Xorg-server 26.1.0 rc1

st_goliath 118 points 102 comments August 20, 2026
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kobbs

Intel modesetting driver with tearfree support in a xorg release!

throw0101d

The mention of XQuartz (for macOS) reminded me to check that, and 2.8.6 was released mid-July: * https://www.xquartz.org/releases/bare/XQuartz-2.8.6.html Previously 2.8.5 was out in 2023: * https://www.xquartz.org/releases/bare/XQuartz-2.8.5.html There's a XQuartz 2.8.7 beta as well (xorg-server 26.1 rebase): * https://www.xquartz.org/releases/index.html

tyzoid

Isn't most of this already in xlibre?

self_awareness

Duplicate functionality compared to XLibre was reimplemented here from scratch, or sourced from XLibre?

Narishma

This is a much more substantial changelog than I was expecting for something that is often presented as a deprecated project.

ToyKeeper

Hooray! A new release of Xorg is always a good reason to celebrate. Long live the all-singing all-dancing feature-rich network-transparent display system which is still the best (and often only) solution for a lot of common user needs, even 39 years after its creation.

shrubble

Note that Enrico Weigelt is the "XLibre" guy and some of his fixes made it into this release, you can search for his name in the message.

unixhero

Out of the loop and this is definitely off topic, but what happened to the Xfree86 project? Is Xorg the same? The venerable xfree86config program is gone from the distrib so I assume it is not the same.

sbinnee

I used to run xorg and wayland together and switch between them because you know you setup xorg no matter what even if you daily drive wayland. Since 2024 or so however I don’t remember opening a xorg session.

vkaku

I'll wait to pick up the XLibre version of this with the correct patches.

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