Sway 1.10-rc1 Adds GPU Reset Recovery, New Wayland Protocols

Open-source developer Simon Ser has released Sway 1.10-rc1 as the newest feature release to this i3-inspired Wayland compositor. With Sway 1.10 there are many new features coming.

The Sway 1.10 series is built atop the wlroots 0.18 library that in turn delivers many new Wayland features for compositors. Sway 1.10-rc1 also features a rewrite of its renderer to make use of the wlroots scene graph API for better performance.

Sway 1.10-rc1 does introduce GPU reset recovery handling for better robustness of the compositor. There is also a new command to use an ICC profile for an output. The output confirmation algorithm has also been enhanced.

New Wayland protocols supported by Sway 1.10-rc1 include tearing-control-v1 for opt-in tearing page-flips, ext-transient-seat-v1 for remoting apps, ext-foreign-toplevel-list-v1 for top-level information querying, and xdg-shell v5. There is also support for IME popups used for CJK along with various other changes.

Downloads and more information on the Sway 1.10-rc1 Wayland compositor release via GitHub.