The latest version of Wayland can be downloaded from Softpedia

Sep 23, 2013 13:34 GMT  ·  By

Wayland, a protocol for a compositor to talk to its clients, as well as a C library implementation of that protocol, which can be used as a standalone display server running on Linux kernel modesetting and evdev input devices, an X application, or a Wayland client itself, has reached version 1.3 RC1.

The developers are underway to deliver the final version of Wayland by the end of September and a lot of changes and new features have been implemented.

“I believe I picked up most recent patches and fixes recently on the list. In particular, I merged Rob and Neils patch to send out events to all listeners for wl_pointer, wl_keyboard and wl_touch from a client. This patch enables clutter-gtk and webkitgtk, but touches core event delivery code paths, so look for regressions there,” stated Kristian Høgsberg on the official mailing list.

A detailed list of changes can be found in the official announcement. Download Wayland 1.3 RC1 right now from Softpedia. Remember that this is a development version and it should NOT be installed on production machines. It is intended for testing purposes only.