[ANNOUNCE] xorg-server 1.16.0

At long last, here's the 1.16 release of the X server! Lots of new stuff, including (but not limited to): * Glamor integration. This GL-based X acceleration subsystem now offers reasonable performance that avoids software fall backs much of the time. * XWayland. This provides an X server integrated into a Wayland window system. It uses Glamor for rendering, and so avoids most of the performance problems inherent in window system layering. * systemd integration. This provides for systemd-based launching and management which improves boot performance and reliability * Elimination of thousands of compiler warnings. We've been slowly adding more and more compiler flags to the stock X build to warn us of unsafe coding practices. Version 1.16 finally addresses the enormous list of these warnings. * Glamor for Xephyr. This X-on-X implementation now serves as the primary development environment for our new 2D acceleration subsystem, permitting rapid development and testing on a single machine. * Non-PCI device support. Many graphics devices are not enumerated with the standard PCI APIs; now the X server can auto-detect and configure them as it does in more conventional systems. For the first time in several releases, we've added substantial amounts of code to the server, only 2/3 of which was the glamor code base: 604 files changed, 34449 insertions(+), 7024 deletions(-) Thanks, as always, to everyone who contributed patches, review, testing and comments. Here's a list of the changes brought in since RC4: Aaron Plattner (1): xfree86: Only support one sysconfigdir Hans de Goede (2): Fix ODEV_ATTRIB_DRIVER overlapping with ODEV_ATTRIB_FD config_odev_add_attribute*: Check for right attribute type Keith Packard (1): Update to version 1.16.0 Peter Hutterer (3): os: prevent negative array index access (#80890) xfree86: don't force the screensaver off on DPMS unblank, merely suggest it Revert "dix: fix up coordinate scaling when external monitors are present" Yaakov Selkowitz (1): hw/xwin: link dynamically and export symbols One omission here was a last-minute bug fix for glamor Render acceleration that manifests as disappearing icons in systray. That's been posted to the mailing list for review and to see if it causes regressions like the last proposed fix for this bug did. I'll start merging changes for 1.17 almost immediately. At this point, I think we're on a new-years release schedule, which would make 1.17 look like: Merge Window 2014- 7-17 - 2014-10-15 Non-critical bugs 2014-10-16 - 2014-11-30 Critical-bugs 2014-12-1 - 2014-12-31 This is just a proposed schedule; subject to change for sufficient reason. git tag: xorg-server-1.16.0 http://xorg.freedesktop.org/archive/individual/xserver/xorg-server-1.16.0.tar.bz2 MD5: 8a9ff6ee9907360f09b5bdabb8089502 xorg-server-1.16.0.tar.bz2 SHA1: 0b5ce3868c1c617c21e19ce863aab1ede6e154c4 xorg-server-1.16.0.tar.bz2 SHA256: 38330a03c5f7a38745a3f9816cf069db5b8844eebb358fd39dbabf61f32cd06b xorg-server-1.16.0.tar.bz2 PGP: http://xorg.freedesktop.org/archive/individual/xserver/xorg-server-1.16.0.tar.bz2.sig http://xorg.freedesktop.org/archive/individual/xserver/xorg-server-1.16.0.tar.gz MD5: fc9b1814c0c3a15f39efb13ad1c2ac97 xorg-server-1.16.0.tar.gz SHA1: 2b1289fef077bc15d79d79fc0bd0401255bd4d27 xorg-server-1.16.0.tar.gz SHA256: 025345c6b3aa8a02ba92b7cef3cd67d2ed6fd7139823497ed067dd72d33a1a5d xorg-server-1.16.0.tar.gz PGP: http://xorg.freedesktop.org/archive/individual/xserver/xorg-server-1.16.0.tar.gz.sig -- keith.packard at intel.com -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 810 bytes Desc: not available URL: <http://lists.x.org/archives/xorg/attachments/20140717/efacaaaa/attachment.sig>