Weston 16.0 Compositor Released With HDR Improvements, Vulkan Fixes

Overnight the Weston 16.0 release occurred as the latest milestone for this reference Wayland compositor.

Weston 16.0 delivers the latest improvements to Wayland's high dynamic range (HDR) display support and color management handling. Weston's DRM back-end now supports the "color format" DRM connector property, there is a grayscale output color effect added to Weston, color pipelines support is added to the DRM back-end, various color transform additions, and a number of other HDR/color related patches made it for Weston 16.

Weston 16 also supports the "BACKGROUND_COLOR" CRTC background color property introduced in the Linux 7.1 kernel and continues seeing support among the different DRM drivers. This addition allows offloading of solid-color backgrounds.

Weston 16's Vulkan renderer has also seen a number of bug fixes, explicit synchronization for Vulkan with the DRM back-end, support for non-axis aligned rotations with Vulkan, and other fixes.

Weston 16.0 downloads and more details via today's brief release announcement.