[ANN] X11R6.8.2 Release Candidate 3 is out! (fwd)

[Alexander Gottwald <alexander dot gottwald at s1999 dot tu-chemnitz dot de>]

Hi,

I've prepared cygwin packages for Release Candidate 3 of the
upcoming Xorg 6.8.2 release. They are available from the usual
cygwin mirrors once they arrive there and are marked as "test"
in the setup and named xorg-x11-*-6.8.1.903.

Please test them and report bugs if you find any. The announcement
from X.org is enclosed below. 

I'll remove the 6.8.1.902 packages from the cygwin server and the
freedesktop.org download site.

bye
	ago

From: Roland Mainz <roland.mainz@nrubsig.org>
Subject: [ANN] X11R6.8.2 Release Candidate 3 is out!


  X11R6.8.2 Release Candidate 3 (RC3) of the X Window System
  ========================================================
            
         X.Org Foundation Releases Maintaince Update
            For X Window System Version X11R6.8.x

The third release candidate for X11R6.8.2 is ready for testing.  The
upcoming X11R6.8.2 release is intended to be a stable bug fix release
and we would very much appreciate your help to build and test this
release candidate.  Please report any problems you find in Xorg's
bugzilla (https://bugs.freedesktop.org/enter_bug.cgi?product=xorg).

## IMPORTANT: This is likely the LAST release canidate and therefore the
last chanche to do testing before the FINAL version will be shipped! ##

This release candidate is currently labeled "experimental" and is only
made available for testing and evaluation purposes.

* Notes for testers:
- Various drivers, modules and other infrastructure got
  significant updates and need to be thoroughly tested by the
  community, including:
  - "radeon" video driver
  - "nv" (nvidia) video driver
  - ATI Rage128 video driver
  - ATI R100 video driver
  - Intel i810 video driver
  - "neomagic" video driver
  - Postscript print driver
  - Xprint infrastructure update
  - Mesa (OpenGL) update to release 6.2
  - libXpm security update (CAN-2004-0914)
  ... and many many other things...

- The full changelog for the X11R6.8.x stable branch can be found under
http://cvs.freedesktop.org/xorg/xc/ChangeLog?only_with_tag=XORG-6_8-branch&view=log

- The X11R6.8.2 RC3 source code can be obtained as follows:
  - Source tarballs are available from
http://xorg.freedesktop.org/X11R6.8.2/xorg-x11-6.8.1.903.tar.bz2
http://xorg.freedesktop.org/X11R6.8.2/xorg-x11-6.8.1.903.tar.gz
http://xorg.freedesktop.org/X11R6.8.2/xorg-x11-6.8.1.903.tar.Z [1]

md5 checksums are:
MD5 (xorg-x11-6.8.1.903.tar.bz2) = d3008407381364a3e8a6e0cce5620d37  
MD5 (xorg-x11-6.8.1.903.tar.gz)  = 4c72bb3346722621d09a9b60b5ae1fb0  
MD5 (xorg-x11-6.8.1.903.tar.Z)   = 26ede25a29bbf0d072bb87ee94508a7c  

[1]=The "xorg-x11-6.8.1.903.tar.Z" source tarball was created with
Solaris /usr/bin/tar for those platforms who can't deal with the GNU tar
format (which was used to package "xorg-x11-6.8.1.903.tar.bz2" and
"xorg-x11-6.8.1.903.tar.gz").

  - Anonymous CVS:
  % export CVSROOT=:pserver:anoncvs@cvs.freedesktop.org:/cvs/xorg
  % cvs -z6 checkout -r XORG-6_8_1_903 xc

  - For people with SSH access to the CVS repository:
  % export CVSROOT=:ext:foobar@cvs.freedesktop.org:/cvs/xorg
  % export CVS_RSH=ssh
  % cvs -z6 checkout -r XORG-6_8_1_903 xc

* Next step is to get the final version out in (more or less) two weeks
unless serious showstoppers will be found.

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