Wayland 1.7 Alpha Released Along With Updated Weston Compositor

Bryce Harrington has released the first development version of the forthcoming Wayland 1.7 along with the adjoining Weston reference compositor.

As outlined a few days back on Phoronix, Bryce is managing Wayland/Weston 1.7 over at Samsung. Following this Wayland/Weston 1.7 Alpha release, the plan is to release the 1.7 Release Candidate 1 around the end of January, 1.7 RC2 around 6 February, and to officially put out Wayland/Weston 1.7.0 around 13 February.

As noted by the Wayland 1.7 Alpha 1 announcement, this quarterly update to Wayland isn't particularly compelling... Wayland had mostly just a lot of documentation updates along with improvements to some tests. Weston meanwhile now depends against libinput 0.8, adds the IVI Shell, adds a new Presentation Extension, fixes full-scree applications/games with XWayland, the headless compositor now supports rendering with Pixman, and various other compositor changes.