3. New OS dependent features

See the Release Notes for non-OS dependent new features in XFree86 4.8.0.

3.1. New OS related features in 4.4

• The IPv6 support is enabled on OpenBSD, but XDMCP over IPv6 is not currently enabled since the code uses IPv6 mapped IPv4 addresses which are not supported on OpenBSD.
• The userland part of DRI is enabled and built. Now waiting for someone to port the kernel modules...
• All major revisions of the shared libraries are incremented on OpenBSD 3.3 and later, to support the API changes introduced by gcc stack protector.

3.2. New OS related features in 4.3

• Support for some VGA cards on OpenBSD/alpha

3.3. New OS dependent features in 4.2

• Support for OpenBSD/macppc on the ATI Rage128 based Power Macintoshes.
• Support for building clients on OpenBSD/sparc64.

3.4. New OS dependent features in 4.0.3

• Support for the wscons console driver in post 2.8 OpenBSD.
• A fix for multi-threaded libraries support.

3.5. New OS dependent features in 4.0.2

• Support for the OpenBSD ports tree,
• Preliminary support for the macppc architecture (clients build and work, the server doesn't work yet),
• xdm now writes an utmp entry,
• startx now creates an Xauthority magic cookie for the display.

3.6. New OS dependent features in 4.0.1

• Several features from the OpenBSD X11 tree were merged into xdm:
  • support for Kerberos IV authentication
  • use the arc4random(4) random number generator
  • add a new resource "allowRootLogin", which can be used to disable root logins through xdm
  • log failed logins to syslogd
  • verify that the shell is valid using /etc/shell
  • verify that the account hasn't expired
• The Xsun server can be built again on OpenBSD/sparc.

3.7. New OS dependent features in 4.0

• Multi-thread safe libraries are built by default on OpenBSD 2.6 and later,
• Preliminary APM support.

3.8. New OS dependent features in 3.9.18

• Support for USB mices has been added on OpenBSD.
• Soft-booting secondary cards through the int10 BIOS interface is now possible using the x86emu real mode emulator.

3.9. New OS dependent features in 3.9.17

• Silken mouse is supported for serial mices, and, under post 2.6 OpenBSD-current for PS/2 mices.
• MTRR Write Combining is enabled under post 2.6 OpenBSD-current.