Priyantha Bleeker attendeerde ons op een nieuwe release van XFree86 4.2.1. Hieronder staan de veranderingen ten opzichte van de vorige versie:
2.1. Security2.2. Other
- Fix a zlib bug that may have security implications on some platforms.
- MIT-SHM update to not access SHM segments that the client doesn't have sufficient privileges to access.
- Fix an Xlib problem that made it possible to load (and execute) arbitrary code in privileged clients.
[break] FreeBSD 4.x
- Revert the ATI driver's composite sync default to a safer value.
- Fix Xlib's modular i18n support on Solaris.
- Fix an X server crash when printing some types of modes.
- Startx and xon script fixes.
- Fix a colormap bug with 24+8 overlay mode.
- Update XDarwin support for the Jaguar release.
- Xaw bug fix.
- Fix a vesa driver floating point exception.
- Fix Emulate3Buttons for wsmouse protocol on NetBSD and OpenBSD.
Linux x86
OpenBSD 3.0