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  10 <h1>Mesa 9.0 Release Notes / date TBD</h1>
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  12 <p>
  13 Mesa 9.0 is a new development release.
  14 People who are concerned with stability and reliability should stick
  15 with a previous release or wait for Mesa 9.0.1.
  16 </p>
  17 <p>
  18 Mesa 9.0 implements the OpenGL 3.1 API, but the version reported by
  19 glGetString(GL_VERSION) or glGetIntegerv(GL_MAJOR_VERSION) /
  20 glGetIntegerv(GL_MINOR_VERSION) depends on the particular driver being used.
  21 Some drivers don't support all the features required in OpenGL 3.1.  OpenGL
  22 3.1 is <strong>only</strong> available if requested at context creation
  23 because GL_ARB_compatibility is not supported.
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  27 <h2>MD5 checksums</h2>
  28 <pre>
  29 tbd
  30 </pre>
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  33 <h2>New features</h2>
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  35 <p>
  36 Note: some of the new features are only available with certain drivers.
  37 </p>
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  39 <ul>
  40 <li>Added new Gallium3D - nv30 driver</li>
  41 <li>Added new Gallium3D - radeonsi driver</li>
  42 <li>Added OpenCL state tracker Clover</li>
  43 <li>Completed VDPAU state tracker (video decoding support is currently limited to MPEG1 and MPEG2)</li>
  44 <li>GL_ARB_base_instance</li>
  45 <li>GL_ARB_blend_func_extended</li>
  46 <li>GL_ARB_debug_output</li>
  47 <li>GL_ARB_invalidate_subdata - Currently a "no-op" implementation.  This
  48 extension is always enabled in all drivers.</li>
  49 <li>GL_ARB_shader_bit_encoding</li>
  50 <li>GL_ARB_texture_buffer_object</li>
  51 <li>GL_ARB_timer_query</li>
  52 <li>GL_ARB_transform_feedback3</li>
  53 <li>GL_ARB_transform_feedback_instanced</li>
  54 <li>GL_ARB_uniform_buffer_object</li>
  55 <li>GL_EXT_unpack_subimage for ES 2.0</li>
  56 <li>GL_EXT_read_format_bgra for ES 1.1 and 2.0</li>
  57 <li>GL_EXT_texture_rg for ES 2.x</li>
  58 <li>GL_NV_read_buffer for ES 2.0</li>
  59 <li>GLX_ARB_create_context_robustness</li>
  60 <li>EGL_KHR_create_context</li>
  61 <li>EGL_KHR_surfaceless_context - This replaces the
  62 EGL_KHR_surfaceless_{gles1,gles2,opengl} extensions that were never approved
  63 by Khronos.</li>
  64 <li>EGL_EXT_create_context_robustness</li>
  65 </ul>
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  67
  68 <h2>Bug fixes</h2>
  69
  70 <p>TBD -- This list is likely incomplete.</p>
  71
  72
  73 <h2>Changes</h2>
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  75 <ul>
  76 <li>
  77 The legacy/static Makefile system (ex: 'make linux-dri') has been removed.
  78 <br>
  79 The two supported build methods are now autoconf/automake and SCons.
  80 </li>
  81 <li>Removed support for GL_ARB_shadow_ambient extension</li>
  82 <li>Removed Gallium3D - nvfx driver (use nv30 instead)</li>
  83 </ul>
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  85 <p>
  86 libGLU has been moved into its own repository, found at <a href="http://cgit.freedesktop.org/mesa/glu/">http://cgit.freedesktop.org/mesa/glu/</a>
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