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    X11R6.8.2 Release Canidate 1 (RC1) of the X Window System
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           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]
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