Following today's release of XWayland 26.1 RC1 , X.Org Server 26.1 RC1 was tagged. This xorg-server 26.1 release is aiming to become the first major feature release in five years, succeeding the xorg-server 21.1 series.

While five years have passed, X.Org Server 26.1 isn't as nearly feature-rich as the XWayland 26.1 code in development. But there is the removal of the Autoconf/Automake build system in favor of just using Meson. Plus support for various new X Server capabilities, disallowing byte-swapped clients by default, various security improvements, Xvfb now supporting multiple CRTCs, and more.

Some notable changes since xorg-server 21.1 include:
* Removal of autoconf/automake build system, leaving only meson
* Add support for DPMSInfoNotify event from DPMS 1.2
* Add support for XFixes 6.1 & AllowForceTerminate option in xorg.conf
* Disallow byte-swapped clients by default
* Disable font server connections by default
* Xorg: Add DRM platform for BSD
* Xorg: Move default non-root-user log files to $XDG_STATE_HOME/xorg
* Xvfb: Add multiple CRTC support
* Xvfb: Support up to 13 mouse buttons
* more tests included

Those interested in this forthcoming X.Org Server 26.1 release can read today's RC1 announcement for more details.