[Xquartz-dev] XQuartz 2.8.3

[Jeremy Huddleston Sequoia]

Hi folks,

XQuartz 2.8.3 has been released.  This release addresses a few vulnerabilities that have been announced upstream over the past few months.  If you want more details on the vulnerabilities, I suggest you research the linked advisories and reach out to upstream maintainers.

    • Updated server to 21.1.4 to address CVE-2022-2319 and CVE-2022-2320
    • Updated pixman to 0.42.2 to address CVE-2022-44638
    • Updated xterm to 376b to address CVE-2022-45063

This release additionally contains fixes for the following bugs:

    • Fixed a crash when editing the Applications menu (#267)
    • Fixed a performance issue impacting gtk3 apps (quartz-wm:!2)
    • Re-added support for system-wide app preferences (#274)
    • Updated libXft to latest version to address an issue with text in Motif apps(#301)
    • Updated installer package to support downgrading XQuartz.zpp (#300)

See https://www.xquartz.org/releases/XQuartz-2.8.3.html for more details.