Release History
See also: XFree86#Release history| Version | Release date | Most important changes |
|---|---|---|
| X1 | June 1984 | First use of the name "X"; fundamental changes distinguishing the product from W. |
| X6 | January 1985 | First version licensed to a handful of outside companies. |
| X9 | September 1985 | Color. First release under MIT License. |
| X10 | late 1985 | IBM RT/PC, AT (running DOS), and others |
| X10R2 | January 1986 | |
| X10R3 | February 1986 | First freely redistributable X release. Earlier releases required a BSD source license to cover code changes to init/getty to support login. uwm made standard window manager. |
| X10R4 | December 1986 | Last version of X10. |
| X11 | 15 September 1987 | First release of the current protocol. |
| X11R2 | February 1988 | First X Consortium release. |
| X11R3 | 25 October 1988 | XDM |
| X11R4 | 22 December 1989 | XDMCP, twm brought in as standard window manager, application improvements, Shape extension, new fonts. |
| X11R5 | 5 September 1991 | PEX, Xcms (color management), font server, X386, X video extension |
| X11R6 | 16 May 1994 | ICCCM v2.0; Inter-Client Exchange; X Session Management; X Synchronization extension; X Image extension; XTEST extension; X Input; X Big Requests; XC-MISC; XFree86 changes. |
| X11R6.1 | 14 March 1996 | X Double Buffer extension; X keyboard extension; X Record extension. |
| X11R6.2 X11R6.3 (Broadway) |
23 December 1996 | Web functionality, LBX. Last X Consortium release. X11R6.2 is the tag for a subset of X11R6.3 with the only new features over R6.1 being XPrint and the Xlib implementation of vertical writing and user-defined character support. |
| X11R6.4 | 31 March 1998 | Xinerama. |
| X11R6.5 | Internal X.org release; not made publicly available. | |
| X11R6.5.1 | 20 August 2000 | |
| X11R6.6 | 4 April 2001 | Bug fixes, XFree86 changes. |
| X11R6.7.0 | 6 April 2004 | First X.Org Foundation release, incorporating XFree86 4.4rc2. Full end-user distribution. Removal of XIE, PEX and libxml2. |
| X11R6.8.0 | 8 September 2004 | Window translucency, XDamage, Distributed Multihead X, XFixes, Composite.XEvIE |
| X11R6.8.1 | 17 September 2004 | Security fix in libxpm. |
| X11R6.8.2 | 10 February 2005 | Bug fixes, driver updates. |
| X11R6.9 X11R7.0 |
21 December 2005 | EXA, major source code refactoring. From the same source-code base, the modular autotooled version became 7.0 and the monolithic imake version was frozen at 6.9. |
| X11R7.1 | 22 May 2006 | EXA enhancements, KDrive integrated, AIGLX, OS and platform support enhancements. |
| X11R7.2 | 15 February 2007 | Removal of LBX and the built-in keyboard driver, X-ACE, XCB, autoconfig improvements, cleanups. |
| X11R7.3 | 6 September 2007 | XServer 1.4, Input hotplug, output hotplug (RandR 1.2), DTrace probes, PCI domain support. |
| X11R7.4 | 23 September 2008 | XServer 1.5.1, XACE, PCI-rework, EXA speed-ups, _X_EXPORT, GLX 1.4, faster startup and shutdown. |
| X11R7.5 | 26 October 2009 | XServer 1.7, Xi 2, XGE, E-EDID support, RandR 1.3, MPX, predictable pointer acceleration, DRI2 memory manager, SELinux security module, further removal of obsolete libraries and extensions. |
| X11R7.6 | 20 December 2010 | X Server 1.9, XCB requirement. |
| X11R7.7 | 6 June 2012 | Xorg server 1.10 changes, Xorg server 1.11 changes, Xorg server 1.12 changes; Sync extension 3.1: adds Fence object support; Xi 2.2 multitouch support; XFixes 5.0: Pointer Barriers. |
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