Mesa 7.1 Release Notes / August 26, 2008

Mesa 7.1 is a new development release. There have been many internal code changes since Mesa 7.0.x. It should be relatively stable, but those who are especially concerned about stability should wait for Mesa 7.2 or use Mesa 7.0.4 (the previous stable release).

Note that this version of Mesa does not use the GEM memory manager. The master branch of git uses GEM.

DRM version 2.3.1 should be used with Mesa 7.1

MD5 checksums

TBD

New features

autoconf-based configuration (and clean-up of Makefiles)
Assorted DRI driver enhancements
Reduced dependencies between X server and Mesa
GL_EXT_texture_from_pixmap extension for Xlib driver
Support for the GL shading language with i965 driver (implemented by Intel)

Bug fixes

Numerous GLSL fixes
Fixed some error code/detection bugs in the GLSL-related API functions
Lots of DRI driver fixes.

To Do (someday) items

Remove the MEMCPY() and _mesa_memcpy() wrappers and just use memcpy(). Probably do the same for malloc, calloc, etc. The wrappers were useful in the past for memory debugging but now we have valgrind. Not worried about SunOS 4 support anymore either...
Switch to freeglut
Fix linux-glide target/driver.
Improved lambda and derivative calculation for frag progs.

Driver Status

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