Jonas Ådahl of Red Hat just released Wayland Protocols 1.39 as the latest set of updates to this de facto repository for Wayland protocols.

The Wayland-Protocols 1.39 release adds ext-data-control and ext-workspace protocols. In addition to the new protocols there are the changes suggested by Mike Blumenkrantz for [1]workflow improvements around introducing new protocols and [2]clarifying how protocols can be rejected .

Jonas summed up of the protocol changes in Wayland-Protocols 1.39:

"This new release contains two new protocols:

* ext-data-control - allow privileged clients to control data devices, e.g. a clipboard manager.

* ext-workspace - receive events about and control workspaces, useful for e.g. workspace indicators.

This release also includes the recent governance workflow changes and clarifications. Mesa is also listed as a member, Simon Zeni was added as a drm-lease maintainer, and Nick Diego Yamane was added as a xdg-toplevel-drag maintainer."

More details via the [3]mailing list announcement .



[1] https://www.phoronix.com/news/Blumenkrantz-Wayland-Workflow

[2] https://www.phoronix.com/news/Blumekrantz-Wayland-NACK

[3] https://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/wayland-devel/2024-December/043920.html