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  11 <H1>Mesa 7.8 Release Notes / March 28, 2010</H1>
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  14 Mesa 7.8 is a new development release.
  15 People who are concerned with stability and reliability should stick
  16 with a previous release or wait for Mesa 7.8.1.
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  19 Mesa 7.8 implements the OpenGL 2.1 API, but the version reported by
  20 glGetString(GL_VERSION) depends on the particular driver being used.
  21 Some drivers don't support all the features required in OpenGL 2.1.
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  24 See the <a href="install.html">Compiling/Installing page</a> for prerequisites
  25 for DRI hardware acceleration.
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  29 <h2>MD5 checksums</h2>
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  31 5fcfde5383eccb3e9fd665f08a0ea59b  MesaLib-7.8.tar.gz
  32 85cb891eecb89aae4fdd3499cccd934b  MesaLib-7.8.tar.bz2
  33 754f39593006effc1c8ec3c27c2f1296  MesaLib-7.8.zip
  34 c3869c29fa6c3dbdd763f7428d271e12  MesaDemos-7.8.tar.gz
  35 9fe8ec184c7f78691e43c4c0a7f97d56  MesaDemos-7.8.tar.bz2
  36 063a96947f7b83d4ad789c6cf291b184  MesaDemos-7.8.zip
  37 5f4246756b7daaddb4fb3f970cad1e28  MesaGLUT-7.8.tar.gz
  38 ca7048a4aa7a437dcc84cc2c7d731336  MesaGLUT-7.8.tar.bz2
  39 b54581aeb79b585b158d6a32f94feff2  MesaGLUT-7.8.zip
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  43 <h2>New features</h2>
  44 <ul>
  45 <li>GL_NV_conditional_render extension (swrast driver only)
  46 <li>GL_EXT_draw_buffers2 extension (swrast and i965 driver only)
  47 <li>GL_ARB_fragment_coord_conventions extension (for swrast, i965, and Gallium drivers)
  48 <li>GL_EXT_texture_array extension (swrast driver only)
  49 <li>GL_APPLE_object_purgeable extension (swrast and i945/i965 DRI drivers)
  50 <li>Much improved support for <a href="egl.html">EGL in Mesa</a>
  51 <li>New state trackers for <a href="opengles.html">OpenGL ES 1.1 and 2.0</a>
  52 <li>Dedicated documentation for Gallium
  53 </ul>
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  56 <h2>Bug fixes</h2>
  57 <ul>
  58 <li>Massive improvements to the Gallium driver for R300-R500 Radeons; this
  59     driver is now moderately stable but not terribly performant.
  60 </ul>
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  63 <h2>Changes</h2>
  64 <ul>
  65 <li>Removed support for color-index rendering</li>
  66 <li>Removed support for GCC versions earlier than 3.3.0.</li>
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