Release 6.1 was made available to the public on March 14, 1996.

X11 Release 6.1 is an update to X11 Release 6.  It is compatible with R6 at
the source and protocol levels in all respects, and binaries are
upward-compatible.

Here are some highlights of what's new in Release 6.1; this list is by no
means exhaustive.  For complete details, refer to the R6.1 Release Notes.

* Support for newer operating system versions on a number of platforms.

* Support for threads on more platforms.

* New X Consortium standards:

   XKEYBOARD (XKB)
   RECORD
   DOUBLE-BUFFER (DBE)
   ICE X Rendezvous

* Configuration and build improvements:

   BOOTSTRAPCFLAGS required on fewer platforms
   Imake support for Atria clearmake
   Better imake documentation and hints on writing Imakefiles
   
* Bug fixes and enhancements to many programs and libraries

** FTP SITES PROVIDING RELEASE 6.1

North America anonymous FTP:

Location		Address			Directory
--------		-------			---------
Cambridge, MA		ftp.crl.research.digital.com	/pub/X11/R6.1
Eastern USA		[192.58.206.2]

Cambridge, MA		ftp.x.org		/pub/R6.1
Eastern USA		[198.112.44.100]

New York City		ftp.cs.columbia.edu	/archives/X11R6.1
Eastern USA		[multi-homed]

North Carolina		ftp.duke.edu		/pub/X11/R6.1
Eastern USA		[152.3.233.7]

Washington, DC		ftp.digex.net		/pub/X
Eastern USA		[204.91.197.227]

Minneapolis, MN		ftp.cs.umn.edu		/packages/X11/R6.1
Central USA		[160.94.227.144]

West Lafayette, IN	ftp.cs.purdue.edu	/pub/X11/R6.1
Central USA		[128.10.2.1]

Palo Alto, California	ftp.digital.com		/pub/X11/R6.1
Western USA		[204.123.2.4]

Albuquerque, NM		ftp.khoros.unm.edu	/pub/dist/X/X11R6.1
Southwest USA		[198.59.155.28]

British Columbia	ftp.cs.ubc.ca		/mirror1/R6.1
Canada			[142.103.6.6]




Europe anonymous FTP:

Location		Address			Directory
--------		-------			---------
Czech Republic		ftp.eunet.cz		/pub/X11/R6.1
			[193.85.1.11]

England			sunsite.doc.ic.ac.uk	/packages/X11R6.1
			[193.63.254.1]

Europe			ftp.eu.net		/X11/R6.1
			[192.16.202.2]

Finland			ftp.eunet.fi		/pub/X11/R6.1
			[193.66.1.8]

Finland			ftp.funet.fi		/pub/X11/R6.1
			[128.214.248.6]

France			ftp.univ-lille1.fr	/pub/X/R6.1
			[134.206.1.36]

Germany			ftp.gwdg.de		/pub/x11/x.org
			[134.76.12.1]

Germany			ftp.rz.uni-wuerzburg.de	/pub/X11/R6.1
			[132.187.3.2]

Germany			ftp.uni-paderborn.de	/pub/X11/R6.1
			[131.234.22.32] and [131.234.2.41]

Iceland			ftp.isnet.is		/pub/X11/R6.1
			[193.4.58.51]

Ireland			ftp.ieunet.ie		/pub/X11R6.1
			[192.111.39.1]

Norway			ftp.eunet.no		/pub/X11/R6.1
			[193.71.1.5]

Norway			ftp.unit.no		/pub/X11/R6.1
			[129.241.1.97]

Poland			sunsite.icm.edu.pl	/pub/X11/R6.1
			[148.81.209.3]

Portugal		ftp.puug.pt		/pub/X11/R6.1
			[193.126.4.70]

Spain			asterix.fi.upm.es	/pub/X11/R6.1
			[138.100.8.6]

Sweden			ftp.sunet.se		/pub/X11/R6.1
			[130.238.127.3]

Switzerland		ftp.switch.ch *		/mirror/X11/R6.1
			[130.59.1.40] 
			*only available for Swiss organizations with a SWITCH
			service contract and foreign education & research
			organizations

United Kingdom		ftp.mcc.ac.uk		/pub/misc-unix/X11R6.1
			[130.88.203.12]




East Asia anonymous FTP:

Location		Address			Directory
--------		-------			---------
Hong Kong		ftp.cs.cuhk.edu.hk	/pub/X11R6.1
			[137.189.4.110]

Japan			sunsite.sut.ac.jp	/pub/archives/X11/R6.1
			[133.31.180.200]



				   
Africa anonymous FTP:

Location		Address			Directory
--------		-------			---------
South Africa		ftp.is.co.za		/x/pub/R6.1



Middle East anonymous FTP:

Location		Address			Directory
--------		-------			---------
Israel			ftp.huji.ac.il		/mirror/X11/R6.1
			[132.65.16.10]


Binaries of X11R6.1 for SPARC SunOS 4.1.3 are available from
ftp://ftp.cad.gatech.edu/pub/R6.1/ [4/96]. 

Sources of X11R6.1 are available on CD-ROM from Yggdrasil Computing. It also
includes GNU and Linux tools. To order, call 1-800-261-6630 or email
orders@yggdrasil.com.