After 13 months of development represented the stable release of the protocol, the mechanism of inter-process interaction and libraries Wayland 1.24. Branch 1.24 is backward compatible at the API and ABI level with releases 1.x and contains mainly error corrections and minor protocol updates. The projects of the project are distributed under the MIT license. Standard composite server weston, providing code and working examples for using Wayland in desktop-rings and built-in solutions, develops as part of a separate development cycle.
The main changes in protocol:
- Implemented interface wl_fixes, which allows you to solve problems with other software interfaces of basic protocols that cannot be eliminated by the own capabilities of these interfaces. For example,
Request “Wl_fixes :: Destroy_registry” allows you to eliminate the object wl_registry, after which the client will not be able to use it, and the composite server will stop transmitting through his events. - In the software interface
/Reports, release notes, official announcements.