X.ORG Server 21.1 is available

Altus Intel
Altus Intel
  • Date Time

three and a half years after the past significant release formed Release X.ORG Server 21.1 . Starting from the represented branch, a new numbering scheme was commissioned, which allows you to immediately see how this or that version has been published. By analogy with the MESA project in the first number of the version, the year is reflected, the second number indicates the sequence number of the significant issue for the year, and the third number is used to mark corrective updates.

Main changes:

  • secured full support for the Meson assembly system. The ability to build using AutoTools is still preserved, but will be deleted in future releases.
  • in the X-server XVFB (x Virtual Framebuffer ) Added support for the 2D-acheloration architecture of GLAMOR, which uses OpenGL to perform all rendering operations. XVFB X-Server is outputting a buffer (emulates a frameBuer using virtual memory) and is able to work on systems without screen and input devices.
  • in the DDX driver Modesetting implemented support for the VRR mechanism (Variable Rate Refresh), which allows you to adaptively change the monitor update frequency to ensure smoothness and lack of breaks during games. The Modesetting driver is not tied to specific types of video chips and, in essence, resembles the VESA driver, but running over the KMS interface, i.e. It can be used on any equipment for which the DRM / KMS driver is operating at the kernel level.
  • Added support for the XInput 2.4 input system, in which the possibility of using control gestures on the touchpads.
  • Remote DMX mode (DISTRIBUTED MULTIGEAD X), allowed when using Xinerama to combine multiple X servers into one virtual screen. Support has been discontinued due to non-lack of technology and the availability of problems when using OpenGL.
  • Improved DPI Definition and is provided correctly informing the resolution of the display. Change may affect the drawing of applications in which their own work mechanisms are used with high-density screens (Hi-DPI).
  • DDX component XWayland, providing the launch of X.org Server to organize the execution of X11 applications in the Wayland database environment, is now available as a separate package with its development cycle that is not tied to the release of the X.org server.
/Media reports.

© 2024 - Altus Intel