WLROOTS Linux & Open-Source News |
| 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 |
| Wine Wayland Driver Merges Pointer Warp Support | WINE | 2026-05-12 |
| WayVNC 0.10 Released For Advancing This Leading VNC Server For Wayland | Wayland | 2026-04-28 |
| Cage 0.3 Released With New Wayland Protocol Support | Wayland | 2026-04-11 |
| wlroots 0.20 Released,Sway 1.12-rc1 Available For Testing With Color Management | Wayland | 2026-03-26 |
| Budgie 10.10.2 Brings Improved Labwc Wayland Compositor Integration | Desktop | 2026-03-07 |
| wlroots 0.20 Nears Release With New Protocols, Enhanced Vulkan Renderer | Wayland | 2026-02-15 |
| Casilda 1.0 Released As Wayland Compositor Widget For GTK4 | Wayland | 2025-09-15 |
| Wayfire 0.10 Wayland Compositor Brings Experimental Vulkan Rendering | Wayland | 2025-08-30 |
| Wayback 0.1 Released As First Preview Release For X11 Compatibility Layer | X.Org | 2025-07-23 |
| GNOME's Glycin Continues Being Built Out, Papers Ready For Document Viewing | GNOME | 2025-07-05 |
| Wayback Is An Experimental X11 Compatibility Layer For X11 Desktops Using Wayland | Wayland | 2025-06-29 |
| 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 |
| Labwc 0.8.4 Ships More Usability Improvements For This Wayland Compositor | Wayland | 2025-05-03 |
| 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 |
| Arch Linux Installer Adds Wayfire As A Desktop Option, Btrfs Improvements | Arch Linux | 2025-01-22 |
| 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 |
| Cage 0.2 Released For Wayland-Powered Kiosks With Single, Maximized Apps | Wayland | 2024-10-06 |
| Sway 1.10-rc1 Adds GPU Reset Recovery, New Wayland Protocols | Wayland | 2024-09-30 |
| Wayland Protocols 1.37 Introduces Three New Protocols | Wayland | 2024-08-31 |
| Lab Wayland Compositor 0.8 Released, Ported To wlroots 0.18 | Wayland | 2024-08-17 |
| Wayland Merges New Screen Capture Protocols | Wayland | 2024-08-11 |
| Hyprland 0.42 Wayland Compositor Ditches Wlroots, Adds Explicit Sync Support | Wayland | 2024-08-08 |
| 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 |
| Wayland Protocols 1.35 Introduces Alpha Modifier Protocol, Tablet-V2 As Stable | Wayland | 2024-04-17 |
| Wayland 1.23 Planned For Release Around The End Of May | Wayland | 2024-04-11 |
| Mesa 24.1 Merges Vulkan Support For Wayland Explicit Sync | Mesa | 2024-04-02 |
| WayVNC 0.8 Adds Auto Server-Side Resizing Of Headless Outputs, Detached Mode | Wayland | 2024-02-26 |
| Sway 1.9 Released - Using New wlroots Rendering API For Better Performance | Wayland | 2024-02-24 |
| Xfce 4.20 Aiming For Usable Wayland Support While Maintaining X11 Compatibility | Desktop | 2024-02-10 |
| 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 |
| Wayland Enjoyed Many Successes In 2023 | Wayland | 2024-01-01 |
| Lab Wayland Compositor 0.7 Released - Ported To wlroots 0.17 | Wayland | 2023-12-23 |
| WayVNC 0.8 Preparing Transient Seats, Automatic Server-Side Resizing & Detached Mode | Wayland | 2023-12-11 |
| GNOME Developers Working On USB Portal Integration, Updated Phosh | GNOME | 2023-12-09 |
| wlroots 0.17 Adds New Wayland Protocols, Continued Vulkan Renderer Work | Wayland | 2023-11-22 |
| Raspberry Pi 5 Kernel Graphics Driver Support Queued Ahead Of Linux 6.8 | Linux Kernel | 2023-11-17 |
| Louvre Is A New C++ Library Helping To Build Wayland Compositors | Wayland | 2023-11-17 |
| WayVNC 0.7 Released As VNC Server For Wlroots-Based Wayland Compositors | Wayland | 2023-10-05 |
| wlroots Merges Wayland Tearing Control Support | Wayland | 2023-09-30 |
| PipeWire 0.3.80 Released With Vulkan DMA-BUF Support, Tag Param | PipeWire | 2023-09-14 |
| Xfce's Wayland Roadmap Updated | Wayland | 2023-09-13 |
| GPU VA Manager To Land In Linux 6.6 | Hardware | 2023-07-21 |
| Open-Source Graphics Driver Updates Begin Queuing For Linux 6.6 | Linux Kernel | 2023-07-13 |
| Google Chrome/Chromium Lands Wayland Fractional Scaling Support | Google | 2023-03-22 |
| Labwc 0.6.2 Released For Openbox-Inspired Wayland Compositor | Wayland | 2023-03-21 |
| 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 |
| labwc 0.6.1 Released For Window-Stacking Wayland Compositor | Wayland | 2023-01-30 |
| Wlroots-Based Xfce Xwfm4 Wayland Code Taking Shape | Wayland | 2022-12-21 |
| Wayland Protocols 1.31 Released With Fractional Scaling Support | Wayland | 2022-11-29 |
| Wayland Protocol Finally Ready For Fractional Scaling | Wayland | 2022-11-25 |
| wlroots 0.16 Released With More Stable Vulkan Renderer, High Resolution Scrolling | Wayland | 2022-11-12 |
| Mesa Lands DMA-BUF Feedback Support For Vulkan On Wayland | Mesa | 2022-10-22 |
| Xfce's Xfwm4 Sees Wayland Port With Wlroots | Wayland | 2022-07-15 |
| WayVNC 0.5 VNC Server For wlroots-Based Wayland Compositors Released | Wayland | 2022-07-10 |
| Wayland 1.21 Alpha Finally Introduces High-Resolution Scroll Wheel Support | Wayland | 2022-05-27 |
| 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 |
| LABWC 0.4 Stacking Wayland Compositor Brings Fullscreen Mode, Drag & Drop | Wayland | 2022-01-01 |
| DMA-BUF Feedback Support For Wayland Lands In Mesa 22.0's EGL Code | Mesa | 2021-11-27 |
| Wayland 1.20 Alpha Released With Upstreamed FreeBSD Support, Autotools Nuked | Wayland | 2021-11-05 |
| Sway's wlroots Lands Initial Vulkan Renderer | Wayland | 2021-10-28 |
| KWinFT Continues Working On WLROOTS Render, Library Split | Wayland | 2021-09-17 |
| Wayland Protocols 1.22 Released With DRM Object Leasing Support For VR HMDs | Wayland | 2021-09-01 |
| 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 |
| XWayland Lands Support For Sharing Pixmaps Via MIT-SHM | X.Org | 2021-05-19 |
| Taiwins 0.3 Released As Newest Wayland Compositor Release | Wayland | 2021-05-04 |
| Wayland-Protocols 1.21 Released With XDG_Activation, Staging Replaces Unstable | Wayland | 2021-05-03 |
| 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 |
| Linux 5.11, Pyston, Wayland & Other January Excitement | Phoronix | 2021-02-01 |
| Taiwins Wayland Compositor Switches From WLROOTS To Its Own Library | Wayland | 2021-01-31 |
| Vulkan Wayland Compositors Are Nearing Reality | Vulkan | 2021-01-20 |
| WayVNC 0.3 Released - The Wayland VNC Server Now Supports Copy & Paste | Wayland | 2020-09-28 |
| Disman Continues Taking Shape As Display Management Library For X11/Wayland | KDE | 2020-09-23 |
| Taiwins 0.2 Released As Modular Wayland Compositor That Supports Lua Scripting | Wayland | 2020-09-18 |
| Gamescope Continues Advancing As Wayland/Vulkan Compositor Backed By Valve | Valve | 2020-09-16 |
| Hikari 2.2 Wayland Compositor Adds Support For WayVNC, Other Features | Wayland | 2020-09-08 |
| Cage Wayland Compositor For Kiosk Use-Cases Updated With Direct Scan-Out, New Protocols | Wayland | 2020-07-17 |
| The Wayland Book Is Now Freely Available | Wayland | 2020-05-05 |
| Sway Wayland Compositor Seeing Adaptive-Sync/VRR Support | Wayland | 2020-03-04 |
| 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 |
| Purism Making Some Progress On Convergence With Phosh Running On Desktop | Wayland | 2019-12-17 |
| XWayland Sees Updated Protocol Support To Help WLROOTS & KDE | X.Org | 2019-09-05 |
| 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 |
| Xfway Aims To Provide A Wayland Compositor Inspired By Xfce's Xfwm4 | Desktop | 2019-06-28 |
| Wio: Plan 9's Rio Windowing System Re-Implemented As A Wayland Compositor | Wayland | 2019-05-01 |
| "Cage" Sees Initial Test Release For Kiosk-Like Wayland Compositor | Wayland | 2019-04-24 |
| High Resolution Scroll Wheel Support Being Worked On For Wayland | Wayland | 2019-04-03 |
| 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 |
| Intel Developer Working On Adding HDR Display Support To Wayland / Weston | Wayland | 2019-01-10 |
| Purism Shares The Progress Made On Their Librem 5 Smartphone For The End Of 2018 | Hardware | 2019-01-09 |
| Cage Is A New Wayland Compositor For Kiosk/Full-Screen-One-App Deployments | Wayland | 2018-12-27 |
| Following Mir 1.0, Developers Encouraged To Target Wayland Instead Of Mir Client API | Ubuntu | 2018-09-28 |
| Sway 1.0 Alpha 6 Released, Now Supports Moving/Resizing Tiled Windows With The Mouse | Wayland | 2018-09-22 |
| Purism's Librem 5 Making Progress In GTK4 Toolkit Usage, Kernel Upbringing | Hardware | 2018-09-06 |
| Mir Now Supports XDG Shell Stable | Ubuntu | 2018-08-11 |
| 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 |
| Sway 1.0 Wayland Compositor Nears With Floating Windows, Tablet Support & More | Wayland | 2018-06-19 |
| Librem 5 Continues Working On Its Wayland Software Stack, Testing Vibration Motors, Chargers | Hardware | 2018-06-13 |
| KDE Plasma Developers Collaborating With Sway On Wayland Support | KDE | 2018-05-14 |
| Purism Begins Librem 5 Developer Docs, Using "Phosh" Wayland Shell & GNOME Apps | Hardware | 2018-04-11 |
| Sway 1.0 Reaches Alpha For This Popular Wayland Compositor | Wayland | 2018-04-07 |
| Purism Begins Making Their Own Wayland Compositor For The Librem 5 Smartphone | Wayland | 2018-03-03 |
| Wlroots Is A New, Modular Wayland Compositor Library | Wayland | 2017-12-28 |
