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Several New X.Org Libraries See 2026 Releases (www.phoronix.com)
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While we wait to see what comes of the new X.Org Server Git branch plans and a possible X.Org Server 26.1 release, several X.Org libraries saw new point releases this weekend. These seldom-updated libraries saw new releases to ship various build fixes and other minor improvements.

Alan Coopersmith of Oracle's Solaris team and long-time X.Org release wrangler spent a lot of time this weekend shipping new upstream X.Org library updates

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[-] Samueru_sama@programming.dev 0 points 1 week ago

and one bug that was quickly caught and fixed

The performance regression? It hasn't been fixed.

Maybe don’t use a distro that is specifically known for shipping new software very quickly.

You will run into old wayland bugs lol, like GTK4 apps being totally broken on intel.

https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/mesa/mesa/-/merge_requests/38373

and often structurally much better

On wayland even getting apps to draw their own icons is a total disaster, and doesn't help the constant sabotage from gnome of refusing to fix those issues, and don't get me started on the csd mess which is another source of nightmares.

Wayland suffers a lot of internal fragmentation, we didn't see these kind of issues in the move from pulseaudio to pipewire because there is really only one implemenation of pipewire, guess what would have happened a bunch of DEs decided to make their own implementations of pipewire instead?

[-] FooBarrington@lemmy.world 1 points 1 week ago

and one bug that was quickly caught and fixed

The performance regression? It hasn't been fixed.

You know - when you list two points, and I refer to those two points in my response, maybe assume that I'm responding in the same order you listed?

[-] Samueru_sama@programming.dev 1 points 1 week ago

You know - when you list two points, and I refer to those two points in my response, maybe assume that I’m responding in the same order you listed?

Nothing was quickly caught and fixed, the bug report is 7 months old:

https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/mesa/mesa/-/issues/13319

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