Wayland Developers Target June For Weston 16 Release
Weston 16.0 could ship by the end of June with good color management and HDR support along with other new features for this reference Wayland compositor.
Marius Vlad of Collabora announced a tentative release schedule for Weston 16. The plan would be a feature freeze in early June and then work through the alpha / beta / RC test releases over the month of June. If all goes according to the drafted plans, Weston 16.0 stable could be out around the end of June.
Weston 15.0 shipped in February with many exciting features like its Vulkan renderer. Weston 16 at the end of June or early July would align with their plans for shipping new Weston feature releases roughly twice per year.
Among the features on deck for Weston 16.0 are getting the Wayland color management and HDR support in order, deleting and deprecating various old Weston remnants, reviving DRM state caching, adding support for the DRM BACKGROUND_COLOR CRTC property, DMA-BUF support for the VNC back-end, improving GPU recovery, and other improvements.
Also still being decided upon but likely to be done in time for Weston 16.0 is their tentative AI policy. Their initial draft of the Weston AI policy was in fact generated with AI using Chat GPT after being fed the Fedora and OpenInfra policies on AI. The Weston AI policy would allow AI-assisted contributions but having human responsibility for understanding the code and license compliance. There would also need to be disclosure of AI use with patches.
Other possible Weston 16.0 changes can be found via the open merge requests. The draft Weston 16.0 schedule can be found on the Wayland mailing list.
Marius Vlad of Collabora announced a tentative release schedule for Weston 16. The plan would be a feature freeze in early June and then work through the alpha / beta / RC test releases over the month of June. If all goes according to the drafted plans, Weston 16.0 stable could be out around the end of June.
Weston 15.0 shipped in February with many exciting features like its Vulkan renderer. Weston 16 at the end of June or early July would align with their plans for shipping new Weston feature releases roughly twice per year.
Among the features on deck for Weston 16.0 are getting the Wayland color management and HDR support in order, deleting and deprecating various old Weston remnants, reviving DRM state caching, adding support for the DRM BACKGROUND_COLOR CRTC property, DMA-BUF support for the VNC back-end, improving GPU recovery, and other improvements.
Also still being decided upon but likely to be done in time for Weston 16.0 is their tentative AI policy. Their initial draft of the Weston AI policy was in fact generated with AI using Chat GPT after being fed the Fedora and OpenInfra policies on AI. The Weston AI policy would allow AI-assisted contributions but having human responsibility for understanding the code and license compliance. There would also need to be disclosure of AI use with patches.
Other possible Weston 16.0 changes can be found via the open merge requests. The draft Weston 16.0 schedule can be found on the Wayland mailing list.