Wayland's Weston 7.0 Compositor Released With PipeWire Streaming Support

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Wayland's Weston 7.0 Compositor Released With PipeWire Streaming Support

Written by Michael Larabel in Wayland on 23 August 2019 at 07:47 PM EDT. 17 Comments

Wayland's Weston 7.0 was released on Friday with the newest features for this reference compositor implementation.

Weston 7.0 introduces HDCP content protection support, documentation improvements, a new debugging / logging framework, PipeWire remote streaming support, EGL partial updates support, other DRM back-end improvements, and various additions to the Weston library (libweston).

The very brief Weston 7.0 compositor release announcement can be read on the Wayland mailing list.

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