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  11 <H1>Mesa 6.5 Release Notes / March 31, 2006</H1>
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  14 Mesa 6.5 is a new development release.
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  18 <h2>MD5 checksums</h2>
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  20 657be3b92f6dabc78a67ed9cb8d67813  MesaLib-6.5.tar.gz
  21 61beda590bfc5b4a12e979d5f2d70d7a  MesaLib-6.5.tar.bz2
  22 19d48b872d579d4f91466060804a59ac  MesaLib-6.5.zip
  23 694ad3a7007010c7418a9c72d1cba5b7  MesaDemos-6.5.tar.gz
  24 ab95b590dcd640726a2d89e62068c66e  MesaDemos-6.5.tar.bz2
  25 b792c303fefd87294488e2b7eab976e5  MesaDemos-6.5.zip
  26 ac1d585483617db0c91e5c15cb5ec3a3  MesaGLUT-6.5.tar.gz
  27 59f0bf2b2ffb67fe23ee479f9b044f31  MesaGLUT-6.5.tar.bz2
  28 005decb2136718e22222ac1c4805cd15  MesaGLUT-6.5.zip
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  33 <h2>New Features</h2>
  34 <ul>
  35 <li>OpenGL Shading language support
  36 <br>
  37    This includes the GL_ARB_shader_objects, GL_ARB_shading_language_100,
  38    GL_ARB_vertex_shader and GL_ARB_fragment_shader extensions.  Most of
  39    the work was done by Michal Krol.
  40    There's probably a fair number of bugs since this is a pretty large,
  41    complicated body of code.
  42 <br>
  43    The OpenGL 2.0 interface to these features will be implemented in a
  44    future version of Mesa,
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  46 <li>GL_EXT_timer_query
  47 <br>
  48    Used to measure the time of OpenGL operations at high precision.
  49    Only supported in the software/Xlib driver at this time.
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  51 <li>GL_EXT_packed_depth_stencil
  52 <br>
  53    Defines a new GL_DEPTH_STENCIL_EXT pixel format.
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  55 <li>GL_EXT_framebuffer_blit
  56 <br>
  57    A simplified glCopyPixels-like feature for copying pixel rectangles.
  58
  59 <li>GL_ARB_half_float_pixel
  60 <br>
  61    Adds a new half-precision floating point format for image transfers,
  62    such as for glDrawPixels, glReadPixels, glTexImage, etc.
  63 </ul>
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  65 <h2>Changes</h2>
  66 <ul>
  67 <li>removed GL_HP_occlusion_test (use GL_ARB_occlusion_query instead)
  68 <li>removed GL_SGIX/SGIS_pixel_texture extensions
  69 </ul>
  70 <h2>Bug fixes</h2>
  71 <ul>
  72 <li>fixed glxcontextmodes.c datatype problem (bug 5835)
  73 <li>fixed aix-gcc build/install bugs (bug 5874)
  74 <li>fixed some bugs in texture env program generation
  75 <li>glXCopyContext() didn't handle texture object bindings properly
  76 <li>glXCopyContext() didn't copy all lighting state
  77 <li>fixed FreeBSD config (Pedro Giffuni)
  78 <li>fixed some minor framebuffer object bugs
  79 <li>replaced dprintf() with _glu_printf() in GLU (bug 6244)
  80 <li>fixed a number of thread safety bugs/regressions
  81 <li>fixed a number of GLU tesselator bugs (John Shell, bug 6339)
  82 <li>paletted texturing was broken w/ floating point palettes (K. Schultz)
  83 <li>lots of assorted framebuffer object bug fixes
  84 </ul>
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  87 <h2>Known Issues</h2>
  88 <ul>
  89 <li>Rendering to depth textures will not work.  Rendering to GL_DEPTH_STENCIL
  90 textures should work.
  91 </ul>
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  94 <h2>Driver Interface Changes</h2>
  95 <ul>
  96 <li>Stencil: The Driver.StencilOp/Func/Mask() functions have been replaced by
  97 the two-sided versions: Driver.Stencil*Separate().
  98 <li>Render-to-texture: The functions for rendering to textures have changed.
  99 </ul>
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 102 <h2>To Do (someday) items</h2>
 103 <ul>
 104 <li>Switch to freeglut
 105 <li>Increase MAX_DRAWBUFFERS
 106 <li>Fix linux-glide target/driver.
 107 <li>Fix lambda calculation for frag progs.
 108 </ul>
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 111 <h2>Driver Status</h2>
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 114 Driver                  Status
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 116 DRI drivers             varies with the driver
 117 XMesa/GLX (on Xlib)     implements OpenGL 1.5
 118 OSMesa (off-screen)     implements OpenGL 1.5
 119 Glide (3dfx Voodoo1/2)  implements OpenGL 1.3
 120 SVGA                    implements OpenGL 1.3
 121 Wind River UGL          implements OpenGL 1.3
 122 Windows/Win32           implements OpenGL 1.5
 123 DJGPP                   implements OpenGL 1.5
 124 GGI                     implements OpenGL 1.3
 125 BeOS                    implements OpenGL 1.5
 126 Allegro                 needs updating
 127 D3D                     needs updating
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