Schedule

• 1.7.0: Released 2009-10-01
• 1.7.1: Released 2009-10-22
• 1.7.2: Scheduled 2009-11-26

Features

• X Input 2.0
• Mandatory XKB
• Support for symbol visibility
• EXA mixed pixmaps
• VGA arbitration

Proposing patches for 1.7.x

The 1.7 branch has reached the end of its active development lifecycle. Patches may be committed directly to the server-1.7-branch. If you feel the need to make an additional maintenance release from this branch, please discuss it on the xorg-devel mailing list after making sure it doesn't perform worse than the previous release.

Patches merged between RC2 and 1.7.0

2009-09-25

• 824a09d856a5f750694e11d2fd2faaa3de705eaa dix: move bounds check before access
• 096f21bb7a1217443d8a03529b1a2938518eb24f EXA: Fix some issues pointed out by clang.
• ce1fe8ddb4a4dbe6cfd909e5b1b73b459d742bec render: Don't add b8g8r8x8 format for depth 24.
• 5402f18d9c3f7ba19cc05b3a814e3a9e94c8d551 dix: report XI1 axis values correctly if first_valuator != 0
• 3b5bbb149d4c932d9624336f5cbe9fe71c87bea3 configure: fix up tslib check once again

2009-09-26

• 9fa73be9fa543a686ea35c861084f5af37d44caa Require libXext >= 1.0.99.4
• a9c274df5c37cb4ece6449e934342d8ff8e61705 kdrive: plug two memory leaks when freeing the KdKeyboard/Pointer.
• fd913136732ff14a0484ca28f60ac1fbf49be81d dix: plug memory leak in ?DeviceEnterLeaveEvents.
• e23bffc41b007f1bc2b8f5cd4ac54213062c95cc Fix build of unit tests when dtrace probes are enabled
• 1818cbd70fc1f2e1487b4c678e67e28f1265c0ef EXA: Extend mixed pixmaps scheme to allow driver ?PrepareAccess hook to fail.

2009-09-27

• e7c2598f565e8252dd66ee3e6212b310856476cb dmx: core events are always in screen coordinates when passed to GPE.
• 43a2eb794f19a2ba56d653f465fc5f6b2ff0d3d3 configure: Unify all library defines that require a specific version.
• 9bd08c690fc687c4d69bb70536f3079a9184476d Xi: update axisVals with the right subpixel data.
• c9ec2bab2f258798fd6e6676698c732f09571a60 dmx: undefine MITSHM, move undefs to miinitext.c.
• fc9d733bab3ff0e4e51b19c73b66196dca563a70 dmx: reshuffle linker order to avoid errors when MITSHM is undefined.
• 73ae547d5e687ef10dea45801fc627e10ac4b659 EXA: Fix mixed pixmaps crash with missing / failing ?UploadToScreen hook. (http://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=24167)

2009-09-28

• merge xorg-server-1.7-apple (77099b933a0362d40a28f9afea46c5cc97c29e13):
  • 1a0dfde2d102d845f1ceda66ad7a078aa1b42ef9 XQuartz: GLX capabilities: Allow 16bit accumulation buffers
  • e0e2eaf1f30ebce4c0ff28416259d8e976fdf0d7 XQuartz: Use internal xshm header for new xextproto
  • 6e4fc5d066d9c1ea4fca444cfee1e73147c5fefb Xi: ?CopyKeyClass is not static for XQuartz
  • fd1adc21a931e2dd1ff2e52b60a77c2153a30fe0 XQuartz: Nuke duplicate locks that make painful headaches
  • 29b2d9cdf5095399b79d9ff2a2f12f5a9c49cf1f XQuartz: Fix a brain-o array indexing problem
  • 7958f6b75b3c6b8a827188af2e684f181bdd7688 XQuartz: Add pressure/tilt property labels
  • 77099b933a0362d40a28f9afea46c5cc97c29e13 XQuartz: Stop checking version numbers of the bundle because CFBundleGetVersionNumber is gimpish
• 78ad6ca9a97440b74019c00a28144ea7d1e03431 xfree86: Hurd fix
• 3db28f92b0c810b452506abbed299a204c90ba0b configure: make XNEST default to auto.
• merge xorg-server-1.7-apple (b49dba33f94b51ba9a14803f0d81ccde2cb778f8):
  • a3dbde2de87ee4f577748a8c447501a3ea462559 XQuartz: Transition from xEvent based mieq to ?InternalEvent
  • ceaa5c779ceed3de5ea53727649613be3133b24e XQuartz: Force a keymap resync on the first keypress to workaround XKB mucking with our keymap
  • de6cee11e1c335a0e5f708e7641e81d3cfe52529 XQuartz: Fix inverse map from mode_switch to alt
  • 29cb904e4de2411a9b6dbe68694954788f0525f7 XQuartz: Nuke TSM
  • 54000bdcbca52a2de31f7c1a1147de6d8e9dbbb8 XQuartz: Fix a bunch of compilation warnings about style
  • dadab5a2279a19dcf709402d7f22f0cd48670db0 XQuartz: Fix ?QuartzSetCursor to match the expected prototype.
  • cf2e3312cff3f341e9edba8c321a4ca7ffd8748e Rootless: Correct border rendering on parent-relative windows
    • This one I'm not so sure about... it fixes the problem, but it's ugly. I'm hoping there's a better way. -JH
  • b49dba33f94b51ba9a14803f0d81ccde2cb778f8 Add (ok, fix) support for DTrace under OS X

2009-09-30

• f772014c435f56db56520ca13ffa39431684f122 render: Plug a memory leak in ?AddGlyph. (#23286)
• 83023ffd09a84ff48e6b99f57ebad101a00478db xfree86: use the DDC size if either width or height of ?DisplaySize is bogus.
• 0c2731596f27f2cdf5000ba41de37e7eb86ad6f9 Put tests for zero-sized strings in quotes (#24060)
• 19be992d9dc542b61fa3f4fd32a09071c9e64880 ephyr: if -parent is given, check for a trailing -screen. (#24144)

2009-10-01

• db98b26ee145f70e732e2cf4a6ac3de77fdf4adc Re-fix DGA removal.
• b5fcc5553eb784c9f4826936e839079c0cdee55a exa: avoid infinite loops if UTS sw fallbacks.
• 758ab55d2defc78d0169fd61a7036eb9f889e9e7 render: set the glyph picture to NULL by default.
  • needed for 622fc98fd08aba98369e6933c3ab8c9ff85385d5
• 622fc98fd08aba98369e6933c3ab8c9ff85385d5 render: Fix crash in ?RenderAddGlyphs (#23645)

2009-10-02

• 3ebb82d61c2b56e8f7145443a552a4e913bbfc80 rotate: drop unwrapping inside block handler.
• 64fe5784b49347e1fd27b0c463be5c16557594c9 configure: if xnest was requested but modules weren't found, fail.
• 45f447dafded5adfe11b7df3325c2d8f6ae0639b dix: force a minimum of 0 for screen coordinates.