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

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
Miracle-WM 0.2 Released For Mir-Based Wayland Compositor   Wayland   2024-04-19
System76's COSMIC Working On Drag & Drop, More Compositor Improvements   Desktop   2024-04-17
Wayland Protocols 1.35 Introduces Alpha Modifier Protocol, Tablet-V2 As Stable   Wayland   2024-04-17
LXQt 2.0 Released For Qt6 Desktop Port, Greater Wayland Support   Desktop   2024-04-17
XWayland 24.1 RC Released With Explicit Sync, Improved Rootful & GLAMOR Optimizations   Wayland   2024-04-17
KDE Plasma 6.0.4 Ships With Dozens Of Bug Fixes   KDE   2024-04-16
Mesa 24.1 Now Supports Vulkan Explicit Synchronization On X11   Mesa   2024-04-16
Linux 6.10 To Merge NTSYNC Driver For Emulating Windows NT Synchronization Primitives   Linux Gaming   2024-04-14
KDE's Busy Week With Landing Explicit Sync & Many Other Changes   KDE   2024-04-13
XWayland 24.1 Planned For Release Next Month With Explicit Sync & Other Features   Wayland   2024-04-12
KDE Frameworks 6.1 Released With Many Improvements & Fixes   KDE   2024-04-12
Ubuntu 24.04 Beta Now Available For Testing   Ubuntu   2024-04-11
Wayland 1.23 Planned For Release Around The End Of May   Wayland   2024-04-11
KDE's KWin Merges Wayland Explicit Sync Support   KDE   2024-04-10
Explicit GPU Synchronization Merged For XWayland   X.Org   2024-04-09
KDE On The Importance Of Wayland Explicit Sync   KDE   2024-04-06
KDE Plasma 6 Can Now Sync Your RGB-Backlit Keyboard With Your Desktop's Accent Color   KDE   2024-04-06
X.Org Server & XWayland Hit By Four More Security Issues   X.Org   2024-04-03
Mesa 24.1 Merges Vulkan Support For Wayland Explicit Sync   Mesa   2024-04-02
Qt 6.7 Released With Many Improvements For This Cross-Platform Toolkit   Qt   2024-04-02
Fedora 42 Change Proposal Wants To Make KDE Plasma The Default Over GNOME   Fedora   2024-04-02
Nova Driver, Linux 6.9 Features & Other Linux News From March   Phoronix   2024-04-01
Drop-In CUDA On AMD, Kernel Discussions, NGINX Fork & Other Q1 Highlights   Phoronix   2024-04-01
KDE Plasma 6 Refinements Continue, Fixes 3+ Important Crashes This Week   KDE   2024-03-30
GNOME's Mutter Lands DRM Sync Obj v1 Support For Explicit Sync On Wayland   GNOME   2024-03-29
Flatpak 1.15.7 Will Now Automatically Remove Obsolete Driver Versions   Programming   2024-03-28
SDL3 Will Keep Wayland Default At Least For The Time Being   Linux Gaming   2024-03-27
Blender 4.1 Released With Faster Linux CPU Rendering & AMD RDNA3 APU Support   Free Software   2024-03-26
SDL Developers Weigh Reverting Wayland Over X11 For SDL 3.0   Linux Gaming   2024-03-26
Fedora 40 Beta Released With GNOME 46 & KDE Plasma 6.0 On Wayland Desktops   Fedora   2024-03-26
Intel VA-API 2.21 Library Adds Intel Xe Kernel Driver Support, AV1 & Windows Fixes   Multimedia   2024-03-26
XWayland-Run 0.0.3 Adds Support For KDE's KWin   Wayland   2024-03-25
SDL3 Preview Release Aims To Help Test The New SDL 3.0 API   Linux Gaming   2024-03-24
KDE Sees A Number Of Regression Fixes & Some Crash Fixes This Week   KDE   2024-03-23
Wayland Protocols 1.34 Introduces Better Drag & Drop, Explicit DRM Sync Objects   Wayland   2024-03-21
XWayland Rootful Lands HiDPI / Fractional Scaling Support   Wayland   2024-03-20
XWayland Nukes The NVIDIA EGLStream Backend   Wayland   2024-03-18
Hyprland Wayland Compositor Celebrates Two Years With A New Release   Wayland   2024-03-17
KDE Continuing To Land More Fixes, Eye More Features For Plasma 6.1   KDE   2024-03-16
openSUSE Tumbleweed Begins Rolling Out KDE Plasma 6 Desktop, But No Wayland Default Yet   SUSE   2024-03-14
KDE Plasma 6.0.2 Delivers Another Week Worth Of Bug Fixes   KDE   2024-03-12
Niri 0.1.3 Wayland Compositor Brings Touch Support, New Animations   Wayland   2024-03-10
LXQt Desktop Now "100%" Ready For Wayland   Desktop   2024-03-09
KDE Developers Are Currently Seeing 150~200 Bug Reports Per Day   KDE   2024-03-09
Wine 9.4 Released With VKD3D 1.11 Bundled, OpenGL Support For Wayland Driver   WINE   2024-03-08
Fedora Workstation 41 To No Longer Install GNOME X.Org Session By Default   Fedora   2024-03-07
Basic OpenGL Support Merged For Wine's Wayland Driver   WINE   2024-03-06
UWSM Aims To Be A Universal Wayland Session Manager   Wayland   2024-03-06
GNOME Shell & Mutter 46 RC Brings Modifier-Aware Screencasting, VRR & X.Org Sync Fix   GNOME   2024-03-03
KDE Plasma 6.0 Is Proving To Be Unlike The Rocky KDE 4 Launch   KDE   2024-03-03
The X.Org Foundation Needs More Candidates To Hold An Election   X.Org   2024-03-01
CUDA On ROCm, Ryzen 8000G Series & Rust Activity Made For An Exciting February   Phoronix   2024-03-01
Zink Lands Support For Partial Updates / Damage Handling   Mesa   2024-02-29
Mesa 24.0.2 Brings Many Zink Fixes, More Intel Alder Lake N IDs   Mesa   2024-02-29
KDE MegaRelease 6 Debuts For Plasma 6.0, KF6 & Gear 24.02   KDE   2024-02-28
Wine Wayland Driver Patches Enable Basic OpenGL Support   WINE   2024-02-27
KWinFT Compositor Now Known As Theseus' Ship   KDE   2024-02-27
SDDM 0.21 Display Manager Released With Better Wayland Support, Qt6 Fixes   Desktop   2024-02-26
WayVNC 0.8 Adds Auto Server-Side Resizing Of Headless Outputs, Detached Mode   Wayland   2024-02-26
GNOME Makes Progress On GPU-Accelerated Screencasting, systemd-homed Home Encryption   GNOME   2024-02-25
GLFW 3.4 Brings Better Support For Wayland & Run-Time Platform Selection   Programming   2024-02-24
Sway 1.9 Released - Using New wlroots Rendering API For Better Performance   Wayland   2024-02-24
KDE Plasma 6.0 Ready For Release Next Week, Plasma 6.1 Seeing Early Feature Work   KDE   2024-02-24
NVIDIA 550.54.14 Release Brings R550 Series Linux Driver To Stable   NVIDIA   2024-02-23
GIMP Releases Last Development Version For GIMP 3.0   Free Software   2024-02-21
X.Org Server Clears Out Remnants For Supporting Old Compilers   X.Org   2024-02-20
Miracle-WM Announced As A Wayland Compositor Built On Mir   Wayland   2024-02-19
More Fixes Land Ahead Of KDE Plasma 6.0 Coming In Two Weeks   KDE   2024-02-17
New GNOME Mutter Code Prepares Fractional Scaling For XWayland   GNOME   2024-02-16