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11 <h1>The Mesa 3D Graphics Library</h1>
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17 <h1>Mesa 8.0 Release Notes / February 9, 2012</h1>
20 Mesa 8.0 is a new development release.
21 People who are concerned with stability and reliability should stick
22 with a previous release or wait for Mesa 8.0.1.
25 Mesa 8.0 implements the OpenGL 3.0 API, but the version reported by
26 glGetString(GL_VERSION) depends on the particular driver being used.
27 Some drivers don't support all the features required in OpenGL 3.0.
30 See the <a href="../install.html">Compiling/Installing page</a> for prerequisites
31 for DRI hardware acceleration.
35 <h2>MD5 checksums</h2>
37 3516fea6c28ce4a0fa9759e4894729a1 MesaLib-8.0.tar.gz
38 1a5668fe72651a670611164cefc703b2 MesaLib-8.0.tar.bz2
39 66f5a01a85530a91472a3acceb556db8 MesaLib-8.0.zip
45 <li>GL_ARB_ES2_compatibility (r300g, r600g)
46 <li>GL_ARB_depth_buffer_float (r600g)
47 <li>GL_ARB_vertex_type_2_10_10_10_rev (r600g)
48 <li>GL_ARB_texture_storage (gallium drivers and swrast)
49 <li>GL_EXT_packed_float (i965)
50 <li>GL_EXT_texture_array (r600g, i965)
51 <li>GL_EXT_texture_shared_exponent (i965)
52 <li>GL_NV_fog_distance (all gallium drivers, nouveau classic)
53 <li>GL_NV_primitive_restart (r600g)
54 <li>GL_OES_EGL_image_external (gallium drivers)
55 <li>GL_OES_compressed_ETC1_RGB8_texture (softpipe, llvmpipe)
56 <li>ARB_texture_rgb10_a2ui (softpipe, r600g)
57 <li>Many updates to the VMware svga Gallium driver
66 <li>Removed all DRI drivers that did not support DRI2. Specifically,
67 i810, mach64, mga, r128, savage, sis, tdfx, and unichrome were
69 <li>Removed support for BeOS.</li>
70 <li>Removed the obsolete (and unmaintained) Windows "gldirect" and
72 <li>Removed the linux-fbdev software driver.</li>
73 <li>Removed all remnants of paletted texture support. As required by
74 desktop OpenGL, <tt>GL_COLOR_INDEX</tt> data can still be uploaded
75 to a color (e.g., RGBA) texture. However, the data cannot be stored
76 internally as color-index.</li>
77 <li>Removed support for GL_APPLE_client_storage extension.</li>
78 <li>Removed the classic Mesa r300 and r600 drivers, which are superseded
79 by the gallium drivers for this hardware.</li>
80 <li>Removed the dead Gallium i965, cell and failover drivers, which were
81 either broken and with nobody in sight to fix the situation or