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Libinput 1.2 Officially Released

Written by Michael Larabel in Wayland on 23 February 2016 at 07:22 AM EST. 13 Comments

Libinput 1.2.0 was officially released this morning by Red Hat's Peter Hutterer for improving the Linux input support on X.Org, Wayland, and Mir systems.

Libinput 1.2 features graphics tablet support, three-finger pinch gesture support on capable hardware, motion hysteresis has been deactivated by default, fixes for disable-while-typing, and other changes.

Those curious about this input handling library can find out more about the new features and changes via the libinput 1.2 release announcement.

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