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Wayland's Weston 14.0 Compositor Released

Written by Michael Larabel in Wayland on 4 September 2024 at 06:17 AM EDT. 6 Comments

Weston 14.0 was released today as the newest feature release for this reference Wayland compositor.

Weston 14.0 introduces initial hardware underlay support, configuration handling for output mirroring, PipeWire DMA-BUF enhancements, and a variety of fixes and other improvements. Back in the 14.0 alpha announcement is a full list of all the feature changes this cycle.

Marius Vlad of Collabora in a brief mailing list post announced the availability today of the Weston 14.0 compositor stable release.

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