AW: Preparing for libX11 1.7.0

[Walter Harms]

before the actions start,
i would like to point out that Vittorio Zecca reported a use-after-free in LibX11. It is reproduceable and it is found with libtk.

jm2c
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Von: xorg-devel <xorg-devel-bounces at lists.x.org> im Auftrag von Matthieu Herrb <matthieu at herrb.eu>
Gesendet: Montag, 16. November 2020 07:30:59
An: xorg-devel at lists.freedesktop.org
Betreff: Re: Preparing for libX11 1.7.0

On Sun, Nov 15, 2020 at 02:01:15PM -0800, Keith Packard wrote:
> Alan Coopersmith <alan.coopersmith at oracle.com> writes:
>
> > Since https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/xorg/lib/libx11/-/merge_requests/15
> > was merged, I was thinking the next release should be 1.7.0 since it has
> > a new API people may want to check for with pkg-config version checks,
> > but yes, a new release once things finish getting merged seems like a
> > good idea.
>
> Thanks for thinking about what the version number should be. I've
> updated the subject line accordingly.
>

Hi,

Since a new API was added, the shared lib version number in
src/Makefie.am probably needs to be adjusted too.

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Matthieu Herrb
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