From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Message-ID: <41C67C6B.5010606@altlinux.com> Date: Mon, 20 Dec 2004 10:16:59 +0300 From: Anton Farygin User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 0.6 (X11/20040511) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: devel@altlinux.com Content-Type: multipart/mixed; boundary="------------020803090202030601030002" Cc: Subject: [devel] [Fwd: [ANN] X11R6.8.2 Release Candidate 1 is out!] X-BeenThere: devel@altlinux.ru X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list Reply-To: ALT Devel discussion list List-Id: ALT Devel discussion list List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 20 Dec 2004 07:18:16 -0000 Archived-At: List-Archive: List-Post: This is a multi-part message in MIME format. --------------020803090202030601030002 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit FYI. --------------020803090202030601030002 Content-Type: message/rfc822; name="[ANN] X11R6.8.2 Release Candidate 1 is out!" 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Return-Path: X-Original-To: rider@altlinux.com Delivered-To: rider@master.altlinux.ru Received: from gabe.freedesktop.org (freedesktop.org [131.252.208.82]) by master.altlinux.ru (Postfix) with ESMTP id B98DBE46E8 for ; Sun, 19 Dec 2004 05:34:31 +0300 (MSK) Received: from gabe.freedesktop.org (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by gabe.freedesktop.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 679339E93E; Sat, 18 Dec 2004 18:34:27 -0800 (PST) X-Original-To: xorg@freedesktop.org Delivered-To: xorg@freedesktop.org Received: from mailout05.sul.t-online.com (mailout05.sul.t-online.com [194.25.134.82]) by gabe.freedesktop.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3AE359E7C6; Sat, 18 Dec 2004 18:34:24 -0800 (PST) Received: from fwd05.aul.t-online.de by mailout05.sul.t-online.com with smtp id 1Cfqtl-0003Kk-00; Sun, 19 Dec 2004 03:34:17 +0100 Received: from limes.nrubsig.org (EXOeZkZFre35AkiFWZT6QcgBhSYYG+SX7cXi4ZD1e0qaellb5AzqQn@[62.158.56.95]) by fmrl05.sul.t-online.com with esmtp id 1CfqtX-01tgvo0; Sun, 19 Dec 2004 03:34:03 +0100 Received: from meridian.informatik.med.uni-giessen.de (meridian.informatik.med.uni-giessen.de [141.50.42.250]) by limes.nrubsig.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E309A11A19; Sun, 19 Dec 2004 03:34:03 +0100 (CET) Received: from nrubsig.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by meridian.informatik.med.uni-giessen.de (8.11.7p1+Sun/8.10.2) with ESMTP id iBJ2XoG27644; Sun, 19 Dec 2004 03:33:51 +0100 (MET) Message-ID: <41C4E88D.F5A417AF@nrubsig.org> Date: Sun, 19 Dec 2004 03:33:49 +0100 From: Roland Mainz X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.76 [en] (X11; U; SunOS 5.8 sun4u) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Xorg mailinglist , Xorg Release Wranglers Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-ID: EXOeZkZFre35AkiFWZT6QcgBhSYYG+SX7cXi4ZD1e0qaellb5AzqQn@t-dialin.net X-TOI-MSGID: 9156e096-17a1-47ba-8493-4078c26316a0 Subject: [ANN] X11R6.8.2 Release Candidate 1 is out! X-BeenThere: xorg@lists.freedesktop.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Discuss issues related to the xorg tree List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Sender: xorg-bounces@lists.freedesktop.org Errors-To: xorg-bounces@lists.freedesktop.org X11R6.8.2 Release Candidate 1 (RC1) of the X Window System ======================================================== 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 http://cvs.freedesktop.org/xorg/xc/ChangeLog?only_with_tag=XORG-6_8-branch&view=log - Building on Solaris/SPARC with Sun Workshop/Forte is currently broken. This issue has been reported in bugzilla as https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2096 - Building with gcc 2.96 may not work: http://lists.freedesktop.org/pipermail/release-wranglers/2004-December/001587.html - The X11R6.8.2 RC1 source code can be obtained via the following way: - Anonymous CVS: % export CVSROOT=:pserver:anoncvs@cvs.freedesktop.org:/cvs/xorg % cvs -z6 checkout -r XORG-6_8_1_901 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_901 xc - Next step is to get the RC2 out as soon as the both known build failure issues (bug 2096 and the gcc 2.96 problem) have been fixed. -- __ . . __ (o.\ \/ /.o) roland.mainz@nrubsig.org \__\/\/__/ MPEG specialist, C&&JAVA&&Sun&&Unix programmer /O /==\ O\ TEL +49 641 7950090 (;O/ \/ \O;) _______________________________________________ xorg mailing list xorg@lists.freedesktop.org http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/xorg --------------020803090202030601030002--