Approval of announcement

[mcnichol at austin.ibm.com]

> Date: Fri, 17 Sep 2004 15:13:28 -0400
> From: Kevin E Martin <kem at freedesktop.org>
> To: People working on X software releases <release-wranglers at freedesktop.org>
> Subject: Approval of announcement
> 
> As discussed on the release wranglers call earlier today, I've included
> the text for the X11R6.8.1 announcement below.  I'm looking for approval
> and/or comments.
> 
> Please respond by 6pm EDT today.
> 
> Leon will handle sending the official announcement to the appropriate
> mailing lists after 6pm.
> 
> Thanks!
> 
> -----------------------------------------------------
> 
> X11R6.8.1 Release of the X Window System
> 

> 
> This bug affects all known versions and releases of the X Window System,
> whether from X.Org or other vendors.  Therefore, users are strongly
> recommended to upgrade.


I don't know if this is important or not, but X11R6.6 and all prior
releases did NOT contain libXpm, so would not contain this vulnerability.
However, it is likely that all the Unix vendors are still exposed due to
the use of libXpm in the Motif 2.1 library.



Dan