Yesterday the Sway i3-inspired Wayland compositor saw [1]tearing control support merged while today another prominent Wayland protocol has been merged: linux-drm-syncobj-v1 for explicit sync support.

Sway is now the latest Wayland compositor supporting [2]explicit sync for better handling within Wayland environments and a big step-up for the NVIDIA driver support.

Since May there has been [3]this pull request by Simon Ser for adding the explicit sync support to Sway. As of this afternoon that code was finally merged following the last of the [4]wlroots changes needed for explicit sync in that underlying Wayland support library.

The next Sway release as a result is looking quite exciting with all of its latest enhancements.



[1] https://www.phoronix.com/news/Sway-Tearing-Control-Lands

[2] https://www.phoronix.com/search/explicit+sync

[3] https://github.com/swaywm/sway/pull/8156

[4] https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/wlroots/wlroots/-/merge_requests/4715