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X11R6.8.2 Release Candidate 1 (RC1) of the X Window System
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X.Org Foundation Releases Maintaince Update
For X Window System Version X11R6.8.x
Brookline MA, December 17, 2004 - The X.Org Foundation today
announced the first release candidate (RC1) of the upcoming
X11R6.8.2 release for the X Window System, which contains
various updates for the X11R6.8.x release series of X11.
This release candidate is currently labeled "experimental" and
is only made available for testing and evaluation purposes.
* Notes for testers:
- Various drivers, modules and other infrastructure got
significant updates and need to be thoroughly tested by the
community, including:
- "radeon" video driver
- "nv" (nvidia) video driver
- ATI Rage128 video driver
- Postscript print driver
- Mesa (OpenGL) update to release 6.2
- libXpm security update (CAN-2004-0914)
... and many many other things...
- The full changelog for the X11R6.8.x stable branch can be
found under
URLﾘﾝｸ(cvs.freedesktop.org)