Weston 1.99.94 compositor is now available for testing

Feb 22, 2017 00:25 GMT  ·  By

Bryce Harrington, a Senior Open Source Developer at Samsung, announced today the release and general availability of the Wayland 1.13.0 for GNU/Linux distributions that already adopted the next-generation display server.next-generation display server.

Wayland 1.13.0 has entered development in the first days of the year, but the first Alpha build arrived at the end of January, along with the Alpha version of the Weston 2.0 compositor, including most of the new features that are present in this final release that you'll be able to install on your Linux-based operating systems in the coming days.

The biggest new features added in the Wayland 1.13.0 release are various APIs (Applications Programming Interfaces) for controlling the visibility of globals, as well as a bunch of documentation additions, many bug fixes, and other under-the-hood improvements. Check out the Alpha and Beta announcements for more details.

The upcoming Weston 2.0 compositor got yet another Release Candidate (RC) build today, and the final release is coming soon with EGL_KHR_swap_buffers_with_damage support, improved positioning of the panel for desktop-shell, support for DRM_FORMAT_YUV444 buffers in the gl backend, and better XWayland warning messages.

Wayland 1.14 is expected this summer with more features

In today's mailing list announcement, Bryce Harrington is also informing us about the release schedule of the next major version, Wayland 1.14, which should get its first Alpha build in early May, when we'll know more about the new features planned. A Beta version should land in mid-May, and the first RC is currently scheduled for the end of May.

Additional Release Candidates will be made available if necessary, but the final release of the Wayland 1.14.0 display server is set to launch in the first days of June 2017. In the meantime, you can download the Wayland 1.13.0 source tarball right now from our website, along with the Weston 1.99.94 compositor, and compile it on your GNU/Linux distro.