docs/relnotes/7.7.rst

   1 Mesa 7.7 Release Notes / 21 December 2009
   2 =========================================
   3
   4 Mesa 7.7 is a new development release. People who are concerned with
   5 stability and reliability should stick with a previous release or wait
   6 for Mesa 7.7.1.
   7
   8 Mesa 7.7 implements the OpenGL 2.1 API, but the version reported by
   9 glGetString(GL_VERSION) depends on the particular driver being used.
  10 Some drivers don't support all the features required in OpenGL 2.1.
  11
  12 See the :doc:`Compiling/Installing page <../install>` for
  13 prerequisites for DRI hardware acceleration.
  14
  15 MD5 checksums
  16 -------------
  17
  18 ::
  19
  20    395c9516edf1ad54b0934d8db15557bf  MesaLib-7.7.tar.gz
  21    e3fa64a1508bc23dd9de9dd2cea7cfb1  MesaLib-7.7.tar.bz2
  22    e54903eb5e49c3969821fa16b32da245  MesaLib-7.7.zip
  23    53b5b6f78e55de170d43c98cb6aaab7e  MesaDemos-7.7.tar.gz
  24    6fd616b27b9826d0faa23e08e05d9435  MesaDemos-7.7.tar.bz2
  25    240fe06159ad73d5e22c27033b66c80a  MesaDemos-7.7.zip
  26    9fe11a904b2a9d8cd06cc52bc330b716  MesaGLUT-7.7.tar.gz
  27    e8dceed05a59a2d3c2619d7d734587e3  MesaGLUT-7.7.tar.bz2
  28    96af041d435349ee23ead4667ec36363  MesaGLUT-7.7.zip
  29
  30 New features
  31 ------------
  32
  33 -  VMware "SVGA" Gallium driver. This is a Gallium3D driver which
  34    targets the VMware virtual graphics device. It allows Linux OpenGL
  35    guest applications to utilize the 3D graphics hardware of the host
  36    operating system.
  37 -  GL_ARB_draw_elements_base_vertex (supported in Intel i965 and
  38    software drivers)
  39 -  GL_ARB_depth_clamp (supported in Intel i965 DRI and software drivers)
  40 -  GL_NV_depth_clamp (supported in Intel i965 DRI and software drivers)
  41 -  GL_ARB_provoking_vertex (same as GL_EXT_provoking_vertex)
  42 -  Wavefront .obj file loader/viewer demo (progs/demos/objviewer)
  43
  44 Bug fixes
  45 ---------
  46
  47 -  Many assorted i965 driver fixes.
  48 -  Many r300-gallium driver fixes; this driver is now considered
  49    unstable-quality instead of experimental-quality.
  50
  51 Changes
  52 -------
  53
  54 -  New Mesa texture/surface format infrastructure
  55 -  Removed some unused Mesa device driver hooks