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>Features:
>
>	(FIXME: ?) use of dlloader is now supported.(Adam Jackson, July 30).
>
>	XPRINT included  (Roland Mainz)			(April 15)
>
>	Removed Speedo font support (Roland Mainz)	(April 25)
>
>	Upgrade Freetype to v. 2.1.8 (Roland Mainz)	(April 28)
>
>        BugZilla #595: RFE: Retire XTT font module and FreeType1 from xorg
>        tree. The functionality of XTT has been integrated into the FreeType
>        font module and the old XTT1.x code (incl. FreeType1 in xc/extras/) is
>        no longer needed anymore. (Roland Mainz)	(May 4)
>
>	Correctness fixes to Render framebuffer
>	implefmentation (Eric Anholt)			(May 11)
>
>	Updated x86emu and resynced with upstream at SciTech (Egbert Eich)
>
>	Merge in DRI:
>	Some of the notable things this brings in, off the top of my head:
>	- More OpenGL extensions
>	- MergedFB for Radeon (Dualhead DRI support on these cards)
>	- Many GLX fixes
>	- Working SiS DRI driver
>	- Major Radeon and R200 DRI driver updates
>	- fbconfigs support
>	- Beginnings of pbuffer support (indirect only, and only in specific
>	  circumstances).
>	(Eric Anholt)					(June 13)
>
>	SiS driver updates include 
>	    - output device hotplugging
>	    - lots of fixes for 661, 741, 760
>	    - extended interface for SiSCtrl
>	    - extended LCD handling (allow more modes)
>    	    - HDTV support (480p, 480i, 720p. 1080i; 315/330 series)
>    	    - Added video blitter Xv adapter (315/330 series)
>    	    - extended RENDER acceleration
>	(Thomas Winischhofer)				(June 17)
>
>	Radeon 100/200 driver updates include
>	    - Acceleration of RENDER			(June 19)
>
>	DMX (Kevin Martin, Rik Faith)
>
>	Faster software implementation of RENDER (Soren Sandmann)
>	       			       	  	 	(July 22)
>	
>
>	New RenderAddTraps. RENDER is now at 0.9. 
>	Trapezoid code has been rewritten
>		(Keith Packard, August 6)
>
>	Software mouse cursor is now based on the Damage extension
>		(Keith Packard, August 6)
>
>	The keyboard driver has been replaced with a new implementation
>	unless USE_DEPRECATED_KEYBOARD_DRIVER is defined.
>		(Kristian Hogsberg, August 8)
>	
>	i830 driver has been replaced with i915
>
>	Merge Mach64 DRI support	(Eric Anholt, July 23)
>
>	- Add a new option, BuildDevelDRIDrivers, which controls whether
>	  DevelDRIDrivers is non-empty.  DevelDRIDrivers contains those drivers
>	  aren't built by default either due to being unusable on that
>	  architecture (but buildable for testing) or due to security concerns,
>	  as in the mach64 and savage cases.
>	- Merge the Mach64 DDX's DRI support, under the XF86DRI_DEVEL define,
>	  which is set only when BuildDevelDRIDrivers is set.
>	- Fix up of the sets of DRI drivers built for various architectures.
>	- Fix build of unichrome DRI driver, which is now enabled on x86.
>
>	Support AMD64 on OpenBSD (Matthieu Herrb, July 24).
>
>	- New extensions:
>		DAMAGE, XFIXES (Keith Packard, merged by Stuart Kreitman)
>		XEVIE (Stuart Kreitman)
>		COMPOSITE (Keith Packard, Eric Anholt)
>		DMX (Kevin Martin)
>
>	- Support for new Radeon chips:	
>		R420/M18, R423, RV370/M22, RV380/M24, RS300. 
>
>	- Extensions can be enabled/disabled from the configuration file
>	  and from the command line (Kevin Martin, July 31).
>
>Credits:
>	Egbert Eich
>
>	Keith Packard
>
>	Roland Mainz
>
>	Alan Coopersmith
>
>	Russ Blaine
>
>	Alexander Gottwald
>
>	Alan Hourihane
>
>	Chisato Yamauchi
>
>	Eric Anholt
>
>	Nolan Leake			
>
>	Stefan Dirsch
>
>	Rik Faith
>
>	Daniel Berrange
>	
>	Matthieu Herrb
>
>	John Heasley
>
>	Ryan Underwood
>
>	Alan Deucher
>
>	Ty Sarna
>
>	Torrey T Lyons 			Darwin
>
>	Stuart Kreitman	
>
>	Kevin E. Martin
>
>	Greg Parker		(Input support on XDarwin)
>
>	John Harper		(XDarwin)
>
>	Adam Jackson
>
>	Peter Kunzman
>
>	Aaron Plattner	
>
>	Chisato Yamauchi
>
>	Michel Daenzer
>
>	Kristian Hogsberg
>
>	Soeren Sandmann	
>
>	Owen Taylor
>
>	Mike A. Harris
>	
>	Ivan Kokshaysky
>
>	Bryan Stine
>
>	Guy Martin
>
>	Paul Anderson
>
>	Yu Shao
>
>	David Dawes
>
>	Harold L. Hunt II
>
>	Andreas Luik
>
>	Keith Packard
>
>	Travis Tilley
>
>	Ryan Lortie
>
>	Ryan Breen
>
>	deronj			(FIXME: real name? Anholt commit 08/12)
>
>	Ronny Vindenes

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