I know you guys wouldn't be satisfied with just 2.6.3's low risk stability
improvements. You want to live on the edge. You want change! Well the answer
is here. 2.7.0_beta1!
1) Better automated build system
This shouldn't matter to you, but it should make my life easier for putting
together these packages. I mention it in case there is anything odd about the
installer package (I didn't notice anything) since I'm now using PackageMaker
from a command line script rather than the UI.
2) Improved logging
Instead of just dumping everything out to stderr and letting launchd sort it
out for us, we're doing our logging ourselves. The server creates a log in
~/Library/Logs which is similar to /var/log/Xorg.##.log for the XFree86 DDX.
In addition, we're now logging to ASL from quartz-wm, xinit, and the server, so
you can use syslog to watch and filter the logs. Below is a snippet from the
Xquartz(1) man page which provides more information. Note that the server also
sets a 'Subsystem' key for some messages which will help with filtering. More
subsystems will be added and logging migrated to the new system in the coming
betas.
LOGGING
XQuartz stores a server log at ~/Library/Logs/X11.org.macports.log
which is analogous to /var/log/Xorg.#.log on systems that use the
XFree86 DDX such as Linux, BSD, and Solaris.
In addition to this server log, XQuartz sends messages to syslogd(8)
using asl(3). These logs are sent to the org.macports facility, and
you can watch these logs using the following syslog(1) command:
$ syslog -w -k Facility eq org.macports
or you can include extra information such as the file, line, and func-
tion where the message originated:
$ syslog -w -F '$(Time) $(Sender) <$(Level)> $(File):$(Line) $(Func-
tion) :: $(Message)' -k Facility eq org.macports
By default, XQaurtz sets an ASL mask which prevents it from logging
messages below the ASL_LEVEL_WARNING level (meaning almost all logging
is done strictly to the file referenced above). To force XQuartz to
send all log messages to syslogd(8), you can adjust this mask using
the following syslog(1) command:
$ syslog -c X11.bin -d
The stdout and stderr messages printed by any process launched by
XQuartz will be redirected to this syslog facility with a priority
level of ASL_LEVEL_INFO and ASL_LEVEL_NOTICE respectively. In order
to see these messages in syslog, you will need to adjust XQuartz's asl
mask as above but using -i or -n instead of -d.
3) Improved GLX
I've updated to mesa-7.10.3 which contains the first set of changes in the
revamped libGL. 7.11 includes additional changes which will appear in the next
beta, but I wanted to put out a release with 7.10.3 as a "stepping stone". If
you've been having weird issues with GLX, please give this version a try.
Please report any *NEW* issues. I don't expect that everything will be fixed.
7.11 should address many additional issues (note that the longstanding issue
with vanishing CGL context on window withdrawl is not going to be addressed in
2.7.0).
4) General version bumps
Other modules were bumped as well over the past couple months, but I didn't
want to include them in the low-risk 2.6.3 update. Please check out the
ChangeLog for more a full list.
http://xquartz.macosforge.org/trac/wiki/ChangeLog
Note that this release includes an updated freetype which should address some
font rendering issues.
5) Lion, almost there...
My goal is that 2.7.0 will be built on Lion and will run on Leopard or later
(this may change to SL or later), but we're not quite there yet. Some changes
in mesa-7.11 are required in order to do OpenGL capability detection at runtime
rather than build time, and I need to make further changes to libXplugin to
support all OS versions in one binary. As such, this release was built on Snow
Leopard, but it should work mostly fine on Lion (with the caveat that it does
not include the updated preference pane for Lion's scrolling behavior).
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2.7.0_beta1 is a really a stepping stone to show off where we are now, rolling
up the latest xorg stable releases with the top-of-tree server. 2.7.0_beta2
will continue this trajectory (improving logging and better supporting Lion and
SL in one package).
Thanks for testing,
Jeremy
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