Comment 166 for bug 185311

I spoke with Bart Massey about this the other day, and unfortunately he says the re-architecture work to eliminate the locking issues is delayed and doesn't have an ETA.

However, I've word that the recent java fixes in Intrepid pretty much resolve this issue now. I'd love hearing any confirms/denies of this.

Regarding unrolling xcb from libx11, it's impossible to justify it without knowing of specific issues in specific apps. At this point I have only heard the generality that "older proprietary apps might break", which isn't enough information to make a decision on. Several apps have been mentioned by name earlier, however many (like soffice) are either Java or contain large amounts of Java, so may have just been afflicted by the jdk issue now resolved; other apps I just don't know if they're in java or C/C++.

Cinelerra is C afaik, but it's also an open source app, so in that case fixing the issue in the app is the preferred way to go.