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Altoid

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Registered: 2017-05-07

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xorg-server Xorg 21.1.0 - first release candidate since 1.20.0

Hello:

Just a heads-up.

Got this in my inbox this evening from xorg-announce@lists.x.org:

This is the first release candidate of Xorg 21.1.0 release.
Notable changes since 1.20 include:

  - The meson support is now fully mature. While autotools support will still be
  kept for this release series, it will be dropped afterwards.

  - Glamor support for Xvfb.

  - Variable refresh rate support in the modesetting driver.

  - XInput 2.4 support which adds touchpad gestures.
 
  - DMX DDX has been removed.
 
  - X server now correctly reports display DPI in more cases which may affect
  rendering of client applications on hi-DPI screens.

  A large number of small features and various bug fixes.

Note that since 21.1 series XWayland is released separately and thus this
release does not include it.

I expect to push subsequent release candidates roughly every two weeks.

The following is a full changelog since xserver 1.20.0. ...

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The changelog follows, long-ish as would be expected from such an upgrade. ie: 1.20.0 -> 21.1.0
The X.org site most surely has the details if anyone is interested in the details.

Seems that TEM was quite right.  8^D
https://dev1galaxy.org/viewtopic.php?pid=26536#p26536

It's FUD from Microsoft related company. X.org is still alive.

X.org is indeed still alive.

Best,

A.

golinux

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Re: xorg-server Xorg 21.1.0 - first release candidate since 1.20.0

I needed some good news for a change.  Thanks for catching that . . .

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zapper

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Registered: 2017-05-29

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Re: xorg-server Xorg 21.1.0 - first release candidate since 1.20.0

I needed some good news for a change.  Thanks for catching that . . .

It's good to hear xorg is not going to die for a while, especially considering there are forks of it out there...

https://xenocara.org/

Sometimes, things will inevitably go from one repo to another, after all...

Besides, wayland seems dicey, especially if any of this is true:

https://gist.github.com/probonopd/9feb7 … 9f2d1f2277

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Re: xorg-server Xorg 21.1.0 - first release candidate since 1.20.0

Interesting news, thanks for sharing.

wayland seems dicey, especially if any of this is true

For an alternative opinion see https://drewdevault.com/2019/02/10/Wayl … unked.html & https://drewdevault.com/2021/02/02/Anti … eshit.html

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Re: xorg-server Xorg 21.1.0 - first release candidate since 1.20.0

For an alternative opinion see

No one even doubts that Gnome, systemd or wayland is a real good. 🤣 The same good as secret CIA operations, or vaccines against Covid 19. 🤣 And whoever doubts this must be burned on fire.

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