XFree86® Experimental Source Snapshots

XFree86 interim experimental source code snapshots, snaps, are fast moving versions which are used to test new features. By their very nature, snaps are unpredictable and can cause loss of service for either your driver, the X server or at very least create very erratic results. Alternatively, you may experience no problems whatsoever.

Because of those caveats, experimental snaps are best reserved for XFree86 developers (typically coders and testers), intrepid souls who are very comfortable, and unpreturbed by, working with code in flux. Questions about your test results should be reported, as always, to the XFree86 community development list.

Our experimental snaps are available from our ftp server in tarball format. They are generated automatically on a semi-monthly basis, which is currently the 8th and 23rd, during the experimental phase.

These tarred-snaps are useful for those who prefer to download large source tarballs or source patches instead of using the CVS. Once downloaded, these snaps must still be compiled and installed but they are complete in themselves and there is no need to go back and take previous snaps to have a (un:-)successful build. Everything committed during the whole phase is accumulated into each new tar-snap.

Note: That's why it is always best to take the latest snap. Mixing and matching between snaps and CVS pulls is also not recommended, as our tree contains some binary files that "diff" cannot handle, so using source patches to get versions between snaps may not work reliably from one snap to the next.

As always with experimental work, community feedback is crucial so post your results to the development team (devel at XFree86 dot org) to let them know how it turns out.

Current Phase

Now that the 4.5.0 release has been rolled out, we are now in the experimental (development) phase for the 4.6.0 release.

Latest experimental snapshot: 4.5.99.19 (8 January 2006)

The CVS tag for this snapshot is xf-4_5_99_19.

4.5.99.19 Changes:

XFree86 4.5.99.19 (8 January 2006)
 178. Xterm patch #208 (Thomas Dickey).
 177. Fix odd crash in ATI driver probe (David Dawes).

Last Modified: 10 January 2006

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80. Fix missing Makefile dependencies for (f)lex source (Marc La France). 279. Re-instate DMX builds; Fix glxProxy builds; By default, disable glxProxy in XFree86 builds pending further work (Marc La France). 278. Add an input driver for ELO Graphics 2500U USB touchscreens (Fred Gleason). 277. Make sure that all module ABI revs are bumped for Xllalloc and friends (David Dawes). 276. Ensure DGA screen dimensions fit in 16 bits (Marc La France). 275. Fix handling of PCI 64-bit BARs (Derived from Michael Yaroslavtsev; Bugzilla #1531). 274. Fix strtkysym test failure (Alan Coopersmith). 273. Fix for en_IE.ISO8859-15 locale (Barry Scott). 272. Allow black as an XV colourkey in the Savage driver (Angelus Dei). 271. Fix S3 Virge driver bug when mode restorations result in a switch between colour and mono operation (Joachim Kuebart). 270. Fixes for the Croatian XKB map (#7002, Vlatko Kosturjak). 269. Fix off-by-one problem for keys on FreeBSD/sparc64 (Bugzilla #1503, Marius Strobl). 268. Improve the handling of timeouts in R128CCEWaitForIdle() (Bugzilla #271, Michel Dänzer). 267. Add 9 missing South African locales (Bugzilla #1526, Dwayne Bailey). 266. Fix the xf86fbman's largest linear area offscreen computation (Bugzilla #1527, Egbert Eich, submitted by Michael Lampe). 265. Xterm patch #198 (Thomas Dickey).

Last Modified: 4 February 2005

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