<H1>News</H1>
-<h2>March 31, 2006</h2>
+<h2>April 5, 2010</h2>
+
<p>
-Mesa 6.5 has been released. This is a new development release.
+<a href="relnotes-7.8.1.html">Mesa 7.8.1</a> is released. This is a bug-fix
+release for a few critical issues in the 7.8 release.
</p>
-<pre>
- New:
- - OpenGL Shading Language support through GL_ARB_shader_objects,
- GL_ARB_shading_language_100, GL_ARB_vertex_shader and
- GL_ARB_fragment_shader (done by Michal Krol)
- - GL_EXT_packed_depth_stencil extension
- - GL_EXT_timer_query extension
- - GL_EXT_framebuffer_blit extension
- - GL_ARB_half_float_pixel
- - GLX_MESA_copy_sub_buffer for DRI drivers (Dave Reveman)
- - reflect demo improved to support multiple windows
- - singlebuffer demo (shows no/little-flicker single-buffered rendering)
- - r200: enable GL_ARB_texture_env_crossbar, separate the texture
- sampling unit bits from the texture env combine enable bits
- - r200: add support for GL_ATI_fragment_shader
- - added fast XOR-mode line drawing optimization
- - radeon: add support for all 3 tmus, GL_ARB_texture_cube_map
- and GL_EXT_fog_coord
- - MESA_GLX_ALPHA_BITS env var for xlib driver
- - many DRI driver updates (including screen rotation support
- for the Intel DRI driver)
- Changes:
- - removed GL_HP_occlusion_test (use GL_ARB_occlusion_query instead)
- - removed GL_SGIX/SGIS_pixel_texture extensions
- Bug fixes:
- - fixed glxcontextmodes.c datatype problem (bug 5835)
- - fixed aix-gcc build/install bugs (bug 5874)
- - fixed some bugs in texture env program generation
- - glXCopyContext() didn't handle texture object bindings properly
- - glXCopyContext() didn't copy all lighting state
- - fixed FreeBSD config (Pedro Giffuni)
- - fixed some minor framebuffer object bugs
- - replaced dprintf() with _glu_printf() in GLU (bug 6244)
- - fixed a number of thread safety bugs/regressions
- - fixed a number of GLU tesselator bugs (John Shell, bug 6339)
- - paletted texturing was broken w/ floating point palettes (K. Schultz)
- - lots of assorted framebuffer object bug fixes
-</pre>
+
+
+<h2>March 28, 2010</h2>
<p>
-The MD5 checksums are:
+<a href="relnotes-7.7.1.html">Mesa 7.7.1</a> is released. This is a bug-fix
+release fixing issues found in the 7.7 release.
+</p>
+<p>
+Also, <a href="relnotes-7.8.html">Mesa 7.8</a> is released. This is a new
+development release.
</p>
-<pre>
-657be3b92f6dabc78a67ed9cb8d67813 MesaLib-6.5.tar.gz
-61beda590bfc5b4a12e979d5f2d70d7a MesaLib-6.5.tar.bz2
-19d48b872d579d4f91466060804a59ac MesaLib-6.5.zip
-694ad3a7007010c7418a9c72d1cba5b7 MesaDemos-6.5.tar.gz
-ab95b590dcd640726a2d89e62068c66e MesaDemos-6.5.tar.bz2
-b792c303fefd87294488e2b7eab976e5 MesaDemos-6.5.zip
-ac1d585483617db0c91e5c15cb5ec3a3 MesaGLUT-6.5.tar.gz
-59f0bf2b2ffb67fe23ee479f9b044f31 MesaGLUT-6.5.tar.bz2
-005decb2136718e22222ac1c4805cd15 MesaGLUT-6.5.zip
-</pre>
-<h2>February 2, 2006</h2>
+
+<h2>December 21, 2009</h2>
<p>
-Mesa 6.4.2 has been released. This is primarily a bug-fix release.
+<a href="relnotes-7.6.1.html">Mesa 7.6.1</a> is released. This is a bug-fix
+release fixing issues found in the 7.6 release.
</p>
-<pre>
- New items:
- - added OSMesaColorClamp() function/feature
- - added wglGetExtensionStringARB() function
- Bug fixes:
- - fixed some problems when building on Windows
- - GLw header files weren't installed by installmesa script (bug 5396)
- - GL/glfbdev.h file was missing from tarballs
-</pre>
<p>
-The MD5 checksums are:
+Also, <a href="relnotes-7.7.html">Mesa 7.7</a> is released. This is a new
+development release.
</p>
-<pre>
-cb0d745d520fa7c2bb9178058b763544 MesaLib-6.4.2.tar.gz
-7674d2c603b5834259e4e5a820cefd5b MesaLib-6.4.2.tar.bz2
-d224e1325b33ff71a0f3893fc6b4d594 MesaLib-6.4.2.zip
-d4b345d4588fc750cd3d34f3ac26673e MesaDemos-6.4.2.tar.gz
-9cae1ab874af533ce356bd7dfe2e0bb0 MesaDemos-6.4.2.tar.bz2
-2da6e1d1245e441d27813595c6ba50de MesaDemos-6.4.2.zip
-84427d18c3453f0ea52388eeba7169b5 MesaGLUT-6.4.2.tar.gz
-b157ba8ad1ea63260cf5339132e7aac6 MesaGLUT-6.4.2.tar.bz2
-fe1523744fc05edc3811dfc6a1bf4181 MesaGLUT-6.4.2.zip
-</pre>
-<h2>November 29, 2005</h2>
+<h2>September 28, 2009</h2>
<p>
-Mesa 6.4.1 has been released. This is a stable, bug-fix release.
+<a href="relnotes-7.6.html">Mesa 7.6</a> is released. This is a new feature
+release. Those especially concerned about stability may want to wait for the
+follow-on 7.6.1 bug-fix release.
</p>
-<pre>
- Bug fixes:
- - redefining a vertex program string didn't take effect in TNL module
- - fixed occasional segfault upon vertex/fragment parsing error
- - vertex program LIT instruction didn't handle 0^0=1 correctly
- - fragment program fog option didn't work with glDrawPixels, glBitmap
- - USE_MGL_NAMESPACE didn't work for x86-64
- - OSMesa demos were missing from previous release tarballs
- - fixed problem with float->ushort conversion in glClear (bug 4992)
- - popping of GL_EYE_PLANE texgen state was broken (bug 4996)
- - popping of GL_SPOT_DIRECTION light state was broken (bug 5005)
- - fixed occasional triangle color interpolation problem on VMS
- - work around invalid free() call (bug 5131)
- - fixed BSD X server compilation problem by including stdint.h
-</pre>
<p>
-The MD5 checksums are:
+<a href="relnotes-7.5.2.html">Mesa 7.5.2</a> is also released.
+This is a stable release fixing bugs since the 7.5.1 release.
</p>
-<pre>
-698ceb574cf882b0226761f5913c0da9 MesaLib-6.4.1.tar.gz
-ea148c828ec6f645526451db1b8556f1 MesaLib-6.4.1.tar.bz2
-42e93279468975ed2bf3111b8721e5d9 MesaLib-6.4.1.zip
-e3b0d50807fd2bdcd1a95aaddd786f13 MesaDemos-6.4.1.tar.gz
-99df1fdcb98d391666b476ca6f1dda8a MesaDemos-6.4.1.tar.bz2
-b999d2c6d92fb4b7740a3dbd889348e3 MesaDemos-6.4.1.zip
-eadfe01fe5ddfb1eb8227dd567b31635 MesaGLUT-6.4.1.tar.gz
-bd003bb4f981a4f91dee4c38644d4f3f MesaGLUT-6.4.1.tar.bz2
-71c401c037088bf688a88afdaeb3420f MesaGLUT-6.4.1.zip
-</pre>
+<h2>September 3, 2009</h2>
+<p>
+<a href="relnotes-7.5.1.html">Mesa 7.5.1</a> is released.
+This is a bug-fix release which fixes bugs found in version 7.5.
+</p>
-<h2>October 24, 2005</h2>
+<h2>July 17, 2009</h2>
<p>
-Mesa 6.4 has been released. This is a stable, bug-fix release.
+<a href="relnotes-7.5.html">Mesa 7.5</a> is released.
+This is a new features release. People especially concerned about
+stability may want to wait for the follow-on 7.5.1 bug-fix release.
</p>
-<pre>
- New:
- - Added a fast XOR line drawing function in Xlib driver
- - Added support for GL_ARB_texture_mirrored_repeat to savage
- driver (supported only on Savage4 hardware).
- Changes:
- - Mesa now packaged in three parts: Library, Demos and GLUT
- Bug fixes:
- - GLX_X_RENDERABLE token wasn't accepted by glXChooseFBConfig
- - Some files were present multiple times in the 6.3.2 tarballs
- - r200_vtxtmp_x86.S file was missing from 6.3.2 tarball (bug 4207)
- - glxgears_fbconfig demo didn't work (bug 4237)
- - fixed bug when bilinear sampling 2d textures with borders
- - glXCreatePbuffer() could segfault instead of returning 0 (bug 4235)
- - fixed undefined frexp and rand in X.org libGLcore.a (bug 4242)
- - fixed a few problems with proxy color tables (bug 4270)
- - fixed precision problem in Z clearing (bug 4395)
- - glBitmap, glDraw/CopyPixels mistakenly generated selection hits
- - fixed potential segfault caused by reading pixels outside
- of renderbuffer bounds
- - glGetTexLevelParameter didn't accept GL_TEXTURE_DEPTH_SIZE_ARB
- - fixed memory corruption bug involving software alpha buffers
- - glReadPixels clipped by window bounds was sometimes broken
- - glDraw/CopyPixels of stencil data ignored the stencil write mask
- - glReadPixels from a texture bound to a framebuffer object didn't work
- - glIsRender/FramebufferEXT weren't totally correct
- - fixed a number of point size attenuation/fade bugs
- - fixed glFogCoord bug 4729
- - GLX encoding for transpose matrix functions was broken
- - fixed broken fragment program KIL and SWZ instructions
-</pre>
+
+
+<h2>June 23, 2009</h2>
<p>
-The MD5 checksums are:
+<a href="relnotes-7.4.4.html">Mesa 7.4.4</a> is released.
+This is a stable release that fixes a regression in the i915/i965 drivers
+that slipped into the 7.4.3 release.
+</p>
+
+
+<h2>June 19, 2009</h2>
+<p>
+<a href="relnotes-7.4.3.html">Mesa 7.4.3</a> is released.
+This is a stable release fixing bugs since the 7.4.2 release.
+</p>
+
+
+<h2>May 15, 2009</h2>
+<p>
+<a href="relnotes-7.4.2.html">Mesa 7.4.2</a> is released.
+This is a stable release fixing bugs since the 7.4.1 release.
+</p>
+
+
+<h2>April 18, 2009</h2>
+<p>
+<a href="relnotes-7.4.1.html">Mesa 7.4.1</a> is released.
+This is a stable release fixing bugs since the 7.4 release.
+</p>
+
+
+<h2>March 27, 2009</h2>
+<p>
+<a href="relnotes-7.4.html">Mesa 7.4</a> is released.
+This is a stable release fixing bugs since the 7.3 release.
+</p>
+
+
+<h2>January 22, 2009</h2>
+<p>
+<a href="relnotes-7.3.html">Mesa 7.3</a> is released.
+This is a new development release.
+Mesa 7.4 will follow and will have bug fixes relative to 7.3.
+</p>
+
+
+<h2>September 20, 2008</h2>
+<p>
+<a href="relnotes-7.2.html">Mesa 7.2</a> is released.
+This is a stable, bug-fix release.
+</p>
+
+
+<h2>August 26, 2008</h2>
+<p>
+<a href="relnotes-7.1.html">Mesa 7.1</a> is released.
+This is a new development release.
+It should be relatively stable, but those especially concerned about
+stability should wait for the 7.2 release or use Mesa 7.0.4 (the
+previous stable release).
+</p>
+
+
+<h2>August 16, 2008</h2>
+<p>
+<a href="relnotes-7.0.4.html">Mesa 7.0.4</a> is released.
+This is a bug-fix release.
+</p>
+
+
+<h2>April 4, 2008</h2>
+<p>
+<a href="relnotes-7.0.3.html">Mesa 7.0.3</a> is released.
+This is a bug-fix release.
+</p>
+
+
+<h2>January 24, 2008</h2>
+
+<p>
+Added a new page describing the <a href="cell.html">Mesa Cell driver</a>.
+</p>
+
+
+
+<h2>November 13, 2007</h2>
+
+<p>
+Gallium3D is the codename for the new Mesa device driver architecture
+which is currently under development.
+A <a href="http://wiki.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/gallium"
+target="_parent"> summary</a> of the architecture can be found on the
+Tungsten Graphics website.
+</p>
+<p>
+Gallium3D development is taking place on the <em>gallium-0.1</em> branch
+of the git repository.
+Currently, there's only a software-only driver and an Intel i915/945 driver
+but other drivers will be coming...
+</p>
+
+
+<h2>November 10, 2007</h2>
+<p>
+<a href="relnotes-7.0.2.html">Mesa 7.0.2</a> is released.
+This is a bug-fix release.
+</p>
+
+
+<h2>August 3, 2007</h2>
+<p>
+<a href="relnotes-7.0.1.html">Mesa 7.0.1</a> is released.
+This is a bug-fix release.
+</p>
+
+
+<h2>June 22, 2007</h2>
+<p>
+<a href="relnotes-7.0.html">Mesa 7.0</a> is released.
+This is a stable release featuring OpenGL 2.1 support.
+</p>
+
+
+<h2>April 27, 2007</h2>
+<p>
+<a href="relnotes-6.5.3.html">Mesa 6.5.3</a> is released.
+This is a development release which will lead up to the Mesa 7.0 release
+(which will advertise OpenGL 2.1 API support).
+</p>
+
+
+<h2>March 26, 2007</h2>
+<p>
+The new Shading Language compiler branch has been merged into the git
+master branch. This is a step toward hardware support for the OpenGL
+2.0 Shading Language and will be included in the next Mesa release.
+In conjunction, <a href="http://glean.sf.net" target="_parent">Glean
+</a> has been updated with a new test that does over 130 tests of the
+shading language and built-in functions.
+</p>
+
+<h2>April 2007</h2>
+<p>
+Thomas Hellström of
+<a href="http://www.tungstengraphics.com" target="_parent">
+Tungsten Graphics</a> has written a whitepaper describing the new
+<a href="http://www.tungstengraphics.com/mm.pdf">DRI memory management
+system</a>.
+</p>
+
+<h2>December 5, 2006</h2>
+<p>
+Mesa is now using git as its source code management system.
+The previous CVS repository should no longer be used.
+See the <a href="repository.html">repository page</a> for more information.
+</p>
+
+<h2>December 2, 2006</h2>
+<p>
+<a href="relnotes-6.5.2.html">Mesa 6.5.2</a> has been released.
+This is a new development release.
+</p>
+
+<h2>September 15, 2006</h2>
+<p>
+<a href="relnotes-6.5.1.html">Mesa 6.5.1</a> has been released.
+This is a new development release.
+</p>
+
+<h2>March 31, 2006</h2>
+<p>
+<a href="relnotes-6.5.html">Mesa 6.5</a> has been released.
+This is a new development release.
+</p>
+
+
+<h2>February 2, 2006</h2>
+<p>
+<a href="relnotes-6.4.2.html">Mesa 6.4.2</a> has been released.
+This is stable, bug-fix release.
+</p>
+
+
+<h2>November 29, 2005</h2>
+<p>
+<a href="relnotes-6.4.1.html">Mesa 6.4.1</a> has been released.
+This is stable, bug-fix release.
+</p>
+
+
+
+<h2>October 24, 2005</h2>
+<p>
+<a href="relnotes-6.4.html">Mesa 6.4</a> has been released.
+This is stable, bug-fix release.
</p>
-<pre>
-1cce0c1eb4fd15e9dfe837a1ce0c9812 MesaLib-6.4.tar.gz
-85a84e47a3f718f752f306b9e0954ef6 MesaLib-6.4.tar.bz2
-b976fea4f3ee06354c53f91b6e3f2ffc MesaLib-6.4.zip
-d8734f2c69bcf7ef9f5ae454a85743ba MesaDemos-6.4.tar.gz
-1a8c4d4fc699233f5fdb902b8753099e MesaDemos-6.4.tar.bz2
-607ab7c7a7de0cc5febbdde2bfa03098 MesaDemos-6.4.zip
-3260156f66174322a092be0767962d34 MesaGLUT-6.4.tar.gz
-0465d053f83775f44a12dec4050dfd78 MesaGLUT-6.4.tar.bz2
-02abfcdcdf72ba938ae00f6e3b70fbe0 MesaGLUT-6.4.zip
-</pre>
<h2>August 19, 2005</h2>
Mesa 6.3.2 has been released.
Note: there was no public release of version 6.3.1.
</p>
-<pre>
- New:
- - The distribution now includes the DRI drivers and GLX code
- Changes:
- - Made the DRI "new" driver interface standard, remove old code
- Bug fixes:
- - GL_ARB_vertex/fragment_shader were mistakenly listed in the
- extensions string
- - negative relative addressing in vertex programs was broken
- - update/fix SPARC assembly code for vertex transformation
- - fixed memory leak when freeing GLX drawables/renderbuffers
- - fixed display list memory leak
- - the GL_PIXEL_MAP_I_TO_I table is now floating point, not integer
- - wglGetProcAddress() didn't handle wgl-functions
- - fixed glxext.h cross-compile issue (Colin Harrison)
- - assorted DRI driver fixes
-</pre>
+<a href="versions.html#6.3.2">Changes in version 6.3.1</a>
<p>
The MD5 checksums are:
</p>
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