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| -rw-r--r-- | NEWS | 57 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | README | 9 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | configure.ac | 4 |
3 files changed, 64 insertions, 6 deletions
@@ -1,3 +1,60 @@ +Release 1.1 (2007-11-04) +======================== + +This release requires xcb-proto 1.1, due to the addition of the +extension-multiword attribute to the XML schema. + +This release contains several important bug fixes, summarized below. It +also contains a patch much like Novell's libxcb-sloppy-lock.diff. +Rationale from the commit message follows. The patch and this rationale +were authored by Jamey Sharp <jamey@minilop.net>, with agreement from +Josh Triplett <josh@freedesktop.org>. + + I strongly opposed proposals like this one for a long time. + Originally I had a very good reason: libX11, when compiled to use + XCB, would crash soon after a locking correctness violation, so it + was better to have an informative assert failure than a mystifying + crash soon after. + + It took some time for me to realize that I'd changed the libX11 + implementation (for unrelated reasons) so that it could survive most + invalid locking situations, as long as it wasn't actually being used + from multiple threads concurrently. + + The other thing that has changed is that most of the code with + incorrect locking has now been fixed. The value of the assert is + accordingly lower. + + However, remaining broken callers do need to be fixed. That's why + libXCB will still noisily print a stacktrace (if possible) on each + assertion failure, even when assert isn't actually invoked to + abort() the program; and that's why aborting is still default. This + environment variable is provided only for use as a temporary + workaround for broken applications. + +Enhancements: +* Print a backtrace, if possible, on locking assertion failures. +* Skip abort() on locking assertions if LIBXCB_ALLOW_SLOPPY_LOCK is set. +* xcb_poll_for_event: Return already-read events before reading again. +* Output a configuration summary at the end of ./configure. + +Bug fixes: +* Don't hold the xlib-xcb lock while sleeping: that allows deadlock. +* Allow unix:<screen> style display names again. +* Bug #9119: test xcb_popcount +* Fix unit tests for FreeBSD +* NetBSD doesn't have AI_ADDRCONFIG: use it only if it's available. +* Require libXau >= 0.99.2; earlier versions have a broken .pc file +* Use substitition variables in xcb-xinerama.pc.in +* Update autogen.sh to one that does objdir != srcdir +* Add tools/* and autogen.sh to EXTRA_DIST. +* Doxygen can now be fully disabled if desired. + +Documentation improvements: +* Many fixes and updates to the tutorial. +* Iterators, requests, and replies get partial Doxygen documentation. + + Release 1.0 (2006-11-23) ======================== @@ -1,11 +1,12 @@ About libxcb ============ -libxcb provides an interface to the X Window System protocol, which replaces -the current Xlib interface. It has several advantages over Xlib, including: -- size: small library and lower memory footprint +libxcb provides an interface to the X Window System protocol, which +replaces the current Xlib interface. It has several advantages over +Xlib, including: +- size: small, simple library, and lower memory footprint - latency hiding: batch several requests and wait for the replies later -- direct protocol access: one-to-one mapping between interface and protocol +- direct protocol access: interface and protocol correspond exactly - proven thread support: transparently access XCB from multiple threads - easy extension implementation: interfaces auto-generated from XML-XCB diff --git a/configure.ac b/configure.ac index b446e7f..df554e6 100644 --- a/configure.ac +++ b/configure.ac @@ -3,7 +3,7 @@ AC_PREREQ(2.57) AC_INIT([libxcb], - 1.0, + 1.1, [xcb@lists.freedesktop.org]) AC_CONFIG_SRCDIR([xcb.pc.in]) AM_INIT_AUTOMAKE([foreign dist-bzip2]) @@ -30,7 +30,7 @@ fi AC_SUBST(HTML_CHECK_RESULT) # Checks for pkg-config packages -PKG_CHECK_MODULES(XCBPROTO, xcb-proto >= 1.0) +PKG_CHECK_MODULES(XCBPROTO, xcb-proto >= 1.1) NEEDED="pthread-stubs xau >= 0.99.2" PKG_CHECK_MODULES(NEEDED, $NEEDED) |