wlroots 0.20 Nears Release With New Protocols, Enhanced Vulkan Renderer
Version 0.20 of the popular wlroots Wayland support library is nearing its official release. Over the past week were two release candidates for wlroots 0.20 were published for this library used by Sway, Wayfire, Cage, Gamescope, and numerous other Wayland compositors.
With wlroots 0.20 there are new Wayland protocol implementations include color-representation-v1, ext-workspace-v1, foreign top-level support for ext-image-capture-source-v1, xdg-toplevel-tag-v1, color-management-v1 minor version 2, cursor-shape-v1 minor version 2, and xdg-shell minor version 7.
The wlroots 0.20 release is also shipping its full Vulkan renderer with back-end and scene-graph support for the color-management-v1 protocol. The Vulkan renderer and scene-graph support is also in place for the color-representation-v1 color range and color encoding.
This upcoming wlroots release also brings API improvements and other enhancements. Downloads and more details on this week's wlroots 0.20 rc1 and rc2 test releases via FreeDesktop.org GitLab.
With wlroots 0.20 there are new Wayland protocol implementations include color-representation-v1, ext-workspace-v1, foreign top-level support for ext-image-capture-source-v1, xdg-toplevel-tag-v1, color-management-v1 minor version 2, cursor-shape-v1 minor version 2, and xdg-shell minor version 7.
The wlroots 0.20 release is also shipping its full Vulkan renderer with back-end and scene-graph support for the color-management-v1 protocol. The Vulkan renderer and scene-graph support is also in place for the color-representation-v1 color range and color encoding.
This upcoming wlroots release also brings API improvements and other enhancements. Downloads and more details on this week's wlroots 0.20 rc1 and rc2 test releases via FreeDesktop.org GitLab.