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@@ -1,3 +1,43 @@ +Release 2.11.0 (2010-03-29) +=========================== +New in 2.11: DRI2 and page flipping +----------------------------------- +The most significant new feature of this release is support for new +DRI2 APIs, allowing page flipping to occur for swaps that are +full-screen and not rotated. + +Performance improvements in 2.11 compared to 2.10 +------------------------------------------------- +Dramatically improved performance of large pixmaps on +memory-constrained hardware, (such as 945), by using tiling. +Note that this fix is new since the most recent release +candidate for this release (2.10.903). + + https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=25375 + +Elimination of software fallback with alpha-only pixmap (a fix which +eliminated a full second from the Moblin boot time): + + https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=26189 + +Notable bug fixes in 2.11 compared to 2.10 +------------------------------------------ +Fix for undesired black borders on some images, (caued several +problems with firefox): + + http://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=17933 + +And other fixes to provide more conformance with existing +software-rendering, (as measures by the cairo test suite), such as the +sampling location for nearest-neighbor sampling. + +Other changes +------------- +Eric Anholt and Daniel Vetter both removed large piles of old and +useless code now that the driver requires kernel modesetting +(KMS). This continues to reduce the mainteance burden of the driver, +making it easier to isolate and fix bugs. + Snapshot 2.10.903 (2010-03-22) ============================== Some notable bug fixes |