The Mesa 3D Graphics Library

Mesa 8.0 Release Notes / February 9, 2012

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 Compiling/Installing page for prerequisites

for DRI hardware acceleration.

MD5 checksums

3516fea6c28ce4a0fa9759e4894729a1  MesaLib-8.0.tar.gz

1a5668fe72651a670611164cefc703b2  MesaLib-8.0.tar.bz2

66f5a01a85530a91472a3acceb556db8  MesaLib-8.0.zip

New features

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

Bug fixes

Changes

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Removed the classic Mesa r300 and r600 drivers, which are superseded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.