Wayland (display server protocol)
Releases

Wayland (display server protocol)

Section Title: Releases
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Version	Date	Main features

Wayland	Weston

0.85	9 February 2012	First release

0.95	24 July 2012	Began API stabilization

1.0	22 October 2012	Stable wayland-client API

1.1	15 April 2013	Software rendering. FBDEV, RDP backends

1.2	12 July 2013	Stable wayland-server API	Color management. Subsurfaces. Raspberry Pi backend

1.3	11 October 2013	More pixel formats. Support for language bindings	Android driver support via libhybris

1.4	23 January 2014	New wl_subcompositor and wl_subsurface interfaces	Multiple framebuffer formats. logind support for rootless Weston

1.5	20 May 2014	libinput. Fullscreen shell.

1.6	19 September 2014	libinput by default

1.7	14 February 2015	Support for the Wayland presentation extension and for surface roles. IVI shell protocol.

1.8	2 June 2015	Separated headers for core and generated protocol	Repaint scheduling. Named outputs. Output transformations. Surface-shooting API.

1.9	21 September 2015	Updated license	Updated license. New test framework. Triple-head DRM compositor. linux_dmabuf extension.

1.10	17 February 2016	Drag-and-drop functionality, grouped pointer events	Video 4 Linux 2, touch input, debugging improvements

1.11	1 June 2016	New backup loading routine, new setup logic	Proxy wrappers, shared memory changes, Doxygen-generated HTML docs

1.12	21 September 2016	Debugging support improved	libweston and libweston-desktop. Pointer locking and confinement. Relative pointer support.

1.13	24 February 2017	The ABI of Weston has been changed, thus the new version was named 2.0.0 rather than 1.13.0.

1.14	8 August 2017	Weston 3.0.0 was released at the same time.

1.15	9 April 2018	Weston 4.0.0 was released at the same time.

1.16	24 August 2018	Weston 5.0.0 was released at the same time.

1.17	20 March 2019	Weston 6.0.0 was released at the same time.

Old versionOlder version, still supportedLatest versionFuture release

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Wayland has Server version 1.16.

final_sentence: Wayland has Server version 1.16.