X.Org Foundation Official Release of X Window System X11R6.8.1

[Kevin E Martin]

On Sat, Sep 18, 2004 at 02:28:27PM +0200, René Rebe wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> Arkadiusz Miskiewicz wrote:
> >On Saturday 18 of September 2004 05:32, Leon Shiman wrote:
> >
> >>           X11R6.8.1 Release of the X Window System
> >>           ========================================
> >>
> >>           X.Org Foundation Releases Security Update
> >>             For X Window System Version X11R6.8.0
> >
> >btw. that release from http://freedesktop.org/~xorg/X11R6.8.1 identifies 
> >itself as:
> >
> >X Window System Version 6.8.0
> >Release Date: 8 September 2004
> >X Protocol Version 11, Revision 0, Release 6.8
> >
> >not as 6.8.1 1X September.

If you look at the xc/config/cf/xorg.cf file (after untarring the source
tarballs), you'll see that the release version is 6.8.1 and the release
date is 17 September 2004.  You'll need to do a complete "make World"
and "make install" from the source tarballs to get the latest version
properly built and installed on your system.

> It would be nice if those values could be tripple checked for the next 
> release and the announce sent out _after_ the files are world-read-able 
> ... to avoid some confusion.

The sources were put in place on fdo within 10 min of the announcement
going out and were verified to be accessible.  Could you explain what
problems you had accessing the files?