Future and Features

• I've finally got hold of a test client that breaks OpenGL with 'standard' Xming (with both MS's and Mesa's opengl32.dll, but not Xming-mesa) and so have provided a zipped Xming-mesa executable on Website Releases (i.e. Xming.exe 7.3.0.22 with the older Mesa version 6.4.1 built-in) as a possible fallback (just use it to replace Xming.exe). You only need to substitute the file if you have a client that's failing to render. So more work is needed on the GLX driver software before finally ditching Xming-mesa.
• Fix a 'borders black, corrupted or missing' rendering error in -mwextwm mode e.g. with xcalc and oclock (tricky). XQuartz probably has the same miext/rootless error, and an API change (13/9/07 'Remove the PaintWindow optimization') seems to be the cause.
• Fix a 'paste from X client to parent PuTTY console' error with -multiwindow (tricky PuTTY error). The X clipboard selection from a child client is not available for GetClipboardData() in get_clip(). Until fixed, as a workaround, just paste to another PuTTY console.
• Complete the transition to modular builds (messy and time consuming). Status: just the xserver to be done.
• Get -pseudocolor to work with the various engines (tricky, I need an antique test 8-bit colour Unix system to progress this). As a workaround use -fullscreen at -depth 8.
• Re-work the engines to suit latest modular shadow and mieq code (messy and time consuming). XQuartz has the same task to complete.
• Build a dll version of libXfont with 'weak' local stub function resolving that allows external overloading (you will then get a slightly smaller installer). The linkage has always been static when building Xfont into Xming and Cygwin/X because of this stubs nonsense. By using a 'trick' the dll may be made usable, see libXt/src/Initialize.c for something similar, and SharedLibFont for the background. Also __attribute__((weak)) is not yet up to this task in gcc 4.3.0 mingw32.

Changes for version 7.3.0.25 (in the development snapshot)

• Update xserver, libX11, pixman, Mesa and xkeyboard-config from X.Org git.
• Provide an experimental/test option -expfocus for use in -multiwindow mode. X needs one focussed window at all time. Currently when changing focus from an X window to a pure Windows window the X focus is not altered. With this option it is reverted to the X root window when this change is messaged (WM_KILLFOCUS). It looks good so far and may become the norm in this version.
• Correct a regression in XLaunch, when using XDMCP -indirect, caused by some needed parentheses in a recent change.
• If portable 'pageant' is used to start 'putty', start it with the same working directory.
• Build using MinGW Runtime at version 3.15 and MinGW API for MS-Windows at version 3.12.
• Xming 7.3.0.24 (Released 2 Sep 2008)

Xming 7.3.0.24 (Released 2 Sep 2008)

• Update the FreeType2, PuTTY and Pthreads-Win32 projects from their CVS, and xserver, xkbcomp, libX11, libXau, libXfont and Mesa from X.Org git. Ignore a daft recent change to 'xfixes/cursor.c' which prevents the cursor appearing at server start.
• Correct an uninitialised use of 'select()' failing to timeout correctly in client 'ico'. Using 'Sleep()' is obviously simpler and avoids the alternative fix of starting WSA.
• Build using 'binutils' from CVS as of 1st September 2008.
• More simple tidying of the Xming portablePuTTY code.
• Various improvements and corrections to the website and manuals.
• Correct typos in the license.
• Xming 7.3.0.23 (Released 20 Aug 2008)

Xming 7.3.0.23 (Released 20 Aug 2008)

• Update the FreeType2 and PuTTY projects from their CVS, and xserver, setxkbmap, libXaw, libXi, pixman, Mesa and xkeyboard-config from X.Org git.
• Build using the latest '*printf()' family functions in the MinGW runtime, and updated 'binutils' from CVS as of 31st July 2008. Fix some NULL pointer calls to the '*printf()' functions.
• Make the 'View Log' and 'Finder' fixed menu items become 'viewlog' and 'finder' menu instructions in an Xmingrc file so that they have flexibility in name and position in X icon menus. These new keywords now have to be explicitly added to an Xmingrc file in order to be usable.
• Tidy up the XLaunch patches now that the compiler has improved.
• Correct the SourceForge Xming project URL in the license.
• Xming 7.3.0.22 (Released 22 Jul 2008)

Xming-portable-PuTTY 7.3.0.23 (Public domain release 20 Aug 2008)

• Catch up with the PuTTY project CVS.
• Correct some silly compilation warnings and tidy up patches now that the compiler has improved.
• Xming-portable-PuTTY 7.3.0.22 (Public domain release 22 Jul 2007)

Xming-fonts 7.3.0.22 (Public domain release 8 Aug 2008)

• Update to DejaVue fonts release 2.26.
• Xming-fonts 7.3.0.18 (Public domain release 22 Jul 2008)

Xming 7.3.0.22 (Released 22 Jul 2008)

• Update the FreeType2 and PuTTY projects from their CVS, and xserver, libX11, libXtrans, libXaw, libXi, pixman, Mesa and xkeyboard-config from X.Org git. Includes removal of the redundant XTrap extension.
• Build everything with gcc 4.3.0 mingw32 alpha (without using shared versions of libgcc, for now).
• Better compiler, so more warnings and errors have been reported and corrected.
• Provide a 'Finder' (-find) option for XLaunch that can be used to directly XPing the network for all responding XDMCP hosts. This can be used quickly to test for (and connect to) suitable hosts as it only uses one wizard page that automatically uses XPing on entry and allocates a display-number on 'Finish'. Also no configuration file is used/needed by this option.
• Add a 'Finder' option to the Xming system tray icon menu to easily run XPing (using the above change).
• XLaunch is now promoted from just being an optional component in the installer.
• Xming 7.3.0.21 (Released 22 Jun 2008)

Xming-portable-PuTTY 7.3.0.22 (Public domain release 22 Jul 2008)

• Catch up with the PuTTY project CVS.
• Don't depend on PuTTY's 'plink' code failing and calling 'usage()', if supplied with no options, use an explicit test.
• Xming-portable-PuTTY 7.3.0.19 (Public domain release 3 Jun 2007)

Xming 7.3.0.21 (Released 22 Jun 2008)

• Update the FreeType2 and Pthreads-Win32 projects from their CVS, and xserver, libX11, pixman, Mesa, xdpyinfo, xwininfo and xkeyboard-config from X.Org git. These include security updates CVE-2008-1377, CVE-2008-2360, CVE-2008-2361, CVE-2008-2362.
• Don't register the new XGE extension yet in libXext until the xserver code is ready for it. This prevents error: Xlib: extension "Generic Event Extension" missing on display... from spamming local X clients.
• Revert a change to 'count_bits()' in 'GL/windows/indirect.c', as the original algorithm is quicker.
• Prevent a null pointer dereference in 'GL/windows/indirect.c' that has always crashed with certain 'manywin' tests.
• Remove a fix for a crash with 'manywin' in 'winmultiwindowclass.c', introduced in 7.3.0.16, that has been solved elsewhere (not related to the fix above).
• Re-jig the MinGW toolchain for paths that are in step with gcc version 4.
• Xming 7.3.0.20 (Released 5 Jun 2008)

Xming 7.3.0.20 (Released 5 Jun 2008)

• Update the FreeType2 project from its CVS, and xserver and xkeyboard-config from X.Org git.
• 'xhost +' etc was broken in release 7.3.0.19. Fixed by reverting a git change in 'os/access.c' i.e. a 'TRUE' is not equivalent to 'Success' error!
• Function 'usleep()' is now defined in MinGW and 'snprintf()' has been corrected, so many patches are no longer needed.
• Xming 7.3.0.19 (Released 3 Jun 2008)

Xming 7.3.0.19 (Released 3 Jun 2008 and withdrawn)

• Update the FreeType2 and PuTTY projects from their CVS, and xserver, xkeyboard-config, pixman, libX11, libXext, libXtst and xdpyinfo from X.Org git. The deleted dix/xpstubs have been retained in the Xming xserver build as Xfont doesn't yet resolve weakly defined functions (see above).
• Build libXi, for the first time, and include in the installers.
• Modify Pthreads-Win32 to provide some essential null pointer dereference safety and to use winsock2.
• Cross build versions of opengl32.dll, glu32.dll and glut32.dll from Mesa 7.1 rc1 source using MinGW and put into the Xming installer as an option. When opengl32.dll is in the install directory it will be used by 'standard' Xming.exe instead of Microsoft's version. This build of Mesa opengl includes the X11 driver, uses pthreads and can be used with an 'external' dxtn.dll texture compressor.
• Separately provide a few test demos and samples, as well as the previously supplied xdemos, in 'mesa-test-clients.zip'. Why so many demo gears...

  wglinfo & wglgears use Mesa's opengl32.dll or, if not present, Microsoft's version
  glxinfo & glxgears are linked with Mesa's opengl32.dll and work via X
  glinfo & gears are linked with Mesa's opengl32.dll and work directly

  Mesa's opengl is slower than Microsoft's according to wglgears but more capable according to wglinfo, this is because Microsoft's works 'closer' to the hardware.
• Package Xming-mesa will no longer be supplied. It had Mesa 6.4.1 built-in and should be similar to 'standard' Xming running via a local Mesa 7.1 rc1 opengl32.dll, give-or-take any driver differences which will need sorting out.
• Tidy my patches tree as all libraries are now built separate from the xserver using modular sources.
• Xming & Xming-mesa 7.3.0.18 (Released 16 May 2008)

Xming-portable-PuTTY 7.3.0.19 (Public domain release 3 Jun 2008)

• Catch up with the PuTTY project CVS.
• Xming-portable-PuTTY 7.3.0.17 (Public domain release 14 Apr 2007)

Xming-fonts 7.3.0.18 (Public domain release 19 May 2008)

• Update to DejaVue fonts release 2.25.
• Xming-fonts 7.3.0.15 (Public domain release 10 Mar 2008)

Xming & Xming-mesa 7.3.0.18 (Released 16 May 2008)

• Update 'sha1.c' from XySSL and 'localname()' from gettext-runtime, plus the FreeType2 and XKB projects from X.Org CVS, and xserver, pixman, xkbcomp, mkfontscale, libX11, libXfont, libXt, libXmu, libICE, libxtrans and libXrender from X.Org git. X.Org have removed the Extended-Visual-Information, MIT-SUNDRY-NONSTANDARD, TOG-CUP and XC-APPGROUP extensions from the server.
• No longer use the buggy rootless acceleration code for the multiwindow external window manager following a similar XQuartz change.
• Use the environmental variable %USERPROFILE% to set the search path in libX11 and libXt, instead of /users/%USERNAME%, when %HOME% is not defined.
• Add 'sharedtex' to the ported GLX demos.
• Define 'HAVE_CBRT' and 'XACE' for the build of the server instead of just patching 'mi/miarc.c' and 'Xext/xace.h'. Also remove a redundant minor patch to 'include/Xmd.h'.
• Xming & Xming-mesa 7.3.0.17 (Released 14 Apr 2008)

Xming & Xming-mesa 7.3.0.17 (Released 14 Apr 2008)

• Backstop menu recursion in Xmingrc which, when the file menus erroneously 'looped', caused Xming to eat the heap, semi-freeze a machine and force recovery by reboot, even on a Windows Server! All versions of Xming and Cygwin/X were affected if the resource configuration file was malformed to recurse menus.
• Facilitate user enabling of stereo visuals in GLX by an environmental variable (i.e. 'set GLWIN_ENABLE_STEREO=1').
• Log the version of Pixman during runtime.
• Use 'rand()' not 'random()' in a recent change to 'dix/main.c'. Correct a call on 'DeleteProperty()' to take 3 arguments following a recent change to 'miext/rootless/rootlessWindow.c'. (p.s. these changes are now reverted and so my patches are not needed in 7.3.0.18)
• Xming & Xming-mesa 7.3.0.16 (Released 20 Mar 2008)

Xming-portable-PuTTY 7.3.0.17 (Public domain release 14 Apr 2008)

• Correct some minor 'MessageBox()' anomalies in Xming's versions of PuTTY plink.
• Xming-portable-PuTTY 7.3.0.15 (Public domain release 3 Mar 2008)

Xming & Xming-mesa 7.3.0.16 (Released 20 Mar 2008)

• Fix a server crash, when using 'memcpy()' on normal hints in 'winmultiwindowclass.c', which sometimes occurred with GLX xdemo program 'manywin' and lots of windows. Now, once in a while, a 'manywin' window doesn't hint its position and a trace is written to the log. Depending on the frequency of this, I may revisit in the future.
• Ensure a newly created window is in the foreground in -multiwindow mode, correcting an error in most versions of Xming that was not in Cygwin/X. This was annoying if you started clients from a console but didn't affect starts via plink and Xmingrc.
• Express XIO WSA error text in libX11 using 'FormatMessage()' instead of 'strerror()' which doesn't decode socket errors on Microsoft Windows. The stderr message produced is still ANSI as Unicode is not yet defined for libX11.
• Remove an ancient 'Fixups' bodge, for a definition of 'ATOM' collision, from 'winclipboard.h'.
• Rationalise the 'xhost' patches.
• Simplify the 'FilePath()' filter code in XLaunch.
• Build using latest binutils-2.18.50 (18 Mar 2008).
• Build the installers using the new release of Inno Setup at 5.2.3.
• Xming & Xming-mesa 7.3.0.14 (Released 26 Feb 2008)

Xming-fonts 7.3.0.15 (Public domain release 10 Mar 2008)

• Update to DejaVue fonts release 2.24.
• Xming-fonts 7.3.0.11 (Public domain release 20 Jan 2008)

Xming-portable-PuTTY 7.3.0.15 (Public domain release 3 Mar 2008)

• Catch up with the PuTTY project CVS.
• Xming-portable-PuTTY 7.3.0.9 (Public domain release 25 Dec 2007)

Xming & Xming-mesa 7.3.0.14 (Released 26 Feb 2008)

• Fix a dix resource corruption in 7.3.0.13 that was causing some instability.
• Xming & Xming-mesa 7.3.0.13 (Released 24 Feb 2008)

Xming & Xming-mesa 7.3.0.13 (Released 24 Feb 2008 and withdrawn)

• Make test Windows X clients from the Mesa project with a view to producing 'latest code' dlls for Xming. 15 x GLX and 2 x OpenGL demo clients are available on Website Releases: note 'glxgears' and 'glxinfo' work indirect via 'libGLcore.dll' and X, 'wglgears' and 'wglinfo' work direct via 'opengl32.dll' and Windows. Comparing output, from these pairs, shows the limitations/antiquity of the Windows dll and the higher speed of direct rendering.
• Building support for _NET_WM_STATE hints into -multiwindow mode, some are not compatible with the pop-up Windows style used and I need sensible client test cases for task completion.
• Include Windows ported versions of 'atobm', 'bitmap', 'bmtoa', 'xfontsel' and 'xmessage' in the installer. The remaining few X.Org clients either need POSIX APIs or client-side fonts, or are just not applicable on Windows.
• Find the Network ID for the connection to the queried host in XDMCP mode, use it to try and match an interface address of the server and then send that address first in the Request packet. On a multihomed machine, the first address returned by 'gethostbyaddress()', and sent in the Request packet, was not necessarily on the network connected to the remote host. The XDMCP protocol allows multiple addresses in the Request packet, but most XDMCP managers (e.g. xdm) just use the first one to try and connect via $DISPLAY and when this fails 'grey screen' instead of trying others. Now register and send all active network addresses, in the Request packet, in an order that favours the queried host's Network ID.
  This change simplifies XDMCP usage, and should remove the need to use the -from option, on machines with multiple interfaces (up to 25 match tested).
• Correct an error in the memory allocation for the concatenated command line used in error and log messages.
• Close the socket and cleanup before returning from the the chooser in XLaunch. Plus more additions to the socket cleanup on exit in Xmon.
• Use the magic word BROADCAST anyway, in XLaunch's XDMCP host chooser, if the host entry is empty so that XPing always does something obvious.
• Sort out some type clashes with INT32 and BOOL when including both Windows and X headers in various modules.
• There is no longer any need to use X.Org's versions of 'snprintf' and 'strlcat'. MinGW provides an ISO C99 replacement for 'snprintf' and, as it's not used, don't build 'strlcat' into the server.
• Express the Bison grammar rules for Xmingrc menus and styles more elegantly. This has the worthwhile effect of shrinking the generated code.
• Make the logic sane and simpler for the ownership release of the Windows clipboard in 'winclipboardwrappers.c'.
• Build using binutils-2.18.50 (8 Feb 2008) since it has had recent changes/fixes for Windows and 'windres'. Also build using mingw-runtime-3.14 with the patches from MinGW trackers 1875222 and 1889311.
• Xming & Xming-mesa 7.3.0.12 (Released 28 Jan 2008)

Xming & Xming-mesa 7.3.0.12 (Released 28 Jan 2008)

• Still more fixes following CVE-2007-6429!
• Don't substitute obsolete function '_sleep(msecs)' for 'sleep(secs)', use 'Sleep(msecs)' instead. Correct a silly error in the 'sleep()' substitution in 'xmodmap'.
• Include Windows ported versions of 'editres', 'listres' and 'viewres' in the installer.
• Editres did not work on Xming X clients due to a conditionals error (missing out some linker semantics) in libXaw and libXt. This also fixes the 'String' to 'Bitmap' conversion error reported in 7.3.0.9 and negates the need for its work around patch in 'xcalc' and 'xlogo'.
• Install a Xdefaults file in %USERPROFILE% (%HOME% at runtime) containing the normal entry...

  #ifdef COLOR
  *customization: -color
  #endif

  so that Windows X clients use their appropriate Class-color app-defaults colour resource file (i.e. monochrome is just Class without the suffix). Supply standard Class-color and Class files in the installer (note: files XClock and Chooser are custom).
• Cleanup the exit states and thread termination in Xmon. Also 'socket()' and 'accept()' are of unsigned type on Windows, so do error checks on them 'correctly'.
• Xming & Xming-mesa 7.3.0.11 (Released 20 Jan 2008)

Xming-fonts 7.3.0.11 (Public domain release 20 Jan 2008)

• Update to DejaVue fonts release 2.23.
• Xming-fonts 7.3.0.9 (Public domain release 25 Dec 2007)

Xming & Xming-mesa 7.3.0.11 (Released 20 Jan 2008)

• Security fixes for CVE-2007-6427, CVE-2007-6428, CVE-2007-6429 and CVE-2008-006 and their follow-on regression fix to 'Xext/shm.c'.
• Port Xmon, a very useful interactive X protocol monitor, to native Windows and include in the installer. The original source code is here (under this license, i.e. not sourced by X.Org), my patches are here and it has this manual.

• Use SHA1 crypto functions from XySSL (under this 3-clause BSD license) in 'render' to avoid the Mozilla Public license (of the previously used 'sha1.c' and 'sha1.h' files) which is incompatible with GNU GPL and because they appear to be very fast compared to others I tried.
• Build using binutils-2.18.50 (9 Jan 2008) since it has had recent changes/fixes for Windows and 'windres'.
• Minor code tidy to XLaunch 'chooser.cc', 'config.cc' and 'main.cc'.
• Xming & Xming-mesa 7.3.0.10 (Released 6 Jan 2008)

Xming & Xming-mesa 7.3.0.10 (Released 6 Jan 2008)

• Adjust the 'About Xming' dialog to match the website.
• Suppress an annoying FreeFontPath warning message from appearing in the Xming log.
• In XLaunch display the output from remote 'Xwilling' files in the chooser to be consistent with standard xdm functionality.
• In XLaunch trap 'BROADCAST' as not being a valid remote hostname for XDMCP, it's just a keyword for XPing. Also rationalize the header files.
• Build using w32api-3.11, mingw-runtime-3.14, and binutils-2.18.50 (27 Dec 2007).
• Xming & Xming-mesa 7.3.0.9 (Released 25 Dec 2007)

Xming-fonts 7.3.0.9 (Public domain release 25 Dec 2007)

• Update to DejaVue fonts release 2.22.
• Xming-fonts 7.3.0.6 (Public domain release 2 Nov 2007)

Xming-portable-PuTTY 7.3.0.9 (Public domain release 25 Dec 2007)

• Catch up with the PuTTY project CVS.
• Xming-portable-PuTTY 7.3.0.7 (Public domain release 28 Nov 2007)

Xming & Xming-mesa 7.3.0.9 (Released 25 Dec 2007)

• Build an interactive XDMCP host chooser into XLaunch...
  • XPing. Hosts are found that reply 'Willing' to sent 'Queries' by using '.xlaunch' configuration file entries 'XDMCPHost', 'Host1-Host10', and any entered host, as the list to 'XPing'. The replies are accumulated, and the chooser re-populated. (Hosts can be in IP address dotted format)
  • If host entry BROADCAST is used then 'BroadcastQuery' is sent and all 'Willing' hosts collected from the network.
  • Reset. The chooser can be reset to 'Host1' to 'Host10' plus any entered/selected host or, if none, 'XDMCPHost' as the chosen host. (The XPing and Reset buttons are mutually exclusive)
• The X.Org xserver no longer uses the 'SecurityPolicy' file, so remove it and the XSECURITYPOLICY environment variable.
• Supplying client 'showrgb' no longer makes any sense since the removal of 'rgb.txt'.
• Build using a recent binutils (2.18.50 Dec 12).
• Build the X clients using X.Org's version 3.5.7 of the Xpm library, instead of the defunct original, and supply tools 'cxpm' and 'sxpm' from it.
• Work around an Xt resource 'String' to 'Bitmap' conversion error that prevents the icons for Windows ported 'xlogo' and 'xcalc' being read. (p.s. fixed in 7.3.0.12)
• Tidy some XLaunch compiler warnings and use CBS_SORT with COMBOBOXs.
• Xming & Xming-mesa 7.3.0.8 (Released 12 Dec 2007)

Xming & Xming-mesa 7.3.0.8 (Released 12 Dec 2007)

• Add pickable host lists in XLaunch and alter the XML schema to suite (tag 'Host1' to 'Host10' additions). This is useful in itself and the host list will also be used by the chooser.
• Fix a dialog window error in Xming versions of 'plink.exe' and simplify Xming/plink code.
• Add a Windows version of the X clients 'appres' and 'xkill' to the installer. Note that 'xkill' does not work 'directly' in -multiwindow mode so use

  >xkill -id <X window id>

  where you can get the 'id' with 'xwininfo'. This is useful to kill clients with no Windows titlebar.
• Add 'libWindowsWM-7.dll' to the installer.
• Finally get round to sorting out the 'DDXRingBell()' function which isn't needed as bell is handled by 'winKeybdBell()'.
• Move the 'twmrc' file (renamed from the traditionally named '.twmrc') to the install directory from 'app-defaults'. This is a more sensible location for the file.
• Correct output format errors in 'xprop' caused by MinGW '*printf()' function family anomalies.
• Japanese and Korean versions of XLaunch added to the international versions.
• Xming & Xming-mesa 7.3.0.6 (Released 14 Nov 2007)

Xming-portable-PuTTY 7.3.0.7 (Public domain release 28 Nov 2007)

• Catch up with the PuTTY project CVS.
• Fix a dialog window error in Xming versions of 'plink.exe' and simplify Xming/plink code.
• Xming-portable-PuTTY 7.3.0.6 (Public domain release 2 Nov 2007)

Xming & Xming-mesa 7.3.0.6 (Released 14 Nov 2007)

New clipboard design developed via XmingClip

• In XmingClip abandon the select() loop (I/O multiplexing via the kernel) in favour of a simpler while loop. The select() loop had to 'tick' every 100mS anyway, while it hibernated in Cygwin/X, loosing the main reason for its use.
• Remove the expedient fix for the paste flood and the wm_delete_window code.
• XmingClip has done its job so will no longer be part of the installers, however it may be used again in the future to develop for different cut and paste objects i.e. extend the clipboard from just simple, compound and Unicode text.
• Put the changes from XmingClip into the main code and build the installers without including 'XmingClip.exe'.

Changes and maintenance

• Changes include X.Org's removal of the obsolete external rgb database, -co option and use of a 'rgb.txt' file.
• Build the installers using the new release of Inno Setup at 5.2.2.
• Work through and improve clipboard code that was not part of the original XmingClip (xwinclip). Includes discarding the select() loop in winProcessXEventsTimeout() for a while loop, and locking access in winClipboardFlushXEvents() when using it.
• The -mwextwm experimental mode is now fixed and works again with the Cygwin/X 'xwinwm' external window manager.
• Update the locale finding software to the latest language codes.
• Add 'libXpm' (version 3.4k), 'libXaw6', 'libXaw7' and 'libXrender' to the supplied libraries and get the 'app-defaults' (in the Xming install directory) and 'Xdefaults' (in the %HOME% directory) working in 'libXt' (note the renaming of the traditional '.Xdefaults' file).
• Port the 'twm' Window Manager; and 'xcalc', 'xclock', and 'xlogo' X clients; to Windows built using the libraries above. Include them in the installers with some X resource files and bitmaps. Note that 'twm' uses a 'twmrc' file in the 'app-defaults' directory, I start it with this script from the Xming directory.
• Prevent a search in 'C:\usr\lib\X11' for file 'Xcms.txt' and enable it to be found correctly by libX11.
• Polish version of XLaunch added to the international versions.
• The 'run' utility is now supplied stand-alone as it can be used universally on all Windows console applications and is licensed GPLv2.
• Tidy the installer license to be consistent with the website.
• Xming & Xming-mesa 7.3.0.5 (Released 30 Oct 2007)

Xming-portable-PuTTY 7.3.0.6 (Public domain release 2 Nov 2007)

• Catch up with the PuTTY project CVS.
• Xming-portable-PuTTY 7.3.0.4 (Public domain release 17 Oct 2007)

Xming-fonts 7.3.0.6 (Public domain release 2 Nov 2007)

• Update to DejaVue fonts release 2.21.
• Xming-fonts 7.3.0.2 (Public domain release 24 Sep 2007)

Xming & Xming-mesa 7.3.0.5 (Released 30 Oct 2007 and withdrawn)

Clipboard

• The clipboard should only select events (XSelectInput()) via one mask and do this on the correct window, the messaging window for the clipboard not the root window!
• An addition to the paste flood expedient fix: Discard clipboard SelectionRequest events if there have been possible paste duplicates and the events have the same server timestamp as previously seen.
• Tidy some automatic variables, cache the Atom lookups and free the memory allocated for ReturnData in FlushXEvents().
• Shrink the clipboard messaging window size and increase the granularity of the display locking within the clipboard code.
• When you take ownership of a selection you should always check you got it (X11 ICCCM gospel).
• XmingClip now automatically sets the LANG (see below) and XLOCALEDIR variables, if they are not already set.

Changes and maintenance

• Automatically set the LANG environmental variable from the Windows locale, if not already set, and use it as the program locale.
• Update the fix, put in 6.9.0.41 for Windows titles in -multiwindow mode, to work with any locale and Unicode (e.g. I've had confirmation that titles for X clients in Russian are no longer blank).
• Extend the start 'styles' by class parsing in Xmingrc for -multiwindow mode so that 'topmost' or 'maximize' or 'minimize' can by used with 'notitle' or 'noframe' i.e. allow two style keywords, one from each group, as well just single keywords...

  Styles {
  	oclock noframe topmost
  	xterm notitle
  }

• Czech version of XLaunch added to the international versions.
• Xming & Xming-mesa 7.3.0.4 (Released 21 Oct 2007)

Xming & Xming-mesa 7.3.0.4 (Released 21 Oct 2007)

• Following another positive sighting of the dreaded paste flood problem Xming and XmingClip now have an expedient trial fix to the problem which doesn't cure the cause but attempts to fix its effect (thanks to testing by TrNSZ). The trial fix tests for a paste repeat, and then sends an extra completion message. Also if there are more than ten repeats (a possible runaway) no more pasting is performed until the contents change.
• Revert a recent change in 'mi/miinitext.c' that caused Xming to crash on server shutdown.
• The X.Org xserver now has to link with external SHA1 crypto hash functions. Add mozilla-sha1 code (from 'git' core plumbing with a Mozilla Public license) to the build to meet the requirements of the recent 'render/glyph.c' change. An alternative was to use openssl, which is an overkill when only the SHA1 library is needed.
• Build Pthreads 'GC-inlined' instead of 'GC'. The inline build should be faster and this is the 'normal' way the pthreads-w32 project build their distribution dll's.
• Remove the 'extra' patches for bugzilla's 5424 and 5491 from the build, as they are not used in it.
• Add the Italian macbook to the known keyboard layouts (as layout 'it', variant 'mac', model 'macbook79'), so that it automatically sets on server startup.
• Build the installers using the new release of Inno Setup at 5.2.1.
• Xming & Xming-mesa 7.3.0.3 (Released 30 Sep 2007)

Xming-portable-PuTTY 7.3.0.4 (Public domain release 17 Oct 2007)

• Catch up with the PuTTY project CVS.
• Xming-portable-PuTTY 7.3.0.2 (Public domain release 24 Sep 2007)

Xming & Xming-mesa 7.3.0.3 (Released 30 Sep 2007)

• The adjustment of the size of the Windows window rectangle in -multiwindow mode (WM_SHOWWINDOW handler) should be made after all styles have been decided. This fixes a number of bugs with style settings sometimes causing clients to have incorrect dimensions, e.g. 'oclock' when set noframe via Xmingrc was a vertical oval shape.
• When sizing windows in -multiwindow mode allow for the notitle style not having caption height. This caused client windows set with Xmingrc style notitle to have truncated height, e.g. 'xterm', set notitle, lost part of its bottom text line after sizing.
• Simplify some code in XLaunch by using conditional expressions and tidy the use of the PSP_HASHELP flag.
• Ensure XLaunch help is provided when an '.xlaunch' file is not in the install directory.
• Xming & Xming-mesa 7.3.0.2 (Released 25 Sep 2007)

Xming & Xming-mesa 7.3.0.2 (Released 25 Sep 2007)

• Include the X.Org security advisory (6 Sep 2007) CVE-2007-4730.
• Warning, following recent (12 Sep 2007) extensive changes to the X.Org xserver the -mwextwm experimental mode is crashing with the Cygwin/X 'xwinwm' external window manager. All 'production' modes are working normally.
• Build using the MinGW gcc compiler configured for the superior DW2 (Dwarf2) exception handler instead of the 'standard' sjlj (setjmp/longjmp) one. This should make all the Xming code faster but a little larger.
• Update the MinGW toolchain to use 'binutils-2.18.tar.gz' (now sourced directly from the FSF).
• Add the fix from bugzilla 12286 to the 'extra' patches.
• Add a trap for a potential crash in 'dix/extension.c'.
• The mutex trap, for multiple servers on the same display, should mention Cygwin/X which uses the same mutex name as Xming. Plus servers can only go up to display-number 59535 not 65535!
• In XLaunch make the CreateProcess call for 'plink' and 'ssh' safer by using quotation marks around the 'path\module-name.exe' and explicitly use '.exe' with the name.
• Make the HtmlHelp() setting code consistent and simple between main.cc, resources.h and XLaunch.chm.
• Remove the obsolete 16-bit DISCARDABLE keyword from all resource files.
• Add Dutch to the known keyboard layouts (as nl), so that it automatically sets on server startup.
• Build the installers using the new release of Inno Setup at 5.2.0.
• Xming & Xming-mesa 7.3.0.1 (Released 2 Sep 2007)

Xming-portable-PuTTY 7.3.0.2 (Public domain release 24 Sep 2007)

• Rationalise some repetitive code in the 'putty.conf' file parsing and catch up with the PuTTY project CVS.
• Xming-portable-PuTTY 6.9.0.40 (Public domain release 6 Aug 2007)

Xming-fonts 7.3.0.2 (Public domain release 24 Sep 2007)

• Update to DejaVue fonts release 2.20.
• Xming-fonts 6.9.0.40 (Public domain release 6 Aug 2007)

Xming & Xming-mesa 7.3.0.1 (Released 2 Sep 2007)

• Xming is now built modular, with shared DLLs, where possible.
• Include Xming tools and clients, built modular, in the installer as a selectable component. This supersedes the separate Xming-tools-and-clients package.
• Include XmingClip, an external clipboard alternative to the internal -clipboard option, in the installer as a selectable component. This is the ancestral code from Cygwin/X's 'xwinclip.exe' revived, brought up-to-date and built modular with MinGW purely for debug and test purposes. Start it from 'Command Prompt' with Xming already running without -clipboard

  >set XLOCALEDIR=C:\Program Files\Xming\locale
  >XmingClip -display 127.0.0.1:0

  and yes, I know, it has the original 'xwinclip' feature of stealing ownership of the X selection and it doesn't work in XDMCP mode.
• Ignore some device-independent bitmap size warnings that were only applicable on old Windows platforms.
• Xming & Xming-mesa 6.9.0.41 (Released 1 Sep 2007)

Older Releases 2

Table of Contents

1. Future and Features
2. Changes for version 7.3.0.25 (in the development snapshot)
3. Xming 7.3.0.24 (Released 2 Sep 2008)
4. Xming 7.3.0.23 (Released 20 Aug 2008)
5. Xming-portable-PuTTY 7.3.0.23 (Public domain release 20 Aug 2008)
6. Xming-fonts 7.3.0.22 (Public domain release 8 Aug 2008)
7. Xming 7.3.0.22 (Released 22 Jul 2008)
8. Xming-portable-PuTTY 7.3.0.22 (Public domain release 22 Jul 2008)
9. Xming 7.3.0.21 (Released 22 Jun 2008)
10. Xming 7.3.0.20 (Released 5 Jun 2008)
11. Xming 7.3.0.19 (Released 3 Jun 2008)
12. Xming-portable-PuTTY 7.3.0.19 (Public domain release 3 Jun 2008)
13. Xming-fonts 7.3.0.18 (Public domain release 19 May 2008)
14. Xming & Xming-mesa 7.3.0.18 (Released 16 May 2008)
15. Xming & Xming-mesa 7.3.0.17 (Released 14 Apr 2008)
16. Xming-portable-PuTTY 7.3.0.17 (Public domain release 14 Apr 2008)
17. Xming & Xming-mesa 7.3.0.16 (Released 20 Mar 2008)
18. Xming-fonts 7.3.0.15 (Public domain release 10 Mar 2008)
19. Xming-portable-PuTTY 7.3.0.15 (Public domain release 3 Mar 2008)
20. Xming & Xming-mesa 7.3.0.14 (Released 26 Feb 2008)
21. Xming & Xming-mesa 7.3.0.13 (Released 24 Feb 2008)
22. Xming & Xming-mesa 7.3.0.12 (Released 28 Jan 2008)
23. Xming-fonts 7.3.0.11 (Public domain release 20 Jan 2008)
24. Xming & Xming-mesa 7.3.0.11 (Released 20 Jan 2008)
25. Xming & Xming-mesa 7.3.0.10 (Released 6 Jan 2008)
26. Xming-fonts 7.3.0.9 (Public domain release 25 Dec 2007)
27. Xming-portable-PuTTY 7.3.0.9 (Public domain release 25 Dec 2007)
28. Xming & Xming-mesa 7.3.0.9 (Released 25 Dec 2007)
29. Xming & Xming-mesa 7.3.0.8 (Released 12 Dec 2007)
30. Xming-portable-PuTTY 7.3.0.7 (Public domain release 28 Nov 2007)
31. Xming & Xming-mesa 7.3.0.6 (Released 14 Nov 2007)
32. Xming-portable-PuTTY 7.3.0.6 (Public domain release 2 Nov 2007)
33. Xming-fonts 7.3.0.6 (Public domain release 2 Nov 2007)
34. Xming & Xming-mesa 7.3.0.5 (Released 30 Oct 2007)
35. Xming & Xming-mesa 7.3.0.4 (Released 21 Oct 2007)
36. Xming-portable-PuTTY 7.3.0.4 (Public domain release 17 Oct 2007)
37. Xming & Xming-mesa 7.3.0.3 (Released 30 Sep 2007)
38. Xming & Xming-mesa 7.3.0.2 (Released 25 Sep 2007)
39. Xming-portable-PuTTY 7.3.0.2 (Public domain release 24 Sep 2007)
40. Xming-fonts 7.3.0.2 (Public domain release 24 Sep 2007)
41. Xming & Xming-mesa 7.3.0.1 (Released 2 Sep 2007)
42. Older Releases 2

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