La X.org foundation ha annunciato il rilascio di X11R7.7, release 7.7 di X Window System. Questa release è parte delle celebrazioni per il 25esimo anniversario del rilascio di X Window System version 11, avvenuto il 15 settembre 1987. La prossima release di X11, X11R7.8, sarà disponibile nel 2013.

The X.Org Foundation and the global community of X.Org developers announce the release of X11R7.7 - Release 7.7 of the X Window System, Version 11. This release is the eighth modular release of the X Window System. The next full release will be X11R7.8 and may happen in 2013.

This release is part of our celebration of 25 years of X11, recognizing the 25th anniversary of X Window System Version 11, Release 1 (X11R1) on September 15, 1987. We will continue this celebration later this year at the X.Org Developer Conference, hosted by SuSE in Nürnberg, Germany on September 19-21.

X11R7.7 supports Linux, BSD, Solaris, Mac OS X, Microsoft Windows and GNU Hurd systems. It incorporates both new features and stability and correctness fixes, including support for reporting multi-touch events from touchpads and touchscreens which can report input from more than one finger at a time, smoother scrolling from scroll wheels, better cross referencing & formatting of the documentation, pointer barriers to control cursor movement, and synchronization fences to coordinate between X and other rendering engines such as OpenGL.

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Gli sviluppatori di X.org hanno annunciato il rilascio della versione 7.6 di X11. Note di rilascio a questa pagina, changelog a questa pagina. Il codice è disponibile a questa pagina.

Annunciato il rilascio della quarta beta di VirtualBox 4.0.0. Download possibile da questa pagina.

The following items were added/fixed since VirtualBox 4.0.0 Beta 3:

• Audio: fixed memory corruption under certain circumstances
• 3D support: fixed OpenGL support for Windows 2000 guests
• Settings: modifying VM session could lose disk attachments (4.0 Beta 3 regression)
• OVA: fixed crash during import
• GUI: better OS type string matching
• GUI: fixed redraw problem on X11 guests with multiple monitors attached (Mac OS X hosts only)
• GUI: remember last directory in file dialogs
• Settings: fixed .vbox file format portability issue with snapshots (backslashes)
• ExtPacks: fixed installation on certain Linux hosts (e.g. openSUSE)
• ExtPacks: require sudo for installation on Linux and Solaris hosts
• Storage: fixed possible crash during suspend
• Storage: fixed raw disk access on OS X
• Storage: lower the CPU usage for low disk I/O bandwidth limits
• Storage: added multi-attachment image mode for shared disk clusters
• Storage: fixed SATA activity LED handling
• 2D: fixed seamless mode when 2D is on for Mac hosts
• Additions: fixed incompatibility with SLED 11

Appena una settimana dopo il rilascio della seconda beta, Oracle ha rilasciato la terza beta di VirtualBox 4.0. Download possibile da questa pagina.

The following items were added/fixed since VirtualBox 4.0.0 Beta 2:

• Solaris hosts: another fix for installing ExtPacks on Solaris
• Solaris hosts: properly register mime types
• GUI: fixed a crash if maximizing a guest window is not allowed
• GUI: remember recent mounted mediums
• GUI: fixed additions mounting
• GUI: added hint how to get out of the scale mode
• GUI: fixed black fullscreen minitoolbar on KDE4 hosts (bug #5449)
• GUI: allow to update / downgrade / reinstall ExtPacks
• 3D support: fixed incorrect rendering for some d3d8/9 apps
• 3D support: fixed OpenGL support for 32bit apps on 64bit Windows XP SP2
• 3D support: fixed installation on Linux without DKMS
• 3D support: fixed OpenGL support for libMesa 7.9
• VGA: fixed crash when booting VMs with older additions
• OVA: allow individual files greater 8GB
• Storage: performance optimization by not using our own block cache for read-only mediums
• BIOS: implemented multi-sector reading, speeds up booting of certain guests (e.g. Solaris)
• VMM: fixed FreeBSD 8.1 boot hang for unrestricted guest execution with VT-x
• VMM: fixed performance regression for 32-bit SMP guests (VT-x + nested paging)
• VMM: fixed performance regression (VT-x with preemption timer only)
• VMM: improved fix for blocking NMIs triggered by active performance counters (Linux hosts in non-VT-x/AMD-V mode only; bug  #7819)
• User Manual: Windows help file (.chm) is searchable again
• Windows Additions: fixed Windows 2000 guests (4.0.0 Beta 1 regression)
• Solaris Additions: fixed guest X11 drivers
• Solaris Additions: fixed unexpected termination of VBoxService
• Linux Additions: fixed xorg.conf patching for older Linux (3.2.12 regression)