X.Org 7.4 / X Server 1.5 is running months behind schedule, but now holding up its release is Mesa 7.1 or there the lack of. However, Adam Jackson has pushed out a new X Server 1.5 development release with a few more changes while waiting for this updated Mesa release.
This new release, xorg-server 1.4.99.906, has about two dozen bug fixes but nothing too extraordinary…
The development cycle for X.Org 7.4 has stretched on for months longer than anticipated, and earlier this month it sounded like X.Org 7.4 would end with a quick release, but still it’s being dragged out longer. This morning the release manager for X.Org 7.4, Adam Jackson, had announced the release of X Server 1.4.99.904…
It took more than 200 days for X Server 1.4.1 to be released, but X Server 1.4.2 is coming just about 24 hours after yesterday’s release 1.4.1. This release is coming along quickly as Matthieu Herrb had shared multiple vulnerabilities in the X Server extensions…
Today — just 212 days after the planned November launch date — X Server 1.4.1 is finally released! Daniel Stone announced its release this morning on the xorg mailing list. X Server 1.4.1 has had 62 changes to it since the 1.4.1 pre-release, and that release had 46 changes, which brings the change total for this release up to 108. Even though X Server 1.4.1 has more than 100 changes, it wasn’t enough to clear out the blocker bug, which still has two open bugs.
Just shy of two months since Compiz 0.7.4 was released, Compiz 0.7.6 is now available. This update has a rewritten Place plug-in to dramatically improve multi-output behavior, configurable multi-output behavior, removed plane plug-in in favor of the wall plug-in, removed cube wallpaper painting in favor of the Compiz Fusion wallpaper plug-in, panel and desktop selection mode is now available in the switcher plug-in, and improved painting behavior…
Earlier this month we had shared the progress of X.Org 7.4 with the features slated to be included in this next X release, what features have been postponed, and the repeated delays that always seem to plague the X.Org development community. Since then there still has yet to be any official update on its status, but the Wiki continues to claim a May 2008 release. Fortunately, yesterday Adam Jackson stepped up again and released a number of X package updates, which places us a bit closer to reaching this much-delayed release.
In the 39th edition of the Nouveau Companion, this open-source NVIDIA driver development crew talks about their latest driver achievements over the past few weeks. Among the progress made includes further enhancing the NV50 support, a Nouveau XvMC implementation for Gallium3D (initially through a software-based implementation), and MMioTrace being postponed to the Linux 2.6.27 kernel.
Read more at Phoronix
If all goes according to plan, X.Org 7.4 will finally be released this month. This release isn’t quite as elaborate as X.Org 7.3, which introduced input hot-plugging, EXA enhancements, and RandR 1.2 to just name a few features, but X.Org 7.4 is another update better enhancing this X server. In this article, we are presenting a release overview of the features to be found in X.Org 7.4, what’s been delayed, and how this release is panning out.
Read more at Phoronix
Intel’s Zhenyu Wang has announced the release of xf86-video-intel 2.2.99.903, which is another Intel X.Org driver test release prior to version 2.3.0. xf86-video-intel 2.3 will officially introduce XvMC support, code cleaning, bug-fixes, improved quirk handling, and other changes.
The 2.2.99.903 release has a number of fixes but nothing too major aside from an LVDS regression fix and dropping the old monolithic Intel shaders…
While not a major release, this afternoon Brian Paul has released Mesa 7.0.3. This minor update of Mesa 3D has a dozen changes, which mostly come down to bug-fixes. The release notes for Mesa 7.0.3 can be read here.
Skipping a Compiz 0.7.3 release, the Open Compositing community has this morning released Compiz 0.7.4. Since Compiz 0.7.2, there is now configurable handling of overlapping output devices, enhanced focus stealing prevention, configurable/optional delay for edge actions, and unredirection of fullscreen windows…
Read more at Phoronix
In the thirty-seventh edition of the Nouveau Companion, the topics covered largely come down to Gallium3D, the status of the Nouveau driver for each of the NVIDIA product families (primarily the GeForce 8 series), and of interest is that RandR 1.2 should soon be enabled by default for this reverse-engineered open-source 2D/3D NVIDIA driver. The Nouveau developers are working on Gallium3D extensively and recent David Airlie had tried the Nouveau Gallium3D driver for PowerPC, but there is a problem with depth buffers. The GeForce 8 (NV50) status is continuing to improve but there’s still work to be done, as these GPUs have no NV40 compatibility mode. Read the rest in this edition of the Nouveau Companion.
Thanks in large part to the release leadership of Adam Jackson, a new development X server is now available that ultimately will become known as X Server 1.5.0. This new xorg-server release, v1.4.99.901, has a plethora of changes ranging from fixing memory leaks to EXA improvements. In total there are hundreds of changes to be found within xorg-server 1.4.99.901, with the complete list being available in the X.Org mailing list.
With FOSDEM 2008 taking place about two weeks ago, the 36th edition of the Nouveau Companion contains a special feature with FOSDEM-Nouveau coverage as well as in-depth thoughts from the developers that had attended this Linux conference in Brussels. Also covered in this development newsletter is new Gallium3D progress in their mainline Nouveau branch, MMioTrace is still planned for the Linux 2.6.26 kernel, and more RandR 1.2 improvements within this free software NVIDIA driver.
With Red Hat’s Adam Jackson being interested in shipping X.Org 7.4 for Fedora 9, he has stepped up as becoming the release manager of this next X.Org release and has put together a schedule that will allow this to become possible.
The X.Org 7.4 release schedule places the X Server 1.4.99.901 release this coming Friday, X Server 1.4.99.902 on March 14 or 21, X Server 1.4.99.903 on April 4 and would also mark a freeze where only fixes would be allowed into X Server 1.5, X Server 1.4.99.991 with an X hard-freeze, and on April 25 is planned the final release of X Server 1.5 / X.Org 7.4. Permitting everything goes as planned with this release schedule, it will be released ahead of May.
While there have already been features planned for X.Org 7.4, some of the items in particular that Adam Jackson wants to see addressed is pciaccess, input improvements, RandR 1.2 initial configuration changes, and many X.Org bugs just need to be eliminated…
Not that you really would have expected X.Org to ship next month as planned, but X.Org 7.4 looks like it may now be released in May. The original plan for X.Org 7.4 was to release it in February, but that was when X.Org 7.3 was planned for August though it didn’t make it out the door until September…
Roughly two weeks have passed again so it is time again for yet another TiNDC.
As you probably know we are using the bug tracking system at freedesktop.org. If you have problems, which can’t be solved when asking for help on IRC, please do enter a bug there so that we can keep track of possible issues.
According to information from upstream compiz 0.7 will be ready for the timeframe
of Ubuntu 8.04 LTS. compiz will introduce an object system and abstract the output, allowing output plugins based on XRender or OpenGL.
The XRender-plugin will be used when OpenGL is not available or the OpenGL-support on the machine running compiz is missing some feature or extension.
The X Developers’ Conference for 2008 will be hosted by Google in Mountain View, California, from the 16 through the 18 of April, 2008.
We will run the 3-day summit as a normal conference, with presentations and also birds-of-a-feather group sessions, as well as informal ‘corridor sessions’, and plenty of time for after-hours social activities.
Attendance is free, but you must register beforehand, by putting your name on the Attendees page.
Since the October release of Compiz 0.6 (and Compiz Fusion 0.6) followed by a minor update, it’s been pretty quiet on the “desktop bling” front for the past few months. Today, however, the Open Compositing team is announcing the availability of Compiz 0.7.0…