[Mesa-dev] [ANNOUNCE] mesa 17.2.8

[Emil Velikov]

On 18 January 2018 at 13:43, Andres Gomez <agomez at igalia.com> wrote:
> On Thu, 2018-01-18 at 09:56 +0100, Juan A. Suarez Romero wrote:
>> On Wed, 2018-01-17 at 18:03 +0000, Emil Velikov wrote:
>> > On 22 December 2017 at 23:05, Andres Gomez <agomez at igalia.com> wrote:
>> > > Mesa 17.2.8 is now available.
>> > >
>> > > In this release we have:
>> > >
>> > > The SPIR-V compiler has seen corrected a possible SEGFAULT.
>> > >
>> > > The Intel i965 driver includes a correction for Haswell involving
>> > > doubles management.
>> > >
>> > > The AMD drivers have also received some fixes. A couple have gone for
>> > > radv and radeon's VCE while r600 has seen corrected some glitches
>> > > detected with This War of Mine.
>> > >
>> > > Gallium has also received a patch fixing a problem affecting the VMware
>> > > driver and the st/nine state tracker.
>> > >
>> > > The endianness detection in Windows platform has been corrected to
>> > > default to little endian.
>> > >
>> > > Finally, the X11 driver has been improved to notify properly a mesa
>> > > warning rather than using fprintf.
>> > >
>> >
>> > Hi everyone,
>> >
>> > Just noticed that this should have been the final 17.2.x release yet
>> > we missed that in the announcement.
>> > Should we make another one, or simply document that in the website
>> > alongside a notice on mesa-announce?
>> >
>>
>> I would just send a notice telling this was the last release of the
>> series, as stated in our release calendar, and that we forgot to
>> include it in the announcement.
>
> Oooops! Yeah, sorry about not mentioning explicitly in the ANNOUNCE
> mail and not adding a Note in the documentation. I assumed that the
> release calendar was enough information.
>
> I would do as Juan says and, also, update the documentation, including
> a note in the releasing instructions so we don't oversee this next
> time.
>
It sounds reasonable.
Thanks for pointing out the gap in the documentation. Here is a
reference to the NOTE we've used

https://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/mesa-announce/2017-June/000332.html
https://cgit.freedesktop.org/mesa/mesa/commit/?id=72011f7a7bb3e9e45a067506555930792bf27889

-Emil