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-<H1>Mesa 7.9 Release Notes / date TBD</H1>
+<H1>Mesa 7.9 Release Notes / October 4, 2010</H1>
<p>
Mesa 7.9 is a new development release.
<h2>MD5 checksums</h2>
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+ed65ab425b25895c7f473d0a5e6e64f8 MesaLib-7.9.tar.gz
+82c740c49d572baa6da2b1a1eee90bca MesaLib-7.9.tar.bz2
+cd2b6ecec759b0457475e94bbb38fedb MesaLib-7.9.zip
+7b54af9fb9b1f6a1a65db2520f50848f MesaGLUT-7.9.tar.gz
+20d07419d1929f833fdb36bced290ad5 MesaGLUT-7.9.tar.bz2
+62a7edecd7c92675cd6029b05217eb0a MesaGLUT-7.9.zip
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<li>New, improved GLSL compiler written by Intel.
See the <a href="shading.html"> Shading Language</a> page for
more information.
-<li>GL_EXT_timer_query extension (i965 driver only)
+<li>New, very experimental Gallium driver for R600-R700 Radeons.
+<li>Support for AMD Evergreen-based Radeons (HD 5xxx)
+<li>GL_EXT_timer_query extension (i965 driver and softpipe only)
<li>GL_EXT_framebuffer_multisample extension (intel drivers, MAX_SAMPLES = 1)
<li>GL_ARB_texture_swizzle extension (alias of GL_EXT_texture_swizzle)
-<li>GL_ARB_draw_elements_base_vertex, GL_ARB_fragment_program_shadow
- and GL_EXT_draw_buffers2 in Gallium drivers
+<li>GL_ARB_draw_elements_base_vertex, GL_ARB_fragment_program_shadow,
+ GL_ARB_window_pos, GL_EXT_gpu_program_parameters,
+ GL_ATI_texture_env_combine3, GL_MESA_pack_invert, and GL_OES_EGL_image
+ extensions in Gallium drivers
+<li>GL_ARB_depth_clamp and GL_NV_depth_clamp extensions (in nv50 and r600
+ Gallium drivers)
+<li>GL_ARB_half_float_vertex extension (in nvfx, r300, r600, softpipe,
+ and llvmpipe Gallium drivers)
+<li>GL_EXT_draw_buffers2 (in nv50, r600, softpipe, and llvmpipe Gallium
+ drivers)
+<li>GL_EXT_texture_swizzle (in nvfx, r300, r600, softpipe, and llvmpipe
+ Gallium drivers)
+<li>GL_ATI_texture_mirror_once (in nvfx, nv50, r300, r600, softpipe, and
+ llvmpipe Gallium drivers)
+<li>GL_NV_conditional_render (in r300 Gallium driver)
<li>Initial "signs of life" support for Sandybridge hardware in i965 DRI
driver.
-
</ul>
<h2>Bug fixes</h2>
<p>This list is likely incomplete.</p>
<ul>
+<li>Massive improvements to the Gallium driver for R300-R500 Radeons; this
+ driver is now considered stable for use as a DRI (OpenGL) driver.
<li><a href="https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=10908">Bug 10908</a> - GLSL: gl_FogParamaters gl_Fog built-in uniform not functioning</li>
<li><a href="https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=13753">Bug 13753</a> - Numerous bugs in GLSL uniform handling</li>
<li><a href="https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=16854">Bug 16854</a> - GLSL function call at global scope causes SEGV</li>
<li><a href="https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=16856">Bug 16856</a> - GLSL indexing of unsized array results in assertion failure</li>
<li><a href="https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=18659">Bug 18659</a> - Crash in shader/slang/slang_codegen.c _slang_gen_function_call_name()</li>
+<li><a href="https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=19089">Bug 19089</a> - [GLSL] glsl1/shadow2D() cases fail</li>
<li><a href="https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=22622">Bug 22622</a> - [GM965 GLSL] noise*() cause GPU lockup</li>
<li><a href="https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=23743">Bug 23743</a> - For loop from 0 to 0 not optimized out</li>
<li><a href="https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=24553">Bug 24553</a> - shader compilation times explode when using more () pairs</li>