After one and a half years of development Published Stable Release Composite Server weston 10.0 , developing technology that promote full support for the Wayland protocol in ENLIGHTENENT, GNOME, KDE and other user environments. Weston development is aimed at providing high-quality code base and work examples to use Wayland in desktop environment and embedded solutions, such as platforms for automotive information and entertainment systems, smartphones, TVs and other consumer devices. Project code spreads under license MIT.
Change of a significant version of the Weston version is due to ABI changes that violate compatibility. Changes in the new Weston branch:
- Added components for controlling color, allowing converting colors, perform gamma correction and work with color profiles. Changes are still limited to internal subsystems, the user visible to the user will appear in the following release.
- in the implementation of the Linux-Dmabuf-Unstable-V1 protocol, providing the possibility of sharing several video cards using DMA-BUF technology, added the mechanism “ DMA-BUF Feedback
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