Wlroots 0.17.0 released
Wlroots 0.17.0 released

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0.17.0 · wlroots / wlroots · GitLab

Release highlights:
- New protocol implementations:
- content-type-v1 to tag surfaces with their content type (audio, video, game, etc).
- xwayland-shell-v1 to improve XWayland reliability.
- wp-fractional-scale-v1 to allow clients to submit buffers with a non-integer scale factor matching the output.
- tearing-control to allow clients to opt-in for tearing page-flips.
- security-context-v1 to identify clients running in sandboxes.
- cursor-shape-v1 for server-side cursor themes.
- Introduce a new output layers API to leverage KMS planes.
- Add a new renderer API with improved design and performance. Add an API to query the time taken to render.
- Continued work on the Vulkan renderer: add more RGB formats, add YUV buffers, add interoperability with implicit synchronization instead of blocking.
- Add support for the new wl_surface.preferred_buffer_{scale,transform} events.
- Improved scene-graph, including support for linux-dmabuf feedback and clipping surfaces.
- Improved wlr_cursor which now keeps track of the current cursor image.
- Add an implementation of the wl_shm interface, replacing libwayland's for improved reliability and performance.
- The Wayland backend supports embedding a wlroots compositor inside an existing Wayland client.
- wl_surface roles have been refactored.