Mesa 7.5 Release Notes / date TBD

Mesa 7.5 is a new development release.

Mesa 7.5 implements the OpenGL 2.1 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 2.1.

See the Compiling/Installing page for prerequisites for DRI ardware acceleration.

MD5 checksums

tbd

New features

• GL_ARB_framebuffer_object extension (software drivers, i965 driver)
• Reworked two-sided stencil support. This allows a driver to support all three variations of two-sided stencil including GL_ATI_separate_stencil, GL_EXT_stencil_two_side and OpenGL 2.0
• GL_EXT_vertex_array_bgra extension (software drivers, i965 driver)
• GL_NV_texture_env_combine4 extension (software drivers, i965/i915 drivers)
• GL_EXT_texture_swizzle extension (software drivers, i965 driver)
• Updated SPARC assembly optimizations (David S. Miller)

Bug fixes

Changes

• Remove support for GL_SGIX_shadow, GL_SGIX_shadow_ambient and GL_SGIX_depth_texture extensions. Superseded by the ARB versions.