Since I had to make a list for our internal product planning today, and there's nothing secret in it, I figured I'd share it here.
This is what we're planning on working on over the next 6 months and hope to get into the 2010.02 release, but as always, nothing's firm until it's finished, and this is just a high level list, doesn't include all the implementation details like specific device drivers or library versions. -------- Original Message -------- For X, our user-visible plans for 2010.02 currently include: - Xorg server updates (already updated from 1.5 to 1.6 in nv_116, community 1.7 release tentatively scheduled for August/Sept., will try to include in 2010.02 if it doesn't slip too far). User features from these updates: Xorg 1.6: http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=article&item=xorg_server_16&num=1 - RandR 1.3 - panning & general output device transformations http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=search&q=RandR+1.3 - Xinput 1.5 - input device properties http://who-t.blogspot.com/2008/10/device-properties-have-landed.html - DRI 2 - updates to direct rendering infrastructure used by Intel graphics Xorg 1.7 & X11R7.5: http://www.x.org/wiki/Releases/7.5 - Multi-pointer X & Xinput 2.0 http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/xorg-devel/2009-May/000996.html - VNC: moving from RealVNC (dead community) to TigerVNC (active community, adopted by Fedora, merging in TurboVNC, which is also shipped in the repo by the Visualization packages) - http://www.tigervnc.com/ - Adding XCB libraries - a new C language binding layer to the X11 protocol (i.e. replacement for libX11) that a number of other open source packages (such as compiz) are starting to require. - http://xcb.freedesktop.org/ - Changes to X packaging: - participating in WOS-wide package renaming - package refactoring to better map to upstream modules - once the WOS docks are ready, building & delivering the renamed/refactored IPS packages directly from our builds to the WOS, instead of requiring comay to convert each build -- -Alan Coopersmith- alan.coopersmith at sun.com Sun Microsystems, Inc. - X Window System Engineering
