# The Mesa 3D Graphics Library

# Mesa 7.3 Release Notes / 22 January 2009

Mesa 7.3 is a new development release. Users especially concerned with stability should stick with latest stable release: version 7.2.

Mesa 7.3 implements the OpenGL 2.1 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 2.1.

See the Compiling/Installing page for prerequisites for DRI hardware acceleration.

## MD5 checksums

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    3ccba9a1734ed6d4b3389e1535d90fbf  MesaLib-7.3.zip
    d312e974b31043b13b61bac5fbf00b87  MesaDemos-7.3.tar.gz
    3f0741394069bdf2329565a387396cda  MesaDemos-7.3.tar.bz2
    4d0887fd4c66a824295cdd619f6d34cb  MesaDemos-7.3.zip
    2d7661b66022bcb8878728f3d5bd33ab  MesaGLUT-7.3.tar.gz
    abe8036a724c1a483bdad6b5a55ddc1a  MesaGLUT-7.3.tar.bz2
    5f247819b47e2a7c62d07a6afe5262fb  MesaGLUT-7.3.zip

## New features

- Support for GLSL 1.20
- Intel DRI drivers now use GEM and DRI2

## Bug fixes

- Assorted GLSL bug fixes
- Assorted i965 driver fixes
- Fix for wglCreateLayerContext() in WGL/Windows driver
- Build fixes for OpenBSD and gcc 2.95
- GLSL preprocessor handles #pragma now
- Fix incorrect transformation of GL_SPOT_DIRECTION
- Fixed several bugs (#18367 and #19625) in glXMakeContextCurrent()
- Assorted Windows build fixes

## Changes

- Deprecated the "XMesa" interface (include/GL/xmesa*.h files)
- Deprecated the "FXMesa" interface (include/GL/fxmesa.h file)
- Deprecated the "Allegro" interface (include/GL/amesa.h file)
- Removed include/GL/uglmesa.h header
- Removed include/GLView.h header for BeOS

## 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