This was intentional on my part. Since xfce components are modular,
I
wanted to update them independently if the need arose. Made sense to me. :)
I get it, I wasn't complaining, and I'm glad to see progress in this area.
While researching the updates I also came across one for
xfce4-screensaver. All the problems I reported [1] appear to be fixed,
although I did not keep track of them and don't know which update of
what fixed "my" bugs. To be honest, despite the early bugs
xfce4-screensaver has mostly stayed out of my way and is still a net
benefit over xscreensaver, at least as far as I can tell.
I feel sorry for the people who got bit hard by the XFCE 4.13 update,
while I have myself run into a couple bugs, none of them were show
stoppers. I have yet to witness those bugs with 4.14pre1 so I hope it
will make things better for everyone. From my limited experience with
XFCE (again, it mostly stays out of my way) I would indeed push all
those updates.
Dridi
[1]
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/xfce@lists.fedoraproject.or...