Next Upgrade?

[jayjwa <jayjwa@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

When can we expect the next upgrade to XFree86? Currently, 4.4.0 seems to 
be the last binary package put out. However, there have been some recent 
security issues, namely with libXpm.so and a few others. Normally, in 
this situation I'd compile my own, using the latest available sources 
(even if they were devel/unstable, as its better than chancing a security 
breach). Only problem is, I don't have the room on my one and only hard 
disk to do a full build from source of XFree86; that's megabytes beyond 
what I have available.

The system is a linux x86 glibc (current) based system, and not a stock 
distribution any more. It was began as a Slackware install, but I made the 
decision to stand with XFree86 when they moved to X.org's build. There's 
also a some other major differences, but everything's current and 
up-to-date.

I'd like to continue to use XFree86, but not having a current, 
non-vulnerable binary release is tough. Or have the binary builds for 
4.4.0 been fixed as per the recent issues with libXpm? I looked thru the 
website for Xfree86, and in the security section, but this seems to 
indicate that it's compile-your-own from a snapshot or keep the old, 
vulnerable version...

Can anyone clear this up for me? Possibly I'm missing a notice, or some 
Changelog which shows how this issue was addressed for people in my 
circumstance? Any ideas?



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