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10 <h1>Mesa
7.8 Release Notes / March
28,
2010</h1>
13 Mesa
7.8 is a new development release.
14 People who are concerned with stability and reliability should stick
15 with a previous release or wait for Mesa
7.8.1.
18 Mesa
7.8 implements the OpenGL
2.1 API, but the version reported by
19 glGetString(GL_VERSION) depends on the particular driver being used.
20 Some drivers don't support all the features required in OpenGL
2.1.
23 See the
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24 for DRI hardware acceleration.
28 <h2>MD5 checksums
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30 5fcfde5383eccb3e9fd665f08a0ea59b MesaLib-
7.8.tar.gz
31 85cb891eecb89aae4fdd3499cccd934b MesaLib-
7.8.tar.bz2
32 754f39593006effc1c8ec3c27c2f1296 MesaLib-
7.8.zip
33 c3869c29fa6c3dbdd763f7428d271e12 MesaDemos-
7.8.tar.gz
34 9fe8ec184c7f78691e43c4c0a7f97d56 MesaDemos-
7.8.tar.bz2
35 063a96947f7b83d4ad789c6cf291b184 MesaDemos-
7.8.zip
36 5f4246756b7daaddb4fb3f970cad1e28 MesaGLUT-
7.8.tar.gz
37 ca7048a4aa7a437dcc84cc2c7d731336 MesaGLUT-
7.8.tar.bz2
38 b54581aeb79b585b158d6a32f94feff2 MesaGLUT-
7.8.zip
44 <li>GL_NV_conditional_render extension (swrast driver only)
45 <li>GL_EXT_draw_buffers2 extension (swrast and i965 driver only)
46 <li>GL_ARB_fragment_coord_conventions extension (for swrast, i965, and Gallium drivers)
47 <li>GL_EXT_texture_array extension (swrast driver only)
48 <li>GL_APPLE_object_purgeable extension (swrast and i945/i965 DRI drivers)
49 <li>Much improved support for
<a href=
"egl.html">EGL in Mesa
</a>
50 <li>New state trackers for
<a href=
"opengles.html">OpenGL ES
1.1 and
2.0</a>
51 <li>Dedicated documentation for Gallium
57 <li>Massive improvements to the Gallium driver for R300-R500 Radeons; this
58 driver is now moderately stable but not terribly performant.
64 <li>Removed support for color-index rendering
</li>
65 <li>Removed support for GCC versions earlier than
3.3.0.
</li>