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diff --git a/docs/relnotes/6.5.2.rst b/docs/relnotes/6.5.2.rst new file mode 100644 index 00000000000..35a0d341b79 --- /dev/null +++ b/docs/relnotes/6.5.2.rst @@ -0,0 +1,112 @@ +Mesa 6.5.2 Release Notes / December 2, 2006 +=========================================== + +Mesa 6.5.2 is a 6.5 follow-on development release with a few new +features but mostly consisting of bug fixes. + +MD5 checksums +------------- + +:: + + 11a033b078e090b3caaeb467234fe299 MesaLib-6.5.2.tar.gz + e4d894181f1859651658b3704633e10d MesaLib-6.5.2.tar.bz2 + 63bf1d444fa738cca52ce1043e284021 MesaLib-6.5.2.zip + 2b8f1375d16bda5f5a2304174cd5bcf7 MesaDemos-6.5.2.tar.gz + e870efe98d3a50be01ab211b9b2e25d9 MesaDemos-6.5.2.tar.bz2 + d92cc6f5fee5ca75af0be04f9f4908f0 MesaDemos-6.5.2.zip + 8d4d77e3a7132f4217bbc7c1ab157030 MesaGLUT-6.5.2.tar.gz + e84edbb11c69c8e408dfadd2ed08e95b MesaGLUT-6.5.2.tar.bz2 + c6d7134843ed5faf11f6686ecb5d2a2e MesaGLUT-6.5.2.zip + +New features +------------ + +- New DRI memory manager system. Currently used by the i915tex driver. + Other DRI drivers will be updated to use the new memory manager in + coming months. + + To use the new driver you'll need the most recent DRM library and + drivers (version 2.2 or later) and a recent xf86-video-intel driver + module from X.org. + + New features resulting from this work include: + + - EXT_framebuffer_objects, render to texture + - ARB_pixel_buffer_objects + - Accelerated CopyTexSubimage, DrawPixels, ReadPixels, CopyPixels + - Accelerated texture uploads from pixel buffer objects + - Potentially texturing directly from the pixel buffer object (zero + copy texturing). + +- New Intel i965 DRI driver +- New ``minstall`` script to replace normal install program +- Faster fragment program execution in software +- Added (or fixed) support for + `GLX_SGI_make_current_read <https://www.khronos.org/registry/OpenGL/extensions/SGI/GLX_SGI_make_current_read.txt>`__ + to the following drivers: + + - radeon + - savage + - mga + - tdfx + +- Added support for ARB_occlusion_query to the tdfx driver (Ian + Romanick). + +Bug fixes +--------- + +- fixed invalid memory read while rendering textured points (bug 8320) +- fixed problems with freebsd-dri configuration (bug 8344) +- Mesa's fake glxGetCurrentContext() wasn't thread-aware +- OPTION NV_position_invariant didn't work in NV vertex programs +- glDrawPixels into a user-created framebuffer object could crash Xlib + driver +- Line clipping was broken in some circumstances +- fragment.fogcoord register didn't always contain the correct value +- RGBA logicops didn't work reliably in some DRI drivers +- Fixed broken RGBA LogicOps in Intel DRI drivers +- Fixed some fragment program bugs in Intel i915 DRI driver +- Fixed glGetVertexAttribfvARB bug 8883 +- Implemented glGetUniform[fi]vARB() functions +- Fixed glDrawPixels(GL_COLOR_INDEX, GL_BITMAP) segfault (bug 9044) +- Fixed some gluBuild2DMipmaps() bugs (Greg McGarragh) +- Fixed broken "mgl" name mangling +- Indirect rending was broken for glMap\* functions (bug 8899) + +Internal code changes +--------------------- + +- The device driver functions ResizeBuffers and GetBufferSize have been + decprecated. +- OpenGL 2.0 and 2.1 support is nearly done. We need to do quite a bit + more testing of the shading language functions. + +To Do (someday) items +--------------------- + +- Switch to freeglut +- Increase MAX_DRAWBUFFERS +- 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 1.5 + OSMesa (off-screen) implements OpenGL 1.5 + Glide (3dfx Voodoo1/2) implements OpenGL 1.3 + SVGA implements OpenGL 1.3 + Wind River UGL implements OpenGL 1.3 + Windows/Win32 implements OpenGL 1.5 + DJGPP implements OpenGL 1.5 + GGI implements OpenGL 1.3 + BeOS implements OpenGL 1.5 + Allegro needs updating + D3D needs updating |