Weston 15.0 Alpha Released With New Protocols, Experimental Vulkan Renderer
([Wayland] 6 Hours Ago
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After being delayed by three months to allow additional time for new features to land, Weston 15.0 Alpha 1 is out today as a big feature release for this reference Wayland compositor.
Weston 15.0 Alpha 1 is out this morning as the latest and greatest reference Wayland compositor implementation. Weston 15 brings improved high dynamic range (HDR) support and the color-representation protocol, other new protocols like the FIFO and commit-timing work, a brand new Lua-based shell, and an experimental Vulkan renderer.
More details on the new Vulkan renderer option for Weston as an alternative to the OpenGL rendering can be found via [1]The State Of The Vulkan Renderer For Wayland's Weston 15.0 Compositor .
The new Lua Shell "lua-shell" for Weston 15 is a meta shell that doesn't have any defaults but is user scriptable and configurable using a Lua script that is executed by Weston. The Lua script allows full control over window management in response to events. This was merged earlier in the year by Collabora's Derek Foreman.
A beta of Weston 15.0 is expected mid-January followed a week later by Weston 15.0 RC1. If all goes well Weston 15.0 will be officially released by the end of January.
The full list of patches making up the Weston 15.0 Alpha 1 release can be found via [2]the mailing list announcement .
[1] https://www.phoronix.com/news/Weston-15.0-Vulkan-Renderer
[2] https://lore.freedesktop.org/wayland-devel/aUkQG3KWNC3drDYd@xpredator/T/#u
Weston 15.0 Alpha 1 is out this morning as the latest and greatest reference Wayland compositor implementation. Weston 15 brings improved high dynamic range (HDR) support and the color-representation protocol, other new protocols like the FIFO and commit-timing work, a brand new Lua-based shell, and an experimental Vulkan renderer.
More details on the new Vulkan renderer option for Weston as an alternative to the OpenGL rendering can be found via [1]The State Of The Vulkan Renderer For Wayland's Weston 15.0 Compositor .
The new Lua Shell "lua-shell" for Weston 15 is a meta shell that doesn't have any defaults but is user scriptable and configurable using a Lua script that is executed by Weston. The Lua script allows full control over window management in response to events. This was merged earlier in the year by Collabora's Derek Foreman.
A beta of Weston 15.0 is expected mid-January followed a week later by Weston 15.0 RC1. If all goes well Weston 15.0 will be officially released by the end of January.
The full list of patches making up the Weston 15.0 Alpha 1 release can be found via [2]the mailing list announcement .
[1] https://www.phoronix.com/news/Weston-15.0-Vulkan-Renderer
[2] https://lore.freedesktop.org/wayland-devel/aUkQG3KWNC3drDYd@xpredator/T/#u