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.
MD5 checksums
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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_vertex_array_object for Gallium drivers, software drivers and
Intel DRI drivers.
- GL_ARB_copy_buffer extension (supported in Gallium and swrast drivers)
- GL_ARB_map_buffer_range extension (supported in Gallium and software drivers)
- GL_EXT_provoking_vertex extension (supported in Gallium and software 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
Bug fixes
- i965 DRI driver fixes, including support for "unlimited" size constant
buffers (GLSL uniforms)
Changes