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17<h1>Mesa 8.0 Release Notes / February 9, 2012</h1>
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20Mesa 8.0 is a new development release.
21People who are concerned with stability and reliability should stick
22with a previous release or wait for Mesa 8.0.1.
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25Mesa 8.0 implements the OpenGL 3.0 API, but the version reported by
26glGetString(GL_VERSION) depends on the particular driver being used.
27Some drivers don't support all the features required in OpenGL 3.0.
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30See the <a href="../install.html">Compiling/Installing page</a> for prerequisites
31for DRI hardware acceleration.
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373516fea6c28ce4a0fa9759e4894729a1  MesaLib-8.0.tar.gz
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3966f5a01a85530a91472a3acceb556db8  MesaLib-8.0.zip
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43<h2>New features</h2>
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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
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61<h2>Bug fixes</h2>
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64<h2>Changes</h2>
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66<li>Removed all DRI drivers that did not support DRI2.  Specifically,
67  i810, mach64, mga, r128, savage, sis, tdfx, and unichrome were
68  removed.</li>
69<li>Removed support for BeOS.</li>
70<li>Removed the obsolete (and unmaintained) Windows "gldirect" and
71  "ICD" drivers.</li>
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
82  deprecated.</li>
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