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 `Compiling/Installing page <../install.html>`__ 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-  Removed the classic Mesa r300 and r600 drivers, which are superseded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.