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  11 <H1>Mesa 7.8 Release Notes / date TBD</H1>
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  14 Mesa 7.8 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 7.8.1.
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  19 Mesa 7.8 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.
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  35 <h2>New features</h2>
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  37 <li>GL_NV_conditional_render extension (swrast driver only)
  38 <li>GL_EXT_draw_buffers2 extension (swrast and i965 driver only)
  39 <li>GL_ARB_fragment_coord_conventions extension (for swrast, i965, and Gallium drivers)
  40 <li>GL_EXT_texture_array extension (swrast driver only)
  41 <li>GL_APPLE_object_purgeable extension (swrast and i945/i965 DRI drivers)
  42 <li>Much improved support for <a href="egl.html">EGL in Mesa</a>
  43 <li>New state trackers for <a href="opengles.html">OpenGL ES 1.1 and 2.0</a>
  44 <li>Dedicated documentation for Gallium
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  48 <h2>Bug fixes</h2>
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  50 <li>Massive improvements to the Gallium driver for R300-R500 Radeons; this
  51     driver is now moderately stable but not terribly performant.
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  55 <h2>Changes</h2>
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  57 <li>Removed support for color-index rendering</li>
  58 <li>Removed support for GCC versions earlier than 3.3.0.</li>
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