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  13 <H1>Mesa 8.0 Release Notes / (release date TBD)</H1>
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  16 Mesa 8.0 is a new development release.
  17 People who are concerned with stability and reliability should stick
  18 with a previous release or wait for Mesa 8.0.1.
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  21 Mesa 8.0 implements the OpenGL 3.0 API, but the version reported by
  22 glGetString(GL_VERSION) depends on the particular driver being used.
  23 Some drivers don't support all the features required in OpenGL 3.0.
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  26 See the <a href="install.html">Compiling/Installing page</a> for prerequisites
  27 for DRI hardware acceleration.
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  31 <h2>MD5 checksums</h2>
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  37 <h2>New features</h2>
  38 <ul>
  39 <li>GL_ARB_ES2_compatibility (r300g, r600g)
  40 <li>GL_ARB_depth_buffer_float (r600g)
  41 <li>GL_ARB_vertex_type_2_10_10_10_rev (r600g)
  42 <li>GL_ARB_texture_storage (gallium drivers and swrast)
  43 <li>GL_EXT_packed_float (i965)
  44 <li>GL_EXT_texture_array (r600g, i965)
  45 <li>GL_EXT_texture_shared_exponent (i965)
  46 <li>GL_NV_fog_distance (all gallium drivers, nouveau classic)
  47 <li>GL_NV_primitive_restart (r600g)
  48 <li>GL_OES_EGL_image_external (gallium drivers)
  49 <li>GL_OES_compressed_ETC1_RGB8_texture (softpipe, llvmpipe)
  50 <li>ARB_texture_rgb10_a2ui (softpipe, r600g)
  51 <li>Many updates to the VMware svga Gallium driver
  52 </ul>
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  55 <h2>Bug fixes</h2>
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  60 <h2>Changes</h2>
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  62 <li>Removed all DRI drivers that did not support DRI2.  Specifically,
  63   i810, mach64, mga, r128, savage, sis, tdfx, and unichrome were
  64   removed.</li>
  65 <li>Removed support for BeOS.</li>
  66 <li>Removed the obsolete (and unmaintained) Windows "gldirect" and
  67   "ICD" drivers.</li>
  68 <li>Removed the linux-fbdev software driver.</li>
  69 <li>Removed all remnants of paletted texture support.  As required by
  70   desktop OpenGL, <tt>GL_COLOR_INDEX</tt> data can still be uploaded
  71   to a color (e.g., RGBA) texture.  However, the data cannot be stored
  72   internally as color-index.</li>
  73 <li>Removed support for GL_APPLE_client_storage extension.</li>
  74 <li>Removed the classic Mesa r300 and r600 drivers, which are superseded
  75   by the gallium drivers for this hardware.</li>
  76 <li>Removed the dead Gallium i965, cell and failover drivers, which were
  77   either broken and with nobody in sight to fix the situation or
  78   deprecated.</li>
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