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Louvre Is A New C++ Library Helping To Build Wayland Compositors   Wayland   2023-11-17
Wayland Protocols 1.32 Brings Three New Staging Protocols   Wayland   2023-07-03
Wayland's Weston 12.0 Released With Multi-GPU Support, PipeWire Backend, Tearing Control   Wayland   2023-05-17
Wayland's Weston 12 Alpha Brings Multi-GPU Support, PipeWire Backend, Tearing Control   Wayland   2023-04-26
Ubuntu's Mir 2.13 Released With Wayland Updates, Other Enhancements   Ubuntu   2023-03-20
KDE Frameworks 5.101 Released - Development Now Focuses On KDE Frameworks 6   KDE   2022-12-10
oneVPL 2023.1 Released For Intel's Open-Source Video Processing Library   Intel   2022-11-22
wlroots 0.16 Released With More Stable Vulkan Renderer, High Resolution Scrolling   Wayland   2022-11-12
Mir 2.9 Released With XDG-Shell For Wayland, Support For More Protocols   Ubuntu   2022-08-26
Wayland-Protocols 1.26 Released With New Single-Pixel-Buffer   Wayland   2022-07-08
Wayland's Weston 10 Alpha Brings Early Color Management Work, More Zero-Copy Scanout   Wayland   2021-12-14
Waffle 1.7 Released For Runtime OpenGL / Windowing System Selection   Mesa   2021-03-08
Wayland's Weston 9.0 Released With Kiosk Shell For Always-Fullscreen Apps   Wayland   2020-09-04
Wayland's Weston Compositor Introduces Kiosk/Fullscreen Shell   Wayland   2020-07-30
The Wayland Book Is Now Freely Available   Wayland   2020-05-05
Wayland-Protocols 1.19 Released With Governance Guide, Updated XDG-Shell   Wayland   2020-02-29
KDE Frameworks 5.65 Released With KQuickCharts For Accelerated Charts   KDE   2019-12-14
Sway 1.1 Released With Switch Event Support, Touch Support For Swaybar   Wayland   2019-06-03
Canonical Releases "WLCS" Wayland Conformance Suite 1.0   Ubuntu   2019-05-02
"Cage" Sees Initial Test Release For Kiosk-Like Wayland Compositor   Wayland   2019-04-24
Wayland's Weston 6.0 Compositor Released With New Remoting/Streaming Plug-In   Wayland   2019-03-28
Wayland 1.17 & Weston 6.0 Gear Up To Release Next Week   Wayland   2019-03-15
Sway 1.0 Released For This i3-Compatible Wayland Compositor   Wayland   2019-03-11
Wayland 1.17 + Weston 6.0 Reach Beta   Wayland   2019-03-07
Wayland 1.17 & Weston 6.0 Reach Alpha, Officially Releasing Next Month   Wayland   2019-02-19
Wayland's Weston 6.0 To Support XDG-Shell Stable, Helping Apps Like MPV Video Player   Wayland   2019-02-16
Wayland & Weston To See New Releases In Early March   Wayland   2019-01-27
Wayland's Weston Moving Towards Its Next Release Soon   Wayland   2019-01-20
Qt 5.12 Release Candidate Available, Final Coming In Early December   Qt   2018-11-22
Qt 5.12 Fast Approaching With The Final Beta Now Available   Qt   2018-11-08
Qt 5.12 Beta 2 Brings Many Fixes   Qt   2018-10-16
KDE Plasma 5.14 Released With A Plethora Of Improvements   KDE   2018-10-09
Qt 5.12 Beta Released With Better Performance, Input & UI Improvements   Qt   2018-10-05
Mir 1.0 Released For "Next-Generation of Graphical Solutions"   Ubuntu   2018-09-21
Qt 5.12 Alpha Released With OpenGL ES 3.1 Renderer, Several Wayland Improvements   Qt   2018-09-18
Canonical Developers Now Preparing Mir 1.0 For Release With Wayland Support   Ubuntu   2018-09-17
Mir Has Partial Support For The NVIDIA Proprietary Driver, X11 Support Remains WIP   Ubuntu   2018-08-17
KDE Frameworks 5.49 Released With Many Changes   KDE   2018-08-11
Mir Now Supports XDG Shell Stable   Ubuntu   2018-08-11
Wayland Shells From The Perspective Of WLROOTS   Wayland   2018-08-02
Wayland Protocols 1.16 Released With Few Updates   Wayland   2018-07-30
Mir 0.32.1 Released With Launcher For Internal Wayland Clients, Fixes   Ubuntu   2018-07-13
Mir Developers Ponder Their Approach For Supporting More Wayland Extensions   Ubuntu   2018-07-02
SDL2 Wayland Now Supports XDG Shell's XDG_WM_Base   Wayland   2018-06-25
Sway 1.0 Wayland Compositor Nears With Floating Windows, Tablet Support & More   Wayland   2018-06-19
The Many Wayland Improvements In Qt 5.11   Qt   2018-05-29
Wayland-Protocols 1.14 Brings Updated XDG-Shell & XDG-Output   Wayland   2018-05-07
Wayland 1.15 & Weston 4.0 Officially Released   Wayland   2018-04-09
Wayland 1.15 & Weston 4.0 Release Candidates Published   Wayland   2018-04-02
Mir 0.31 Officially Released   Ubuntu   2018-03-20
Wayland 1.15 Beta Released With Weston 4.0 Beta   Wayland   2018-03-19
Mir 0.31 Is On The Way With MirAL 2.0, Wayland XDG-Shell Support   Ubuntu   2018-03-16
Mir Enables XDG Shell By Default, Dropping Mir EGL For Ubuntu 18.04   Ubuntu   2018-03-10
Weston 4.0 Alpha Brings Atomic Mode-Setting, New Protocol Support   Wayland   2018-02-27
Mir 0.30 Released With Improved Wayland Support   Ubuntu   2018-02-15
SDL Now Supports Wayland's XDG-Shell   Wayland   2018-02-07
KDE Plasma 5.12 Reaches Beta With Faster Start-Up Time, Better Wayland Support   KDE   2018-01-15
Experimental XDG-Shell Support For Mir's Wayland Support   Ubuntu   2018-01-15
With Qt 6.0 Development To Heat Up, 2018 Should Be Exciting For Qt   Qt   2018-01-02
XDG-Shell Promoted To Stable In Wayland-Protocols 1.12   Wayland   2017-12-02
Enlightenment 22 Is Packing Much Better Wayland Support, Meson Build System   Desktop   2017-11-04
The Regressed State Of KDE Plasma On Wayland, But Things Should Get Better   KDE   2017-07-15
Wayland's XDG-Shell Preparing For Stable   Wayland   2017-05-24
Developers Explore Meson Build System For Wayland / Weston   Wayland   2016-11-29
KDE Plasma 5.8 LTS Officially Released   KDE   2016-10-04
How Google's Android Runtime On Chrome OS Uses Wayland, DRM   Google   2016-09-21
Last Minute Wayland Fixes For GNOME 3.22   GNOME   2016-09-13
GNOME's Mutter 3.21.91 Brings Wayland Improvements   GNOME   2016-08-29
Wayland-Protocols 1.7 Breaks XDG-Shell Backwards Compatibility   Wayland   2016-08-15
Libweston-Desktop Added To Wayland's Weston   Wayland   2016-08-14
Wayland's Weston Now Working On Libweston-Desktop   Wayland   2016-07-17
The State Of Wayland For KDE Plasma 5.7   KDE   2016-06-21
Qt 5.7 Is Bringing A New Qt Wayland Compositor API   Qt   2016-06-13
KDE Plasma 5.6 Is Getting Ready With More Wayland Improvements   KDE   2016-03-02
The Most Popular GNOME & KDE Happenings Of 2015   Desktop   2015-12-30
The Biggest Wayland & Mir News Of The Year   Wayland   2015-12-29
Wayland Protocols v1.0 Released   Wayland   2015-11-25
Wayland Protocols Split Up From Weston, Wayland   Wayland   2015-11-17
Enlightenment EFL Libraries 1.15 Released   Desktop   2015-08-04
GNOME's Mutter Updated For Latest Wayland Support   GNOME   2015-02-17
KWayland Server Component Coming For KDE Plasma 5.2   KDE   2014-11-28
Enlightenment Releases EFL 1.12 With Better OpenGL & Wayland Support   Desktop   2014-11-10
Enlightenment's New Wayland Compositor Code Is Now Functional, Supports XDG-Shell   Wayland   2014-11-01
There's Wayland Changes Needed Before GNOME Will Be 100% Ported   Wayland   2014-09-25
Qt 5.4 Will Support Applications Under A Wayland Compositor   Qt   2014-09-23
Wayland & Weston 1.6 Released   Wayland   2014-09-19
Enlightenment E19 RC3 Shows Off The New Wayland Compositor   Desktop   2014-08-29
Enlightenment E19 Lands Its New Wayland Compositor Code   Wayland   2014-08-26
Wayland 1.6 Is Under Planning For Release   Wayland   2014-08-18
Qt Wayland Now Supports Minimizing Windows With XDG-Shell Support   Qt   2014-06-21
Wayland 1.6 & GNOME 3.14 Are Shaping Up Well   Wayland   2014-06-14
Wayland 1.6 Planned For September With Better Work-Flow   Wayland   2014-05-20
Wayland & Weston 1.5 Officially Released   Wayland   2014-05-20
Ozone-Wayland Release Adds Virtual Keyboard, Touch Support   Wayland   2014-03-26
Enlightenment 0.19 Lands Full Wayland Support, Its Own Compositor   Desktop   2014-03-18
Wayland's Weston Adds Support For The Minimize Button   Wayland   2014-02-19
GTK+ 3.11.7 Uses New Wayland Methods   GNOME   2014-02-19
What It Takes To Write A Wayland Compositor   Wayland   2014-02-10
GNOME 3.12 Might Be Delayed Until Wayland 1.5   GNOME   2014-02-04
Orbital v0.1 Plug-In For Wayland's Weston Released   Wayland   2014-01-26
Features Coming To Wayland, Weston 1.4   Wayland   2013-12-25
GTK+ 3.11.3 Improves Wayland Support   GNOME   2013-12-17
XDG-Shell Protocol Added For Wayland   Wayland   2013-12-03
XDG-Shell Patches Get Moving For Wayland   Wayland   2013-11-27
Alt-Tab Support, Exposay For Wayland's Weston   Wayland   2013-11-15