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  11   <h1>The Mesa 3D Graphics Library</h1>
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  17 <h1>Mesa 7.6 Release Notes, 28 September 2009</h1>
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  19 <p>
  20 Mesa 7.6 is a new development release.
  21 People who are concerned with stability and reliability should stick
  22 with a previous release or wait for Mesa 7.6.1.
  23 </p>
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  25 Mesa 7.6 implements the OpenGL 2.1 API, but the version reported by
  26 glGetString(GL_VERSION) depends on the particular driver being used.
  27 Some drivers don't support all the features required in OpenGL 2.1.
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  30 See the <a href="../install.html">Compiling/Installing page</a> for prerequisites
  31 for DRI hardware acceleration.
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  35 <h2>MD5 checksums</h2>
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  37 5ffa7d7abf8973f57a1bc4f813e6dade  MesaLib-7.6.tar.gz
  38 8c75f90cd0303cfac9e4b6d54f6759ca  MesaLib-7.6.tar.bz2
  39 27fcfd69708599c978cb34ba5cd363e1  MesaLib-7.6.zip
  40 e7befb3ae604f591806194a4da445628  MesaDemos-7.6.tar.gz
  41 0ede7adf217951acd90dbe4551210c07  MesaDemos-7.6.tar.bz2
  42 ed9298409cf6613bc0964525ca4afc8a  MesaDemos-7.6.zip
  43 666955668e44ff14acf7d15dc78407d3  MesaGLUT-7.6.tar.gz
  44 b8b59706f827d18d1b784a0ff98b4dc2  MesaGLUT-7.6.tar.bz2
  45 c49c19c2bbef4f3b7f1389974dff25f4  MesaGLUT-7.6.zip
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  49 <h2>New features</h2>
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  51 <li>OpenVG front-end (state tracker for Gallium).
  52 This was written by Zack Rusin at Tungsten Graphics.
  53 <li>GL_ARB_vertex_array_object and GL_APPLE_vertex_array_object extensions
  54     (supported in Gallium drivers, Intel DRI drivers, and software drivers)</li>
  55 <li>GL_ARB_copy_buffer extension
  56     (supported in Gallium drivers, Intel DRI drivers, and software drivers)</li>
  57 <li>GL_ARB_map_buffer_range extension
  58     (supported in Gallium drivers, Intel DRI drivers, and software drivers)</li>
  59 <li>GL_ARB_seamless_cube_map extension
  60     (supported in software drivers and i965 drivers)</li>
  61 <li>GL_ARB_vertex_array_bgra (ARB synonym for GL_EXT_vertex_array_bgra)</li>
  62 <li>GL_ARB_sync (supported in software drivers and Intel DRI drivers)</li>
  63 <li>GL_EXT_provoking_vertex extension (supported in Gallium, i915, i965, and software drivers)
  64 <li>Rewritten radeon/r200/r300 driver using a buffer manager
  65 <li>radeon/r200/r300 GL_EXT_framebuffer_object support when used with
  66     kernel memory manager
  67 <li>radeon/r200/r300 support for GL_ARB_occlusion_query</li>
  68 <li>r300 driver supports OpenGL 1.5</li>
  69 <li>r300 driver support for GL_EXT_vertex_array_bgra, GL_EXT_texture_sRGB
  70 <li>i915/945 driver support for GL_ARB_point_sprite, GL_EXT_stencil_two_side
  71     and GL_ATI_separate_stencil extensions
  72 <li>Rewritten assembler for GL_ARB_vertex_program /
  73     GL_ARB_fragment_program.</li>
  74 <li>Added configure --with-max-width=W, --with-max-height=H options to specify
  75     max framebuffer, viewport size.
  76 <li>Initial version of Gallium llvmpipe driver.  This is a new driver based
  77     on LLVM which makes exensive use of run-time code generation.  This is
  78     an "alpha" stage driver.  See the src/gallium/drivers/llvmpipe/README
  79     file for more information.
  80 </ul>
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  83 <h2>Bug fixes</h2>
  84 <ul>
  85 <li>i965 DRI driver fixes, including support for "unlimited" size constant
  86     buffers (GLSL uniforms)
  87 </ul>
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