Author: branden
Date: 2004-02-09 12:20:56 -0500 (Mon, 09 Feb 2004)
New Revision: 1017
Modified:
NEWS.xhtml
Log:
Add news item.
Modified: NEWS.xhtml
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--- NEWS.xhtml 2004-02-09 06:52:17 UTC (rev 1016)
+++ NEWS.xhtml 2004-02-09 17:20:56 UTC (rev 1017)
@@ -71,6 +71,11 @@
<h2 id="news">News and announcements</h2>
+ <p>[9 February] <strong>The remaining patches from the XFree86 "trunk" in
Subversion (i.e., the 4.2.1-<em>x</em>
+ Debian package series) have been ported forward.</strong> Thanks once
again to Nathanael Nerode for his assistance.
+ After integration of a couple of patches from upstream's
<code>xf-4_3-branch</code> (including a security fix), some
+ package testing and repository munging, XFree86 4.3.0-1 will be ready for
release. <address>branden</address></p>
+
<p>[3 February] <strong>The patch audit mentioned in the <a
href="/cgi-bin/viewcvs.cgi/branches/4.3.0/sid/debian/TODO">TODO file</a>
for the 4.3.0-1 release has been completed,
thanks to the invaluable assistance of Nathanael Nerode and David
Nusinow.</strong> Once the missing patches have
