The latests version of Wayland can be downloaded from Softpedia

Apr 16, 2013 11:31 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 1.0.3.

Wayland 1.1 is a major release in the series and integrates a great deal of changes and improvements.

Highlights of Wayland 1.1:

• A Raspberry Pi backend has been added; • The damage handling has been optimized; • A scanout of transformed buffers is now possible; • A Touch screen calibration client has been added; • XT_buffer_age is now used in the KMS backend; • libunwind is now supported for better crash dumps.

A detailed list of changes can be found in the official announcement. Download Wayland 1.1 right now from Softpedia.