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Libinput 1.8 Released

Written by Michael Larabel in Wayland on 3 July 2017 at 08:41 AM EDT. 1 Comment

Peter Hutterer has released libinput version 1.8 for X.Org and Wayland systems as the generic input handling library.

The big change with the Libinput 1.8 release is adding Meson build system support and this being the last release with Autotools build system support. There are also other changes and improvements.

The brief libinput 1.8 release announcement can be read on the Wayland-devel list.

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