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Features Added/Enhanced:

· XCB included in the katamari, required by libX11 1.4 and some clients.
· Xorg server 1.8 changes, including new input hotplugging and configuration framework
· Xorg server 1.9 changes
· Documentation: Most protocol & API docs moved from xorg-docs into individual proto/library modules, converted from legacy formats to DocBook/XML where possible.
· Massive amounts of configure.ac/Makefile.am cleanup & improvement. Lots of previously duplicated bits moved to xorg-macros (requiring recent xorg-macros versions when we build the tarballs, but unless you autoreconf that shouldn't affect people building from tarballs).
· Most of the COPYING file stubs have been replaced with actual copies of the copyright & license notices for easier packaging by distributors who provide such notices in their packages.

Features Removed:

· Xsdl - experimental kdrive server using SDL that was never finished
· Frame buffer support in XF86DGA
· Multibuffer extension in X servers - deprecated since the 90's