The latest version of Wayland can be downloaded from Softpedia

Jan 21, 2014 21:01 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, has reached version 1.4 RC.

A new development version has been released and the new Release Candidate means that a final version is now a lot closer.

“I count around 11 additional fixes in this release and then we have a lot of good commits from Artie to fix various static analyzer issues. We'll run this through QA and then if all goes well, we should be ready to release 1.4 this Thursday, Jan 23. I don't expect we'll touch the code much between now and then, but do let me know if there's anything we might be missing,” stated Kristian Høgsberg on the official mailing list.

A detailed list of changes can be found in the official announcement. Download Wayland 1.4 RC 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.