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 <H1>News</H1>
 
 
+<h2>February 9, 2012</h2>
+
+<p>
+<a href="relnotes-8.0.html">Mesa 8.0</a> is released.
+This is the first version of Mesa to support OpenGL 3.0 and GLSL 1.30
+(with the i965 driver).
+See the release notes for more information about the release.
+</p>
+
+
 <h2>November 27, 2011</h2>
 
 <p>