Release manager: KeithPackard

Stable branch maintainer: PeterHutterer

== Schedule ==
 * End of feature merge window: 2009-12-31
 * End of bugfix window: 2010-2-28
 * Release of 1.8.0: 2010-3-31

== Features ==

 * [[http://who-t.blogspot.com/2010/01/new-configuration-world-order.html|New input hotplug and configuration system]], including:
   * [[XorgHAL|HAL Replacement]] - udev support for Linux integrated, other OS'es TBD
   * [[http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/xorg-devel/2009-November/003710.html|xorg.conf.d]]

== Proposing patches for 1.8.x ==

The 1.8 branch has reached the [[http://lists.x.org/archives/xorg-devel/2010-June/009460.html|end]] of its active development lifecycle.  Patches may be committed directly to the [[http://cgit.freedesktop.org/xorg/xserver/log/?h=server-1.8-branch|server-1.8-branch]].  If you feel the need to make an additional maintenance release from this branch, please discuss it on the [[http://lists.x.org/mailman/listinfo/xorg-devel|xorg-devel]] mailing list after making sure it [[http://lists.x.org/archives/xorg-devel/2010-June/009484.html|doesn't perform worse]] than the previous release.