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Mesa 7.1 Release Notes / August 26, 2008
========================================

Mesa 7.1 is a new development release. There have been many internal
code changes since Mesa 7.0.x. It should be relatively stable, but those
who are especially concerned about stability should wait for Mesa 7.2 or
use Mesa 7.0.4 (the previous stable release).

Note that this version of Mesa does not use the GEM memory manager. The
master branch of git uses GEM.

DRM version 2.3.1 should be used with Mesa 7.1

MD5 checksums
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::

   971c2fe6e6949dc5ba200a6f97a6dc81  MesaLib-7.1.tar.gz
   6bff7f532d16f90f944a400c8bd7074d  MesaLib-7.1.tar.bz2
   d48224bf9d54c3da6776adb4869ba024  MesaLib-7.1.zip
   3de268420efca43e9a19ab506cdfc993  MesaDemos-7.1.tar.gz
   abfc9775e1462363af8ec160d1feb01f  MesaDemos-7.1.tar.bz2
   f7b3623387c4036e9895cd9ac0dfad99  MesaDemos-7.1.zip
   fdf348f78cd09304b6ff801ef8acc8eb  MesaGLUT-7.1.tar.gz
   f6d88a4eeb02e98c7e92f1c895d3c76b  MesaGLUT-7.1.tar.bz2
   4dc102a5ca51e1c41dde87d3f8c7b22a  MesaGLUT-7.1.zip

New features
------------

-  autoconf-based configuration (and clean-up of Makefiles)
-  Assorted DRI driver enhancements
-  Reduced dependencies between X server and Mesa
-  GL_EXT_texture_from_pixmap extension for Xlib driver
-  Support for the GL shading language with i965 driver (implemented by
   Intel)
-  ATI R500 series support (Radeon X1300–X1950) in r300 DRI driver

Bug fixes
---------

-  Numerous GLSL fixes
-  Fixed some error code/detection bugs in the GLSL-related API
   functions
-  Lots of DRI driver fixes.

To Do (someday) items
---------------------

-  Remove the MEMCPY() and \_mesa_memcpy() wrappers and just use
   memcpy(). Probably do the same for malloc, calloc, etc. The wrappers
   were useful in the past for memory debugging but now we have
   valgrind. Not worried about SunOS 4 support anymore either...
-  Switch to freeglut
-  Fix linux-glide target/driver.
-  Improved lambda and derivative calculation for frag progs.

Driver Status
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::

   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