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  11 <H1>Mesa 7.1 Release Notes / August 26, 2008</H1>
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  14 Mesa 7.1 is a new development release.
  15 There have been many internal code changes since Mesa 7.0.x.
  16 It should be relatively stable, but those who are especially concerned about
  17 stability should wait for Mesa 7.2 or use Mesa 7.0.4 (the previous stable
  18 release).
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  21 Note that this version of Mesa does not use the GEM memory manager.
  22 The master branch of git uses GEM.
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  25 DRM version 2.3.1 should be used with Mesa 7.1
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  31 971c2fe6e6949dc5ba200a6f97a6dc81  MesaLib-7.1.tar.gz
  32 6bff7f532d16f90f944a400c8bd7074d  MesaLib-7.1.tar.bz2
  33 d48224bf9d54c3da6776adb4869ba024  MesaLib-7.1.zip
  34 3de268420efca43e9a19ab506cdfc993  MesaDemos-7.1.tar.gz
  35 abfc9775e1462363af8ec160d1feb01f  MesaDemos-7.1.tar.bz2
  36 f7b3623387c4036e9895cd9ac0dfad99  MesaDemos-7.1.zip
  37 fdf348f78cd09304b6ff801ef8acc8eb  MesaGLUT-7.1.tar.gz
  38 f6d88a4eeb02e98c7e92f1c895d3c76b  MesaGLUT-7.1.tar.bz2
  39 4dc102a5ca51e1c41dde87d3f8c7b22a  MesaGLUT-7.1.zip
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  43 <h2>New features</h2>
  44 <ul>
  45 <li>autoconf-based configuration (and clean-up of Makefiles)
  46 <li>Assorted DRI driver enhancements
  47 <li>Reduced dependencies between X server and Mesa
  48 <li>GL_EXT_texture_from_pixmap extension for Xlib driver
  49 <li>Support for the GL shading language with i965 driver (implemented by Intel)
  50 <li>ATI R500 series support (Radeon X1300&#8211;X1950) in r300 DRI driver
  51 </ul>
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  54 <h2>Bug fixes</h2>
  55 <ul>
  56 <li>Numerous GLSL fixes
  57 <li>Fixed some error code/detection bugs in the GLSL-related API functions
  58 <li>Lots of DRI driver fixes.
  59 </ul>
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  62 <h2>To Do (someday) items</h2>
  63 <ul>
  64 <li>Remove the MEMCPY() and _mesa_memcpy() wrappers and just use memcpy().
  65 Probably do the same for malloc, calloc, etc.
  66 The wrappers were useful in the past for memory debugging but now we
  67 have valgrind.  Not worried about SunOS 4 support anymore either...
  68 <li>Switch to freeglut
  69 <li>Fix linux-glide target/driver.
  70 <li>Improved lambda and derivative calculation for frag progs.
  71 </ul>
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  74 <h2>Driver Status</h2>
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  77 Driver                  Status
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  79 DRI drivers             varies with the driver
  80 XMesa/GLX (on Xlib)     implements OpenGL 2.1
  81 OSMesa (off-screen)     implements OpenGL 2.1
  82 Windows/Win32           implements OpenGL 2.1
  83 Glide (3dfx Voodoo1/2)  implements OpenGL 1.3
  84 SVGA                    unsupported
  85 Wind River UGL          unsupported
  86 DJGPP                   unsupported
  87 GGI                     unsupported
  88 BeOS                    unsupported
  89 Allegro                 unsupported
  90 D3D                     unsupported
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