presented the release of the display server mir 2.8 , the development of which continues Canonical, despite the refusal of the development of the Unity shell and Ubuntu editorial office for smartphones. MIR remains in demand in Canonical projects and is now positioned as a solution for built -in devices and the Internet of things (IOT). MIR can be used as a composite server for Wayland, which allows you to launch any applications that use Wayland (for example, collected with GTK3/4, QT5 or SDL2) surroundings. Packages for installation are prepared for Ubuntu 04.20, 21.10 and 22.04 ( ppa )and
in the new version:
- Added support for the experimental expansion of the WLR_SCREENCOPY_UNSTABLE_V1 protocol, which allows you to create utilities to create screenshots.
- When assembling, the generation of code with the definitions of the protocol Wayland.
- Code and APIs of the graphic platform is processed for future support for heterogeneous and hybrid GPUs.
- Added option “–x11-window-title” to set the window header on the X11.
- MIR assembly and testing on systems with architecture RISC-V.
- Assembly checks in the experimental branches of Ubuntu 22.10, Fedora Rawhide, Debian Sid and Alpine Edge.
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