XWayland 21.1.3 Nears With Support For NVIDIA 495 Driver's GBM
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XWayland 21.1.3 is the next point release to this code that is spun out from the upstream X.Org Server for delivering standalone XWayland releases separate from tagged xorg-server versions. XWayland 21.3. has only a handful of fixes like an XDG_Output memory leak fix, fixed handling of 1-bit pixmaps in GLAMOR, avoiding possible integer overflows on large pixmaps, and other maintenance items.
But most significant with XWayland 21.1.3 is a fix for the GBM back-end to work with the NVIDIA 495 series driver. Released last week was the first NVIDIA 495 series Linux driver beta and with that comes the long-awaited GBM back-end for working better with upstream Wayland compositors and other Wayland software targeting jut the Generic Buffer Manager rather than EGLStreams.
This next XWayland release has a fix to set the OpenGL Vendor Neutral Dispatch Library (GLVND) library based on the GBM back-end name and a fix contributed by NVIDIA to use EGL_LINUX_DMA_BUF_EXT for creating GBM buffer object EGLImages.
XWayland 21.1.3 should be out as stable in the next few weeks while out today is the release candidate.
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