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+<TITLE>Mesa Release Notes</TITLE>
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+<head><link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="mesa.css"></head>
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+<BODY>
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+<body bgcolor="#eeeeee">
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+<H1>Mesa 7.9 Release Notes / date TBD</H1>
+
+<p>
+Mesa 7.9 is a new development release.
+People who are concerned with stability and reliability should stick
+with a previous release or wait for Mesa 7.9.1.
+</p>
+<p>
+Mesa 7.9 implements the OpenGL 2.1 API, but the version reported by
+glGetString(GL_VERSION) depends on the particular driver being used.
+Some drivers don't support all the features required in OpenGL 2.1.
+</p>
+<p>
+See the <a href="install.html">Compiling/Installing page</a> for prerequisites
+for DRI hardware acceleration.
+</p>
+
+
+<h2>MD5 checksums</h2>
+<pre>
+tbd
+</pre>
+
+
+<h2>New features</h2>
+<ul>
+</ul>
+
+
+<h2>Bug fixes</h2>
+<ul>
+</ul>
+
+
+<h2>Changes</h2>
+<ul>
+</ul>
+
+</body>
+</html>