Glynn Foster wrote:
> I'm starting to write the what's new guide for the next release? Have
> any favourite features that you think should be included, please let me
> know!
>From X the big new features since 2009.06 are:
- Virtual Terminal support in Xorg
- Xorg upgrade from 1.5 to 1.7
(this provides Multi-Pointer X support in the server, but I don't
think any desktop apps are updated to support it yet, so it's not
very noticable
- VNC upgrade from RealVNC 4.1.3 to TigerVNC 1.0
- Added:
synaptics touchpad driver
synergy (screen sharing)
xcompmgr (simple/non-GL composite manager)
xinput (input device configuration client)
xdm (classic/legacy display manager)
xfs (classic/legacy font server)
- Intel graphics updates include new device support, GEM support in DRM
- Nvidia graphics updates include new device support, OpenGL 3.2 support
(I'd have to get specifics on each of those from Niveditha & John)
- support for display switch keys on Toshiba laptops
- Mesa now delivered on SPARC too, not just x86
Other user visible changes:
- X moved from /usr/X11/{bin,lib} to /usr/{bin,lib}
- Xorg moved to using HAL for all input device configuration (though that
will go away post 2010.03 as part of the "HAL is dead now" fixes)
- Xprint removed
- xorgcfg & xorgconfig removed
- bug in 2009.06 preventing Xorg startup with multiple cards fixed
For the morbidly curious, this should include pretty much all the changes
from the upstream X11R7.5 changelogs & release notes:
http://www.x.org/releases/X11R7.5/changelog.html [1.7MB !]
http://www.x.org/releases/X11R7.5/doc/RELNOTES.html
http://www.x.org/wiki/Server17Branch
http://www.x.org/wiki/Server16Branch
and of course all the bug fixes from builds 112 to the present on:
http://hub.opensolaris.org/bin/view/Community+Group+x_win/changelogs
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-Alan Coopersmith- alan.coopersmith at sun.com
Sun? Oracle? who knows? - X Window System Engineering
