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11 <H1>Mesa
7.8.3 Release Notes / (date tbd)
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14 Mesa
7.8.3 is a bug fix release which fixes bugs found since the
7.8.2 release.
17 Mesa
7.8.3 implements the OpenGL
2.1 API, but the version reported by
18 glGetString(GL_VERSION) depends on the particular driver being used.
19 Some drivers don't support all the features required in OpenGL
2.1.
22 See the
<a href=
"install.html">Compiling/Installing page
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23 for DRI hardware acceleration.
27 <h2>MD5 checksums
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29 x MesaLib-
7.8.3.tar.gz
30 x MesaLib-
7.8.3.tar.bz2
32 x MesaDemos-
7.8.3.tar.gz
33 x MesaDemos-
7.8.3.tar.bz2
35 x MesaGLUT-
7.8.3.tar.gz
36 x MesaGLUT-
7.8.3.tar.bz2
47 <li>The radeon driver should use less memory when searching for a valid mip
54 <li>Fix unsupported FB with D24S8 (bug
55 <a href=
"https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=23670">29116</a>)
</li>
56 <li>Fix ReadPixels crash when reading depth/stencil from an FBO
</li>
57 <li>Fixed a bug rendering to
16-bit buffers using swrast.
</li>
58 <li>Fixed a state tracker/TGSI bug that caused crashes when using Windows'
59 memory debugging features.
</li>
60 <li>Fixed an issue rendering to
32-bit channels with swrast (bug
61 <a href=
"https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=29487">29487</a>)
</li>
62 <li>GLSL: fix indirect
<TT>gl_TextureMatrix
</TT> addressing (bug
63 <a href=
"https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=28967">28967</a>)
</li>
65 <a href=
"https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=27216">27216</a></li>
66 <li>GLSL: fix zw fragcoord entries in some cases (bug
67 <a href=
"https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=29183">29183</a>)
</li>
68 <li>Fix texture env generation in some cases (bug
69 <a href=
"https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=28169">28169</a>)
</li>
70 <li>osmesa: a fix for calling
<TT>OSMesaMakeCurrent
</TT> twice was applied (bug
71 <a href=
"https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=10966">10966</a></li>
72 <li>A bug was fixed which could cause Mesa to ignore the
73 <TT>MESA_EXTENSION_OVERRIDE
</TT> environment variable.
</li>
74 <li>A bug related to specular highlights on backfaces was fixed.
</li>
75 <li>A radeon-specific issue with
<TT>glCopyTex(Sub)Image
</TT> was
77 <li>radeon/wine: flush command stream in more cases, fixing wine d3d9
79 <li>r600: fix sin+cos normalization.
</li>
80 <li>r600: (properly) ignore
<TT>GL_COORD_REPLACE
</TT> when point sprites are
82 <li>radeon: avoid flushing when the context is not current.
</li>
83 <li>r300c: a bug affecting unaligned BOs was fixed.
</li>
84 <li>r300c: a hardlock caused by ARB_half_float_vertex incorrectly advertised on some chipsets.
</li>