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  <H2><A NAME="7"></A>7. What's new in 3.3.3?</H2>

<H3><A NAME="8"></A>7.1. Security fixes</H3>
<p>
<ul>
<li>Several buffer overrun problem discovered since the release of
XFree86-3.3.2 have been fixed</li>
<li>Sanity checks on DISPLAY variable </li>
<li>Attempt to stop X connection hijacking (sticky bit for /tmp/.X11-unix)
Note that this is only a short-term partial solution, and it is
doesn't help at all for some SYSV based OSs (like Solaris 2.x).</li>
</ul>
</p>
<H3><A NAME="9"></A>7.2. Bug fixes</H3>
<p>
<ul>
<li>Fix a serious LBX bug using uninitialized variables.</li>
<li>Fix some Xlib bugs that cause problems when using XKB in some
locales (like latin2), add support for iso8859-15, and include
a couple of basic fonts for iso8859-15</li>
<li>Fix xf86config to handle more than 10 modes and to be prepared for
XFCom / XBF servers.</li>
<li>Lots of xterm changes, see xterm.log.html in the sources.</li>
<li>Fix problems with high dot clocks in high color depths on Riva128.</li>
<li>Fix problem in the S3 drivers with disabled onboard S3 chips when
using S3 cards.</li>
<li>Fix problems with Cirrus 5480 at high resolutions and jitter that 
appeared with the 546x's using the BitBLT engine.</li>
<li>Fix clock limits in some cases in Tseng driver.</li>
<li>Fix some lockups with ViRGE chips.</li>
<li>Improved timing calculations for video FIFO in the Mach64 X server.</li>
<li>Fixed bug in font rendering code in the Mach64 X server.</li>
<li>Fixed VGA font restoration bug when exiting the Mach64 X server.</li>
<li>Several XF68_FBDev fixes.</li>
<li>Fix wrong clock limits for S3 Trio64V+.</li>
<li>Fix some generic rendering errors in cfb and vga code.</li>
<li>Fix text restore problems and improve high res 32bpp modes in MGA
driver; fix 24bpp and 32bpp display problems; disable probing for 
memory on some MGA chipsets; fix maximum blit size; fix sync on green
for Mystique.</li>
<li>Fix problems with Xnest crashing with too many visuals.</li>
<li>Fixes for 64bit architectures.</li>
<li>Fix cursor bug in S3V server.</li>
<li>Fixes for memory probing, max dotclock probing and DPMS display off
on C&amp;T chipsets.</li>
<li>Fix LCD detection for CLGD755x and the double mouse bug and the
blanking bug in the cirrus driver.</li>
<li>Fix some problems with -quiet flag (where some variables stayed
uninitialized)</li>
<li>SuperProbe can detect C&amp;T HiQV chips now, with an exception in the
case of No-PCI bus connected. The "-no_bios" option of SuperProbe solve this
situation. </li>
<li>The C&amp;T chipsets now use software cursors by default to avoid
a number of minor problems in certain circumstances. Hardware cursors can
still be used by adding the "hw_cursor" option to XF86Config.</li>
<li>EGC server now works on Linux/98. XF98Setup also works with it.</li>
<li>Fix VT switch problem with MGA server on Linux/98.</li>
</ul>
</p>
<H3><A NAME="10"></A>7.3. New Features</H3>
<p>
<ul>
<li>New driver for Cyrix MediaGX based motherboards.</li>
<li>New driver for Rendition V1000 and V2x00 chipsets (not accelerated).</li>
<li>New driver for Weitek P9100 based cards.</li>
<li>New driver for SiS 5597/98 and SiS 6326; treat SiS 6215 and 6225 as
6205.</li>
<li>New server for 3Dlabs based cards using GLINT 500TX and MX (with IBM 
RAMDAC), Permedia (with IBM RAMDAC), Permedia 2 and Permedia 2v.</li>
<li>Support for the Matrox G100 and G200 based cards to the MGA
driver.</li>
<li>Support for C&amp;T 69000 and 32bpp on 65550 and later.</li>
<li>Support for NeoMagic notebook chipsets.</li>
<li>Support for EPSON SPC8110.</li>
<li>Support for NVidia Riva TNT.</li>
<li>Acceleration for Trident Image975, Image985, Cyber9397, Cyber9388.</li>
<li>Support for the new ATI Rage Pro, VT4 and Rage IIC based cards has
been added.</li>
<li>24-plane TGA support.</li>
<li>Config support to build XFree86 on Linux with DECnet transport.</li>
<li>Support to build XFree86 for FreeBSD/ELF.</li>
<li>Support for vesafb on Linux/x86.</li>
<li>LynxOS 3.0 support.</li>
<li>Updates to SuperProbe.</li>
<li>New XInput drivers for AceCad ADVANCEDigitizer, MicroTouch TouchPen,
SGI dial box.</li>
<li>Add local font directory.</li>
</ul>
</p>
<H3><A NAME="11"></A>7.4. Known Problems</H3>
<p>The problems listed here are those known at the time of the release.  See
the <A href="http://www.xfree86.org/FAQ">XFree86 FAQ</A> for more
up to date information.</p>
<p>
<ul>
<li>There are problems with some Cirrus laptop chipsets (75xx).  The
driver seems to work for some people, but not others.  Until
someone with the appropriate hardware can look into
this, these problems are unlikely to be fixed.  If you wish to
work on this, please contact us.  We don't need testers, we need
people willing and able to fix the problems.</li>
<li>There are problems with some of the Trident laptop chipsets.  The
driver seems to work in a limited way for some people, but not
others.  Until someone with the appropriate hardware can look into
this, these problems are unlikely to be fixed.  If you wish to
work on this, please contact us.  We don't need testers, we need
people willing and able to fix the problems.</li>
<li>SuperProbe command fails to detect some newly supported chips.
Currently, the probing result with Xserver itself with appropriate
setting in XF86Config (and maybe option "-probeonly") can be more
relied on than the result from SuperProbe for newer chips.
If you are interested in improving the design of SuperProbe's code,
let's come and join as the member of the XFree86 ``developer team''.</li>
</ul>
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