A new X.Org version is available for download

Sep 22, 2014 14:43 GMT  ·  By

The X.Org Foundation has announced that a new version of its X.Org Server is now available for download, 1.16.1.

The previous major update for the X.Org server was made almost two months ago, and now the devs have released the first update for that branch. It's not a big, scary release and users should upgrade as soon as possible. It will be a while until it hits all the major repositories, but it will arrive soon in a repo near you.

According to the changelog, a crash regression in mieqProcessDeviceEvent has been fixed, Resets have been removed since these were intended to be for hotplugging connections, the support for turning off "Displays have separate Spaces" on OS X Mavericks has been improved, and a problem that caused temp picture coordinates in glamor_composite_clipped_region has been fixed.

Also, GLX_BufferSwapComplete is now only sent for PresentCompleteKindPixmap, fallback to first platform device as primary is now supported, non-PCI devices are now allowed as primary, and drm.xml are now always included in tarballs.

A complete list of changes, fixes, and new features for this version can be found in the announcement. You can download X.Org Server 1.16.1 right now from Softpedia, but this is a source package. You will need to know how to compile it in order to get it installed, so don't mess with it unless you know what you are doing.