Mesa 17.3 Coming Soon, X.Org Server 1.19.5 is Out
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Mesa 17.3 Will Be Branching Soon For Releasing In Mid-November
Feature development for Mesa 17.3 will be over soon in order to get this quarterly update to Mesa3D shipping next month.
Release manager Emil Velikov is planning to issue the feature freeze and first release candidate next Friday, 20 October. That will mark the deadline for getting major features/improvements into Mesa 17.3, after which point it will be reserved for bug fixes.
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xorg-server 1.19.5
One regression fix since 1.19.4 (mea culpa), and fixes for CVEs 2017- 12176 through 2017-12187. C is a terrible language, please stop writing code in it.
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X.Org Server 1.19.5 Released To Fix Another Handful Of Security Vulnerabilities
Ouch, so basically a lot of potential for buffer overflows. Sadly, this is not the first time we have seen a big batch of X.Org Security vulnerabilities and security researchers in the past have generally characterized X.Org security as even worse than it looks.
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