1Mesa 8.0 Release Notes / February 9, 2012 2========================================= 3 4Mesa 8.0 is a new development release. People who are concerned with 5stability and reliability should stick with a previous release or wait 6for Mesa 8.0.1. 7 8Mesa 8.0 implements the OpenGL 3.0 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 3.0. 11 12See the :doc:`Compiling/Installing page <../install>` for 13prerequisites for DRI hardware acceleration. 14 15MD5 checksums 16------------- 17 18:: 19 20 3516fea6c28ce4a0fa9759e4894729a1 MesaLib-8.0.tar.gz 21 1a5668fe72651a670611164cefc703b2 MesaLib-8.0.tar.bz2 22 66f5a01a85530a91472a3acceb556db8 MesaLib-8.0.zip 23 24New features 25------------ 26 27- GL_ARB_ES2_compatibility (r300g, r600g) 28- GL_ARB_depth_buffer_float (r600g) 29- GL_ARB_vertex_type_2_10_10_10_rev (r600g) 30- GL_ARB_texture_storage (gallium drivers and swrast) 31- GL_EXT_packed_float (i965) 32- GL_EXT_texture_array (r600g, i965) 33- GL_EXT_texture_shared_exponent (i965) 34- GL_NV_fog_distance (all gallium drivers, nouveau classic) 35- GL_NV_primitive_restart (r600g) 36- GL_OES_EGL_image_external (gallium drivers) 37- GL_OES_compressed_ETC1_RGB8_texture (softpipe, llvmpipe) 38- ARB_texture_rgb10_a2ui (softpipe, r600g) 39- Many updates to the VMware svga Gallium driver 40 41Bug fixes 42--------- 43 44Changes 45------- 46 47- Removed all DRI drivers that did not support DRI2. Specifically, 48 i810, mach64, mga, r128, savage, sis, tdfx, and unichrome were 49 removed. 50- Removed support for BeOS. 51- Removed the obsolete (and unmaintained) Windows "gldirect" and "ICD" 52 drivers. 53- Removed the linux-fbdev software driver. 54- Removed all remnants of paletted texture support. As required by 55 desktop OpenGL, ``GL_COLOR_INDEX`` data can still be uploaded to a 56 color (e.g., RGBA) texture. However, the data cannot be stored 57 internally as color-index. 58- Removed support for GL_APPLE_client_storage extension. 59- Removed the classic Mesa r300 and r600 drivers, which are superseded 60 by the gallium drivers for this hardware. 61- Removed the dead Gallium i965, cell and failover drivers, which were 62 either broken and with nobody in sight to fix the situation or 63 deprecated. 64