[ANN] X11R6.8.2 Release Candidate 3 is out!

[Roland Mainz]

  X11R6.8.2 Release Candidate 3 (RC3) of the X Window System
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         X.Org Foundation Releases Maintaince Update
            For X Window System Version X11R6.8.x

The third release candidate for X11R6.8.2 is ready for testing.  The
upcoming X11R6.8.2 release is intended to be a stable bug fix release
and we would very much appreciate your help to build and test this
release candidate.  Please report any problems you find in Xorg's
bugzilla (https://bugs.freedesktop.org/enter_bug.cgi?product=xorg).

## IMPORTANT: This is likely the LAST release canidate and therefore the
last chanche to do testing before the FINAL version will be shipped! ##

This release candidate is currently labeled "experimental" and is only
made available for testing and evaluation purposes.

* Notes for testers:
- Various drivers, modules and other infrastructure got
  significant updates and need to be thoroughly tested by the
  community, including:
  - "radeon" video driver
  - "nv" (nvidia) video driver
  - ATI Rage128 video driver
  - ATI R100 video driver
  - Intel i810 video driver
  - "neomagic" video driver
  - Postscript print driver
  - Xprint infrastructure update
  - Mesa (OpenGL) update to release 6.2
  - libXpm security update (CAN-2004-0914)
  ... and many many other things...

- The full changelog for the X11R6.8.x stable branch can be found under
http://cvs.freedesktop.org/xorg/xc/ChangeLog?only_with_tag=XORG-6_8-branch&view=log

- The X11R6.8.2 RC3 source code can be obtained as follows:
  - Source tarballs are available from
http://xorg.freedesktop.org/X11R6.8.2/xorg-x11-6.8.1.903.tar.bz2
http://xorg.freedesktop.org/X11R6.8.2/xorg-x11-6.8.1.903.tar.gz
http://xorg.freedesktop.org/X11R6.8.2/xorg-x11-6.8.1.903.tar.Z [1]

md5 checksums are:
MD5 (xorg-x11-6.8.1.903.tar.bz2) = d3008407381364a3e8a6e0cce5620d37  
MD5 (xorg-x11-6.8.1.903.tar.gz)  = 4c72bb3346722621d09a9b60b5ae1fb0  
MD5 (xorg-x11-6.8.1.903.tar.Z)   = 26ede25a29bbf0d072bb87ee94508a7c  

[1]=The "xorg-x11-6.8.1.903.tar.Z" source tarball was created with
Solaris /usr/bin/tar for those platforms who can't deal with the GNU tar
format (which was used to package "xorg-x11-6.8.1.903.tar.bz2" and
"xorg-x11-6.8.1.903.tar.gz").

  - Anonymous CVS:
  % export CVSROOT=:pserver:anoncvs@cvs.freedesktop.org:/cvs/xorg
  % cvs -z6 checkout -r XORG-6_8_1_903 xc

  - For people with SSH access to the CVS repository:
  % export CVSROOT=:ext:foobar@cvs.freedesktop.org:/cvs/xorg
  % export CVS_RSH=ssh
  % cvs -z6 checkout -r XORG-6_8_1_903 xc

* Next step is to get the final version out in (more or less) two weeks
unless serious showstoppers will be found.

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