Sway 1.11-rc1 is out today as a test release ahead of this next Wayland compositor feature release. Sway 1.11 is bringing a number of new features for this i3-inspired Wayland compositor while also building off the new features laid out in the recent wlroots 0.19-rc1 library.

Sway 1.11-rc1 introduces support for linux-drm-syncobj-v1 for explicit synchronization support, support for alpha-modifier-v1 to set an alpha multiplier for a surface, ext-image-copy-capture-v1 and ext-image-capture-source-v1 for better screen capture support, and ext-data-control-v1 for handling alternative clipboard managers under Wayland. Sway 1.11 has also been working on improved output configuration logic, pointer keys are now supported, and security-context-v1 metadata is exposed in IPC form.

The Sway 1.11-rc1 compositor release also incorporates all of the changes of the wlroots 0.19-rc1 library, which debuted a few days ago. The wlroots 0.19 release wires up color-management-v1 for HDR10 support, but not yet having the renderer and backend changes for this HDR display support. Plus there is various other new Wayland protocols supported, explicit synchronization support throughout the backends and renderers, multi-GPU support for display-only devices, direct scanout in back-ends can now handle cropping and scaling buffers, and various scene-graph improvements/optimizations.

The wlroots 0.19-rc1 release also introduces a new UDMABUF allocator for use with software OpenGL/Vulkan implementations like Mesa's Lavapipe and LLVMpipe drivers. More details on these wlroots changes via [1]FreeDesktop.org GitLab .

Downloads and additional details on Sway 1.11-rc1 via [2]GitHub .



[1] https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/wlroots/wlroots/-/releases/0.19.0-rc1

[2] https://github.com/swaywm/sway/releases/tag/1.11-rc1