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Wayland is a display server protocol that is a FreeDesktop.org project with development being driven by multiple organizations. Wayland is widely viewed as the likely successor to the X11 Server on the modern Linux desktop with it being supported by multiple Linux distributions. The reference Wayland implementation is the Weston compositor.

Additional Information: wayland.freedesktop.org

wayland Articles & Reviews

KDE Plasma 6.6 Delivers An Impressive Edge For Radeon Graphics Over GNOME 50 On Ubuntu 26.04   Software   2026-03-25
GNOME & KDE Plasma Wayland Sessions Outperforming Xfce + LXQt On Ubuntu 25.04 For Linux Gaming   Linux Gaming   2025-04-02
GNOME 48 & KDE Plasma 6.3 Delivering Great Wayland Desktop Experience On Ubuntu 25.04 For Linux Gaming   Linux Gaming   2025-03-28
AMD Radeon Linux Gaming Performance At Parity Between KDE Plasma 6.0 X11 vs. Wayland   Linux Gaming   2024-04-08
The Compositor Modules "COMO" To Build Wayland Compositors Have Arrived   Software   2024-03-04
GNOME Wayland vs. X.Org Performance For Radeon & NVIDIA Gaming On Ubuntu 23.04   Linux Gaming   2023-06-16
X.Org vs. Wayland Linux Gaming Performance For NVIDIA GeForce + AMD Radeon In Early 2023   Display Drivers   2023-01-30
NVIDIA Linux Gaming Performance For Wayland vs. X.Org On Ubuntu 22.04   Display Drivers   2022-02-02
Mesa's RADV Vulkan Driver Holds A Narrowing Lead Over AMDVLK With Ubuntu 21.10 On Wayland   Display Drivers   2021-12-30
KDE/GNOME Wayland vs. X.Org Radeon Linux Gaming Performance   Linux Gaming   2021-12-28
Ubuntu 21.10 Radeon Gaming With KDE Plasma vs. GNOME Shell + Wayland vs. X.Org   Linux Gaming   2021-10-18
Ubuntu 21.04 - X.Org vs. Wayland Linux Gaming Performance   Linux Gaming   2021-04-29
Ubuntu 21.04 Server Performance Offering Nice Gains For AMD EPYC 7003 Series   Operating Systems   2021-04-21
GNOME XWayland Radeon Gaming Performance Is In Good Shape For Ubuntu 21.04   Linux Gaming   2021-02-01
Ubuntu 20.04 Gaming Performance Across Desktops, X.Org vs. Wayland   Linux Gaming   2020-04-28
Firefox Performance On Wayland Is Looking Good - Browser Benchmarks With KDE vs. GNOME   Software   2020-04-20
X.Org vs. Wayland Browser Performance With Firefox + Chrome   Software   2020-04-10
Ubuntu 20.04 GNOME X.Org vs. Wayland Session Performance Impact For Gaming   Linux Gaming   2020-03-30
Ubuntu 19.04 Radeon Linux Gaming Performance: Popular Desktops Benchmarked, Wayland vs. X.Org   Linux Gaming   2019-04-18
The Fastest Linux Distributions For Web Browsing - Firefox + Chrome Benchmarks On Eight Distros   Operating Systems   2019-03-29
KDE Plasma, GNOME Shell, Xfce, LXQt & MATE Linux Gaming Benchmarks, Including X.Org/Wayland   Linux Gaming   2018-12-30
A Look At The Linux Graphics/Gaming Performance With GNOME 3.30 X.Org/Wayland   Software   2018-09-10
KDE vs. GNOME, X.Org vs. Wayland Radeon Linux Gaming Performance With Ubuntu 18.04 LTS   Linux Gaming   2018-05-12
Intel Graphics On Ubuntu: GNOME vs. KDE vs. Xfce vs. Unity vs. LXDE   Software   2018-01-21
Intel Graphics Performance: Ubuntu 17.04 vs. 17.10   Linux Gaming   2017-10-20
Ubuntu 17.10 Ships Today - Arguably Its Most Interesting Release In Years   Operating Systems   2017-10-19
Radeon Linux Gaming Performance: Ubuntu 17.04 vs. Ubuntu 17.10   Linux Gaming   2017-10-18
Fedora 26 vs. 27 Beta Benchmarks, Wayland vs. X.Org Gaming Tests   Operating Systems   2017-10-14
GNOME 3.26: Wayland vs. X.Org Performance - Boot Times, Power Use, Memory Use & Gaming   Software   2017-09-11
Trying Out Ubuntu 17.10 On A Laptop One Month Ahead Of Release   Operating Systems   2017-09-07
A Look Back At The Desktop & X.Org/Wayland/Mir Milestones Of Ubuntu   Operating Systems   2017-04-05
Fedora 25 Turned Out Great, Definitely My Most Favorite Fedora Release   Operating Systems   2016-11-21
XDC2016 Wraps Up After Many Wayland, X.Org & Mesa Discussions   Events   2016-09-24
Trying Out Fedora 25 With Wayland, Early Benchmarks Included   Operating Systems   2016-08-22
A Brief Look At Fedora 24   Operating Systems   2016-06-16
KDE Plasma 5.5 Has Evolved Well Beyond Where Plasma 4 Ended   Software   2016-01-08
GNOME 3.18 On Fedora 23: X.Org vs. Wayland Performance   Software   2015-09-24
Fedora 22 KDE Delivers A Great Plasma 5 Experience   Operating Systems   2015-06-07
XWayland Linux Gaming Performance With GNOME Wayland On Fedora 21   Software   2014-09-25
X.Org Server 1.16 Officially Released With Terrific Features   Software   2014-07-17
Trying Out The Latest Wayland Linux Desktops With RBOS   Software   2014-03-25
Ubuntu 13.10 vs. Fedora 20 Benchmarks   Operating Systems   2014-01-03
Early Ubuntu 14.04 Intel XMir Benchmarks   Display Drivers   2014-01-02
GNOME Shell Wayland Benchmarks From Fedora 20   Display Drivers   2013-12-26
Running The Latest GNOME Wayland Shell On Fedora 20   Software   2013-10-28
The First Wayland Benchmarks From Fedora 20 Show Great Promise   Operating Systems   2013-10-07
The Wayland Situation: Facts About X vs. Wayland   Display Drivers   2013-06-07
Why Wayland & Weston Were Forked   Software   2013-03-29
XDC2012: Lots Of Progress On X, Mesa, Wayland   Events   2012-09-24
Running Wayland: It Works, But A Lot Of Work Remains   Software   2012-08-10
Ubuntu Delays Wayland System Compositor   Software   2012-08-10
Running Wayland On Ubuntu 11.10   Software   2011-08-25
KDE Draws Up Plans For Wayland In 2012   Software   2011-08-07
MeeGo Tablet UX 1.3 May Use Wayland This Year   Software   2011-05-27
Will Wayland Become A New Desktop Standard?   Software   2011-05-17
It's Becoming Very Easy To Run Wayland   Software   2010-11-25
The State Of The Wayland Display Server   Software   2009-05-20
Wayland: A New X Server For Linux   Software   2008-11-03

wayland Linux & Open-Source News

Myna Announced As Speech-To-Text Solution For The Ubuntu Desktop   Ubuntu   2026-06-17
Wayland's Weston 16 Alpha Brings HDR Improvements, Vulkan Renderer Fixes   Wayland   2026-06-16
Wine Wayland Lands Fractional Scaling Support   WINE   2026-06-16
KDE Plasma 6.7 Released With Per-Screen Virtual Desktops, Wayland Improvements   KDE   2026-06-16
Wine-Staging 11.11 Released With 289 Patches Atop Upstream   WINE   2026-06-13
Wine 11.11 Released With Wayland Improvements   WINE   2026-06-12
Wine Wayland Driver Lands Alpha Modifier Support For Opacity Handling   Wayland   2026-06-12
KDE KWin Patches Aiming To Optimize Gaming Latency To Better Compete With Windows   KDE   2026-06-10
Wayland Protocols 1.49 Released With Improved Multi-GPU Support, Windows BT.2100   Wayland   2026-06-07
Mesa 26.2 Lands VK_GOOGLE_display_timing Support For Direct Display Mode   Mesa   2026-06-07
GNOME 51 Retires Legacy NVIDIA Driver Support With Removing EGLStreams   NVIDIA   2026-06-05
Widely-Used libinput Updated Due To Arbitrary Root Code Execution   Desktop   2026-06-03
COSMIC Now Implements Wayland Pointer Constraints For Better Gaming Experience   Desktop   2026-06-03
KDE Plasma 6.8 Still Planning To End X11 Support, 95% Of Plasma 6.6 Users Are On Wayland   KDE   2026-06-02
Mir 2.27 Released With More Wayland Rust Code   Wayland   2026-06-02
COSMIC Desktop's Frosted Glass Is Giving Windows Aero Vibes   Desktop   2026-06-02
X.Org Server Starts June With Nine New Security Vulnerabilities Discovered Via AI   X.Org   2026-06-01
AI-Driven Security Disclosures, NVIDIA Vera & Linux 7.1 Features That Made An Exciting May   Free Software   2026-06-01
Plasma 6.6, 6.7 & 6.8 See Plenty Of Bug Fixing This Week   KDE   2026-05-30
KDE Plasma 6.7 Beta 2 Released With More Bug Fixes   KDE   2026-05-28
Google's ANGLE Merges Wayland Support, Unblocking Chromium Embedded Framework On Wayland   Wayland   2026-05-26
NVIDIA 610.43.02 Linux Driver Released With Vulkan Improvements, DRM Color Pipeline API   NVIDIA   2026-05-26
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
GNOME Commander 2.0 Released Following Rewrite In Rust & GTK4   GNOME   2026-05-22
Plasma 6.7 Improves Its Built-In Remote Desktop Server, Enhances Plasma Notifications   KDE   2026-05-16
Wine 11.9 Released With Wayland Pointer Warp, Initial Support For System Threads   WINE   2026-05-15
Older AMD GPUs Score Another Open-Source Driver Win From Valve: DRM Format Modifiers   Radeon   2026-05-13
Wine Wayland Driver Merges Pointer Warp Support   WINE   2026-05-12
Hyprland 0.55 Released With Lua-Based Configuration, User-Defined Layouts   Wayland   2026-05-09
KDE Plasma 6.7 To Support ICC Profiles In HDR Mode, Direct Scan-Out Improvement   KDE   2026-05-08
KDE Plasma 6.7 To Provide A Much Better Experience For CPU-Based Rendering   KDE   2026-05-07
Wayland Developers Target June For Weston 16 Release   Wayland   2026-04-29
AMD's Lemonade SDK 10.3 Now 10x Smaller By Getting Rid Of Electron   AMD   2026-04-28
WayVNC 0.10 Released For Advancing This Leading VNC Server For Wayland   Wayland   2026-04-28
XWayland 24.1.11 Brings Crash Fixes   Wayland   2026-04-27
Legacy NVIDIA xf86-video-nv Driver Sees First Release In Years   NVIDIA   2026-04-26
Niri 26.04 Wayland Compositor Adds Much Sought After Blur Support   Wayland   2026-04-25
Godot 4.7 Reaches Beta With HDR Output, Ray-Tracing Improvements & Editor Enhancements   Linux Gaming   2026-04-25
Ubuntu 26.04 LTS Now Available & Powered By Linux 7.0   Ubuntu   2026-04-23
Godot 4.7 Will Finally Have HDR Output, Including On Linux With Wayland   Linux Gaming   2026-04-23
LXQt 2.4 Released With More Wayland Fixes/Improvements   Desktop   2026-04-20
GIMP 3.2.4 Released With A Fix For Its XCF Code That Has Existed Since 1999   Free Software   2026-04-19
KDE Plasma 6.7 Ready With Wayland Session Management, Other New Improvements   KDE   2026-04-18
Mir 2.26 Begins Working On Rust-Based Input Platform   Ubuntu   2026-04-16
Linux Mint 23 Making Progress On Ubuntu 26.04 Base, Linux 7.0 Kernel & Wayland   Operating Systems   2026-04-16
Arch Linux's Archinstall 4.2 Fixes Botched Disk Encryption Security   Arch Linux   2026-04-15
X.Org Server 21.1.22 Released Due To Five New Security Vulnerabilities   X.Org   2026-04-14
KDE Merges Per-Screen Virtual Desktops After 21 Years   KDE   2026-04-14
Cage 0.3 Released With New Wayland Protocol Support   Wayland   2026-04-11
GNOME-Aligned Amberol 2026.1 Music Player Released, Phosh Improves X11 Support   GNOME   2026-04-11
Mir-Based Miracle-WM 0.9 Introduces A WebAssembly Plugin System   Wayland   2026-04-09
Mesa 26.1 Makes It Easier To "Fake" A GPU Reset Using LLVMpipe   Mesa   2026-04-05
KDE's KWin Continues Working On Vulkan Support, Other Improvements For Plasma 6.7   KDE   2026-04-04
Libinput Hit By Worrying Security Issues With Its Lua Plug-In System   Desktop   2026-04-02
NVIDIA Provides Preview Driver With DRM Color Pipeline API Support   NVIDIA   2026-04-01
Wayland Protocols 1.48 Released With XDG Session Management   Wayland   2026-04-01
AerynOS 2026.03 Brings GNOME 50, Other Wayland Compositor Updates   Operating Systems   2026-03-31
xx-fractional-scale-v2 Aims To Improve Wayland Fractional Scaling   Wayland   2026-03-31
Intel Panther Lake & Linux AI/LLM Debates Dominated Q1 For Linux Users   Phoronix   2026-03-31
wlroots 0.20 Released,Sway 1.12-rc1 Available For Testing With Color Management   Wayland   2026-03-26
KDE's KWin Compositor Lands First Step Toward Vulkan Support   KDE   2026-03-26
NVIDIA 595.58.03 Linux Driver Debuts As Stable R595 Build   NVIDIA   2026-03-24
Krita 6.0 Released With Qt6 Port & Better Wayland Support   KDE   2026-03-24
GTK3 Toolkit Winding Down To One Release Per Year   GNOME   2026-03-23
XMMS Codebase Brought Back To Life By AI With GTK4 + GStreamer/PipeWire Port   AI   2026-03-23
Electron's Investment Into Good Wayland Support   Wayland   2026-03-22
SteamOS 3.8 Preview Preps For Steam Machine, KDE Plasma Desktop With Wayland By Default   Valve   2026-03-20
Wayland 1.25 Released With Color Management Now Fully Documented   Wayland   2026-03-19
Canonical Collecting Wish List Ideas For Improving Mir   Ubuntu   2026-03-19
GNOME 50 Released With Many Fantastic Improvements   GNOME   2026-03-18
CachyOS Handheld Edition Switches To Wayland, CachyOS Installer Drops Bcachefs   Arch Linux   2026-03-08
Budgie 10.10.2 Brings Improved Labwc Wayland Compositor Integration   Desktop   2026-03-07
GTK 4.22 Released With Improved SVG Support, Reduced Motion Option   Free Software   2026-03-06
Wayland 1.25 RC1 Released With Improved Documentation, Minor Changes   Wayland   2026-03-05
NVIDIA R595 Linux Driver Beta Brings New Vulkan Support & DRI3 v1.2   NVIDIA   2026-03-05
Linux Mint Ready With Its Wayland-Compatible Cinnamon Screensaver   Operating Systems   2026-03-04
GNOME Mutter 50.rc Released With Better NVIDIA Performance, SDR-Native & Better HDR   GNOME   2026-03-03
Linux 7.0 Development & Intel Panther Lake Proved Most Popular In February   Phoronix   2026-03-01
AerynOS 2026.02 Brings More Wayland Compositor Options, Other Improvements   Operating Systems   2026-02-28
Verisilicon DC8200 & Coreboot Framebuffer Drivers Sent To DRM-Next For Linux 7.1   Linux Kernel   2026-02-28
Hyprland 0.54 Released As A "Massive" Update To This Wayland Compositor   Wayland   2026-02-27
Lutris 0.5.21 Adds Support For Running Games Inside Valve's Latest Steam Runtime   Linux Gaming   2026-02-24
COSMIC Epoch 1.0.8 Released With More Desktop Refinements   Desktop   2026-02-24
RBOS 2026-02-22 As Latest Linux Live ISO To Showcase Wayland   Operating Systems   2026-02-23
Linux 7.0 Lands More AMDGPU Fixes For Old Radeon Hardware   Linux Kernel   2026-02-21
KDE Plasma 6.7 Preps More Improvements While Plasma 6.6.1 Fixes Begin Accumulating   KDE   2026-02-20
GNOME 50 Lands Updated Wayland Color Management v2 Support   GNOME   2026-02-20
Weston 15.0 Wayland Compositor Released With Vulkan Renderer, New Protocols   Wayland   2026-02-19
GNOME 50 Merges "sdr-native" Color Mode Support For Wide Color Gamut Displays   GNOME   2026-02-17
GhostBSD To Use XLibre Server, MATE vs. Gershwin Desktop Decision In Future   BSD   2026-02-17
KDE Plasma 6.6 Released With Many Excellent Improvements   KDE   2026-02-17
Lutris 0.5.20 Linux Game Manager Brings New Features, Wine Wayland Option   Linux Gaming   2026-02-16
wlroots 0.20 Nears Release With New Protocols, Enhanced Vulkan Renderer   Wayland   2026-02-15
Vim 9.2 Released With Experimental Wayland Support, Better HiDPI Display Support   Free Software   2026-02-14
GNOME OS To Use systemd-confext, RustConn Provides Modern GTK4 Connection Manager   GNOME   2026-02-14
Libinput 1.31 Released With Configurable Timeouts, Fast 3-Finger Swipes   Desktop   2026-02-13
Linux Mint Developing New Wayland-Compatible Screensaver   Operating Systems   2026-02-11
Experimental Zones Protocol Merged To Wayland After 2+ Years, 620+ Comments   Wayland   2026-02-10
Toyota Developing A Console-Grade, Open-Source Game Engine - Using Flutter & Dart   Linux Gaming   2026-02-06
VRR Improvements Merged To GNOME 50 For Lower Latency, Wayland Commit Timing   GNOME   2026-02-06
Krita 6.0 Beta Released - Using Qt6 & Wayland Color Management Support   KDE   2026-02-05
System76's COSMIC Desktop Planning Vulkan Renderer, Improved Gaming Experience   Desktop   2026-02-04
libinput 1.31 Bringing Support For Fast Three-Finger Swipes   Wayland   2026-02-04
X.Org Developers Conference 2026 Being Hosted By Arm In Toronto   X.Org   2026-02-03
Phosh Mobile Phone UI Making Progress On GTK4 Port   GNOME   2026-01-31
Budgie 10.10.1 Released With Better Stability & Improved Labwc Integration   Desktop   2026-01-31
Plasma 6.7 Restoring The Air Plasma Theme, Fixes KWin Issue With Intense Alt+Tab'ing   KDE   2026-01-31
SonicDE Looks To Preserve & Improve The X11-Specific KDE Code   KDE   2026-01-28
KDE Plasma 6.6 Beta 2 Released For Testing   KDE   2026-01-27
TigerVNC 1.16 Released With "w0vncserver" For Sharing Wayland Desktop Sessions   Wayland   2026-01-27
Xfwl4 Being Developed As New Wayland Compositor For Xfce   Desktop   2026-01-27
Vulkan VK_EXT_present_timing Merged To Mesa 26.1 For X11 & Wayland   Vulkan   2026-01-27
CachyOS Starts 2026 By Switching To Plasma Login Manager & Live ISO Using Wayland   Operating Systems   2026-01-24
GNU Guix 1.5 Released With RISC-V Support, Experimental x86_64 GNU Hurd Kernel   Operating Systems   2026-01-23
X.Org Server May Create A New Selective Git Branch With Hopes Of A New Release This Year   X.Org   2026-01-19
KDE Begins Landing Features For Plasma 6.7, Some Last Minute Plasma 6.6 Improvements   KDE   2026-01-17
Adobe Photoshop 2025 Installer Now Working On Linux With Patched Wine   WINE   2026-01-16
Ubuntu 26.04 Aims To Deliver Better NVIDIA Wayland Performance Atop GNOME   Ubuntu   2026-01-16
GNOME 50 Alpha Released With The X11 Code Gutted   GNOME   2026-01-15
Fedora Games Lab Approved To Switch To KDE Plasma, Become A Better Linux Gaming Showcase   Fedora   2026-01-14
GNOME Mutter 50 Alpha Released With X11 Backend Removed   GNOME   2026-01-14
XWayland RandR Improvements Merged For Kicking Off 2026 X.Org Server Activity   Wayland   2026-01-14
KDE Plasma 6.6 Beta Released With Plasma Login Manager, Plasma Setup   KDE   2026-01-13
Wine 11.0 Released With Many Improvements For Windows Games & Apps On Linux   WINE   2026-01-13
wl-proxy Announced As Rust Crate For Proxying Wayland Connections   Wayland   2026-01-13
Wine 11.0 Planned For Release Tomorrow With NTSync Support, Better WoW64   WINE   2026-01-12
Auto-CPUFreq 3.0 Released To Help You Extend Laptop Battery Life On Linux   Free Software   2026-01-12
Budgie 11 Desktop Being Developed With The Qt6 Toolkit   Desktop   2026-01-12
Budgie 10.10 Released: Officially Migrated From X11 To Wayland   Desktop   2026-01-10
Mageia 10 Alpha Released - 32-bit ISOs Still Available   Operating Systems   2026-01-10
Debian 13.3 Released With Many Security & Bug Fixes   Debian   2026-01-10
KDE Plasma 6.6 Adds oo7 Secret Service Provider Support, Save As New Global Theme   KDE   2026-01-10
GNOME & Firefox Consider Disabling Middle Click Paste By Default: "An X11'ism...Dumpster Fire"   GNOME   2026-01-05
TrixiePup64 2601 Released For Debian 13 Powered Puppy Linux In Wayland & X11 Flavors   Operating Systems   2026-01-04
KDE Plasma 6.6 Fixes A Common Panel-Related Crash, Improves OpenBSD Support   KDE   2026-01-03
Radeon Linux Driver Enhancements, Linux 6.19 Activity & Other December Highlights   Phoronix   2026-01-02
Valve's Linux Efforts, Kernel Improvements & KDE Plasma Wayland Advancements Topped 2025   Phoronix   2026-01-01
SDL 3.4 Released With Many New APIs, Better Emscripten & Native PNG Support   Linux Gaming   2026-01-01
XWayland Gets Patched For Incorrect Pointer Coordinates   X.Org   2025-12-30
The Open-Source OpenGL & Vulkan Drivers Enjoyed A Rather Remarkable 2025   Mesa   2025-12-30
Hyprland 0.53 Released With New Launcher For Crash Recovery & Safe Mode, New Welcome App   Wayland   2025-12-29
SuperTux 0.7 Reaches Beta For Reviving An Open-Source Classic   Linux Gaming   2025-12-29
KDE Plasma's Wayland Transition "Nears Completion" In Ending Out 2025   KDE   2025-12-28
Fedora Continued At The Forefront Of Upstream Linux Innovations In 2025   Fedora   2025-12-28
SDL Fixes Support For More Than Five Mouse Buttons For Gaming On Wayland   Linux Gaming   2025-12-27
QNX Self-Hosted Developer Desktop Brings QNX 8.0 To A Wayland + Xfce Desktop   Operating Systems   2025-12-26
Nova Driver Progress & Other NVIDIA Linux News From 2025   NVIDIA   2025-12-26
Arch Linux Powered CachyOS To Develop A Server Edition   Arch Linux   2025-12-25
Phoenix: A New X Server Written From Scratch With Zig   X.Org   2025-12-25