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libX11 1.8.10 Brings Memory Safety Fixes
Alan Coopersmith of Oracle -- thanks to his work on Solaris and maintaining the X11 support -- continues to be one of the few developers left managing new X.Org software component releases
Alan Coopersmith of Oracle -- thanks to his work on Solaris and maintaining the X11 support -- continues to be one of the few developers left managing new X.Org software component releases. * Re-fix XIM input sometimes jumbled * Fix various static analysis errors * Add compose sequences for Arabic hamza, Ezh, and hryvnia currency * Make colormap private interfaces thread safe * Fix deadlock in XRebindKeysym() * Assorted memory handling cleanups * Restore VAX support still in use by NetBSD Downloads at X.org.About The AuthorMichael Larabel is the principal author of Phoronix.com and founded the site in 2004 with a focus on enriching the Linux hardware experience. Michael is also the lead developer of the Phoronix Test Suite, Phoromatic, and OpenBenchmarking.org automated benchmarking software.
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