Wayland 1.12 Beta Released

Written by Michael Larabel in Wayland on 30 August 2016 at 04:34 PM EDT. 6 Comments
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Bryce Harrington announced the release today of Wayland 1.12 beta and the associated Wayland compositor update.

Ahead of next month's official Wayland/Weston 1.12 debut, version 1.11.92 was released today. The Wayland 1.12 beta has no new changes over the earlier alpha while Weston has some shell fixes, dropping shell_interface from libweston, and a DRM compositor change. The bare release announcements can be found here.

For those unfamiliar with the changes of Wayland 1.12, see our earlier article covering the work. Wayland 1.12 is planned to be officially released in mid-September.
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