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 <h1>News</h1>
 
+<h2>October 8, 2012</h2>
+
+<p>
+<a href="relnotes-9.0.html">Mesa 9.0</a> is released.
+This is the first version of Mesa to support OpenGL 3.1 and GLSL 1.40
+(with the i965 driver).
+See the release notes for more information about the release.
+</p>
+
+
 <h2>July 10, 2012</h2>
 
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