Mesa 7.9 Release Notes / date TBD

Mesa 7.9 is a new development release. People who are concerned with stability and reliability should stick with a previous release or wait for Mesa 7.9.1.

Mesa 7.9 implements the OpenGL 2.1 API, but the version reported by glGetString(GL_VERSION) depends on the particular driver being used. Some drivers don't support all the features required in OpenGL 2.1.

See the Compiling/Installing page for prerequisites for DRI hardware acceleration.

MD5 checksums

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New features

• New, improved GLSL compiler written by Intel. See the Shading Language page for more information.
• New, very experimental Gallium driver for R600-R700 Radeons.
• GL_EXT_timer_query extension (i965 driver and softpipe only)
• GL_EXT_framebuffer_multisample extension (intel drivers, MAX_SAMPLES = 1)
• GL_ARB_texture_swizzle extension (alias of GL_EXT_texture_swizzle)
• GL_ARB_draw_elements_base_vertex, GL_ARB_fragment_program_shadow, GL_ARB_window_pos, GL_EXT_gpu_program_parameters, GL_ATI_texture_env_combine3, GL_MESA_pack_invert, and GL_OES_EGL_image extensions in Gallium drivers
• GL_ARB_depth_clamp and GL_NV_depth_clamp extensions (in nv50 and r600 Gallium drivers)
• GL_ARB_half_float_vertex extension (in nvfx, r300, r600, softpipe, and llvmpipe Gallium drivers)
• GL_EXT_draw_buffers2 (in nv50, r600, softpipe, and llvmpipe Gallium drivers)
• GL_EXT_texture_swizzle (in nvfx, r300, r600, softpipe, and llvmpipe Gallium drivers)
• GL_ATI_texture_mirror_once (in nvfx, nv50, r300, r600, softpipe, and llvmpipe Gallium drivers)
• GL_NV_conditional_render (in r300 Gallium driver)

Bug fixes

• Massive improvements to the Gallium driver for R300-R500 Radeons; this driver is now considered stable for use as a DRI (OpenGL) driver.

Changes

• The Mesa demo/test programs have been moved into a separate git repository.
• GL/glext.h file upgraded to version 64
• GL/glxext.h file upgraded to version 32
• GL/wglext.h file upgraded to version 22