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+<TITLE>Mesa Release Notes</TITLE>
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+<H1>Mesa 7.1 Release Notes / (<em>in progress</em>)</H1>
+
+<p>
+Mesa 7.1 is a new development release.
+</p>
+
+
+<h2>MD5 checksums</h2>
+<pre>
+TBD
+</pre>
+
+
+<h2>New features</h2>
+<ul>
+</ul>
+
+
+<h2>Bug fixes</h2>
+<ul>
+</ul>
+
+
+<h2>Internal code changes</h2>
+<ul>
+</ul>
+
+
+<h2>To Do (someday) items</h2>
+<ul>
+<li>Switch to freeglut
+<li>Fix linux-glide target/driver.
+<li>Improved lambda and derivative calculation for frag progs.
+</ul>
+
+
+<h2>Driver Status</h2>
+
+<pre>
+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
+</pre>
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+</body>
+</html>
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 <UL>
+<LI><A HREF="relnotes-7.1.html">7.1 release notes</A>
 <LI><A HREF="relnotes-7.0.html">7.0 release notes</A>
 <LI><A HREF="relnotes-6.5.3.html">6.5.3 release notes</A>
 <LI><A HREF="relnotes-6.5.2.html">6.5.2 release notes</A>
