1Mesa 7.7 Release Notes / 21 December 2009
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4Mesa 7.7 is a new development release. People who are concerned with
5stability and reliability should stick with a previous release or wait
6for Mesa 7.7.1.
7
8Mesa 7.7 implements the OpenGL 2.1 API, but the version reported by
9glGetString(GL_VERSION) depends on the particular driver being used.
10Some drivers don't support all the features required in OpenGL 2.1.
11
12See the :doc:`Compiling/Installing page <../install>` for
13prerequisites for DRI hardware acceleration.
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15MD5 checksums
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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
30New features
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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
44Bug fixes
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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.
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51Changes
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54-  New Mesa texture/surface format infrastructure
55-  Removed some unused Mesa device driver hooks
56