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  11 <H1>Mesa 6.5.2 Release Notes / December 2, 2006</H1>
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  13 <p>
  14 Mesa 6.5.2 is a 6.5 follow-on development release with a few new features
  15 but mostly consisting of bug fixes.
  16 </p>
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  19 <h2>MD5 checksums</h2>
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  21 11a033b078e090b3caaeb467234fe299  MesaLib-6.5.2.tar.gz
  22 e4d894181f1859651658b3704633e10d  MesaLib-6.5.2.tar.bz2
  23 63bf1d444fa738cca52ce1043e284021  MesaLib-6.5.2.zip
  24 2b8f1375d16bda5f5a2304174cd5bcf7  MesaDemos-6.5.2.tar.gz
  25 e870efe98d3a50be01ab211b9b2e25d9  MesaDemos-6.5.2.tar.bz2
  26 d92cc6f5fee5ca75af0be04f9f4908f0  MesaDemos-6.5.2.zip
  27 8d4d77e3a7132f4217bbc7c1ab157030  MesaGLUT-6.5.2.tar.gz
  28 e84edbb11c69c8e408dfadd2ed08e95b  MesaGLUT-6.5.2.tar.bz2
  29 c6d7134843ed5faf11f6686ecb5d2a2e  MesaGLUT-6.5.2.zip
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  33 <h2>New features</h2>
  34 <ul>
  35 <li>New DRI memory manager system.  Currently used by the i915tex driver.
  36 Other DRI drivers will be updated to use the new memory manager in coming
  37 months.
  38 <br>
  39 To use the new driver you'll need the most recent DRM library and drivers
  40 (version 2.2 or later) and a recent xf86-video-intel driver module from X.org.
  41 <br>
  42 New features resulting from this work include:
  43 <ul>
  44 <li>EXT_framebuffer_objects, render to texture
  45 <li>ARB_pixel_buffer_objects
  46 <li>Accelerated CopyTexSubimage, DrawPixels, ReadPixels, CopyPixels
  47 <li>Accelerated texture uploads from pixel buffer objects
  48 <li>Potentially texturing directly from the pixel buffer object (zero
  49 copy texturing).
  50 </ul>
  51 <li>New Intel i965 DRI driver
  52 <li>New <code>minstall</code> script to replace normal install program
  53 <li>Faster fragment program execution in software
  54 <li>Added (or fixed) support for <a href="http://www.opengl.org/registry/specs/SGI/make_current_read.txt">
  55     GLX_SGI_make_current_read</a> to the following drivers:</li>
  56     <ul>
  57     <li>radeon</li>
  58     <li>savage</li>
  59     <li>mga</li>
  60     <li>tdfx</li>
  61     </ul>
  62 <li>Added support for ARB_occlusion_query to the tdfx driver (Ian
  63 Romanick).</li>
  64 </ul>
  65
  66 <h2>Bug fixes</h2>
  67 <ul>
  68 <li>fixed invalid memory read while rendering textured points (bug 8320)
  69 <li>fixed problems with freebsd-dri configuration (bug 8344)
  70 <li>Mesa's fake glxGetCurrentContext() wasn't thread-aware
  71 <li>OPTION NV_position_invariant didn't work in NV vertex programs
  72 <li>glDrawPixels into a user-created framebuffer object could crash Xlib driver
  73 <li>Line clipping was broken in some circumstances
  74 <li>fragment.fogcoord register didn't always contain the correct value
  75 <li>RGBA logicops didn't work reliably in some DRI drivers
  76 <li>Fixed broken RGBA LogicOps in Intel DRI drivers
  77 <li>Fixed some fragment program bugs in Intel i915 DRI driver
  78 <li>Fixed glGetVertexAttribfvARB bug 8883
  79 <li>Implemented glGetUniform[fi]vARB() functions
  80 <li>Fixed glDrawPixels(GL_COLOR_INDEX, GL_BITMAP) segfault (bug 9044)
  81 <li>Fixed some gluBuild2DMipmaps() bugs (Greg McGarragh)
  82 <li>Fixed broken "mgl" name mangling
  83 <li>Indirect rending was broken for glMap* functions (bug 8899)
  84 </ul>
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  87 <h2>Internal code changes</h2>
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  89 <ul>
  90 <li>The device driver functions ResizeBuffers and GetBufferSize have been
  91 decprecated.
  92 <li>OpenGL 2.0 and 2.1 support is nearly done.  We need to do quite a bit
  93 more testing of the shading language functions.
  94 </ul>
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  97 <h2>To Do (someday) items</h2>
  98 <ul>
  99 <li>Switch to freeglut
 100 <li>Increase MAX_DRAWBUFFERS
 101 <li>Fix linux-glide target/driver.
 102 <li>Improved lambda and derivative calculation for frag progs.
 103 </ul>
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 106 <h2>Driver Status</h2>
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 109 Driver                  Status
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 111 DRI drivers             varies with the driver
 112 XMesa/GLX (on Xlib)     implements OpenGL 1.5
 113 OSMesa (off-screen)     implements OpenGL 1.5
 114 Glide (3dfx Voodoo1/2)  implements OpenGL 1.3
 115 SVGA                    implements OpenGL 1.3
 116 Wind River UGL          implements OpenGL 1.3
 117 Windows/Win32           implements OpenGL 1.5
 118 DJGPP                   implements OpenGL 1.5
 119 GGI                     implements OpenGL 1.3
 120 BeOS                    implements OpenGL 1.5
 121 Allegro                 needs updating
 122 D3D                     needs updating
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