I am on the general mailing list from xorg announce and noticed this email
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Peter Hutterer <peter.hutterer@who-t.net>
13 May (1 day ago)
to xorg-announce, xorg
First stable update to synaptics 1.7 is now available.
User-visible changes:
- soft button areas may overlap on the edge, so a configuration of
e.g.middle button 33%-66% and right button 66%-0 is now valid.
- man page fix to avoid confusion between 0 and 0% on button configuration
This release also includes the fix for stack smash caused by Apple
MagicTrackpads.
Peter Hutterer (7):
Improve readability of the soft button areas
man: clarify that 0, not 0% disables the softbutton area
Allow soft button areas to overlap on the edge
Fix stack smash in clickpad_guess_clickfingers()
Plug memory leak for option_string
Plug memory leak for priv->touch_axes
synaptics 1.7.1
git tag: xf86-input-synaptics-1.7.1
http://xorg.freedesktop.org/archive/individual/driver/xf86-input-synaptics-1.7.1.tar.bz2MD5: 6505de717972b6a24b8eb13e69eb996c xf86-input-synaptics-1.7.1.tar.bz2
SHA1: 85018b51dfa0c2dcf5c257cf283298836273700d xf86-input-synaptics-1.7.1.tar.bz2
SHA256: db5825660e1fb23190697f609bf75d4450fe707344a14298e1c9b47039bbb58e xf86-input-synaptics-1.7.1.tar.bz2
http://xorg.freedesktop.org/archive/individual/driver/xf86-input-synaptics-1.7.1.tar.gzMD5: cfa2c03772397de4093f7e7645d0b6d8 xf86-input-synaptics-1.7.1.tar.gz
SHA1: fe81f075439bdca258f86f02ced4ff90d90001ff xf86-input-synaptics-1.7.1.tar.gz
SHA256: 69a1a2a30988518daf8924a964e60878af04a368c7610ff8adf8be65ebbabd4a xf86-input-synaptics-1.7.1.tar.gz
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We have a synaptics in repo but it was for an older xorg
If anyone has a laptop etc that uses synaptics feel free to ask current maintainer (Juanito) to update?
cheers