1Mesa 8.0 Release Notes / February 9, 2012
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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.
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15MD5 checksums
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20   3516fea6c28ce4a0fa9759e4894729a1  MesaLib-8.0.tar.gz
21   1a5668fe72651a670611164cefc703b2  MesaLib-8.0.tar.bz2
22   66f5a01a85530a91472a3acceb556db8  MesaLib-8.0.zip
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24New features
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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
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43
44Changes
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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59-  Removed the classic Mesa r300 and r600 drivers, which are superseded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.
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