Mesa 7.6 Release Notes / date TBD

Mesa 7.6 is a new development release. People who are concerned with stability and reliability should stick with a previous release or wait for Mesa 7.6.1.

Mesa 7.6 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 hardware acceleration.

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New features

• OpenVG front-end (state tracker for Gallium). This was written by Zack Rusin at Tungsten Graphics.
• GL_APPLE_vertex_array_object for Gallium drivers and Intel DRI drivers.
• GL_ARB_copy_buffer extension (supported in Gallium and swrast drivers)
• Rewritten radeon/r200/r300 driver using a buffer manager
• radeon/r200/r300 GL_EXT_framebuffer_object support when used with kernel memory manager
• r300 driver support for GL_EXT_vertex_array_bgra, GL_EXT_texture_sRGB
• GL_ARB_map_buffer_range extension (supported in Gallium and software drivers)

Bug fixes

• i965 DRI driver fixes, including support for "unlimited" size constant buffers (GLSL uniforms)

Changes