January 2023 - Xquartz-dev - lists.macosforge.org

2.8.5_rc1
by Jeremy Sequoia 19 Jan '23

19 Jan '23

Hi folks, I have just released XQuartz 2.8.5_rc1: https://www.xquartz.org/releases/XQuartz-2.8.5_rc1.html X.org announced a few vulnerabilities in libXpm today, so I decided it would be prudent to release XQuartz 2.8.5 sooner rather than later. All reported regressions from the rootless changes I was working on a few weeks ago have been addressed, but there could certainly be others hiding. Please live on this update to provide feedback. If you run into any regressions compared to 2.8.4, please identify which pre-release first introduced the issue as that will help narrow down the possible cause. Thanks, Jeremy

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XQuartz 2.8.5_beta12
by Jeremy Huddleston Sequoia 12 Jan '23

12 Jan '23

XQuartz 2.8.5_beta2 is available at https://www.xquartz.org/releases/XQuartz-2.8.5_beta2.html This serves mainly as a release for possible future triage. The primary difference between this and beta1 is that in beta1, COMPOSITE is disabled at build time. With beta2, we now build XQuartz with COMPOSITE but disable it at runtime. It *should* be functionally equivalent, but I wanted to have a release with just this change. Beta3 should have a bit more changes, and if there is fallout, it will be useful to have this beta2 to rule out this change as a cause. Thanks, Jeremy

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XQuartz 2.8.5_beta5
by Jeremy Huddleston Sequoia 12 Jan '23

12 Jan '23

Thanks to everyone who tried out the change in 2.8.3_beta3 (and 4) and provided feedback. I'm glad to see that these changes have addressed some longstanding crashes and some drawing issues. I believe all the reported regressions from these changes have been addressed in beta5: https://www.xquartz.org/releases/XQuartz-2.8.5_beta5.html Please do continue testing and providing feedback (especially if you see a regression compared to earlier versions). Thanks, Jeremy

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XQuartz 2.8.5_beta3
by Jeremy Huddleston Sequoia 04 Jan '23

04 Jan '23

Hi folks, I've just released XQuartz 2.8.5_beta3 which has quite a bit of change to our window resizing and pixmap management. It addresses a few reported crashes and may address some others that have eluded us over the years. I'd appreciate getting some feedback on this beta, especially if you use more complicated X11 applications or have a way of triggering odd crashes with certain workloads (especially ones with signatures in fbBlt(), miPaintWindow(), etc). https://github.com/XQuartz/XQuartz/releases/tag/XQuartz-2.8.5_beta3 If you run into issues, please collect a sysdiagnose, logs from ~/Library/Logs/X11, and whatever information you can provide before moving back to 2.8.5_beta2. Thanks! --Jeremy

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