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+Changes in 1.9.0.2

+------------------

+- Update the following packages:

+     xserver git update until 21/9/2010

+     pixman git update until 21/9/2010

+     libX11 git update until 21/9/2010

+- Solved a number of problems with native opengl mode (-wgl)

+- Native opengl: updated to the latest opengl spec files

+- glx: synchronised with version of mesa currently used

+- Implemented smart schedule timer

+- Solved possible lockup when closing down

+

+Changes in 1.9.0.1

+------------------

+- Update the following packages:

+     xserver git update until 11/9/2010

+     pixman git update until 11/9/2010

+     libX11 git update until 11/9/2010

+- Solved regression swrast_dri.dll not working anymore

+- xlaunch: Make sure xdmcp is never selected in multiwindow mode

+

+Changes in 1.9.0.0

+------------------

+- Update the following packages:

+     xserver git update until 4/9/2010

+     xkeyboard-config 

+     libX11

+     pixman

+     libxcb

+     xkeyboard-config

+- synchronised glx with mesa version

+- make sure process exits when clipboard thread or multiwindow thread closes

+- added support for some multimedia keys

+

+Changes in 1.8.99.906

+---------------------

+- Update the following packages:

+     mesa-7.8.2

+     freetype 2.4.2

+     libX11 git update until 20/8/2010

+     libXdmcp git update until 20/8/2010

+     libXext git update until 20/8/2010

+     libXau

+     pixman

+     libxcb git update until 20/8/2010

+     xserver git update until 20/8/2010

+     xkeyboard-config git update until 20/8/2010

+     libXinerama git update until 20/8/2010

+- Fix a GDI bitmap resource leak of window icons

+- Internal WM workaround for Java AWT bug

+- Add a keycode mapping for VK_OEM_8 which can be issued by Canadian Multilingual

+  Standard layout

+- Update mapping for Canadian keyboard layouts

+  0x00000c0c "Canadian French (legacy)" => layout ca variant fr-legacy

+  0x00001009 "Canadian French" => layout ca variant fr

+  0x00011009 "Canadian Multilingual Standard" => layout ca variant multix

+- Cleanup in rootless code

+- xkbcomp: avoid needless recompilation when switching between debug and release

+- fixed wrong library name for freetype library

+

+

+Changes in 1.8.99.904

+---------------------

+- Update the following packages:

+     libXfont-1.4.2

+     libX11 git update until 11/7/2010

+     libXext git update until 11/7/2010

+     libxcb git update until 11/7/2010

+     xserver git update until 11/7/2010

+     xkeyboard-config git update until 11/7/2010

+     libXinerama git update until 11/7/2010

+- Solved possible dead-lock when exiting vcxsrv (when x-selection active)

+- Solved possible crash in _XReadEvents function

+

+Changes in 1.8.99.901

+---------------------

+- Update the following packages:

+     openssl-1.0.0a

+     mesa-7.8.1

+     xserver git update until 17/6/2010

+     libxcb git update until 17/6/2010

+     libXext git update until 17/6/2010

+     libX11 git update until 17/6/2010

+     xkeyboard-config git update until 17/6/2010

+

+Changes in 1.8.1

+----------------

+- Update the following packages:

+     xserver git update until 12/5/2010 (1.8.1)

+     Updated to xproto-7.0.17

+     xkeyboard-config git update until 17/5/2010

+     libxcb git update until 17/5/2010

+     Made it possible to compile with VS2010

+

+Changes in 1.8.0

+----------------

+- Update the following packages:

+     pixman-0.18.0

+     xorg-server-1.8.0

+     xkeyboard-config git update till 1/4/2010

+     mesa 7.8

+     freetype-2.3.12

+     openssl 1.0.0

+

+Changes in 1.7.99.902

+---------------------

+- Update the following packages:

+         pixman-0.17.10

+         xserver git update till 16/3/2010

+         xkeyboard-config git update till 16/3/2010

+         mesa 7.7

+         libXt-1.0.8

+- Added terminus-font-4.30

+- libwinmain: Make sure that control C only kills the process when a new console is created.

+- Solved problem when path environment variable was larger then 1024 bytes

+- Solved possible crash of accessing a null pointer

+- Enabled XCSECURITY

+- Solved 'ceil' undefined warning

+- Solved '_XSERVTransWSAStartup' undefined warning

+- Solved problem of some windows not being sizeable in multiwindow mode

+

+Changes in 1.7.99.901

+---------------------

+- Update the following packages:

+         pixman-0.17.6

+         xorg-server-1.7.99.901

+         xserver git update till 15/2/2010

+- Solved .xlaunch file extension registry problem in vista

+- Added opengl option in xlaunch

+- Added showin of log file in menu

+- Removed NATIVEGDI compilation (is currently not working)

+- Solved problem of certain windows not being sizeable in multiwindow mode

+- Also handle MappingNotify event in clipboard thread

+

+

+Changes in 1.7.99.6

+-------------------

+- Update the following packages:

+         libX11-1.3.3

+         pixman-0.17.4

+         glproto-1.4.11

+         xserver git update till 25/1/2010

+- Added patches for bug http://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=20500

+  0001-dix-EventToCore-needs-to-copy-the-root-window-too.patch

+  0001-Re-enable-the-RECORD-extension.patch

+- Solved a possible crash in closing down the screen due to use on an uninitialised pointer.

+- Solved problem in drawing of wide lines. Occured when plotting in octave.

+

+

+Changes in 1.7.99.5

+-------------------

+- Update the following packages:

+         freetype-2.3.11

+         mesa_7_6_1_rc1

+         xserver git update till 5/1/2010

+- Fixed problem of clipboard client being shutdown when connecting through xdmcp.

+- Always use screen 0 to start windows clients.

+- Multiwindow: solved problem of window not having the correct size.

+

+

+Changes in 1.7.99.4

+-------------------

+- Update the following packages:

+         libxcb-1.5

+         xcb-proto-1.6

+         xserver git update till 17/12/2009

+- Use swrast_dri_dbg.dll when running vcxsrv_dbg.exe

+- Added native opengl with the -wgl option

+

+  

+Changes in 1.7.99.3

+-------------------

+- Update the following packages:

+         pixman-0.17.2

+  

+- Switch to the git master branch for xserver

+- Added cygwin-aiglx branch of git://anongit.freedesktop.org/~jturney/xserver

+  to have native opengl rendering. Only working with -multiwindow and

+  when export LIBGL_ALWAYS_INDIRECT

+- vcxsrv.exe: When the first parameter is -console, the output is also written

+  to the console.

+- xinerama: solved endless loop problem when moving the cursor from one screen to there

+  other.

+- vcxsrv.exe: Set the current directory always to the directory where vcxsrv.exe is

+  installed, so the fonts are always found.

+  

+Changes in 1.7.99.2

+-------------------

+- Added the following packages:

+        xwininfo-1.0.5

+        xcalc-1.0.2

+        xclock-1.0.4

+        libXmu-1.0.5

+        libXaw-1.0.7

+        libXpm-3.5.8

+        libXext-1.1.1

+        libXt-1.0.7

+- Solved some building problems in the makefiles when building from cmd.exe

+- Do not open command window when running release build

+- Solved incorrect behaviour of writev in case the first send succeeded and the second returned with an error.

+- Solved crash in dix\colormap.c because wrong map was adjusted when the number of visuals was reallocated.

+

+Changes in 1.7.99.1

+-------------------

+- Updated to the following packages

+        libX11-1.3.2

+        xorg-server-1.7.99.1

+        xtrans-1.2.5

+        font-util-1.1.1

+- Now complete locale directory is build and packaged.

+- solved possible problem in xcb: Make sure the winsock library

+  and pthread library are initialised.

+- Solved problem of local fonts not being registered. This caused certain

+  application not to start (like xcalc)

+

+Changes in 1.7.0.1

+------------------

+- Updated to the following packages

+        encodings-1.0.3

+        font-adobe-75dpi-1.0.1

+        font-adobe-100dpi-1.0.1

+        font-adobe-utopia-75dpi-1.0.2

+        font-adobe-utopia-100dpi-1.0.2

+        font-adobe-utopia-type1-1.0.2

+        font-alias-1.0.2

+        font-arabic-misc-1.0.1

+        font-bh-75dpi-1.0.1

+        font-bh-100dpi-1.0.1

+        font-bh-lucidatypewriter-75dpi-1.0.1

+        font-bh-lucidatypewriter-100dpi-1.0.1

+        font-bh-ttf-1.0.1

+        font-bh-type1-1.0.1

+        font-bitstream-75dpi-1.0.1

+        font-bitstream-100dpi-1.0.1

+        font-bitstream-speedo-1.0.1

+        font-bitstream-type1-1.0.1

+        font-cronyx-cyrillic-1.0.1

+        font-cursor-misc-1.0.1

+        font-daewoo-misc-1.0.1

+        font-dec-misc-1.0.1

+        font-ibm-type1-1.0.1

+        font-isas-misc-1.0.1

+        font-jis-misc-1.0.1

+        font-micro-misc-1.0.1

+        font-misc-cyrillic-1.0.1

+        font-misc-ethiopic-1.0.1

+        font-misc-meltho-1.0.1

+        font-misc-misc-1.1.0

+        font-mutt-misc-1.0.1

+        font-schumacher-misc-1.1.0

+        font-screen-cyrillic-1.0.2

+        font-sony-misc-1.0.1

+        font-sun-misc-1.0.1

+        font-util-1.1.0

+        font-winitzki-cyrillic-1.0.1

+        font-xfree86-type1-1.0.2

+        libXfont-1.4.1

+        mkfontscale-1.0.7

+- Added mesa 7.6. Opengl is working now.

+- Bug fix in miClipPictureSrc function.

+

+Changes in 1.7.0

+----------------

+- Updated to the following packages:

+        fixesproto-4.1.1

+        randrproto-1.3.1

+        libxkbfile-1.0.6

+        xkeyboard-config-1.7

+        pixman-0.16.2

+        libX11-1.3

+        libXinerama-1.1

+        xkbcomp-1.1.1

+        recordproto-1.14

+        xineramaproto-1.2

+        inputproto-2.0

+        compositeproto-0.4.1

+        xorg-server-1.7.0

+- Removed most tracing in release version. Use vcxsrv_dbg when you want a log of tracing.

+- Also install xerrordb file.

+- Make sure the temporary file gets deleted after keyboard compilation.

+- Take for the log file the same verbosity as for the screen.

+- Change trace buffer from static to local to avoid problems in multithreaded tracing.

+- Print some more information in X error handler.

+- Solved run-time downcast errors in debug version.

+- Solved error: XSetWindowBorderWidth can only be called if the window class is different from InputOnly

+- Make it possible to overrule XSERVER_DTRACE in the makefiles

+- Call XSelectInput when a window is mapped and not when it is created.

+  (There seems to be windows which created and destroyed soon without being

+   mapped to real windows. This was causing some errors.)

+

+

+Changes in 1.1.2

+----------------

+- Updated to the following packages:

+        xorg-server-1.6.99.902

+        xproto-7.0.16

+        libXdmcp-1.0.3

+        bdftopcf-1.0.2

+- Solved endless looping when clipboardthread is restarted due to winioerrhandler.

+  Caused an unexpected exit of the server when the -clipboard option was specified.

+- Solved possible crash upon server restart because some global pointers

+  were not initialised back to 0

+

+Changes in 1.1.1

+----------------

+- Updated to the following packages:

+        xorg-server-1.6.99.901

+        xkeyboard-config-1.6.99

+- Enabled support for xinerama

+- Rewritten part of the clipboard code (sometimes clipboard was

+  not working as expected)

+  One problem remains (clipboard thread exiting at startup.). This

+  one is hard to solve since no known recipy to reproduce.

+- Now also install the debug version of the executable (vcxsrv_dbg).

+  This version has some more logging and error checking.

+- Solved stack corruption in QueryMonitor. Now use multimon.h

+- Bug solved in xcb_conn.c: use closesocket instead of close.

+- Also display the number of active clients in the tray icon tooltip text.

+

+Changes in 1.1.0

+----------------

+- Updated to the following packages:

+        libX11-1.2.99.901.tar.gz

+        xtrans-1.2.4.tar.gz

+        fontsproto-2.1.0.tar.gz

+        damageproto-1.2.0.tar.gz

+        xcmiscproto-1.2.0.tar.gz

+        bigreqsproto-1.1.0.tar.gz

+        scrnsaverproto-1.2.0.tar.gz

+        resourceproto-1.1.0.tar.gz

+        xextproto-7.1.1.tar.gz

+        recordproto-1.13.99.1.tar.gz

+        inputproto-1.9.99.902.tar.gz

+        font-util-1.0.2.tar.gz

+        xorg-server-1.6.99.900.tar.gz

+- Make sure clipboard thread is cleaned up correctly on error.

+  Solved clipboard thread exits causing the clipboard not to be working.

+- Solved some errors in the fonts directory due to makefile problems

+

+Changes in 1.0.2

+----------------

+

+- installer: Do not show details by default

+- xlaunch: show message box when display number is nto filled in.

+- BUG: Solved right mouse button not working in multi window mode.

+- Added plink tool in installation.

+- Xlaunch is now a windows application in stead of a console application

+

+Changes in 1.0.1

+----------------

+

+- installer: make sure the latest version of the installed MSVC run-time is used.

+- BUG: Solved mouse wheel not behaving correctly (especially when there are multiple monitors)

+- locale: swith to the version of libX11/nls/C/makefile

+- clipboard: solved paste problem from X to windows (in Vista)

+- xkbcomp/listing.c: Solved uninitialised variable error in WIN32

+- xkbdata.src/symbols/level3: Removed warning when compiling for be keyboard.