24.2.0-rc1

Preview Mesa3D 24.2.0-rc1 per #196 request. Only MSVC build is provided, but MinGW build was also tested.

Known issues

• lp_test_arit unit test failed to build with MSVC;
• d3d10umd failed to build with MSVC.

Feedback info

• Windows 7 / Server 2008 R2 support remained in place for the time being as this poll results were 63% in favor of keeping support at release time.

Build script

• Prepare for gallium OpenGL swrast alias removal;
• Mesa3D now requires YAML parsing in Python [24.2+];

Distribution

• packager: Include debug libraries in MinGW debug binary package.