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authorJamey Sharp <jamey@minilop.net>2007-11-04 17:29:13 -0800
committerJamey Sharp <jamey@minilop.net>2007-11-04 17:29:13 -0800
commit3c6c8f127c2bce4f45bface7dd45cc719af9de0d (patch)
tree5bd2587efffa7695c9202743ecef0ac71dfdbce9
parentaf50de26c10c93ccc4cd3bc61e92aff47651b961 (diff)
Release libxcb 1.11.1
-rw-r--r--NEWS57
-rw-r--r--README9
-rw-r--r--configure.ac4
3 files changed, 64 insertions, 6 deletions
diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS
index 91e7348..a0260cb 100644
--- a/NEWS
+++ b/NEWS
@@ -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)
========================
diff --git a/README b/README
index 5629fe9..167c8ac 100644
--- a/README
+++ b/README
@@ -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)