Mesa 7.0 Release Notes / June 22, 2007

Mesa 7.0 is a stable release, featuring OpenGL 2.1 API support. A number of bugs have been fixed since the 6.5.3 release.

MD5 checksums

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New features

• OpenGL 2.0 and 2.1 API support.

Bug fixes

• Fixed a few fog-related bugs.
• Fixed broken GLSL mix() function.
• Fixed broken GLSL exp() functions.
• Fixed GLSL mod4(vec4, vec4) bug.
• Implemented GLSL asin(), acos(), atan() functions.
• Fixed an R300 driver bug that caused Xorg composite manager to crash
• Fixed R300 vertex program/matrix bug (10848)
• GLSL dFdx() and dFdy() work for fragment program inputs now (texcoords)
• Specifying an invalid texture unit as a sampler could lead to a crash
• The GLX protocol request for glXDestroyPBuffer() was incorrect (bug 10983)
• ARB vp state.light[n].half value was incorrect (bug 10987)
• Fixed a positional light source bug (bug 11009)
• Fixed point size attenuation problem (bug 11042)
• glPopAttrib didn't restore texture object's LOD bias (bug 11049)
• Fixed a TLS / TEXTREL problem (bug 7459)

Internal code changes

• Some texture code consolidation and simplifiction (Ian Romanick)
• R300 driver clean-ups.

To Do (someday) items

• Switch to freeglut
• Fix linux-glide target/driver.
• Improved lambda and derivative calculation for frag progs.

Driver Status

Driver			Status
----------------------	----------------------
DRI drivers		varies with the driver
XMesa/GLX (on Xlib)	implements OpenGL 2.1
OSMesa (off-screen)	implements OpenGL 2.1
Windows/Win32		implements OpenGL 2.1
Glide (3dfx Voodoo1/2)	implements OpenGL 1.3
SVGA			unsupported
Wind River UGL		unsupported
DJGPP			unsupported
GGI			unsupported
BeOS			unsupported
Allegro			unsupported
D3D			unsupported