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  11 <H1>Mesa 6.5.2 Release Notes / December 2, 2006</H1>
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  14 Mesa 6.5.2 is a 6.5 follow-on development release with a few new features
  15 but mostly consisting of bug fixes.
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  19 <h2>MD5 checksums</h2>
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  21 TBD
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  25 <h2>New features</h2>
  26 <ul>
  27 <li>New DRI memory manager system.  Currently used by the i915tex driver.
  28 Other DRI drivers will be updated to use the new memory manager in coming
  29 months.
  30 <br>
  31 To use the new driver you'll need the most recent DRM library and drivers
  32 (version 2.2 or later) and a recent xf86-video-intel driver module from X.org.
  33 <br>
  34 New features resulting from this work include:
  35 <ul>
  36 <li>EXT_framebuffer_objects, render to texture
  37 <li>ARB_pixel_buffer_objects
  38 <li>Accelerated CopyTexSubimage, DrawPixels, ReadPixels, CopyPixels
  39 <li>Accelerated texture uploads from pixel buffer objects
  40 <li>Potentially texturing directly from the pixel buffer object (zero
  41 copy texturing).
  42 </ul>
  43 <li>New Intel i965 DRI driver
  44 <li>New <code>minstall</code> script to replace normal install program
  45 <li>Faster fragment program execution in software
  46 <li>Added (or fixed) support for <a href="http://www.opengl.org/registry/specs/SGI/make_current_read.txt">
  47     GLX_SGI_make_current_read</a> to the following drivers:</li>
  48     <ul>
  49     <li>radeon</li>
  50     <li>savage</li>
  51     <li>mga</li>
  52     <li>tdfx</li>
  53     </ul>
  54 <li>Added support for ARB_occlusion_query to the tdfx driver (Ian
  55 Romanick).</li>
  56 </ul>
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  58 <h2>Bug fixes</h2>
  59 <ul>
  60 <li>fixed invalid memory read while rendering textured points (bug 8320)
  61 <li>fixed problems with freebsd-dri configuration (bug 8344)
  62 <li>Mesa's fake glxGetCurrentContext() wasn't thread-aware
  63 <li>OPTION NV_position_invariant didn't work in NV vertex programs
  64 <li>glDrawPixels into a user-created framebuffer object could crash Xlib driver
  65 <li>Line clipping was broken in some circumstances
  66 <li>fragment.fogcoord register didn't always contain the correct value
  67 <li>RGBA logicops didn't work reliably in some DRI drivers
  68 <li>Fixed broken RGBA LogicOps in Intel DRI drivers
  69 <li>Fixed some fragment program bugs in Intel i915 DRI driver
  70 <li>Fixed glGetVertexAttribfvARB bug 8883
  71 <li>Implemented glGetUniform[fi]vARB() functions
  72 <li>Fixed glDrawPixels(GL_COLOR_INDEX, GL_BITMAP) segfault (bug 9044)
  73 <li>Fixed some gluBuild2DMipmaps() bugs (Greg McGarragh)
  74 <li>Fixed broken "mgl" name mangling
  75 <li>Indirect rending was broken for glMap* functions (bug 8899)
  76 </ul>
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  79 <h2>Internal code changes</h2>
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  81 <ul>
  82 <li>The device driver functions ResizeBuffers and GetBufferSize have been
  83 decprecated.
  84 <li>OpenGL 2.0 and 2.1 support is nearly done.  We need to do quite a bit
  85 more testing of the shading language functions.
  86 </ul>
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  89 <h2>To Do (someday) items</h2>
  90 <ul>
  91 <li>Switch to freeglut
  92 <li>Increase MAX_DRAWBUFFERS
  93 <li>Fix linux-glide target/driver.
  94 <li>Improved lambda and derivative calculation for frag progs.
  95 </ul>
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  98 <h2>Driver Status</h2>
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 101 Driver                  Status
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 103 DRI drivers             varies with the driver
 104 XMesa/GLX (on Xlib)     implements OpenGL 1.5
 105 OSMesa (off-screen)     implements OpenGL 1.5
 106 Glide (3dfx Voodoo1/2)  implements OpenGL 1.3
 107 SVGA                    implements OpenGL 1.3
 108 Wind River UGL          implements OpenGL 1.3
 109 Windows/Win32           implements OpenGL 1.5
 110 DJGPP                   implements OpenGL 1.5
 111 GGI                     implements OpenGL 1.3
 112 BeOS                    implements OpenGL 1.5
 113 Allegro                 needs updating
 114 D3D                     needs updating
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