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@@ -1,3 +1,42 @@ +Snapshot 2.7.99.1 (2009-04-28) +------------------------------ +This is a development snapshot very early in the process toward +developing 2.8. There have been some big changes to the code, and +we're anxious to get feedback on these changes as early as possible. + +Here is a summary of the biggest changes: + + * Driver now depends on X server 1.6 or later + + * Eliminate XAA and EXA support (in favor of UXA) + + * Eliminate DRI1 support + + * Fixes for running without DRI at all + +These code removals represent a deletion of a substantial amount of +code, (and hopefully piles of bugs), as well as reduce the maintenance +effort going forward as the number of combinatorial configurations for +the driver are greatly reduced. This means that users are much more +likely to be running code that has actually been tested, and it will +be much easy for developers to replicate bugs that users experience. + +One of the things that would be most useful in testing this release is +to revisit any outstanding bugs that you have previously reported. If +the buggy behavior is gone, (or the bug is no longer relevant---such +as a bug that's specific to XAA only), please feel free to indicate so +in bugzilla or even just close the bug. + +If you confirm that the bug is still present, please indicate so in +the bug report. (I was going to ask that you select a 1.7.99 version, +but it looks like bugzilla only has versions for products not +compoenents, while we use a "xorg" product and a "driver/intel" +component.) We definitely want to make any such confirmed bugs a +priority, so it would be nice to have a consistent mechanism to search +for these bugs. Suggestions are welcome on the best approach. + +Thanks in advance for any testing or feedback on this snapshot. + Release 2.7.0 (2009-04-15) -------------------------- Compared to the 2.6 series, 2.7.0 has a large number of bug fixes, but |