Sway Articles & Reviews |
| Ubuntu 13.04 Desktop Gaming Performance Comparison | Operating Systems | 2013-01-31 |
Sway Linux & Open-Source News |
| Alpine Linux 3.24 Improves Installer Experience, Adds COSMIC Desktop Option | Operating Systems | 2026-06-09 |
| Labwc 0.20 Wayland Compositor Released With Numerous New Features | Wayland | 2026-05-25 |
| Sway 1.12 Released With HDR Support On Vulkan Renderer, New Protocols | Wayland | 2026-05-25 |
| wlroots 0.20 Released,Sway 1.12-rc1 Available For Testing With Color Management | Wayland | 2026-03-26 |
| Alpine Linux 3.23 Released With APK Tools v3 For Package Management | Operating Systems | 2025-12-03 |
| Miracle-WM 0.7 Brings Mouse/Keyboard Configuration, Enhances Sway IPC Compatibility | Wayland | 2025-09-04 |
| AerynOS 2025.08 Released With Many Package Updates | Operating Systems | 2025-08-31 |
| Miracle-WM 0.6 Brings Many Improvements For This Mir-Based Wayland Compositor | Ubuntu | 2025-07-09 |
| AerynOS Tooling Now Written In Rust Rather Than D, New Software Updates | Operating Systems | 2025-06-30 |
| Sway 1.11 Released With New Wayland Protocols & More | Wayland | 2025-06-09 |
| Xfce's xfwm4 Merges Wayland Compositor Code Based On wlroots | Wayland | 2025-05-27 |
| Wayland Looks To Do Away With Alpha & Beta Releases | Wayland | 2025-05-21 |
| Sway 1.11-rc1 Released With Many New Features & New Wayland Protocols | Wayland | 2025-04-20 |
| SDL Merges Wayland Multi-Seat Support | Linux Gaming | 2025-04-12 |
| wlroots Merges Wayland Color Management / HDR Support | Wayland | 2025-03-31 |
| Miracle-WM 0.5 Released For Mir-Based Wayland Tiling Window Manager | Wayland | 2025-03-20 |
| Alpine Linux 3.21 Released With Linux 6.12 & GCC 14, LoongArch CPU Support | Operating Systems | 2024-12-05 |
| WayVNC 0.9 Released For Wayland VNC Server With New Features | Wayland | 2024-11-19 |
| Sway 1.10 Released With GPU Reset Recovery & Other Wayland Enhancements | Wayland | 2024-10-28 |
| Sway 1.10-rc1 Adds GPU Reset Recovery, New Wayland Protocols | Wayland | 2024-09-30 |
| Mir-Powered Miracle-WM Continues Tacking On New Features Ahead Of Fedora Miracle | Fedora | 2024-08-27 |
| FreeBSD 13.4 Nears Release With Modernized DVD Package Set, Driver Updates | BSD | 2024-08-24 |
| Lab Wayland Compositor 0.8 Released, Ported To wlroots 0.18 | Wayland | 2024-08-17 |
| Mir-Based Miracle-WM Updated Ahead Of Fedora Miracle Spin | Wayland | 2024-08-13 |
| Sway Compositor Lands Wayland Explicit Sync Support | Wayland | 2024-08-06 |
| Sway Compositor Lands Wayland Tearing Control Support | Wayland | 2024-08-05 |
| wlroots 0.18 Brings New Wayland Protocols & Support For GPU Reset Recovery | Wayland | 2024-07-16 |
| FreeBSD 14.1-RC1 Adds More Packages To The DVD Images - Including The Sway Compositor | BSD | 2024-05-27 |
| Alpine Linux 3.20 Released With Initial 64-bit RISC-V Support | Operating Systems | 2024-05-22 |
| Sway 1.9 Released - Using New wlroots Rendering API For Better Performance | Wayland | 2024-02-24 |
| Miracle-WM Announced As A Wayland Compositor Built On Mir | Wayland | 2024-02-19 |
| Fedora Atomic Desktops Born Out Of Fedora Silverblue Success | Fedora | 2024-02-09 |
| Sway 1.9-rc1 Supports New Wayland Extensions & Better Rendering Performance | Wayland | 2024-01-26 |
| Wayland Protocols 1.33 Released With DMA-BUF Stable, Adds Transient Seat Protocol | Wayland | 2024-01-19 |
| Wine 9.0-rc4 Released With More Wayland Fixes, Additional Game Fixes | WINE | 2024-01-06 |
| wlroots 0.17 Adds New Wayland Protocols, Continued Vulkan Renderer Work | Wayland | 2023-11-22 |
| Louvre Is A New C++ Library Helping To Build Wayland Compositors | Wayland | 2023-11-17 |
| wlroots Merges Wayland Tearing Control Support | Wayland | 2023-09-30 |
| CentOS ISA SIG Experimenting With New x86-64 Baseline For Better Performance | Operating Systems | 2023-08-28 |
| Two Fedora Spins Eye Going X.Org-less | Fedora | 2023-06-23 |
| Fedora Onyx Aims To Be A New Fedora Linux Immutable Variant | Fedora | 2023-05-01 |
| Arch Linux Installer v2.5.4 Adds Initial Swapfile Support | Arch Linux | 2023-03-29 |
| Google Chrome/Chromium Lands Wayland Fractional Scaling Support | Google | 2023-03-22 |
| NVIDIA Improving wlroots For Better Dual-GPU Gaming Performance | Wayland | 2023-03-16 |
| GNOME 44 Mutter Adds fractional_scale_v1 Wayland Support | GNOME | 2023-03-05 |
| Sway & wl-roots Land Support For Wayland Fractional Scaling | Wayland | 2023-02-13 |
| Fedora Budgie & Sway Spins Approved For Fedora 38 | Fedora | 2023-01-03 |
| Radeon RX 7900 XT/XTX, EPYC Genoa & Linux 6.2 Developments Made For An Exciting Month | Phoronix | 2023-01-01 |
| Sway 1.8 Released With More Secure Screen Locking, High Res Scroll Wheel Events | Wayland | 2022-12-25 |
| Fedora 38 Might Ship With A Sway ISO Spin | Fedora | 2022-12-02 |
| Wayland Protocols 1.31 Released With Fractional Scaling Support | Wayland | 2022-11-29 |
| Sway 1.8-rc1 Wayland Compositor Brings More Secure Screen Lockers, Improved Vulkan Code | Wayland | 2022-11-26 |
| wlroots 0.16 Released With More Stable Vulkan Renderer, High Resolution Scrolling | Wayland | 2022-11-12 |
| AMD Ryzen Threadripper 5965WX Benchmarks Show Some Speedups With Linux 6.0 Git | AMD | 2022-08-10 |
| Xfce's Xfwm4 Sees Wayland Port With Wlroots | Wayland | 2022-07-15 |
| New Wayland Protocol Proposed For Fractional Scaling | Wayland | 2022-04-06 |
| KWinFT 5.24 Released - Continues To Advance Its Wayland Support, Expand On Wlroots | KDE | 2022-02-09 |
| Sway 1.7 Released With VR Headset DRM Leasing, Renames "--my-next-gpu-wont-be-nvidia" | Wayland | 2022-01-23 |
| Sway 1.7 Nears Release With Less Abrasive NVIDIA Option, Zero-Copy Direct Scanout | Wayland | 2022-01-09 |
| Happy New Year & A Wrap On 2021 | Phoronix | 2021-12-31 |
| Sway 1.7-rc1 Has Better Zero-Copy Direct Scanout, Drops "--my-next-gpu-wont-be-nvidia" | Wayland | 2021-12-23 |
| Sway's wlroots Lands Initial Vulkan Renderer | Wayland | 2021-10-28 |
| NVIDIA 495 Linux Beta Driver Released With GBM Support | NVIDIA | 2021-10-14 |
| Linux 5.15, AMD / Radeon Advancements, Intel SDSi Dominated Discussions This Month | Phoronix | 2021-10-01 |
| NVIDIA Confirms Sway Wayland Compositor Works Fine With Their New GBM Driver Support | NVIDIA | 2021-09-04 |
| KWinFT Lands Code To Now Use WLROOTS For Wayland | KDE | 2021-07-16 |
| Sway 1.6.1 Wayland Compositor Released With WLROOTS 0.14 | Wayland | 2021-06-25 |
| Surface Suspension Protocol Proposed For Wayland | Wayland | 2021-06-20 |
| KWinFT Going Through Code Refactoring, Working On WLROOTS-Based Usage | KDE | 2021-06-13 |
| Archinstall 2.2 Released For Improving This Easy-To-Use Arch Linux Installer | Arch Linux | 2021-05-28 |
| XWayland Lands Support For Sharing Pixmaps Via MIT-SHM | X.Org | 2021-05-19 |
| Arch-Based Endeavour OS Spins Up April Release, Adds Sway Community Edition | Arch Linux | 2021-04-18 |
| Sway 1.6 Wayland Compositor Released With Smoother Move/Resize | Wayland | 2021-04-07 |
| FreeBSD: Sway Compositor Can Run While KDE Plasma On Wayland Is Still A Work-In-Progress | BSD | 2021-03-19 |
| Sway 1.6-rc1 Released With Better Touchscreen/Tablet Support | Wayland | 2021-03-17 |
| LABWC Is The Newest Stacking Wayland Compositor | Wayland | 2021-03-06 |
| VRR, Lower Latency Likely Coming For KDE's KWin Wayland Compositor | KDE | 2021-02-22 |
| OBS Studio Merges Its EGL-Wayland Code To Natively Support Wayland | Wayland | 2021-02-12 |
| Taiwins Wayland Compositor Switches From WLROOTS To Its Own Library | Wayland | 2021-01-31 |
| Vulkan Wayland Compositors Are Nearing Reality | Vulkan | 2021-01-20 |
| Gentoo Saw Total Commits Rise By 42% In 2020, Great Progress On Wayland | Operating Systems | 2021-01-17 |
| Fedora 34 To Ship An ISO With The i3 Window Manager | Fedora | 2021-01-13 |
| Radeon RX 6800 XT Seeing Some Slight Gains With Linux 5.11 | Linux Kernel | 2020-12-21 |
| Raspberry Pi's V3DV Vulkan Driver Now Supports Wayland | Mesa | 2020-11-25 |
| Cage Wayland Compositor For Kiosk Use-Cases Updated With Direct Scan-Out, New Protocols | Wayland | 2020-07-17 |
| Sway 1.5 Wayland Compositor Released With Adaptive-Sync/VRR, New Protocols | Wayland | 2020-07-16 |
| Sway 1.5-RC1 Wayland Compositor Brings VRR / Adaptive-Sync, New Protocol Support | Wayland | 2020-06-25 |
| openSUSE Leap 15.2 Hits RC Phase With GNOME 3.34 + KDE Plasma 5.18, Sway | SUSE | 2020-05-29 |
| Phoronix Test Suite 9.6.1 Released For Cross-Platform, Open-Source Benchmarking | Phoronix Test Suite | 2020-05-25 |
| TAIWINS Is A Compact Wayland Compositor | Wayland | 2020-05-13 |
| The Wayland Book Is Now Freely Available | Wayland | 2020-05-05 |
| Sway Wayland Compositor Seeing Adaptive-Sync/VRR Support | Wayland | 2020-03-04 |
| LavaLauncher 1.6 Released As A Simple Dock/Launcher For Wayland | Wayland | 2020-02-17 |
| Sway 1.4 Wayland Compositor Brings VNC Support, Initial Bits For MATE Panel Support | Wayland | 2020-01-22 |
| Sway 1.3 Release Candidate Brings Many Changes For This i3-Inspired Wayland Compositor | Wayland | 2020-01-01 |
| Ubuntu/Mir Developer Issues Porting Guide To Help Port MATE To Wayland | Ubuntu | 2019-09-21 |
| XWayland Sees Updated Protocol Support To Help WLROOTS & KDE | X.Org | 2019-09-05 |
| Sway 1.2 Released For This Popular i3 Inspired Wayland Compositor | Wayland | 2019-08-27 |
| Stepping Towards Better VR Headset Support On Wayland | Wayland | 2019-08-12 |
| Wave Hello To WEV - Similar To X.Org's Xev For Event Viewing On Wayland | Wayland | 2019-08-11 |
| Sway 1.2-RC1 Released For The i3-Inspired Wayland Compositor | Wayland | 2019-08-09 |
| A Vulkan Extension Is Being Worked On To Acquire Exclusive Control Of A Wayland Display | Vulkan | 2019-07-16 |
| Sway 1.1 Released With Switch Event Support, Touch Support For Swaybar | Wayland | 2019-06-03 |
| Sway 1.1 Is Bringing Touch Support To Swaybar, Other Features & Fixes | Wayland | 2019-05-03 |
| Wio: Plan 9's Rio Windowing System Re-Implemented As A Wayland Compositor | Wayland | 2019-05-01 |
| Sway 1.0 Released For This i3-Compatible Wayland Compositor | Wayland | 2019-03-11 |
| The Sway Wayland Compositor Is Now Available From Debian Experimental | Debian | 2019-02-17 |
| Sway 1.0 Close To Release For This Very Promising Wayland Compositor | Wayland | 2019-02-11 |
| Sway 1.0 RC1 Rolls Out With Wayland Clipboard Managers, Swayidle/Swaylock Changes | Wayland | 2019-02-05 |
| Sway Adds Relative Pointer Support To Its 1.0 Feature List | Wayland | 2019-01-31 |
| A Look At The Wayland/Weston Development Stats For 2018 | Wayland | 2018-12-26 |
| Sway 1.0 Beta 2 Rolls Out For Feature-Rich i3-Compatible Wayland Compositor | Wayland | 2018-11-30 |
| System76 Unveils Thelio "Open" Desktops With Intel/AMD CPU Options, NVIDIA/Radeon GPUs | Hardware | 2018-11-01 |
| Sway 1.0 Beta Released - Offers 100% Compatibility With i3 Window Manager | Wayland | 2018-10-20 |
| Sway 1.0 Alpha 6 Released, Now Supports Moving/Resizing Tiled Windows With The Mouse | Wayland | 2018-09-22 |
| Sway 1.0 Alpha 5 Brings Multi-GPU Support, Virtual Keyboard Protocol | Wayland | 2018-08-06 |
| Wayland Shells From The Perspective Of WLROOTS | Wayland | 2018-08-02 |
| Sway 1.0 Alpha 4 Released With Real-Time Video Capture, Atomic Layout Updates | Wayland | 2018-07-18 |
| Wayland-Protocols 1.15 Adds XDG-Decoration Protocol For Server-Side Window Decorations | Wayland | 2018-07-05 |
| Sway 1.0 Wayland Compositor Nears With Floating Windows, Tablet Support & More | Wayland | 2018-06-19 |
| A Session Suspension & Restoration Protocol Proposed For Wayland | KDE | 2018-06-18 |
| KDE Plasma Developers Collaborating With Sway On Wayland Support | KDE | 2018-05-14 |
| Sway 1.0 Reaches Alpha For This Popular Wayland Compositor | Wayland | 2018-04-07 |
| Wayland Made More Inroads In 2017 | Wayland | 2017-12-29 |
| Wlroots Is A New, Modular Wayland Compositor Library | Wayland | 2017-12-28 |
| Wayland Had An Impressive 2017 With KDE Support Maturing, Mir Switching Focus | Wayland | 2017-12-13 |
| Sway 0.15 Wayland Compositor Released With Raspberry Pi Support, Improved Clipboard | Wayland | 2017-11-09 |
| KDE Server Decoration Protocol Proposed For Wayland-Protocols | KDE | 2017-10-27 |
| Sway Is Taking Flight As A Featureful i3-Compatible Wayland Compositor | Wayland | 2017-08-10 |
| Sway 0.14 Supports KDE Server Decorations Protocol, Mouse Button Bindings | Wayland | 2017-07-27 |
| Sway Wayland Compositor Adding Proprietary NVIDIA Driver Support | Wayland | 2017-04-30 |
| Steam's Survey Shows A Tiny Increase In Linux Gamers For March | Linux Gaming | 2017-04-02 |
| Some Of The Lesser Known Wayland Compositors | Wayland | 2017-03-19 |
| Sway 0.12 Wayland Compositor Released | Wayland | 2017-03-18 |
| The Debate Over GLVND In Fedora 25 Is Still Going On | Fedora | 2017-02-07 |
| Fedora 25 Using GLVND For Mesa Has Been Causing Headaches | Fedora | 2017-02-04 |
| Sway i3-Compatible Wayland Compositor Ends Out 2016 With v0.11 | Wayland | 2016-12-27 |
| FreeBSD Making Progress On Wayland Support, The Basics Are Working | BSD | 2016-12-22 |
| The Sway i3-Compatible WM For Wayland Now Supports Tabbed/Stacking Layouts | Wayland | 2016-04-29 |
| Wayland Protocol Extensions Are Being Talked About A Lot This Week | Wayland | 2016-03-31 |
| Linux 4.3 Scheduler Change "Potentially Affects Every SMP Workload In Existence" | Linux Kernel | 2015-09-01 |
| An i3-Compatible Tiling Window Manager For Wayland | Wayland | 2015-08-18 |
| X.Org Server 1.16 Planned For A July Debut | X.Org | 2013-12-27 |
| 239 News Stories & 20 Articles About Linux This Month | Phoronix | 2013-01-31 |
