Mesa 6.5.3 Release Notes / April ??, 2007

Mesa 6.5.3 is a development release with many changes and new features. Mesa 7.0 is expected to follow shortly.

MD5 checksums

TBD

Shared library numbering

Mesa 6.5.3 supports the OpenGL 2.0/2.1 API. However, the (unix) shared library version is still 1.5 (i.e. libGL.so.1.5.xxxxxx). Bumping the shared library version to 2.x would cause linking problems with existing OpenGL applications. Since OpenGL 2.x is backward compatible with OpenGL 1.x the shared library version number doesn't have to be incremented (which would indicate an incompatible ABI).

Other OpenGL vendors name their OpenGL 2.x libraries libGL.so.1.0.xxxxx for the same reason.

New features

Bug fixes

Internal code changes

To Do (someday) items

Driver Status

Driver			Status
----------------------	----------------------
DRI drivers		varies with the driver
XMesa/GLX (on Xlib)	implements OpenGL 2.1
OSMesa (off-screen)	implements OpenGL 2.1
Windows/Win32		implements OpenGL 1.5
Glide (3dfx Voodoo1/2)	implements OpenGL 1.3
SVGA			unsupported
Wind River UGL		unsupported
DJGPP			unsupported
GGI			unsupported
BeOS			unsupported
Allegro			unsupported
D3D			unsupported