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| * [:Projects/XACE:XACE]: The XACE security framework has been merged, allowing the development of new, extensible, security models. * [http://xcb.freedesktop.org XCB]: XCB is part of the 7.2 release, including libX11 based on XCB for its transport. |
* [[Projects/XACE|XACE]]: The XACE security framework has been merged, allowing the development of new, extensible, security models. * [[http://xcb.freedesktop.org|XCB]]: XCB is part of the 7.2 release, including libX11 based on XCB for its transport. |
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| You can download 7.2.0 from either a [:Releases/Mirrors:mirror], or the [http://xorg.freedesktop.org/releases/X11R7.2/ master site]. | You can download 7.2.0 from either a [[Releases/Mirrors|mirror]], or the [[http://xorg.freedesktop.org/releases/X11R7.2/|master site]]. |
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| Due to bugs in the documentation toolchain, documentation for this release is not available online at the moment. The [:PressReleases/X11R72Released:press release] is available. | Due to bugs in the documentation toolchain, documentation for this release is not available online at the moment. The [[PressReleases/X11R72Released|press release]] is available. |
The X.Org Foundation released 7.2.0 (aka X11R7.2) on February 15th, 2007.
Features
- Autoconfiguration: The X server can now start without an xorg.conf file in most cases.
- GL compositing managers: A number of improvements were merged that better enable the use of GL-based compositing managers such as Compiz and Beryl.
- i965: Intel i965 chipsets (aka X3000) are supported in this release.
XACE: The XACE security framework has been merged, allowing the development of new, extensible, security models.
XCB: XCB is part of the 7.2 release, including libX11 based on XCB for its transport.
- xdm: Among other improvements, xdm now supports PAM, for better authentication.
Download
You can download 7.2.0 from either a mirror, or the master site.
Documentation
Due to bugs in the documentation toolchain, documentation for this release is not available online at the moment. The press release is available.