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The X.Org Foundation released 7.2.0 (aka X11R7.2) on February 15th, 2007. 


## Features

* Autoconfiguration: The X server can now start without an xorg.conf file in most cases. 
* GL compositing managers: A number of improvements were merged that better enable the use of GL-based compositing managers such as Compiz and Beryl. 
* i965: Intel i965 chipsets (aka X3000) are supported in this release. 
* [[XACE|Projects/XACE]]: The XACE security framework has been merged, allowing the development of new, extensible, security models. 
* [[XCB|http://xcb.freedesktop.org]]: XCB is part of the 7.2 release, including libX11 based on XCB for its transport. 
* xdm: Among other improvements, xdm now supports PAM, for better authentication. 

## Download

You can download 7.2.0 from either a [[mirror|Releases/Mirrors]], or the [[master site|http://xorg.freedesktop.org/releases/X11R7.2/]]. 


## Documentation

Due to bugs in the documentation toolchain, documentation for this release is not available online at the moment.  The [[press release|PressReleases/X11R72Released]] is available.