The new version was released a day after Canonical announced its Mir plans

Mar 6, 2013 10:01 GMT  ·  By

The X.Org Foundation has announced that a new version of their XOrg Server is now available for download.

According to the developers, X.Org X server 1.14.0 is the first point release in the 1.14 branch and comes with quite a few changes.

Highlights of XOrg Server 1.14.0:

• A bunch of fixes have been added to the touch device; • A few fixes have been added to the GPU hotplug bits; • Software rendering speedups (due to using the new pixman APIs) have been implemented; • A lot of warning messages have been removed; • Pointer barriers are now working properly.

A number of bugs and problems have remained active as detailed in the official announcement, where you can also find a complete list and changes for this version. Download XOrg Server 1.14.0 right now from Softpedia.