all the features required in OpenGL 2.1.
  11
  12 See the :doc:`Compiling/Installing page <../install>` for
  13 prerequisites for DRI hardware acceleration.
  14
  15 MD5 checksums
  16 -------------
  17
  18 ::
  19
  20    5ffa7d7abf8973f57a1bc4f813e6dade  MesaLib-7.6.tar.gz
  21    8c75f90cd0303cfac9e4b6d54f6759ca  MesaLib-7.6.tar.bz2
  22    27fcfd69708599c978cb34ba5cd363e1  MesaLib-7.6.zip
  23    e7befb3ae604f591806194a4da445628  MesaDemos-7.6.tar.gz
  24    0ede7adf217951acd90dbe4551210c07  MesaDemos-7.6.tar.bz2
  25    ed9298409cf6613bc0964525ca4afc8a  MesaDemos-7.6.zip
  26    666955668e44ff14acf7d15dc78407d3  MesaGLUT-7.6.tar.gz
  27    b8b59706f827d18d1b784a0ff98b4dc2  MesaGLUT-7.6.tar.bz2
  28    c49c19c2bbef4f3b7f1389974dff25f4  MesaGLUT-7.6.zip
  29
  30 New features
  31 ------------
  32
  33 -  OpenVG front-end (state tracker for Gallium). This was written by
  34    Zack Rusin at Tungsten Graphics.
  35 -  GL_ARB_vertex_array_object and GL_APPLE_vertex_array_object
  36    extensions (supported in Gallium drivers, Intel DRI drivers, and
  37    software drivers)
  38 -  GL_ARB_copy_buffer extension (supported in Gallium drivers, Intel DRI
  39    drivers, and software drivers)
  40 -  GL_ARB_map_buffer_range extension (supported in Gallium drivers,
  41    Intel DRI drivers, and software drivers)
  42 -  GL_ARB_seamless_cube_map extension (supported in software drivers and
  43    i965 drivers)
  44 -  GL_ARB_vertex_array_bgra (ARB synonym for GL_EXT_vertex_array_bgra)
  45 -  GL_ARB_sync (supported in software drivers and Intel DRI drivers)
  46 -  GL_EXT_provoking_vertex extension (supported in Gallium, i915, i965,
  47    and software drivers)
  48 -  Rewritten radeon/r200/r300 driver using a buffer manager
  49 -  radeon/r200/r300 GL_EXT_framebuffer_object support when used with
  50    kernel memory manager
  51 -  radeon/r200/r300 support for GL_ARB_occlusion_query
  52 -  r300 driver supports OpenGL 1.5
  53 -  r300 driver support for GL_EXT_vertex_array_bgra, GL_EXT_texture_sRGB
  54 -  i915/945 driver support for GL_ARB_point_sprite,
  55    GL_EXT_stencil_two_side and GL_ATI_separate_stencil extensions
  56 -  Rewritten assembler for GL_ARB_vertex_program /
  57    GL_ARB_fragment_program.
  58 -  Added configure --with-max-width=W, --with-max-height=H options to
  59    specify max framebuffer, viewport size.
  60 -  Initial version of Gallium llvmpipe driver. This is a new driver
  61    based on LLVM which makes exensive use of run-time code generation.
  62    This is an "alpha" stage driver. See the
  63    src/gallium/drivers/llvmpipe/README file for more information.
  64
  65 Bug fixes
  66 ---------
  67
  68 -  i965 DRI driver fixes, including support for "unlimited" size
  69    constant buffers (GLSL uniforms)