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Release Notes for XFree86[tm] 4.4.0

The XFree86 Project, Inc

3 March 2004

This document contains information about features and their status in XFree86 4.4.0.

1. Introduction to the 4.x Release Series

2. Summary of new features in 4.4.0.

2.1. Security Updates

2.2. Video Driver Enhancements

2.3. Input Driver Enhancements

2.4. IPv6 support

2.5. X Server and Extension Updates

2.6. Client and Library Updates

2.7. I18N and Font Updates

2.8. OS Support Updates

3. Drivers

3.1. Video Drivers

3.2. Input Drivers

4. Known Problems

5. Overview of XFree86 4.x.

5.1. Loader and Modules

5.2. Configuration File

5.3. Command Line Options

5.4. XAA

5.5. Multi-head

5.6. Xinerama

5.7. DGA version 2

5.8. DDC

5.9. GLX and the Direct Rendering Infrastructure (DRI)

5.10. XVideo Extension (Xv)

5.11. X Rendering Extension (Render)

5.12. Other extensions

5.13. xedit

5.14. Font support

5.15. TrueType support

5.16. CID font support

5.17. Internationalisation of the scalable font backends

5.18. Large font optimisation

5.19. Unicode/ISO 10646 support

5.20. Xlib Compose file support and extensions

5.21. Luxi fonts from Bigelow and Holmes

6. Credits

7. Attributions/Acknowledgements

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