[Fresco-devel] Draft of M2 Release Notes

Fresco M2 Release Notes

This is the second milestone release of Fresco.  Fresco is a next-generation
windowing system based on a structured graphics toolkit of the same name.
It's goal is to use the vast body of research available to improve on current
windowing systems.  Fresco has been designed with network/lanugauage
transparency, modularity, consistency and device independence in mind.

This release focuses on bug fixes, with the goal of improving server stabiliy.
In addition, it is the first step towards the goal of making regular releases
every few months.

Changes since M1:

    Platform support
        Fresco should now be built with gcc >= 3.2 only
        Ported to FreeBSD -current
        Ported to Solaris
        Feedback is appreciated on how Fresco performs on the above platforms

    Added Features
        A new scenegraph debugging framework has been added
    
    Bug Fixes
        Python runtime works again
        Improved server stability (Bugs 143, 158, 92, 9, 82, 188, 178, 153) 

    Development Infrastructure
        Added vim, emacs and indent configurations to support new <a
        href="http://http://www2.fresco.org/coding-style.html">coding
        guidelines</a>

Get Fresco:

You can download M2 from our <a
href="http://download.fresco.org/releases.html">Releases Page</a>.

Contact Information:

If you have any questions about Fresco, feel free to catch us at #fresco on
irc.freenode.net.  You can also subscribe to our <a
href="http://www2.fresco.org/mailinglists.html">Mailing lists</a>.  You should
report bugs with our <a href="http://issues.fresco.org">Issue Tracker</a>.

You can also contribute by taking a look at some of our open issues for <a
href="http://issues.fresco.org/milestone3">Milestone 3</a> or at some of the
tasks/bugs in our Issue Tracker.