Mesa 8.0 Release Notes / February 9, 2012
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Mesa 8.0 is a new development release. People who are concerned with
stability and reliability should stick with a previous release or wait
for Mesa 8.0.1.

Mesa 8.0 implements the OpenGL 3.0 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 3.0.

See the :doc:`Compiling/Installing page <../install>` for
prerequisites for DRI hardware acceleration.

MD5 checksums
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   3516fea6c28ce4a0fa9759e4894729a1  MesaLib-8.0.tar.gz
   1a5668fe72651a670611164cefc703b2  MesaLib-8.0.tar.bz2
   66f5a01a85530a91472a3acceb556db8  MesaLib-8.0.zip

New features
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-  GL_ARB_ES2_compatibility (r300g, r600g)
-  GL_ARB_depth_buffer_float (r600g)
-  GL_ARB_vertex_type_2_10_10_10_rev (r600g)
-  GL_ARB_texture_storage (gallium drivers and swrast)
-  GL_EXT_packed_float (i965)
-  GL_EXT_texture_array (r600g, i965)
-  GL_EXT_texture_shared_exponent (i965)
-  GL_NV_fog_distance (all gallium drivers, nouveau classic)
-  GL_NV_primitive_restart (r600g)
-  GL_OES_EGL_image_external (gallium drivers)
-  GL_OES_compressed_ETC1_RGB8_texture (softpipe, llvmpipe)
-  ARB_texture_rgb10_a2ui (softpipe, r600g)
-  Many updates to the VMware svga Gallium driver

Bug fixes
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Changes
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-  Removed all DRI drivers that did not support DRI2. Specifically,
   i810, mach64, mga, r128, savage, sis, tdfx, and unichrome were
   removed.
-  Removed support for BeOS.
-  Removed the obsolete (and unmaintained) Windows "gldirect" and "ICD"
   drivers.
-  Removed the linux-fbdev software driver.
-  Removed all remnants of paletted texture support. As required by
   desktop OpenGL, ``GL_COLOR_INDEX`` data can still be uploaded to a
   color (e.g., RGBA) texture. However, the data cannot be stored
   internally as color-index.
-  Removed support for GL_APPLE_client_storage extension.
-  Removed the classic Mesa r300 and r600 drivers, which are superseded
   by the gallium drivers for this hardware.
-  Removed the dead Gallium i965, cell and failover drivers, which were
   either broken and with nobody in sight to fix the situation or
   deprecated.