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

GNOME Mutter 48 Beta Released With HDR Bits, Gdctl Utility   GNOME   2025-02-05
Red Hat Hiring To Continue Advancing The Linux Desktop In 2025   Fedora   2025-02-03
GTK's X11 Backend Now Deprecated, Planned For Removal In GTK 5   GNOME   2025-02-01
Intel Battlemage, NVIDIA RTX 50 & Linux Kernel Excitement From January   Phoronix   2025-02-01
Wine Wayland Merge Request Opened For Clipboard Support   WINE   2025-01-31
Chromium Embedded Framework "CEF" Seeing Progress On Wayland Support   Wayland   2025-01-31
GNOME Display Control Utility "gdctl" Merged For GNOME 48   GNOME   2025-01-30
X.Org / FreeDesktop.org Encounters New Cloud Crisis: Needs New Infrastructure Very Soon   X.Org   2025-01-29
Hyprland 0.47 Wayland Compositor Delivers Experimental HDR, GPU Hotplugging   Wayland   2025-01-27
GNOME 48 Alpha Released With Many New Features   GNOME   2025-01-24
Arch Linux Installer Adds Wayfire As A Desktop Option, Btrfs Improvements   Arch Linux   2025-01-22
AMD Announces The AMDGPU Composition Stack "ACS" For Advanced Linux Desktop Features   AMD   2025-01-22
Qt 6.9 Toolkit Beta 2 Now Available For Testing   Qt   2025-01-22
SDL 3 Officially Released With New APIs, Better HiDPI & Improved Audio Handling   Linux Gaming   2025-01-21
Wine 10.0 Released With Native Wayland Support, Better HiDPI   WINE   2025-01-21
Wine 10.0 Expected This Week For Improving Windows Software On Linux   WINE   2025-01-20
GNOME Snapshot Can Now Read QR Codes, Flatpak 1.16 Brings More Features   GNOME   2025-01-18
Fedora KDE Plasma Edition Aims To Appeal To Multimedia Enthusiasts & Content Creators   Fedora   2025-01-16
Triple Buffering Support Updated Against Latest GNOME 48 Code   GNOME   2025-01-15
Intel "Performance Tips" Published For Optimal Linux Graphics   Intel   2025-01-15
GNOME Shell 48 Alpha Introduces Screen Time / Health Breaks, Mutter 48 Alpha Out Too   GNOME   2025-01-13
Hyprland Wayland Compositor Lands HDR / Color Management Support   Wayland   2025-01-13
Enlightenment 0.27 Released For This 28 Year Old Window Manager / Compositor   Desktop   2025-01-12
Niri 25.01 Scrollable-Tiling Wayland Compositor Brings More Features   Wayland   2025-01-12
KDE Plasma 6.3 Beta Released With A Ton Of Improvements   KDE   2025-01-09
KDE Plasma Wayland Protocols 1.16 Brings Power/Performance vs. Color Accuracy Preference   KDE   2025-01-09
GNOME Mutter Merges Support For Wayland Timing & Queuing Protocols   GNOME   2025-01-09
KDE Plasma 6.3 To Offer Better Night Light Mode On HDR Displays   KDE   2025-01-08
Budgie 10.10 Desktop Releasing This Quarter As Wayland-Only   Desktop   2025-01-07
Xubuntu 25.04 Preparing Xfce 4.20 Desktop Upgrade   Ubuntu   2025-01-05
GNOME Now Has Refine As An Alternative To GNOME Tweaks, Phosh 0.44 Released   GNOME   2025-01-04
X.Org Server Development Hit A Decade High For The Number Of Commits In 2024   X.Org   2025-01-01
The Most Popular Linux & Open-Source News Of 2024   Free Software   2025-01-01
Wayland's Wild 2024 With Better KDE Plasma Support, NVIDIA Maturity & More Desktops   Wayland   2024-12-31
FreeBSD Collaborating With AMD, NetBSD 10.0 Release & Other BSD Highlights Of 2024   BSD   2024-12-31
Xfce 4.20, COSMIC Alpha & LXQt 2 Led Alternative Open-Source Desktops In 2024   Desktop   2024-12-30
Ubuntu's Great Year From 24.04 LTS To Focusing More On Performance Optimizations   Ubuntu   2024-12-29
NVIDIA Made Great Strides With Their Open-Source Kernel Code & Wayland Support In 2024   NVIDIA   2024-12-28
Fedora's Captivating 2024 With Many New Features & Leading Innovations   Fedora   2024-12-28
GNOME Added Many New Features This Year Amid Foundation Woes   GNOME   2024-12-27
GCC ASCII Art Visualizations, Timely Znver5 & Other Compiler Highlights Of 2024   Programming   2024-12-26
KDE Enjoyed A Stellar 2024 With The Debut Of The Plasma 6 Desktop   KDE   2024-12-26
OpenShot 3.3 Open-Source Video Editor Brings New Default Theme, Better Wayland Support   Multimedia   2024-12-22
Wayland Protocols 1.39 Released With Data Control & Workspace Additions   Wayland   2024-12-20
Qt 6.9 Beta Released With New Toolkit Features   Qt   2024-12-17
Hyprland 0.46 Wayland Compositor Brings Several New Features   Wayland   2024-12-16
Xfce 4.20 Desktop Released With Wayland Improvements & New Features   Wayland   2024-12-15
GNOME 48 Mutter To Enjoy Improved Cursor Scaling For Wine Wayland & More   GNOME   2024-12-13
CentOS Stream 10 Reaches GA With Linux 6.12, Python 3.12 & No X.Org Server   Operating Systems   2024-12-12
KDE Gear 24.12 Released With Many Improvements To KDE Apps   KDE   2024-12-12
Linux Mint 22.1 Beta Released With Cinnamon 6.4 Desktop, Updated Apt Code   Operating Systems   2024-12-12
OpenMandriva ROME 24.12 Released With KDE Plasma 6 Desktop By Default   Operating Systems   2024-12-11
Miracle-WM 0.4 Released With i3 IPC Support   Wayland   2024-12-11
NVIDIA Releases EGL-Wayland 1.1.17   NVIDIA   2024-12-10
openSUSE Touts Improved Multi-GPU Switching Support   SUSE   2024-12-09
NVIDIA 565.77 Linux Driver Released As First Stable R565 Build   NVIDIA   2024-12-05
Mesa 24.3.1 Released With Many Graphics Driver Bug Fixes   Mesa   2024-12-04
AMDVLK 2024.Q4.2 Released With New Extensions, Other Changes   Radeon   2024-12-04
Mir 2.19 Released With Atomic KMS Platform Support, New Wayland Protocols   Ubuntu   2024-12-02
Qt 6.8.1 Toolkit Released With 550+ Bug Fixes   Qt   2024-12-02
XWayland Lands Support For xdg-system-bell   Wayland   2024-12-02
Lutris 0.5.18 Linux Game Manager Brings Many Improvements   Linux Gaming   2024-12-01
Apple M4, More AMD Zen 5 Benchmarks & Linux Kernel Drama From November   Phoronix   2024-12-01
Wayland Color Management Protocol Might Finally Be Close To Merging   Wayland   2024-11-30
Wine 9.22 Enables Wayland Driver By Default   WINE   2024-11-23
KDE Plasma 6.3 Sees More Feature Work, One More Crash Fix For KWin   KDE   2024-11-23
Mesa 24.3 Released With Many Open-Source Vulkan Driver Improvements   Mesa   2024-11-21
FLTK 1.4 Released With Wayland & HiDPI Display Support   Programming   2024-11-19
WayVNC 0.9 Released For Wayland VNC Server With New Features   Wayland   2024-11-19
Raspberry Pi OS Now Defaults To 512MB Swap, Updates Labwc Compositor   Raspberry Pi   2024-11-18
KDE Developers Spent The Week Fixing Bugs & Polishing   KDE   2024-11-16
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10 Enters Beta With Many New Features & Updates   Red Hat   2024-11-14
Niri 0.1.10 Scrollable-Tiling Wayland Compositor Brings Many Improvements   Wayland   2024-11-10
Hyprland 0.45 Compositor Smooths Round Edges, Window Snapping For Floating Windows   Wayland   2024-11-09
NVIDIA Outlines Current Wayland Limitations & Upcoming Driver Features   NVIDIA   2024-11-09
KDE's Info Center Now Shows Multi-GPU Information, Plasma 6.3 Bringing UI Refinements   KDE   2024-11-09
Mesa 24.3-rc1 Released With Big Improvements For AMD Radeon & Intel Graphics   Mesa   2024-11-08
Mesa 24.3 Code Branched, Mesa 25.0 Enters Development   Mesa   2024-11-08
Mesa 24.3 Merges Vulkan FIFO Support On Wayland   Mesa   2024-11-07
LXQt 2.1 Released With New Wayland Session Component   Desktop   2024-11-05
Linux Mint Working On Night Light For Cinnamon, Collaborating With Framework Computer   Operating Systems   2024-11-03
KDE Will Nicely Notify You When Apps Are Being Killed Due To Out-Of-Memory   KDE   2024-11-02
Xfce 4.20 Pre1 Pre-Release Published For Testing   Desktop   2024-11-02
Wine 10.0 Release Plans Aim For Mid-January Release   WINE   2024-11-01
Google Chrome/Chromium Lands linux_drm_syncobj_v1 For Wayland Explicit Sync   Google   2024-11-01
Intel Arrow Lake, AMD EPYC Turin & Linux Kernel Drama Made For An Interesting October   Phoronix   2024-11-01
Miriway 24.10 Compositor Adds systemd Integration, DE-Specific Configurations   Wayland   2024-11-01
COSMIC Desktop Alpha 3 Released With More Enhancements   Desktop   2024-10-31
Local Privilege Escalation Vulnerability Affecting X.Org Server For 18 Years   X.Org   2024-10-29
Fedora 41 Releases Today With Many Shiny New Features   Fedora   2024-10-29
KDE Plasma 6.3 To Improve XWayland Window Resizing   KDE   2024-10-28
Raspberry Pi OS Now Using Wayland By Default On All Models   Raspberry Pi   2024-10-28
Sway 1.10 Released With GPU Reset Recovery & Other Wayland Enhancements   Wayland   2024-10-28
NVIDIA R565 Linux Driver Beta Brings Improvements For Wayland, DMA-BUF & VKD3D   NVIDIA   2024-10-22
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