[ANNOUNCE] X11R7.3 released

[Alan Coopersmith]

Eric Anholt wrote:
> On Thu, 2007-09-06 at 23:21 -0700, vehemens wrote:
>> On Thursday 06 September 2007 03:12:44 am Eric Anholt wrote:
>>> I believe all the necessary pieces are in place (except for the extras/
>>> directory of 3rd-party dependencies), and X11R7.3 is now released.  See
>>> http://wiki.x.org/wiki/Releases/7.3 for information on this release, but
>>> I'll paste the release notes here:
>> Thanks for the release.   Now here are my questions :>
>>
>> There are a number of packages such as drivers that didn't make it into 7.3, 
>> but are in http://xorg.freedesktop.org/releases/individual
>>
>> What caused them to be dropped from this release (late, not tested, etc)?
> 
> Failure to be included on the wiki as candidates for the new release by
> their maintainers.  I'll hopefully find some time to talk about katamari
> process at XDS so we can improve this.

I originally populated the wiki list from looking at the xorg-announce 
archives from February through August 2007, and sent mail asking people
to double-check their modules.   I know I missed the Damage 1.1 updates
that came out earlier (during the X11R7.2 release cycle, but marked as
for a post-7.2 release), and wouldn't be surprised if I overlooked some
of the input-hotplug releases from the same time frame.

The most visible driver I know of not included is ATI, for which the last
release designated stable by the maintainers was the 6.6.3 release already
included in 7.2 - there's been a bunch of testing releases, and they may
have another stable release soon, but there wasn't one for 7.3.

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	-Alan Coopersmith-           alan.coopersmith at sun.com
	 Sun Microsystems, Inc. - X Window System Engineering