On 00:14 Fri 27 Aug , Rémi Cardona wrote: > Basically, 1.8 proved to be quite stable at first, then the successive > releases with various DRI2 backports from master/1.9 made it much more > crash-prone, especially on Intel chips. > > Since 1.9 was nearing its final release at that time, we just decided > for the stable branch to skip 1.8 altogether and jump straight to 1.9. > Apart from the new udev stuff, there's nothing really interesting for > our users in 1.8, except the patches that were back-ported from 1.9...
Perhaps this could serve as a lesson about backporting features rather than bugfixes to "stable" release series... -- Thanks, Donnie Donnie Berkholz Sr. Developer, Gentoo Linux Blog: http://dberkholz.wordpress.com
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