| Mesa 8.0 Release Notes / February 9, 2012 |
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| Mesa 8.0 is a new development release. People who are concerned with |
| stability and reliability should stick with a previous release or wait |
| for Mesa 8.0.1. |
| |
| Mesa 8.0 implements the OpenGL 3.0 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 3.0. |
| |
| See the :doc:`Compiling/Installing page <../install>` for |
| prerequisites for DRI hardware acceleration. |
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| MD5 checksums |
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| 3516fea6c28ce4a0fa9759e4894729a1 MesaLib-8.0.tar.gz |
| 1a5668fe72651a670611164cefc703b2 MesaLib-8.0.tar.bz2 |
| 66f5a01a85530a91472a3acceb556db8 MesaLib-8.0.zip |
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| New features |
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| - GL_ARB_ES2_compatibility (r300g, r600g) |
| - GL_ARB_depth_buffer_float (r600g) |
| - GL_ARB_vertex_type_2_10_10_10_rev (r600g) |
| - GL_ARB_texture_storage (gallium drivers and swrast) |
| - GL_EXT_packed_float (i965) |
| - GL_EXT_texture_array (r600g, i965) |
| - GL_EXT_texture_shared_exponent (i965) |
| - GL_NV_fog_distance (all gallium drivers, nouveau classic) |
| - GL_NV_primitive_restart (r600g) |
| - GL_OES_EGL_image_external (gallium drivers) |
| - GL_OES_compressed_ETC1_RGB8_texture (softpipe, llvmpipe) |
| - ARB_texture_rgb10_a2ui (softpipe, r600g) |
| - Many updates to the VMware svga Gallium driver |
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| Bug fixes |
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| Changes |
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| - Removed all DRI drivers that did not support DRI2. Specifically, |
| i810, mach64, mga, r128, savage, sis, tdfx, and unichrome were |
| removed. |
| - Removed support for BeOS. |
| - Removed the obsolete (and unmaintained) Windows "gldirect" and "ICD" |
| drivers. |
| - Removed the linux-fbdev software driver. |
| - Removed all remnants of paletted texture support. As required by |
| desktop OpenGL, ``GL_COLOR_INDEX`` data can still be uploaded to a |
| color (e.g., RGBA) texture. However, the data cannot be stored |
| internally as color-index. |
| - Removed support for GL_APPLE_client_storage extension. |
| - Removed the classic Mesa r300 and r600 drivers, which are superseded |
| by the gallium drivers for this hardware. |
| - Removed the dead Gallium i965, cell and failover drivers, which were |
| either broken and with nobody in sight to fix the situation or |
| deprecated. |