Wayland is a display server protocol that is a FreeDesktop.org project with development being driven by multiple organizations. Wayland is widely viewed as the likely successor to the X11 Server on the modern Linux desktop with it being supported by multiple Linux distributions. The reference Wayland implementation is the Weston compositor.

Additional Information: wayland.freedesktop.org

Wayland Articles & Reviews

AMD Radeon Linux Gaming Performance At Parity Between KDE Plasma 6.0 X11 vs. Wayland   Linux Gaming   2024-04-08
The Compositor Modules "COMO" To Build Wayland Compositors Have Arrived   Software   2024-03-04
GNOME Wayland vs. X.Org Performance For Radeon & NVIDIA Gaming On Ubuntu 23.04   Linux Gaming   2023-06-16
X.Org vs. Wayland Linux Gaming Performance For NVIDIA GeForce + AMD Radeon In Early 2023   Display Drivers   2023-01-30
NVIDIA Linux Gaming Performance For Wayland vs. X.Org On Ubuntu 22.04   Display Drivers   2022-02-02
Mesa's RADV Vulkan Driver Holds A Narrowing Lead Over AMDVLK With Ubuntu 21.10 On Wayland   Display Drivers   2021-12-30
KDE/GNOME Wayland vs. X.Org Radeon Linux Gaming Performance   Linux Gaming   2021-12-28
Ubuntu 21.10 Radeon Gaming With KDE Plasma vs. GNOME Shell + Wayland vs. X.Org   Linux Gaming   2021-10-18
Ubuntu 21.04 - X.Org vs. Wayland Linux Gaming Performance   Linux Gaming   2021-04-29
Ubuntu 21.04 Server Performance Offering Nice Gains For AMD EPYC 7003 Series   Operating Systems   2021-04-21
GNOME XWayland Radeon Gaming Performance Is In Good Shape For Ubuntu 21.04   Linux Gaming   2021-02-01
Ubuntu 20.04 Gaming Performance Across Desktops, X.Org vs. Wayland   Linux Gaming   2020-04-28
Firefox Performance On Wayland Is Looking Good - Browser Benchmarks With KDE vs. GNOME   Software   2020-04-20
X.Org vs. Wayland Browser Performance With Firefox + Chrome   Software   2020-04-10
Ubuntu 20.04 GNOME X.Org vs. Wayland Session Performance Impact For Gaming   Linux Gaming   2020-03-30
Ubuntu 19.04 Radeon Linux Gaming Performance: Popular Desktops Benchmarked, Wayland vs. X.Org   Linux Gaming   2019-04-18
The Fastest Linux Distributions For Web Browsing - Firefox + Chrome Benchmarks On Eight Distros   Operating Systems   2019-03-29
KDE Plasma, GNOME Shell, Xfce, LXQt & MATE Linux Gaming Benchmarks, Including X.Org/Wayland   Linux Gaming   2018-12-30
A Look At The Linux Graphics/Gaming Performance With GNOME 3.30 X.Org/Wayland   Software   2018-09-10
KDE vs. GNOME, X.Org vs. Wayland Radeon Linux Gaming Performance With Ubuntu 18.04 LTS   Linux Gaming   2018-05-12
Intel Graphics On Ubuntu: GNOME vs. KDE vs. Xfce vs. Unity vs. LXDE   Software   2018-01-21
Intel Graphics Performance: Ubuntu 17.04 vs. 17.10   Linux Gaming   2017-10-20
Ubuntu 17.10 Ships Today - Arguably Its Most Interesting Release In Years   Operating Systems   2017-10-19
Radeon Linux Gaming Performance: Ubuntu 17.04 vs. Ubuntu 17.10   Linux Gaming   2017-10-18
Fedora 26 vs. 27 Beta Benchmarks, Wayland vs. X.Org Gaming Tests   Operating Systems   2017-10-14
GNOME 3.26: Wayland vs. X.Org Performance - Boot Times, Power Use, Memory Use & Gaming   Software   2017-09-11
Trying Out Ubuntu 17.10 On A Laptop One Month Ahead Of Release   Operating Systems   2017-09-07
A Look Back At The Desktop & X.Org/Wayland/Mir Milestones Of Ubuntu   Operating Systems   2017-04-05
Fedora 25 Turned Out Great, Definitely My Most Favorite Fedora Release   Operating Systems   2016-11-21
XDC2016 Wraps Up After Many Wayland, X.Org & Mesa Discussions   Events   2016-09-24
Trying Out Fedora 25 With Wayland, Early Benchmarks Included   Operating Systems   2016-08-22
A Brief Look At Fedora 24   Operating Systems   2016-06-16
KDE Plasma 5.5 Has Evolved Well Beyond Where Plasma 4 Ended   Software   2016-01-08
GNOME 3.18 On Fedora 23: X.Org vs. Wayland Performance   Software   2015-09-24
Fedora 22 KDE Delivers A Great Plasma 5 Experience   Operating Systems   2015-06-07
XWayland Linux Gaming Performance With GNOME Wayland On Fedora 21   Software   2014-09-25
X.Org Server 1.16 Officially Released With Terrific Features   Software   2014-07-17
Trying Out The Latest Wayland Linux Desktops With RBOS   Software   2014-03-25
Ubuntu 13.10 vs. Fedora 20 Benchmarks   Operating Systems   2014-01-03
Early Ubuntu 14.04 Intel XMir Benchmarks   Display Drivers   2014-01-02
GNOME Shell Wayland Benchmarks From Fedora 20   Display Drivers   2013-12-26
Running The Latest GNOME Wayland Shell On Fedora 20   Software   2013-10-28
The First Wayland Benchmarks From Fedora 20 Show Great Promise   Operating Systems   2013-10-07
The Wayland Situation: Facts About X vs. Wayland   Display Drivers   2013-06-07
Why Wayland & Weston Were Forked   Software   2013-03-29
XDC2012: Lots Of Progress On X, Mesa, Wayland   Events   2012-09-24
Running Wayland: It Works, But A Lot Of Work Remains   Software   2012-08-10
Ubuntu Delays Wayland System Compositor   Software   2012-08-10
Running Wayland On Ubuntu 11.10   Software   2011-08-25
KDE Draws Up Plans For Wayland In 2012   Software   2011-08-07
MeeGo Tablet UX 1.3 May Use Wayland This Year   Software   2011-05-27
Will Wayland Become A New Desktop Standard?   Software   2011-05-17
It's Becoming Very Easy To Run Wayland   Software   2010-11-25
The State Of The Wayland Display Server   Software   2009-05-20
Wayland: A New X Server For Linux   Software   2008-11-03

Wayland Linux & Open-Source News

NVIDIA Is Helping To Improve Linux's Dynamic Display Mux Support For Laptops   NVIDIA   2024-10-14
CodeWeavers Working On Better Input Device Support For Proton Gaming   Valve   2024-10-14
Wayland Protocols 1.38 Brings System Bell, FIFO & Commit Timing Protocols   Wayland   2024-10-12
NVIDIA Shares Wayland Driver Roadmap, Encourages Vulkan Wayland Compositors   NVIDIA   2024-10-10
Ubuntu 24.10 Now Available With Linux 6.11, GCC 14 & Other Upgrades   Ubuntu   2024-10-10
GNOME Triple Buffering May Need To Be Re-Engineered - Helping NVIDIA Performance   GNOME   2024-10-09
KDE Plasma 6.2 Released With More Desktop Polishing   KDE   2024-10-08
Cage 0.2 Released For Wayland-Powered Kiosks With Single, Maximized Apps   Wayland   2024-10-06
SDL 3.1.3 Stable ABI Preview Release   Linux Gaming   2024-10-05
KDE Plasma 6.2 Preparing For Release Next Week   KDE   2024-10-05
Wine 9.19 Brings Improved Window Positioning On Wayland   WINE   2024-10-04
Xfce 4.20 Aiming For Release In December   Desktop   2024-10-02
Reverse PRIME Now Works Nicely On Ubuntu 24.10   Ubuntu   2024-10-01
Granite Rapids, AmpereOne & PREEMPT_RT Landing Made For An Exciting September   Phoronix   2024-10-01
Sway 1.10-rc1 Adds GPU Reset Recovery, New Wayland Protocols   Wayland   2024-09-30
Blumenkrantz Proposes Workflow Improvements For Wayland Protocols   Wayland   2024-09-28
Blumenkrantz Seeks Clear Policy How Wayland Protocol Changes Can Be Rejected   Wayland   2024-09-27
Valve Engineer Mike Blumenkrantz Hoping To Accelerate Wayland Protocol Development   Wayland   2024-09-25
Frog-FIFO-V1 Aims To Address Mesa's "Fundamentally Broken" Wayland Code   Mesa   2024-09-25
GNOME 47 Released With Accent Colors, Improved Apps & More   GNOME   2024-09-18
Fedora 41 Beta Released With Many Leading-Edge Linux Enhancements   Fedora   2024-09-17
Mir 2.18 Released With Wayland Server-Side Decorations   Wayland   2024-09-17
GNOME Mutter Merges XDG Session Management Wayland Protocol   GNOME   2024-09-14
Niri 0.1.9 Scrollable-Tiling Wayland Compositor Brings New IPC Functionality   Wayland   2024-09-14
Casilda Is A New Project As A GTK4 Wayland Compositor Widget   GNOME   2024-09-14
GNOME Continues Hashing Out Individual Home Directory Encryption, Modernizing Platform   GNOME   2024-09-13
Chrome Adds Support For FreeDesktop Secret Service & Better Wayland Window Dragging   Google   2024-09-13
KDE Plasma Wayland Protocols 1.14 Brings New Capabilities   KDE   2024-09-12
VirtualBox 7.1 Released With Improved UI, Wayland Clipboard Sharing   Virtualization   2024-09-11
Mir-based Miracle-WM Adds Optional Systemd Integration   Wayland   2024-09-09
Hyprland 0.43 Wayland Compositor Releases, Raises Build Requirements To C++26   Wayland   2024-09-09
GNOME 47 Release Candidate Brings Last Minute Changes   GNOME   2024-09-08
Hangover 9.17 Ships With Wine Wayland Support, Ubuntu 24.10 Packages   WINE   2024-09-07
GTK 4.16 Released With Vulkan GSK Renderer By Default On Wayland   GNOME   2024-09-07
Wayland's Weston 14.0 Compositor Released   Wayland   2024-09-04
GNOME Mutter 47.rc Ships Experimental Color Management Protocol   GNOME   2024-09-02
AMD Ryzen 9000 Series & Linux Kernel Drama Made For An Exciting August   Phoronix   2024-09-01
Wayland Protocols 1.37 Introduces Three New Protocols   Wayland   2024-08-31
Microsoft Azure Linux 3.0.20240824 Enables More Kernel Features, Adds XWayland   Microsoft   2024-08-28
KDE's Calligra 4.0 Office/Graphics Suite Released With Improved UI & Qt6 Port   KDE   2024-08-27
Mir-Powered Miracle-WM Continues Tacking On New Features Ahead Of Fedora Miracle   Fedora   2024-08-27
Cemu 2.1 Emulator Released With Flatpaks & AppImage For Linux, Initial Wayland Support   Linux Gaming   2024-08-26
AMD Kria Development Boards To Enjoy Wayland Support With Ubuntu 24.04 LTS   Ubuntu   2024-08-26
Wine 9.16 Begins Working On Driver Store Implementation, Pbuffer Support For Wayland   WINE   2024-08-23
System76 Pop!_OS Scheduler Now Detects Hyprland, Lands Various Fixes   Operating Systems   2024-08-23
NVIDIA 560.35.03 Linux Driver Released With More Wayland Fixes   NVIDIA   2024-08-21
VirtualBox 7.1 Beta 2 Released For This Big Oracle Virtualization Update   Virtualization   2024-08-21
Ubuntu Fixes Old NVIDIA Wayland Support For GNOME, Hiring More Desktop Engineers   Ubuntu   2024-08-20
Lab Wayland Compositor 0.8 Released, Ported To wlroots 0.18   Wayland   2024-08-17
GNOME Session & GDM Can Now Be Built Without X11 Support   GNOME   2024-08-17
KDE Implements More Wayland Bits, Lowers Bug Count To Match Plasma 5 Stability   KDE   2024-08-17
Canonical Makes More Snap Improvements Ahead Of Ubuntu 24.10   Ubuntu   2024-08-16
Ubuntu's X.Org Session Support Now Split Into Separate Package   Ubuntu   2024-08-16
Weston 14.0 Alpha Brings New Wayland Compositor Features   Wayland   2024-08-14
Mir-Based Miracle-WM Updated Ahead Of Fedora Miracle Spin   Wayland   2024-08-13
GTK Making Progress On HDR & Supporting More Color Spaces   GNOME   2024-08-12
Wayland Merges New Screen Capture Protocols   Wayland   2024-08-11
NVIDIA EGL-Wayland 1.15 Brings Stability Fixes For Explicit Sync   NVIDIA   2024-08-11
Niri 0.1.8 Compositor Implements Gradient Borders, Output Management Protocol   Wayland   2024-08-10
GNOME Continues Working On systemd-homed Integration, Better Web Browser   GNOME   2024-08-10
System76 Releases COSMIC Alpha Desktop - It's Looking Quite Interesting   Desktop   2024-08-08
Hyprland 0.42 Wayland Compositor Ditches Wlroots, Adds Explicit Sync Support   Wayland   2024-08-08
More HDR Preparations Merged In Time For GNOME 47   GNOME   2024-08-07
Sway Compositor Lands Wayland Explicit Sync Support   Wayland   2024-08-06
NVIDIA 560.31.02 Linux Driver Delivers Various Fixes   NVIDIA   2024-08-06
Sway Compositor Lands Wayland Tearing Control Support   Wayland   2024-08-05
GNOME Shell 47 Beta Brings Hardware Encoding When Screen Recording & More   GNOME   2024-08-04
This Week In KDE: "Plasma Is Feeling Really Solid These Days!"   KDE   2024-08-03
Linux 6.11, Ryzen AI 300 Series, Open-Source NVIDIA Kernel Driver & Other July News   Phoronix   2024-08-01
VirtualBox 7.1 Beta Released With Modernized GUI, Wayland Support For Clipboard Sharing   Virtualization   2024-07-25
NVIDIA 560 Linux Driver Beta Released - Defaults To Open GPU Kernel Modules   NVIDIA   2024-07-23
LXQt 2.0 Desktop Planned For Availability In Fedora 41   Fedora   2024-07-21
OpenMandriva ROME 24.07 Released With KDE Plasma 6 But Wayland Not Mature Enough   Operating Systems   2024-07-20
KDE Developers Tackle The Five Most Common Plasma Crashes   KDE   2024-07-20
NVIDIA's EGL-Wayland Library v1.1.14 Adds Explicit Sync   NVIDIA   2024-07-19
wlroots 0.18 Brings New Wayland Protocols & Support For GPU Reset Recovery   Wayland   2024-07-16
GNOME 47 Alpha Released With Accent Color Support & Wayland-Only Build Option   GNOME   2024-07-13
XWayland 24.1.1 Brings Many Fixes   Wayland   2024-07-11
Zed Editor Now Publishing Native Linux Builds   Free Software   2024-07-10
JetBrains IntelliJ-Based IDEs Offer Preview Wayland Support   Wayland   2024-07-10
GNOME Mutter Lands Support To Transform sRGB To HDR Outputs   GNOME   2024-07-09
Box64 v0.3 Brings Support For Emulating x86_64 Binaries With AVX/AVX2 On ARM   Free Software   2024-07-09
Fedora Workstation 41 Install Media Will Ship With Wayland-Only GNOME   Fedora   2024-07-08
GNOME's Key Rack & Phosh Mobile Wayland Shell See New Releases   GNOME   2024-07-06
Raspberry Pi OS Brings Labwc Wayland Compositor As Optional Alternative To Wayfire   Raspberry Pi   2024-07-05
Miracle-WM v0.3 Released - Working Out To Daily-Drive This Mir-Based Wayland Compositor   Wayland   2024-07-02
Intel's VA-API 2.22 Library Adds VVC/H.266 Video Decode Interface   Intel   2024-07-02
Radeon Developer Tool Suite Migrates To Qt6   Radeon   2024-07-01
Linux BSOD, NVIDIA Linux Excitement, Intel Sierra Forest & Other June Highlights   Phoronix   2024-07-01
GNOME Shell & Mutter See "47.alpha" Releases With Many Big Changes   GNOME   2024-06-30
Kernel Optimizations, XZ, AMD ZLUDA, NOVA, EPYC 4004 & Other H1'2024 Highlights   Phoronix   2024-06-30
GNOME Ends Out June With New Libadwaita Addition, Optional Building Without X11   GNOME   2024-06-29
Niri 0.1.7 Scrollable-Tiling Wayland Compositor Adds Fractional Scaling   Wayland   2024-06-29
KDE Developers Fix More Bugs For Plasma 6.1, Begin More Feature Work On Plasma 6.2   KDE   2024-06-29
GNOME 47 Can Now Be Built With X11 Support Disabled   GNOME   2024-06-27
NVIDIA 555.58 Stable Linux Driver Brings Wayland Explicit Sync, GSP Firmware Default   NVIDIA   2024-06-27
KDE Plasma 6.1 Performing Much Better On Older Intel Integrated Graphics   KDE   2024-06-25
Fedora 41 Installer Proceeding To Transition From X11 To Wayland App   Fedora   2024-06-25
Ubuntu 24.10 Now Defaults To Wayland On NVIDIA   Ubuntu   2024-06-24
GNOME Seeing Much Work On Their "Setup" OEM Style Installer, Key Rack & oo7   GNOME   2024-06-22
GNOME Shell Accent Color Support Merged For GNOME 47   GNOME   2024-06-20
GNOME Merges Wayland DRM Lease Protocol For Better VR Handling   GNOME   2024-06-20
Theseus Ship 6.1 Released For This KWinFT Evolution Now Based On KDE Plasma 6.1   KDE   2024-06-20
KDE Plasma 6.1 Released With Easier Remote Desktop Support, Wayland Explicit Sync   KDE   2024-06-18
Fedora Making Strides On Enabling Greater AI Use, Easier AMD ROCm PyTorch Acceleration   Fedora   2024-06-16
KDE Plasma 6.1 Prepares For Release Next Week   KDE   2024-06-15
Wine 9.11 Released With More Monitor DPI Awareness Improvements   WINE   2024-06-15
Ubuntu 24.10 Seeing More Desktop Installer Improvements, Improving The Steam Snap   Ubuntu   2024-06-14
Qt 6.8 Beta Released With Multi-View Rendering, Better GNOME Wayland Experience   Qt   2024-06-14
Arch Linux Powered CachyOS Now Defaults To Btrfs Rather Than XFS   Operating Systems   2024-06-09
GNOME OS Continues Seeing New Features, New GNOME App for Viewing 3D Models   GNOME   2024-06-08
The Most Popular Linux Hardware Reviews & Featured Articles Over 20 Years   Phoronix   2024-06-07
Libinput 1.26 Rolls Out New Features, gsetwacom Introduced To Replace xsetwacom   Hardware   2024-06-06
NVIDIA 555.52.04 Beta Linux Driver Brings Fixes   NVIDIA   2024-06-05
OpenCV 4.10 Released With Many DNN Improvements, Wayland Backend For Linux   Programming   2024-06-03
NVIDIA Open Kernel Driver News, AMD EPYC 4004 & Linux 6.10 Made For A Fun May   Phoronix   2024-06-01
Godot 4.3 Beta 1 Released With Native Wayland Support   Linux Gaming   2024-05-31
Wayland 1.23 Released With OpenBSD Support   Wayland   2024-05-30
Fedora's New Web-Based Installer UI Delayed Yet Again... Now In 2025 With Fedora 42   Fedora   2024-05-30
FreeBSD 14.1-RC1 Adds More Packages To The DVD Images - Including The Sway Compositor   BSD   2024-05-27
Nouveau DRM_Panic Being Worked On For Linux "Blue Screen Of Death" Type Situations   Nouveau   2024-05-26
KDE Landed Many Last Minute Features Ahead Of The Plasma 6.1 Beta   KDE   2024-05-25
KDE Plasma 6.1 Beta Released With Wayland Explicit Sync, Input Capture Portal & More   KDE   2024-05-24
Mesa 24.1 Released With Explicit Sync Vulkan Drivers, More Mature NVK Driver   Mesa   2024-05-22
Alpine Linux 3.20 Released With Initial 64-bit RISC-V Support   Operating Systems   2024-05-22
NVIDIA 555.42.02 Linux Beta Brings Wayland Explicit Sync, GSP Firmware Used By Default   NVIDIA   2024-05-21
Qt 6.7.1 Released With 400+ Fixes - Including Several Wayland Fixes   Qt   2024-05-21
Fedora Miracle Spin Approved To Ship As Part Of Fedora Linux 41   Fedora   2024-05-20
Niri 0.1.6 Wayland Compositor Adds Interactive Window Resizing & Mouse View Scrolling   Wayland   2024-05-18
Ubuntu 24.10 To See More Polishing, NVIDIA Wayland By Default & New Welcome Wizard   Ubuntu   2024-05-17
XWayland 24.1 Released With Explicit Sync, Better Rootful Experience   Wayland   2024-05-15
Mir 2.17 Better Supports Hybrid Graphics & Other Wayland Enhancements   Ubuntu   2024-05-15
KDE Making Good Progress On HDR, Better Gamescope Integration   KDE   2024-05-11
KDE Plasma 6 Sees More Features Merged Ahead Of Plasma 6.1   KDE   2024-05-11
NVIDIA's Open GPU Linux Kernel Driver Will Soon Be The Default For Turing & Newer GPUs   NVIDIA   2024-05-10
Zed Code Editor Making Progress On Linux Support   Free Software   2024-05-08
Raspberry Pi Connect Reaches Beta For Remote Raspberry Pi Access   Raspberry Pi   2024-05-07
NetBSD On The State & Future Of X.Org/X11   X.Org   2024-05-04
KDE Readies More Changes For Next Month's Plasma 6.1   KDE   2024-05-04
XWayland 24.1 RC2 Brings Fixes For Explicit Sync & DRM Leasing   Wayland   2024-05-02
SDL 3.1.2 Preview Prefers PipeWire Over PulseAudio, Fixes XWayland Mouse Warp   Linux Gaming   2024-05-01
XZ Backdoor, Nova Driver, Linux 6.9 Features & Ubuntu 24.04 Made For An Exciting April   Phoronix   2024-05-01
GTK 4.15 Released With Vulkan Renderer By Default   GNOME   2024-04-27
KDE Fixes Adaptive-Sync Issues & Less Glitches During GPU Resets   KDE   2024-04-27
Wayland 1.23 Alpha Released With OpenBSD Support & New APIs   Wayland   2024-04-25
Fedora Miracle Spin Proposed For Fedora 41   Fedora   2024-04-25
Wine's Wayland Driver Will Finally Set The Window Title   Wayland   2024-04-24
GNOME Mutter 46.1 Brings Explicit Sync, Better NVIDIA Hybrid GPU Acceleration   GNOME   2024-04-21
Niri 0.1.5 Scrollable-Tiling Wayland Compositor Adds New Animations   Wayland   2024-04-20
KDE Developers Work Through More Bug Fixes & Features For Plasma 6.1   KDE   2024-04-20