Wayland 1.11 Alpha Released

The first alpha is now available of Wayland 1.11 along with the adjoining Weston 1.11 reference compositor. This also marks the feature freeze for the Wayland/Weston 1.11 series.

The Wayland 1.11 Alpha has various fixes and other minor improvements, but no apparent huge additions to the protocol.

Weston 1.11 Alpha meanwhile has configuration API updates, porting the headless and X11 back-ends to the new initialization API, support for taking over sockets created by systemd, many IVI Shell improvements, support for making the panel clock configurable on Weston's desktop shell, and other improvements.

What didn't land this merge window was the Weston tablet support, idle inhibition support, APIs for client information, and pointer locking and confinement.

More details on the alpha release can be found via this wayland-devel message. Wayland/Weston 1.11 meanwhile is scheduled for release at the end of May.