Releases

Disclaimer

The updates available on this site are not official Apple releases. They are a convenient way for users to stay up to date with progress made in the open source community (in which Apple is participating). Official Apple releases will come from Apple (most likely through Apple Update). These updates will likely incorporate many of the changes made in our releases when and if Apple deems them appropriate.

xorg-server (Xquartz)

Binary versions of Xquartz are released periodically as fixes are being made. Your best bet for staying current with bugfixes is to install the latest package (which includes fixes outside of just Xquartz) then install the latest Xquartz.

The latest release of xorg-server for OSX is 1.3.0-apple2. Source code and a binary of Xquartz are available at the bottom of the page. See our developer info page for more information on compilation or follow these instructions (in Terminal.app) to install the binary:

bunzip2 Xquartz-<version>.bz2
sudo install -b Xquartz-<version> /usr/X11/bin/Xquartz

X11 2.1.0 Package

This release contains Xquartz-1.3.0-apple2. See the ChangeLog for the complete list of changes from 2.0 contained in Leopard's release.

X11 2.0 (Leopard 10.5 Release Version)

The actual source used to build the 10.5.0 release is available on www.opensource.apple.com: ​X11server-46 ​X11libs-16 ​X11apps-13 ​X11proto-14 ​X11fonts-5

Most components are built directly from X.org releases with no patching. See our developer info page for more information on compilation.