xorg-server-21.1.9

[Bruce Dubbs]

New point version.

[Tim Tassonis]

Found no changelog yet.

[Tim Tassonis]

Bugger, this seems to have some CVE's attached, looks like an sa is needed:

• CVE-2023-5380
• CVE-2023-5367

More here:

​https://lists.x.org/archives/xorg-announce/2023-October/003430.html

Will have a look into these.

• mi: reset the PointerWindows reference on screen switch
• Xi/randr: fix handling of PropModeAppend/Prepend
• Switch to libbsd-overlay
• present: Send a PresentConfigureNotify event for destroyed windows

[Bruce Dubbs]

The xorg-server-21.1.8-tearfree_backport-1.patch still applies except for one hunk.

That part is

--- meson.build   2023-03-29 08:55:03.000000000 -0400
+++ meson.build   2023-07-19 23:32:39.011238907 -0400
@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@
             'c_std=gnu99',
         ],
         version: '21.1.8',
-        meson_version: '>= 0.47.0',
+        meson_version: '>= 0.56.0',
 )
 release_date = '2023-03-29'

For us this change is not really material, but the hunk can be updated by changing the version to '21.1.9' and date to '2023-10-25'.

[Tim Tassonis]

Fixed in commit bd70c0b428

[Bruce Dubbs]

Fixed at commits

d239c12a xwayland-23.2.2.
bd70c0b4 xorg-server-21.1.9.

Security advisories updated.