[Mesa3d-dev] Mesa 3.5 released

[Brian P. <br...@va...>]

Mesa 3.5 is now available for download at
http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=3

This is a development release (vs. a stable release) as indicated by the 
odd minor version number.  This basically means that Mesa 3.5 has a lot
of new features and changes and possibly a few new bugs.  Though, 3.5
testing has been very positive so far.

Mesa 3.5 has undergone a major source code reorganization.  It's now
more modularized and has a much cleaner interface for hardware
acceleration (for the DRI 3D drivers).  Keith Whitwell can be credited
with that.

Mesa 3.5 also has a lot of new extensions:

	- GL_EXT_convolution
	- GL_ARB_imaging
	- GL_ARB_texture_env_add
	- GL_EXT_fog_coord
	- GL_EXT_secondary_color
	- GL_ARB_texture_env_add
	- GL_ARB_texture_env_combine
	- GL_ARB_texture_env_dot3
	- GL_ARB_texture_border_clamp (aka GL_SGIS_texture_border_clamp)
	- GL_SGIX_depth_texture
	- GL_SGIX_shadow and GL_SGIX_shadow_ambient
	- GL_SGIS_generate_mipmap

Other features include:

	- support for eight texture units
	- SGI's GLU 1.3 library
	- new, conformant AA line algorithm
	- SPARC assembly language optimization, by David Miller
	- assorted performance improvements
	- 16-bit/channel (64-bit pixels) rendering option in OSMesa
	- assorted bug fixes
	- new demo programs

One problem with Mesa 3.5 is the fact that a number of the device drivers
haven't been updated.  This includes the DOS and Windows drivers.  We're
hoping someone will volunteer to do that work.

See the docs/RELNOTES-3.5 and docs/VERSIONS files for more details.

Please report any problem you find to the Mesa bug database.

-Brian