XWayland 26.1 Release Candidate Arrives After Two-Year Hiatus
XWayland 26.1-rc1 Released Two Years After the Last Release
Olivier Fourdan announced Xwayland 26.0.99.901, the first release candidate for Xwayland 26.1.0, marking the project's first release in over two years. Key changes include removal of EGLStream support, a clipboard/primary selection bridge for rootful mode, multi-seat support via Xi2, and improved RandR emulation. The release also adds support for xdg-system-bell and wl_fixes. Users are encouraged to test and report issues.
As per the schedule, I am pleased to announce Xwayland 26.0.99.901, the first release candidate of the upcoming standalone Xwayland 26.1.0 release (or Xwayland 26.1.0 rc1 for short).
- raggi
Nice. XWayland has been a key transitional piece we'll still need for a while.
- creatonez
> EGLStream support is removed
Wait, does this mean Nvidia won't have GPU acceleration for apps under XWayland anymore? Or is EGLStream not what I think it is?
- belval
I really don't like Wayland, I recently (last Friday) had to revert back to X because somehow they messed up enough that in Zoom screensharing during a meeting with XWayland can crash my audio drivers.
At this point I don't know who it is for, but it's not for users.
- nantes
Do we really need the editorializing in the title?
- einpoklum
I am not a fan of Wayland. I've not really bought the value proposition; and see also:
https://gist.github.com/probonopd/9feb7c20257af5dd915e3a9f2d...
what's more - this seems like yet another RedHat/IBM project which destroys variety and flexibility in favor of their problematic choices, often with a degradation of functionality. systemd, Wayland, GNOME - and of course nothing would run on BSDes, heavens forbid.
With X11 seeing renewed, independent work via https://xlibre.net - why not embrace _that_ rather than go down the crooked Wayland path?
- v3ss0n
Wayland should expired, Wayland is architectural failure plagued with bad design decisions, xlibre is gaining momentum and it is not broken piece of a pile
- jjcm
At this point, I'm half convinced that someone with $100k in api spend of Fable tokens can create a better replacement for X11/Wayland, and patch all common open source apps to leverage it.