[Mesa-dev] [ANNOUNCE] mesa 17.2.8

[Andres Gomez]

On Thu, 2018-01-18 at 15:14 +0000, Emil Velikov wrote:
> 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

Thanks for the references, I had already half baked the series that you
can review at:
https://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/mesa-dev/2018-January/182547.html

-- 
Br,

Andres