X11R6.9 and X11R7.0 Officially Released

Landmark version X11R7.0 released today with X11R6.9 by the X.Org Foundation

Brookline, Massachusetts, December 21 2005. The first major version release of the X Window System in more than a decade, X11R7.0 is the first release of the complete modularized and autotooled source code base for the X Window System. X11R6.9, its companion release, contains identical features, and uses the exact same source code as X11R7.0, but with the traditional imake build system.

These changes in source code management, giving openness and transparency to the source code base and employing current technology, invite a new generation of developers to contribute, building on the long tradition of the X Window System. The new modular format offers focused development, and rapid and independent updates and distribution of tested modular components as they are ready, freed from the biennial maintenance release timetable.

X.Org Foundation SECURITY ADVISORY

X.Org has been made aware of a possible security vulnerability in the XCreatePixmap function of the X Server, which is shipped as part of the X Window System. The affected code is used to create and reserve memory for a new pixmap in the X Server.

X Window System Test Suite Contributed by ApTest and The Open Group to The X.Org Foundation Released under "X" Open Source License.

Brookline Massachusetts, 18 April 2005.

The X.Org Foundation, global steward of the X Window System* and Standards, announced today that ApTest and The Open Group have together donated their VSW5 Test Suite to The X.Org Foundation, where it shall be released under their standard Open Source license as XTS 5.0.2. The X Window System is released by the X.Org Foundation under the MIT ("X") License. The VSW5 Test Suite is the industry best practice in testing the X Window System.

All Official X.Org releases are free and available for download from ftp://www.x.org/pub and at mirror-sites world-wide.