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  17 <h1>Mesa 9.0 Release Notes / October 8, 2012</h1>
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  19 <p>
  20 Mesa 9.0 is a new development release.
  21 People who are concerned with stability and reliability should stick
  22 with a previous release or wait for Mesa 9.0.1.
  23 </p>
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  25 Mesa 9.0 implements the OpenGL 3.1 API, but the version reported by
  26 glGetString(GL_VERSION) or glGetIntegerv(GL_MAJOR_VERSION) /
  27 glGetIntegerv(GL_MINOR_VERSION) depends on the particular driver being used.
  28 Some drivers don't support all the features required in OpenGL 3.1.  OpenGL
  29 3.1 is <strong>only</strong> available if requested at context creation
  30 because GL_ARB_compatibility is not supported.
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  36 be4cd34c6599a7cb9d254b05c48bdb1f  MesaLib-9.0.tar.gz
  37 60e557ce407be3732711da484ab3db6c  MesaLib-9.0.tar.bz2
  38 16b128544cd3f7e237927bb9f8aab7ce  MesaLib-9.0.zip
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  42 <h2>New features</h2>
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  44 <p>
  45 Note: some of the new features are only available with certain drivers.
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  48 <ul>
  49 <li>Added new Gallium3D - nv30 driver</li>
  50 <li>Added new Gallium3D - radeonsi driver</li>
  51 <li>Added OpenCL state tracker Clover</li>
  52 <li>Completed VDPAU state tracker (video decoding support is currently limited to MPEG1 and MPEG2)</li>
  53 <li>GL_ARB_base_instance</li>
  54 <li>GL_ARB_blend_func_extended</li>
  55 <li>GL_ARB_debug_output</li>
  56 <li>GL_ARB_invalidate_subdata - Currently a "no-op" implementation.  This
  57 extension is always enabled in all drivers.</li>
  58 <li>GL_ARB_shader_bit_encoding</li>
  59 <li>GL_ARB_texture_buffer_object</li>
  60 <li>GL_ARB_timer_query</li>
  61 <li>GL_ARB_transform_feedback3</li>
  62 <li>GL_ARB_transform_feedback_instanced</li>
  63 <li>GL_ARB_uniform_buffer_object</li>
  64 <li>GL_EXT_unpack_subimage for ES 2.0</li>
  65 <li>GL_EXT_read_format_bgra for ES 1.1 and 2.0</li>
  66 <li>GL_EXT_texture_rg for ES 2.x</li>
  67 <li>GL_NV_read_buffer for ES 2.0</li>
  68 <li>GLX_ARB_create_context_robustness</li>
  69 <li>EGL_KHR_create_context</li>
  70 <li>EGL_KHR_surfaceless_context - This replaces the
  71 EGL_KHR_surfaceless_{gles1,gles2,opengl} extensions that were never approved
  72 by Khronos.</li>
  73 <li>EGL_EXT_create_context_robustness</li>
  74 </ul>
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  77 <h2>Bug fixes</h2>
  78
  79 <p>TBD -- This list is likely incomplete.</p>
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  82 <h2>Changes</h2>
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  84 <ul>
  85 <li>
  86 The legacy/static Makefile system (ex: 'make linux-dri') has been removed.
  87 The two supported build methods are now autoconf/automake and SCons.
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  89 <li>Removed support for GL_ARB_shadow_ambient extension</li>
  90 <li>Removed Gallium3D - nvfx driver (use nv30 instead)</li>
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  92 libGLU has been moved into its own repository, found at <a href="https://cgit.freedesktop.org/mesa/glu/">https://cgit.freedesktop.org/mesa/glu/</a>
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