The X.Org Foundation provides an open source implementation of the X Window System. The development work is being done as part of the freedesktop.org community.

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· PciReworkProposal: PCI bus scanning/accessing code replaced with libpciaccess (IanRomanick).
· MacOS X updates: Xquartz fixes, launchd support, and more (BenByer and JeremyHuddleston)
· x11perf 1.5: Compositing tests added.
· xtrans 1.1: Support for abstract socket namespace under Linux.
· xf86-input-evdev 2.0.x: Many stability and completeness fixes, should work out of the box with a large range of devices, plus middle-button emulation for mice.
· xf86-video-ati 6.9.x: Support for r5xx/r6xx/r7xx (RadeonHD 1xxx/2xxx/3xxx) devices added, including textured video for r5xx. Full RandR 1.2 support for all chipsets.
· EXA: Numerous speedups (inc. font rendering), cleanups, and correctness fixes.
· libX11 1.1.5: Numerous i18n additions and fixes (JamesCloos).
· xorg-server 1.5: Faster startup and shutdown, lots of code removal, EDID 1.4, Secure RPC authentication, GLX and DRI passthrough support for Xephyr, smarter autoconfiguration, pervasive and coherent XACE security framework, easier building of GL code, numerous input-related bugfixes.