Solved xorg-server 21.1.0

grahamperrin · Nov 6, 2021

… this release would not have happened if an effort to improve touchpad support in Linux was not funded for the past year and [a] half. …

For now, <https://www.freshports.org/x11-servers/xorg-server/#history> the port to FreeBSD is at 1.20.13,1.

sidetone · Nov 7, 2021

I don't understand the numbering method. In multiple sources, it says, version 21.1.0.

https://www.x.org/wiki/XServer/. The numbering is difficult to follow here, until you realize that it needs a decimal point, after it jumps from 19 to 110. It goes to 113 which must mean 1.13. I don't see 2.x series. The number of how a gap would be from 1.2 to 21.x doesn't make sence, unless they're using shorthand, which is confusing. It looks like they're using different numbering methods for talking about the same series.

Is 21.1.x actually 1.21.1.x by removing the 1. prefix? Or 21.x would be 2.1.x?

grahamperrin · Nov 7, 2021

sidetone said:
I don't understand the numbering method. …

<https://www.x.org/releases/individual/xserver/?C=M;O=D>

reverse chronological order
pointing at the first release candidate for standalone Xwayland 21.1.0 (2021-02-17)
xorg-server- highlighted
green highlight at the first development snapshot of the Xorg 21.1 release series (2021-07-05)

The same phrase appears in two commits:

This effectively changes the versioning to be as if xserver 21.0 was xserver 1.21.0. This should keep any client-side version checks that know about the Xorg 7.0 -> xserver 1.0 epoch from getting confused.

~~I guess that 21.⋯ was chosen because the changes occurred in 2021.~~

[ANNOUNCE] xorg-server 21.1.1 (2021-11-06)

Solved xorg-server 21.1.0

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