docs/relnotes/8.0.rst

   1 Mesa 8.0 Release Notes / February 9, 2012
   2 =========================================
   3
   4 Mesa 8.0 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 8.0.1.
   7
   8 Mesa 8.0 implements the OpenGL 3.0 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 3.0.
  11
  12 See the :doc:`Compiling/Installing page <../install>` for
  13 prerequisites for DRI hardware acceleration.
  14
  15 MD5 checksums
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  18 ::
  19
  20    3516fea6c28ce4a0fa9759e4894729a1  MesaLib-8.0.tar.gz
  21    1a5668fe72651a670611164cefc703b2  MesaLib-8.0.tar.bz2
  22    66f5a01a85530a91472a3acceb556db8  MesaLib-8.0.zip
  23
  24 New features
  25 ------------
  26
  27 -  GL_ARB_ES2_compatibility (r300g, r600g)
  28 -  GL_ARB_depth_buffer_float (r600g)
  29 -  GL_ARB_vertex_type_2_10_10_10_rev (r600g)
  30 -  GL_ARB_texture_storage (gallium drivers and swrast)
  31 -  GL_EXT_packed_float (i965)
  32 -  GL_EXT_texture_array (r600g, i965)
  33 -  GL_EXT_texture_shared_exponent (i965)
  34 -  GL_NV_fog_distance (all gallium drivers, nouveau classic)
  35 -  GL_NV_primitive_restart (r600g)
  36 -  GL_OES_EGL_image_external (gallium drivers)
  37 -  GL_OES_compressed_ETC1_RGB8_texture (softpipe, llvmpipe)
  38 -  ARB_texture_rgb10_a2ui (softpipe, r600g)
  39 -  Many updates to the VMware svga Gallium driver
  40
  41 Bug fixes
  42 ---------
  43
  44 Changes
  45 -------
  46
  47 -  Removed all DRI drivers that did not support DRI2. Specifically,
  48    i810, mach64, mga, r128, savage, sis, tdfx, and unichrome were
  49    removed.
  50 -  Removed support for BeOS.
  51 -  Removed the obsolete (and unmaintained) Windows "gldirect" and "ICD"
  52    drivers.
  53 -  Removed the linux-fbdev software driver.
  54 -  Removed all remnants of paletted texture support. As required by
  55    desktop OpenGL, ``GL_COLOR_INDEX`` data can still be uploaded to a
  56    color (e.g., RGBA) texture. However, the data cannot be stored
  57    internally as color-index.
  58 -  Removed support for GL_APPLE_client_storage extension.
  59 -  Removed the classic Mesa r300 and r600 drivers, which are superseded
  60    by the gallium drivers for this hardware.
  61 -  Removed the dead Gallium i965, cell and failover drivers, which were
  62    either broken and with nobody in sight to fix the situation or
  63    deprecated.