* [devel] [Fwd: [ANN] X11R6.8.2 Release Candidate 2 is out!]
@ 2005-01-13 10:57 Anton Farygin
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From: Roland Mainz <roland.mainz@nrubsig.org>
To: Xorg mailinglist <xorg@freedesktop.org>, Xorg Release Wranglers <release-wranglers@freedesktop.org>
Subject: [ANN] X11R6.8.2 Release Candidate 2 is out!
Date: Thu, 13 Jan 2005 11:27:43 +0100
Message-ID: <41E64D1F.C5B2E412@nrubsig.org>
X11R6.8.2 Release Candidate 2 (RC2) of the X Window System
========================================================
X.Org Foundation Releases Maintaince Update
For X Window System Version X11R6.8.x
The second release candidate for X11R6.8.2 is ready for testing. The
upcoming X11R6.8.2 release is intended to be a stable bug fix release
and we would very much appreciate your help to build and test this
release candidate. Please report any problems you find in Xorg's
bugzilla (https://bugs.freedesktop.org/enter_bug.cgi?product=xorg).
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
- "neomagic" 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
http://cvs.freedesktop.org/xorg/xc/ChangeLog?only_with_tag=XORG-6_8-branch&view=log
- The X11R6.8.2 RC2 source code can be obtained as follows:
- Source tarball is available from
https://xorg.freedesktop.org/~gisburn/X11R682/download/X11R682RC2/xorg-x11-6.8.1.902.tar.bz2
md5 checksum for "xorg-x11-6.8.1.902.tar.bz2" is
70ac870d6e531cfcd239400eca6bd6e6
- Anonymous CVS:
% export CVSROOT=:pserver:anoncvs@cvs.freedesktop.org:/cvs/xorg
% cvs -z6 checkout -r XORG-6_8_1_902 xc
- For people with SSH access to the CVS repository:
% export CVSROOT=:ext:foobar@cvs.freedesktop.org:/cvs/xorg
% export CVS_RSH=ssh
% cvs -z6 checkout -r XORG-6_8_1_902 xc
- Next step is to get the RC3 out after the remaining patches in the
approval queue (see
https://bugs.freedesktop.org/request.cgi?action=queue&requester=&product=&type=approval_X11R6.8.x&requestee=&component=&group=category)
have been approved in this friday's Xorg release wranglers phone call.
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