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diff --git a/docs/relnotes-7.5.html b/docs/relnotes-7.5.html index 3c822da863..663626cb05 100644 --- a/docs/relnotes-7.5.html +++ b/docs/relnotes-7.5.html @@ -13,7 +13,7 @@ <p> Mesa 7.5 is a new development release. People who are concerned with stability and reliability should stick -with the 7.4.x branch or wait for Mesa 7.6. +with the 7.4.x branch or wait for Mesa 7.5.1. </p> <p> The main new feature of Mesa 7.5 is the @@ -27,7 +27,14 @@ Some drivers don't support all the features required in OpenGL 2.1. </p> <p> See the <a href="install.html">Compiling/Installing page</a> for prerequisites -for DRI ardware acceleration. +for DRI hardware acceleration. +</p> +<p> +Note that the Mesa project is no longer using odd/even version numbers +to indicate development/stable releases. +The so-called development releases have been fairly stable. +If you're especially concerned with stability you should probably look for +"point" releases such as 7.5.1 which will be a bug-fix release. </p> @@ -39,7 +46,7 @@ tbd <h2>New features</h2> <ul> -<li>Gallium - this is the new architecture for OS-independent and +<li>Gallium3D - this is the new architecture for OS-independent and API-independent 3D drivers. Gallium3D is intended for GPUs that fully support vertex/fragment shaders. The Gallium3D drivers currently included are: @@ -47,8 +54,10 @@ tbd <li>softpipe - a software/reference driver <li>i915 - Intel 915/945 driver <li><a href="cell.html">Cell</a> - IBM/Sony/Toshiba Cell processor driver - <li>nouveau - preliminary driver for NVIDIA GPUs (still under development) - <li>r300 - preliminary driver for R300 (still under development) + <li>nouveau (for NVIDIA GPUs) and R300 for (AMD/ATI R300). + <b>PLEASE NOTE: these drivers are incomplete and still under development. + It's probably NOT worthwhile to report any bugs unless you have patches. + </b> </ul> <li>GL_ARB_framebuffer_object extension (software drivers, i965 driver) <li>Reworked two-sided stencil support. @@ -58,12 +67,14 @@ including GL_ATI_separate_stencil, GL_EXT_stencil_two_side and OpenGL 2.0 <li>GL_NV_texture_env_combine4 extension (software drivers, i965/i915 drivers) <li>GL_EXT_texture_swizzle extension (software drivers, i965 driver) <li>Updated SPARC assembly optimizations (David S. Miller) +<li>Initial support for separate compilation units in GLSL compiler. </ul> <h2>Bug fixes</h2> <ul> <li>Lots of i965 driver bug fixes +<li>Fixed some GLSL preprocessor bugs </ul> @@ -71,6 +82,7 @@ including GL_ATI_separate_stencil, GL_EXT_stencil_two_side and OpenGL 2.0 <ul> <li>Remove support for GL_SGIX_shadow, GL_SGIX_shadow_ambient and GL_SGIX_depth_texture extensions. Superseded by the ARB versions. +<li>Omitted some old Mesa demos from the release tarballs, added some others. </ul> </body> |