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  11 <H1>Mesa 7.5 Release Notes / date TBD</H1>
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  14 Mesa 7.5 is a new development release.
  15 People who are concerned with stability and reliability should stick
  16 with the 7.4.x branch or wait for Mesa 7.5.1.
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  19 The main new feature of Mesa 7.5 is the
  20 <a href="http://www.tungstengraphics.com/wiki/index.php/Gallium3D"
  21 target="_parent">Gallium3D</a> infrastructure.
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  24 Mesa 7.5 implements the OpenGL 2.1 API, but the version reported by
  25 glGetString(GL_VERSION) depends on the particular driver being used.
  26 Some drivers don't support all the features required in OpenGL 2.1.
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  29 See the <a href="install.html">Compiling/Installing page</a> for prerequisites
  30 for DRI hardware acceleration.
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  33 Note that the Mesa project is no longer using odd/even version numbers
  34 to indicate development/stable releases.
  35 The so-called development releases have been fairly stable.
  36 If you're especially concerned with stability you should probably look for
  37 "point" releases such as 7.5.1 which will be a bug-fix release.
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  47 <h2>New features</h2>
  48 <ul>
  49 <li>Gallium - this is the new architecture for OS-independent and
  50     API-independent 3D drivers.
  51     Gallium3D is intended for GPUs that fully support  vertex/fragment shaders.
  52     The Gallium3D drivers currently included are:
  53     <ul>
  54     <li>softpipe - a software/reference driver
  55     <li>i915 - Intel 915/945 driver
  56     <li><a href="cell.html">Cell</a> - IBM/Sony/Toshiba Cell processor driver
  57     <li>nouveau - preliminary driver for NVIDIA GPUs (still under development)
  58     <li>r300 - preliminary driver for R300 (still under development)
  59     </ul>
  60 <li>GL_ARB_framebuffer_object extension (software drivers, i965 driver)
  61 <li>Reworked two-sided stencil support.
  62 This allows a driver to support all three variations of two-sided stencil
  63 including GL_ATI_separate_stencil, GL_EXT_stencil_two_side and OpenGL 2.0
  64 <li>GL_EXT_vertex_array_bgra extension (software drivers, i965 driver)
  65 <li>GL_NV_texture_env_combine4 extension (software drivers, i965/i915 drivers)
  66 <li>GL_EXT_texture_swizzle extension (software drivers, i965 driver)
  67 <li>Updated SPARC assembly optimizations (David S. Miller)
  68 <li>Initial support for separate compilation units in GLSL compiler.
  69 </ul>
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  72 <h2>Bug fixes</h2>
  73 <ul>
  74 <li>Lots of i965 driver bug fixes
  75 </ul>
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  78 <h2>Changes</h2>
  79 <ul>
  80 <li>Remove support for GL_SGIX_shadow, GL_SGIX_shadow_ambient and
  81 GL_SGIX_depth_texture extensions.  Superseded by the ARB versions.
  82 <li>Omittd some old Mesa demos from the release tarballs, added some others.
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