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  11 <H1>Mesa 7.7 Release Notes / date TBD</H1>
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  14 Mesa 7.7 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 7.7.1.
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  19 Mesa 7.7 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.
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  24 See the <a href="install.html">Compiling/Installing page</a> for prerequisites
  25 for DRI hardware acceleration.
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  35 <h2>New features</h2>
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  37 <li>VMware "SVGA" Gallium driver.  This is a Gallium3D driver which targets the
  38     VMware virtual graphics device.  It allows Linux OpenGL guest applications
  39     to utilize the 3D graphics hardware of the host operating system.
  40 <li>GL_ARB_draw_elements_base_vertex (supported in Intel i965 and software drivers)</li>
  41 <li>GL_ARB_depth_clamp (supported in Intel i965 DRI and software drivers)</li>
  42 <li>GL_NV_depth_clamp (supported in Intel i965 DRI and software drivers)</li>
  43 <li>GL_ARB_provoking_vertex (same as GL_EXT_provoking_vertex)</li>
  44 <li>Wavefront .obj file loader/viewer demo (progs/demos/objviewer)
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  48 <h2>Bug fixes</h2>
  49 <ul>
  50 <li>Many assorted i965 driver fixes.
  51 <li>Many r300-gallium driver fixes; this driver is now considered unstable-quality instead of experimental-quality.
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  55 <h2>Changes</h2>
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  57 <li>New Mesa texture/surface format infrastructure
  58 <li>Removed some unused Mesa device driver hooks
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