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  11 <H1>Mesa 7.7 Release Notes / 21 December 2009</H1>
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  13 <p>
  14 Mesa 7.7 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 7.7.1.
  17 </p>
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  19 Mesa 7.7 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 395c9516edf1ad54b0934d8db15557bf  MesaLib-7.7.tar.gz
  32 e3fa64a1508bc23dd9de9dd2cea7cfb1  MesaLib-7.7.tar.bz2
  33 e54903eb5e49c3969821fa16b32da245  MesaLib-7.7.zip
  34 53b5b6f78e55de170d43c98cb6aaab7e  MesaDemos-7.7.tar.gz
  35 6fd616b27b9826d0faa23e08e05d9435  MesaDemos-7.7.tar.bz2
  36 240fe06159ad73d5e22c27033b66c80a  MesaDemos-7.7.zip
  37 9fe11a904b2a9d8cd06cc52bc330b716  MesaGLUT-7.7.tar.gz
  38 e8dceed05a59a2d3c2619d7d734587e3  MesaGLUT-7.7.tar.bz2
  39 96af041d435349ee23ead4667ec36363  MesaGLUT-7.7.zip
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  43 <h2>New features</h2>
  44 <ul>
  45 <li>VMware "SVGA" Gallium driver.  This is a Gallium3D driver which targets the
  46     VMware virtual graphics device.  It allows Linux OpenGL guest applications
  47     to utilize the 3D graphics hardware of the host operating system.
  48 <li>GL_ARB_draw_elements_base_vertex (supported in Intel i965 and software drivers)</li>
  49 <li>GL_ARB_depth_clamp (supported in Intel i965 DRI and software drivers)</li>
  50 <li>GL_NV_depth_clamp (supported in Intel i965 DRI and software drivers)</li>
  51 <li>GL_ARB_provoking_vertex (same as GL_EXT_provoking_vertex)</li>
  52 <li>Wavefront .obj file loader/viewer demo (progs/demos/objviewer)
  53 </ul>
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  56 <h2>Bug fixes</h2>
  57 <ul>
  58 <li>Many assorted i965 driver fixes.
  59 <li>Many r300-gallium driver fixes; this driver is now considered unstable-quality instead of experimental-quality.
  60 </ul>
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  63 <h2>Changes</h2>
  64 <ul>
  65 <li>New Mesa texture/surface format infrastructure
  66 <li>Removed some unused Mesa device driver hooks
  67 </ul>
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