# Mesa 8.1 Release Notes / date TBD

Mesa 8.1 is a new development release.

Mesa 8.1 implements the OpenGL 3.0 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 3.0.

## MD5 checksums

    tbd

## New features

Note: some of the new features are only available with certain drivers.

- GL_ARB_base_instance extension
- GL_NV_read_buffer extension for ES 2.0
- GL_ARB_shader_bit_encoding
- GL_EXT_unpack_subimage for ES 2.0
- GL_EXT_read_format_bgra for ES 1.1 and 2.0
- GL_ARB_debug_output

## Bug fixes

TBD -- This list is likely incomplete.

## Changes

TBD