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<p>
Mesa 7.5 is a new development release.
+People who are concerned with stability and reliability should stick
+with the 7.4.x branch or wait for Mesa 7.6.
+</p>
+<p>
+The main new feature of Mesa 7.5 is the
+<a href="http://www.tungstengraphics.com/wiki/index.php/Gallium3D"
+target="_parent">Gallium3D</a> infrastructure.
</p>
<p>
Mesa 7.5 implements the OpenGL 2.1 API, but the version reported by
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<h2>New features</h2>
<ul>
+<li>Gallium - this is the new architecture for OS-independent and
+ API-independent 3D drivers.
+ Gallium3D is intended for GPUs that fully support vertex/fragment shaders.
+ The Gallium3D drivers currently included are:
+ <ul>
+ <li>softpipe - a software/reference driver
+ <li>i915 - Intel 915/945 driver
+ <li><a href="cell.html">Cell</a> - IBM/Sony/Toshiba Cell processor driver
+ <li>nouveau - preliminary driver for NVIDIA GPUs (still under development)
+ <li>r300 - preliminary driver for R300 (still under development)
+ </ul>
<li>GL_ARB_framebuffer_object extension (software drivers, i965 driver)
<li>Reworked two-sided stencil support.
This allows a driver to support all three variations of two-sided stencil
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<h2>Bug fixes</h2>
<ul>
+<li>Lots of i965 driver bug fixes
</ul>
+
<h2>Changes</h2>
<ul>
<li>Remove support for GL_SGIX_shadow, GL_SGIX_shadow_ambient and