X.Org Server 1.9 Makes It Out On Time!

Keith Packard has announced the official release of X.Org Server 1.9 this evening. Besides this release offering up various bug-fixes and minor improvements, this X Server release is noteworthy as it happens to be the first release in recent times to actually make it out on time. X.Org Server 1.9 hit its original release schedule of being released on the 20th of August.

This is significant as some earlier releases were delayed by many months and such setbacks had become a fairly common occurrence with X.Org releases. In fact, there was more than a six month delay in just delivering a point release. Fortunately the new X Server development process is working out in everybody's favor and is good news for Ubuntu 10.10, Fedora 14, and other Linux vendors looking to ship updates with this new X.Org Server.

Among the changes for X.Org Server 1.9 are DRI2 improvements (a new authentication mechanism, buffer invalidation, etc), RandR 1.4 with per-CRTC pixmap support, code clean-ups, documentation updates, and much more.

Meanwhile, the X.Org 7.6 katamari release should be here by October. The xorg-server 1.9.0 release announcement can be found on the X.Org mailing list.