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11 <H1>Mesa
7.6 Release Notes / date TBD
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14 Mesa
7.6 is a new development release.
15 People who are concerned with stability and reliability should stick
16 with a previous release or wait for Mesa
7.6.1.
19 Mesa
7.6 implements the OpenGL
2.1 API, but the version reported by
20 glGetString(GL_VERSION) depends on the particular driver being used.
21 Some drivers don't support all the features required in OpenGL
2.1.
24 See the
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25 for DRI hardware acceleration.
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37 <li><a href=
"openvg.html">OpenVG
</a> front-end (state tracker for Gallium).
38 This was written by Zack Rusin at Tungsten Graphics.
39 <li>GL_ARB_vertex_array_object and GL_APPLE_vertex_array_object extensions
40 (supported in Gallium drivers, Intel DRI drivers, and software drivers)
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41 <li>GL_ARB_copy_buffer extension
42 (supported in Gallium drivers, Intel DRI drivers, and software drivers)
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43 <li>GL_ARB_map_buffer_range extension
44 (supported in Gallium drivers, Intel DRI drivers, and software drivers)
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45 <li>GL_ARB_seamless_cube_map extension
46 (supported in software drivers and i965 drivers)
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47 <li>GL_ARB_vertex_array_bgra (ARB synonym for GL_EXT_vertex_array_bgra)
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48 <li>GL_ARB_sync (supported in software drivers and Intel DRI drivers)
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49 <li>GL_EXT_provoking_vertex extension (supported in Gallium, i915, i965, and software drivers)
50 <li>Rewritten radeon/r200/r300 driver using a buffer manager
51 <li>radeon/r200/r300 GL_EXT_framebuffer_object support when used with
53 <li>radeon/r200/r300 support for GL_ARB_occlusion_query
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54 <li>r300 driver supports OpenGL
1.5</li>
55 <li>r300 driver support for GL_EXT_vertex_array_bgra, GL_EXT_texture_sRGB
56 <li>i915/
945 driver support for GL_ARB_point_sprite, GL_EXT_stencil_two_side
57 and GL_ATI_separate_stencil extensions
58 <li>Rewritten assembler for GL_ARB_vertex_program /
59 GL_ARB_fragment_program.
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60 <li>Added configure --with-max-width=W, --with-max-height=H options to specify
61 max framebuffer, viewport size.
62 <li>Initial version of Gallium llvmpipe driver. This is a new driver based
63 on LLVM which makes exensive use of run-time code generation. This is
64 an
"alpha" stage driver. See the src/gallium/drivers/llvmpipe/README
65 file for more information.
71 <li>i965 DRI driver fixes, including support for
"unlimited" size constant
72 buffers (GLSL uniforms)