A new development version of Wayland is now ready for testing and download

May 2, 2014 12:44 GMT  ·  By

Wayland, a protocol for a compositor to talk to its clients, as well as a C library implementation of that protocol, which can be used as a standalone display server running on Linux kernel modesetting and evdev input devices, has reached version 1.5 RC.

A new development version has been launched, and the new Release Candidate means that a final build is now a lot closer, although it seems that another RC will also be made available in about a week.

“We're at a historic low in terms of open bugs - as of this writing we have 15 bugs in wayland/weston bugzilla. There are a few more bugs we can fix and I expect more will come in as we start testing, but right now it's looking pretty good.”

“We'll do another release candidate a week from now and then release 1.5 a week after that. If everything looks super-duper for RC1 we might even just release that, but let’s see how it goes,” stated Kristian Høgsberg on the official mailing list.

The first Linux distribution that will try to implement Wayland as the default display manager might be Fedora 21, but this measure hasn't been decided yet.

A detailed list of changes can be found in the official announcement. You can download Wayland 1.5 RC right now from the official links.

Remember that this is a development version and it should NOT be installed on production machines. It is intended for testing purposes only.