Precisely one year after the founding of the X.Org Server fork, the release of XLibre 25.1.6 has been presented. This release marks the transition of the 25.1 branch to stable status (previous updates had beta quality and were intended for testing). XLibre is used by default in the distributions of Artix Linux, GhostBSD, OpenMandriva, and Vendefoul Wolf. For Arch Linux, Debian, DragonFly BSD, Fedora, FreeBSD, Gentoo Linux, GNU Guix, Linux Mint, MX Linux, RHEL, Slackware, Ubuntu, and Void Linux, the community supports packages to replace X.Org Server with XLibre.
Key changes in the XLibre XServer 25.1 branch:
- Support for the libseat library and the background process seatd has been added, providing capabilities for session management and organization of access to shared input and output devices (which can be used as an alternative to systemd-logind).
- Improved support for proprietary NVIDIA drivers. In addition to previously supported releases of NVIDIA drivers 570+, support for older branches 340, 390, and 470 has been added, activated by specifying the 'legacy_nvidia_padding' flag when building Xserver, allowing one to avoid setting the IgnoreABI parameter in the ServerFlags directive.
On systems with the NVIDIA driver, support for the 2D acceleration architecture GLAMOR has been enabled, which uses OpenGL to accelerate 2D operations (previously, GLAMOR support was disabled due to incompatibility with the 'modesetting' DDX driver on systems with NVIDIA drivers; this incompatibility has now been resolved). - A X-server Xfbdev has been returned, utilizing the framebuffer provided by the framebuffer device (\/dev\/fb*) in Linux. Xfbdev can operate without graphic drivers and is suitable for use in embedded systems and resource-constrained environments.
- The X11 extension Xnamespace has been implemented, providing client isolation through separation at the X11 namespace level.
- Support for the Cygwin platform (GNU environment for Windows) has been added.
- The ability to set the DPI property binding to different monitors has been introduced.
- Support for the deprecated DGA 1.0 protocol has been removed in the dga driver.
- Build testing for the platforms DragonFly BSD, FreeBSD, NetBSD, Cygwin (x86-64), macOS, and Windows has been implemented in the continuous integration system.
- Vulnerabilities CVE-2026-50256, CVE-2026-50257, CVE-2026-50258, CVE-2026-50259, CVE-2026-50260, CVE-2026-50261, CVE-2026-50262, and CVE-2026-50263 have been eliminated, which were recently fixed in X.Org Server 21.1.23 and xwayland 24.1.12.
A projektet Enrico Weigelt fejleszti, aki az X-serverhez készített módosítások számában az élen áll — Enrico X.Org Serveren végzett forkja előtt körülbelül 1600 módosítást fogadtak el, és még több mint 1200 módosítás került be a fork kódalapjába. Enrico a Linux kernel AMD FCH GPIO és VIRTIO GPIO meghajtóinak fenntartója is, valamint a Xnest fenntartója. A fork létrehozásának oka a X.Org kísérők politikájával való egyet nem értés volt, amely a fejlesztési stagnáláshoz vezetett, míg Enrico a X-server aktív fejlesztése és nagy megtisztítása mellett érvelt. A kísérők Enrico iránti elégedetlensége, amely a módosításainak elfogadásának leállításához vezetett, abból fakadt, hogy néhány a tisztításra vonatkozó módosítás problémákat, regressziókat, ABI megsértéseket és összeállítási hibákat okozott.
Forrás: opennet.ru
