[ANNOUNCE] xorg-server 1.19.0

Thomas Klausner wiz at NetBSD.org
Fri Nov 18 08:30:56 UTC 2016


On Thu, Nov 17, 2016 at 09:55:01AM +1000, Peter Hutterer wrote:
> On Wed, Nov 16, 2016 at 02:18:29PM +0100, Thomas Klausner wrote:
> > The release breaks most currently existing graphics driver releases
> > and two input driver releases (details below).
> 
> yes, a driver released for an older X server is not guaranteed to work with
> a newer x server. that's usually expected, we have to wait for a server
> release before we can release the drivers (yes, pre-releases are possible,
> but these are not the most interesting drivers).

I agree for most of these, but wonder about the intel and qxl ones,
which do have quite a bit of activity in git.

> now that we have a server release, we can start releasing the drivers. I'll
> be doing the input ones ove the next couple of days.

Thank you for the releases!
 Thomas


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