Attachment 1562 Details for Bug 2086 – X11R6.8.2RC1 release annoucement [Draft version 0.1]

X11R6.8.2RC1 release annoucement [Draft version 0.1]

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>    X11R6.8.2 Release Canidate 1 (RC1) of the X Window System
>    ========================================================
>            
>           X.Org Foundation Releases Maintaince Update
>              For X Window System Version X11R6.8.1
>
>            - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
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>Brookline MA, December 17, 2004 - The X.Org Foundation today announced
>the first release canidate (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 canidate is currently labeled "experimental" and is only
>made available for testing purposes.
>
>* Notes for testers:
>- Various drivers, modules and other infrastructure got significant updates
>  and need to extensive testing by the community, including:
>  - "radeon" video driver
>  - "nv" (nvidia) video driver
>  - ATI Mach128 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
>  being broken. This issue is known as
>  https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2096
>
>- 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
>
>  - Source tarballs:
>  [Will be created tomorrow]
>[DRAFT; version 0.1]

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