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  11 <H1>Mesa 7.6 Release Notes, 28 September 2009</H1>
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  13 <p>
  14 Mesa 7.6 is a new development release.
  15 People who are concerned with stability and reliability should stick
  16 with a previous release or wait for Mesa 7.6.1.
  17 </p>
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  19 Mesa 7.6 implements the OpenGL 2.1 API, but the version reported by
  20 glGetString(GL_VERSION) depends on the particular driver being used.
  21 Some drivers don't support all the features required in OpenGL 2.1.
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  24 See the <a href="install.html">Compiling/Installing page</a> for prerequisites
  25 for DRI hardware acceleration.
  26 </p>
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  29 <h2>MD5 checksums</h2>
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  31 5ffa7d7abf8973f57a1bc4f813e6dade  MesaLib-7.6.tar.gz
  32 8c75f90cd0303cfac9e4b6d54f6759ca  MesaLib-7.6.tar.bz2
  33 27fcfd69708599c978cb34ba5cd363e1  MesaLib-7.6.zip
  34 e7befb3ae604f591806194a4da445628  MesaDemos-7.6.tar.gz
  35 0ede7adf217951acd90dbe4551210c07  MesaDemos-7.6.tar.bz2
  36 ed9298409cf6613bc0964525ca4afc8a  MesaDemos-7.6.zip
  37 666955668e44ff14acf7d15dc78407d3  MesaGLUT-7.6.tar.gz
  38 b8b59706f827d18d1b784a0ff98b4dc2  MesaGLUT-7.6.tar.bz2
  39 c49c19c2bbef4f3b7f1389974dff25f4  MesaGLUT-7.6.zip
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  43 <h2>New features</h2>
  44 <ul>
  45 <li><a href="openvg.html">OpenVG</a> front-end (state tracker for Gallium).
  46 This was written by Zack Rusin at Tungsten Graphics.
  47 <li>GL_ARB_vertex_array_object and GL_APPLE_vertex_array_object extensions
  48     (supported in Gallium drivers, Intel DRI drivers, and software drivers)</li>
  49 <li>GL_ARB_copy_buffer extension
  50     (supported in Gallium drivers, Intel DRI drivers, and software drivers)</li>
  51 <li>GL_ARB_map_buffer_range extension
  52     (supported in Gallium drivers, Intel DRI drivers, and software drivers)</li>
  53 <li>GL_ARB_seamless_cube_map extension
  54     (supported in software drivers and i965 drivers)</li>
  55 <li>GL_ARB_vertex_array_bgra (ARB synonym for GL_EXT_vertex_array_bgra)</li>
  56 <li>GL_ARB_sync (supported in software drivers and Intel DRI drivers)</li>
  57 <li>GL_EXT_provoking_vertex extension (supported in Gallium, i915, i965, and software drivers)
  58 <li>Rewritten radeon/r200/r300 driver using a buffer manager
  59 <li>radeon/r200/r300 GL_EXT_framebuffer_object support when used with
  60     kernel memory manager
  61 <li>radeon/r200/r300 support for GL_ARB_occlusion_query</li>
  62 <li>r300 driver supports OpenGL 1.5</li>
  63 <li>r300 driver support for GL_EXT_vertex_array_bgra, GL_EXT_texture_sRGB
  64 <li>i915/945 driver support for GL_ARB_point_sprite, GL_EXT_stencil_two_side
  65     and GL_ATI_separate_stencil extensions
  66 <li>Rewritten assembler for GL_ARB_vertex_program /
  67     GL_ARB_fragment_program.</li>
  68 <li>Added configure --with-max-width=W, --with-max-height=H options to specify
  69     max framebuffer, viewport size.
  70 <li>Initial version of Gallium llvmpipe driver.  This is a new driver based
  71     on LLVM which makes exensive use of run-time code generation.  This is
  72     an "alpha" stage driver.  See the src/gallium/drivers/llvmpipe/README
  73     file for more information.
  74 </ul>
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  77 <h2>Bug fixes</h2>
  78 <ul>
  79 <li>i965 DRI driver fixes, including support for "unlimited" size constant
  80     buffers (GLSL uniforms)
  81 </ul>
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