docs/relnotes/7.1.rst

   1 Mesa 7.1 Release Notes / August 26, 2008
   2 ========================================
   3
   4 Mesa 7.1 is a new development release. There have been many internal
   5 code changes since Mesa 7.0.x. It should be relatively stable, but those
   6 who are especially concerned about stability should wait for Mesa 7.2 or
   7 use Mesa 7.0.4 (the previous stable release).
   8
   9 Note that this version of Mesa does not use the GEM memory manager. The
  10 master branch of git uses GEM.
  11
  12 DRM version 2.3.1 should be used with Mesa 7.1
  13
  14 MD5 checksums
  15 -------------
  16
  17 ::
  18
  19    971c2fe6e6949dc5ba200a6f97a6dc81  MesaLib-7.1.tar.gz
  20    6bff7f532d16f90f944a400c8bd7074d  MesaLib-7.1.tar.bz2
  21    d48224bf9d54c3da6776adb4869ba024  MesaLib-7.1.zip
  22    3de268420efca43e9a19ab506cdfc993  MesaDemos-7.1.tar.gz
  23    abfc9775e1462363af8ec160d1feb01f  MesaDemos-7.1.tar.bz2
  24    f7b3623387c4036e9895cd9ac0dfad99  MesaDemos-7.1.zip
  25    fdf348f78cd09304b6ff801ef8acc8eb  MesaGLUT-7.1.tar.gz
  26    f6d88a4eeb02e98c7e92f1c895d3c76b  MesaGLUT-7.1.tar.bz2
  27    4dc102a5ca51e1c41dde87d3f8c7b22a  MesaGLUT-7.1.zip
  28
  29 New features
  30 ------------
  31
  32 -  autoconf-based configuration (and clean-up of Makefiles)
  33 -  Assorted DRI driver enhancements
  34 -  Reduced dependencies between X server and Mesa
  35 -  GL_EXT_texture_from_pixmap extension for Xlib driver
  36 -  Support for the GL shading language with i965 driver (implemented by
  37    Intel)
  38 -  ATI R500 series support (Radeon X1300–X1950) in r300 DRI driver
  39
  40 Bug fixes
  41 ---------
  42
  43 -  Numerous GLSL fixes
  44 -  Fixed some error code/detection bugs in the GLSL-related API
  45    functions
  46 -  Lots of DRI driver fixes.
  47
  48 To Do (someday) items
  49 ---------------------
  50
  51 -  Remove the MEMCPY() and \_mesa_memcpy() wrappers and just use
  52    memcpy(). Probably do the same for malloc, calloc, etc. The wrappers
  53    were useful in the past for memory debugging but now we have
  54    valgrind. Not worried about SunOS 4 support anymore either...
  55 -  Switch to freeglut
  56 -  Fix linux-glide target/driver.
  57 -  Improved lambda and derivative calculation for frag progs.
  58
  59 Driver Status
  60 -------------
  61
  62 ::
  63
  64    Driver         Status
  65    ----------------------  ----------------------
  66    DRI drivers     varies with the driver
  67    XMesa/GLX (on Xlib) implements OpenGL 2.1
  68    OSMesa (off-screen) implements OpenGL 2.1
  69    Windows/Win32       implements OpenGL 2.1
  70    Glide (3dfx Voodoo1/2)  implements OpenGL 1.3
  71    SVGA            unsupported
  72    Wind River UGL      unsupported
  73    DJGPP           unsupported
  74    GGI         unsupported
  75    BeOS            unsupported
  76    Allegro         unsupported
  77    D3D         unsupported