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@@ -1,17 +1,36 @@ -Release 2.8.0.901 (2.8.1 rc1 2009-08-13) -======================================== -We are pleased to announce this release candidate working toward the -2.8.1 maintenance release of the xf86-video-intel driver. This -snapshot contains a few, hand-picked fixes since the 2.8.0 release. +Release 2.8.0 (2009-08-25) +============================ +We are pleased to announce this 2.8.1 maintenance release of the +xf86-video-intel driver. This snapshot contains a few, hand-picked +fixes since the 2.8.0 release. Several of the bugs fixed can manifest +themselves as "random" crashing or hanging of the GPU, (so effectively +the interactive session). We recommend that all users/distributors of +2.8.0 upgrade to 2.8.1. New fixes in 2.8.1 compared to 2.8.0 ------------------------------------ +Bug numbers are relative to bugs.freedesktop.org unless otherwise +mentioned. + * Allow DRM mode setting to include transformations (also requires a fix in the X server---available in xserver 1.6.3) * Align tiled pixmap height so we don't address beyond the end of our buffers. +* Align the height of untiled pixmaps to 2 lines as well. + +* Replace existing EDID property blob with new one + +* Only align DRI2 tiled pixmaps to the DRI2 tiled pixmap alignment + requirement (fixes bug #21387). + +* Calculate the DVO relative offset in LVDS data entry to get the DVO + timing (fixes bug #22787 and Debian bug #538148). + +* Fix sampler indexes on i965 planar video, (fixes bugs #22895 and + #19856). + Release 2.8.0 (2009-07-20) ========================== We are pleased to present this major release of the xf86-video-intel |