Wayland is a display server protocol that is a FreeDesktop.org project with development being driven by multiple organizations. Wayland is widely viewed as the likely successor to the X11 Server on the modern Linux desktop with it being supported by multiple Linux distributions. The reference Wayland implementation is the Weston compositor.

Additional Information: wayland.freedesktop.org

wayland Articles & Reviews

KDE Plasma 6.7 vs. GNOME Shell 50.3 vs. Xfce 4.20 On CachyOS With NVIDIA Graphics   Software   2026-07-21
KDE Plasma 6.7 X11 vs. Wayland Session Gaming Performance For NVIDIA On CachyOS   Linux Gaming   2026-07-10
KDE Plasma 6.6 Delivers An Impressive Edge For Radeon Graphics Over GNOME 50 On Ubuntu 26.04   Software   2026-03-25
GNOME & KDE Plasma Wayland Sessions Outperforming Xfce + LXQt On Ubuntu 25.04 For Linux Gaming   Linux Gaming   2025-04-02
GNOME 48 & KDE Plasma 6.3 Delivering Great Wayland Desktop Experience On Ubuntu 25.04 For Linux Gaming   Linux Gaming   2025-03-28
AMD Radeon Linux Gaming Performance At Parity Between KDE Plasma 6.0 X11 vs. Wayland   Linux Gaming   2024-04-08
The Compositor Modules "COMO" To Build Wayland Compositors Have Arrived   Software   2024-03-04
GNOME Wayland vs. X.Org Performance For Radeon & NVIDIA Gaming On Ubuntu 23.04   Linux Gaming   2023-06-16
X.Org vs. Wayland Linux Gaming Performance For NVIDIA GeForce + AMD Radeon In Early 2023   Display Drivers   2023-01-30
NVIDIA Linux Gaming Performance For Wayland vs. X.Org On Ubuntu 22.04   Display Drivers   2022-02-02
Mesa's RADV Vulkan Driver Holds A Narrowing Lead Over AMDVLK With Ubuntu 21.10 On Wayland   Display Drivers   2021-12-30
KDE/GNOME Wayland vs. X.Org Radeon Linux Gaming Performance   Linux Gaming   2021-12-28
Ubuntu 21.10 Radeon Gaming With KDE Plasma vs. GNOME Shell + Wayland vs. X.Org   Linux Gaming   2021-10-18
Ubuntu 21.04 - X.Org vs. Wayland Linux Gaming Performance   Linux Gaming   2021-04-29
Ubuntu 21.04 Server Performance Offering Nice Gains For AMD EPYC 7003 Series   Operating Systems   2021-04-21
GNOME XWayland Radeon Gaming Performance Is In Good Shape For Ubuntu 21.04   Linux Gaming   2021-02-01
Ubuntu 20.04 Gaming Performance Across Desktops, X.Org vs. Wayland   Linux Gaming   2020-04-28
Firefox Performance On Wayland Is Looking Good - Browser Benchmarks With KDE vs. GNOME   Software   2020-04-20
X.Org vs. Wayland Browser Performance With Firefox + Chrome   Software   2020-04-10
Ubuntu 20.04 GNOME X.Org vs. Wayland Session Performance Impact For Gaming   Linux Gaming   2020-03-30
Ubuntu 19.04 Radeon Linux Gaming Performance: Popular Desktops Benchmarked, Wayland vs. X.Org   Linux Gaming   2019-04-18
The Fastest Linux Distributions For Web Browsing - Firefox + Chrome Benchmarks On Eight Distros   Operating Systems   2019-03-29
KDE Plasma, GNOME Shell, Xfce, LXQt & MATE Linux Gaming Benchmarks, Including X.Org/Wayland   Linux Gaming   2018-12-30
A Look At The Linux Graphics/Gaming Performance With GNOME 3.30 X.Org/Wayland   Software   2018-09-10
KDE vs. GNOME, X.Org vs. Wayland Radeon Linux Gaming Performance With Ubuntu 18.04 LTS   Linux Gaming   2018-05-12
Intel Graphics On Ubuntu: GNOME vs. KDE vs. Xfce vs. Unity vs. LXDE   Software   2018-01-21
Intel Graphics Performance: Ubuntu 17.04 vs. 17.10   Linux Gaming   2017-10-20
Ubuntu 17.10 Ships Today - Arguably Its Most Interesting Release In Years   Operating Systems   2017-10-19
Radeon Linux Gaming Performance: Ubuntu 17.04 vs. Ubuntu 17.10   Linux Gaming   2017-10-18
Fedora 26 vs. 27 Beta Benchmarks, Wayland vs. X.Org Gaming Tests   Operating Systems   2017-10-14
GNOME 3.26: Wayland vs. X.Org Performance - Boot Times, Power Use, Memory Use & Gaming   Software   2017-09-11
Trying Out Ubuntu 17.10 On A Laptop One Month Ahead Of Release   Operating Systems   2017-09-07
A Look Back At The Desktop & X.Org/Wayland/Mir Milestones Of Ubuntu   Operating Systems   2017-04-05
Fedora 25 Turned Out Great, Definitely My Most Favorite Fedora Release   Operating Systems   2016-11-21
XDC2016 Wraps Up After Many Wayland, X.Org & Mesa Discussions   Events   2016-09-24
Trying Out Fedora 25 With Wayland, Early Benchmarks Included   Operating Systems   2016-08-22
A Brief Look At Fedora 24   Operating Systems   2016-06-16
KDE Plasma 5.5 Has Evolved Well Beyond Where Plasma 4 Ended   Software   2016-01-08
GNOME 3.18 On Fedora 23: X.Org vs. Wayland Performance   Software   2015-09-24
Fedora 22 KDE Delivers A Great Plasma 5 Experience   Operating Systems   2015-06-07
XWayland Linux Gaming Performance With GNOME Wayland On Fedora 21   Software   2014-09-25
X.Org Server 1.16 Officially Released With Terrific Features   Software   2014-07-17
Trying Out The Latest Wayland Linux Desktops With RBOS   Software   2014-03-25
Ubuntu 13.10 vs. Fedora 20 Benchmarks   Operating Systems   2014-01-03
Early Ubuntu 14.04 Intel XMir Benchmarks   Display Drivers   2014-01-02
GNOME Shell Wayland Benchmarks From Fedora 20   Display Drivers   2013-12-26
Running The Latest GNOME Wayland Shell On Fedora 20   Software   2013-10-28
The First Wayland Benchmarks From Fedora 20 Show Great Promise   Operating Systems   2013-10-07
The Wayland Situation: Facts About X vs. Wayland   Display Drivers   2013-06-07
Why Wayland & Weston Were Forked   Software   2013-03-29
XDC2012: Lots Of Progress On X, Mesa, Wayland   Events   2012-09-24
Running Wayland: It Works, But A Lot Of Work Remains   Software   2012-08-10
Ubuntu Delays Wayland System Compositor   Software   2012-08-10
Running Wayland On Ubuntu 11.10   Software   2011-08-25
KDE Draws Up Plans For Wayland In 2012   Software   2011-08-07
MeeGo Tablet UX 1.3 May Use Wayland This Year   Software   2011-05-27
Will Wayland Become A New Desktop Standard?   Software   2011-05-17
It's Becoming Very Easy To Run Wayland   Software   2010-11-25
The State Of The Wayland Display Server   Software   2009-05-20
Wayland: A New X Server For Linux   Software   2008-11-03

wayland Linux & Open-Source News

NVIDIA's Results Of Conducting Wayland vs. X.Org Latency Testing   NVIDIA   2026-10-04
Wine 11.19 Released With Wayland Color Management For Vulkan, DNS Query Caching   WINE   2026-10-02
systemd-appd Out For Review To Centralize Tracking Of User's Apps   systemd   2026-10-02
Nearing A 10 Second Kernel Build, Xeon 600 & Other September Excitement On Phoronix   Phoronix   2026-10-01
More AI In Open-Source, CachyOS, Ryzen AI Halo, Framework Laptop 13 Pro & Other Q3 Hits   Phoronix   2026-09-30
Igalia Improving The Firefox Experience For Valve's Steam Deck   Valve   2026-09-29
NVIDIA Developing "Display Config Server" To Improve Linux/Wayland On Display Walls   NVIDIA   2026-09-28
Budgie 10.10.3 Released With Favorites In Budgie Menu, Labwc Bridge Improvements   Desktop   2026-09-27
KDE Plasma 6.8 Beta 2 Released With Union Theming Engine Maturing   KDE   2026-09-24
Mir 2.30 Released Now With Rust Required, Mir Roadmap Published   Wayland   2026-09-24
Variable Refresh Rate "VRR" Target Limiter Proposed For Linux Graphics Drivers   Linux Kernel   2026-09-22
Gravity Linux Aims To Provide A Nice Experience For Apple M4 & Newer   Apple   2026-09-21
Igalia Celebrates 25 Years Of Advancing Linux & Open-Source   Linux Kernel   2026-09-21
AI-Assisted Starling Desktop Introduces 3D View With "Walkable 3D Waterfront City"   Desktop   2026-09-20
libinput 1.32 Released With Circular Scrolling Support For Circular Touchpads   Hardware   2026-09-17
Mir/Wayland-Powered Miracle-WM 0.11 Released With New Overview Mode, Window Urgency   Wayland   2026-09-16
GNOME 51 Released With Improved Frame Scheduling, Many App Improvements   GNOME   2026-09-16
GTK 4.24 Released With Better Fractional Scaling, More Precise GDK Frame-Clock   GNOME   2026-09-12
KDE Plasma 6.8 Remote Desktop To Enjoy Lower Latency Performance   KDE   2026-09-12
Mesa 26.3 RADV + RadeonSI Ready With DRM Format Modifiers For Older AMD GPUs   Radeon   2026-09-10
KDE Plasma 6.8 Beta Released With Many Great Improvements, Kup Backup Scheduler   KDE   2026-09-10
X.Org Server 26.1 Moves Closer To Release As Half-Decade Update   X.Org   2026-09-10
GNOME 51 Adds Support For Custom Pointer Acceleration Profiles   GNOME   2026-09-10
COSMIC Epoch 1.8 Provides Latest Fixes & Minor Improvements For This Rust Desktop   Desktop   2026-09-10
XWayland 26.1 RC2 Released For Testing With More Fixes   Wayland   2026-09-09
NVIDIA 615.71.09 Linux Driver Released With Vulkan Improvements   NVIDIA   2026-09-09
KDE's KWin Merges Wayland Commit-Timing Protocol Support   KDE   2026-09-08
KDE Plasma 6.8 Lands Windows-Like Auto-Scrolling, Lower vRAM Usage For Breeze Theme   KDE   2026-09-04
XDC 2026 Will Feature Many Interesting Talks: Vulkan Gallium, OpenCL On CUDA & More   X.Org   2026-09-04
Mir 2.29 Released With Additional Wayland Protocols   Ubuntu   2026-09-03
KDE Plasma 6.8 Lands Dwell Clicker Support To Improve Accessibility On Wayland   KDE   2026-09-02
The Linux Kernel AI Flood, Linux 7.2 Release & Other August Highlights   Phoronix   2026-09-01
NVIDIA VA-API Driver 0.0.18 Ships More Fixes, Chrome/Chromium Decode On Direct Backend   NVIDIA   2026-08-31
Wayland Found To Be "Intrinsically Faster Than X11, But Not Necessarily More Efficient"   Wayland   2026-08-25
KDE Remote Desktop Experience Improving For Closing The X11 vs. Wayland Gap   KDE   2026-08-25
Wine 11.16 Released With VA-API Hardware Decoding, Better ARM64 Support   WINE   2026-08-21
X.Org Server 26.1 RC1 Prepares For First Feature Release In Five Years   X.Org   2026-08-19
XWayland 26.1 RC1 Released With Many New Features   X.Org   2026-08-19
COSMIC Epoch 1.6 Released With Per-App Volume Control, Remote Desktop Preparations   Desktop   2026-08-18
GNOME 51 Beta Released With Many Minor Improvements   GNOME   2026-08-15
KDE Plasma 6.8 To Allow Fine-Tuning Mouse/Touchpad Speeds   KDE   2026-08-15
Omarchy 4.0 Linux Distro Released With Desktop Shell Now Implemented Via Quickshell   Desktop   2026-08-14
Microsoft's Azure Linux 3.0.20260809 Ships With 233+ CVE Fixes   Microsoft   2026-08-13
Linux 7.2 To Revert Back To The FIFO DRM Scheduler Policy Due To "Fair" Regressions   Linux Kernel   2026-08-12
Wine 11.15 Released With Wayland Fixes, Fix For A 20 Year Old MSXML3 Bug   WINE   2026-08-08
Mesa 26.2 Released With NVK Mesh Shader Support, Many Other Vulkan Improvements   Mesa   2026-08-05
Denial WM: New Wayland Compositor With Flutter Directly Embedded   Wayland   2026-08-05
KGamma2 Makes For Easy Gamma Adjustments On KDE Plasma With Wayland   KDE   2026-08-03
GNOME Mutter 51 Beta Released With Wayland Background Blur, Improved Frame Scheduling   GNOME   2026-08-03
AerynOS Issues First Development Update & New ISOs In Three Months   Operating Systems   2026-08-02
MPEG-4 Patent Expiration, RADV On Windows, Open-Source AI & Other July Highlights   Phoronix   2026-08-01
KDE Plasma 6.8 To Enjoy Huge Performance Gains For Multi-GPU/eGPU Performance   KDE   2026-08-01
COSMIC Epoch 1.5 Brings More Fixes & Improvements To System76's Desktop   Desktop   2026-07-29
DRM Format Modifiers For Old AMD GPUs Coming With Linux 7.3: Thanks Valve   Radeon   2026-07-29
Starling: A New Linux Desktop Written In Swift, Own Wayland Compositor & Written With AI   Desktop   2026-07-28
Wayfire Wayland Compositor Closing In On v1.0 Release   Wayland   2026-07-27
SDL Lands HDR10 Rendering Support   Linux Gaming   2026-07-22
libx11-compat Is Working To Implement Xlib Atop SDL For Wayland, macOS, Android   X.Org   2026-07-22
Hyprland 0.56 Released With Many Enhancements To This Wayland Compositor   Wayland   2026-07-20
Wayland 1.26 Released With New Pointer Warp Event   Wayland   2026-07-16
Mesa 26.2-rc1 Released In Ending Feature Work For This Quarter's 3D Graphics Stack   Mesa   2026-07-15
Vocalinux 0.14 Beta Released For Offline Voice Dictation / Speech-To-Text On Linux   Desktop   2026-07-15
Weston 16.0 Compositor Released With HDR Improvements, Vulkan Fixes   Wayland   2026-07-14
Wayland 1.26 RC1 Released With New Event To Help Ensure Correct Pointer Coordinates   Wayland   2026-07-09
Wayland No Longer Considered Experimental For Linux Mint's Next Cinnamon Release   Operating Systems   2026-07-08
XWayland 24.1.13 Released To Fix Two More Security Issues In The X.Org Codebase   X.Org   2026-07-07
GNOME Lands ext-background-effect-v1 Support For Background Blur Effect   GNOME   2026-07-04
Arch Linux AUR Malware, Linux 7.2 Developments & Other June Highlights   Phoronix   2026-07-01
Performance Optimizations, NVIDIA Vera, Arc Pro B70 & Other Linux Highlights From Q2   Phoronix   2026-06-30
KDE Plasma 6.7.2 Brings Fix For Most Common KWin Crash, Better Chromium Video Playback   KDE   2026-06-30
Wine 11.12 Released With Wayland Fractional Scaling & Other Wayland Enhancements   WINE   2026-06-29
Arch Linux's Archinstall 4.4 Adds Dank Material Shell + Niri Desktop Option   Arch Linux   2026-06-28
Linux 7.3 To Introduce DRM "Color Format" Property With AMD GPU Driver Support   Linux Kernel   2026-06-28
Vim Patches Yielding Faster GTK3 Wayland Performance: "Major Milestone"   Desktop   2026-06-28
Nourish: A New Wayland Compositor Powered By Vulkan With Infinite Scrolling/Panning   Wayland   2026-06-27
KDE Plasma 6.7.2 To Fix KWin's Most Common Crash, Plasma 6.8 To Not Crash When Ejecting CDs   KDE   2026-06-27
Academy Software Foundation Announces The "Wayland For Artists Working Group"   Wayland   2026-06-25
COSMIC Epoch 1.1 Released With COSMIC-Monitor, Compositor Improvements   Desktop   2026-06-23
KDE Plasma 6.7.1 Released With Initial Batch Of Bug Fixes   KDE   2026-06-23
Xfce Wayland Compositor Sees First Preview/Alpha Release   Desktop   2026-06-22
Miracle-WM Mir-Based Wayland Compositor Aiming For v1.0 Later This Year   Wayland   2026-06-22
Mesa 26.2 Merges Vulkan Present Timing Support For X11/XWayland   Mesa   2026-06-21
Raspberry Pi OS Moves To Linux 6.18 LTS Kernel, Updated LabWC Compositor   Raspberry Pi   2026-06-19
Godot 4.7 Released With HDR Output Support   Linux Gaming   2026-06-18
SteamOS 3.8.10 Stable Released With Updated Arch, Steam Machine Support & Wayland Desktop Default   Valve   2026-06-18
Myna Announced As Speech-To-Text Solution For The Ubuntu Desktop   Ubuntu   2026-06-17
Wayland's Weston 16 Alpha Brings HDR Improvements, Vulkan Renderer Fixes   Wayland   2026-06-16
Wine Wayland Lands Fractional Scaling Support   WINE   2026-06-16
KDE Plasma 6.7 Released With Per-Screen Virtual Desktops, Wayland Improvements   KDE   2026-06-16
Wine-Staging 11.11 Released With 289 Patches Atop Upstream   WINE   2026-06-13
Wine 11.11 Released With Wayland Improvements   WINE   2026-06-12
Wine Wayland Driver Lands Alpha Modifier Support For Opacity Handling   Wayland   2026-06-12
KDE KWin Patches Aiming To Optimize Gaming Latency To Better Compete With Windows   KDE   2026-06-10
Wayland Protocols 1.49 Released With Improved Multi-GPU Support, Windows BT.2100   Wayland   2026-06-07
Mesa 26.2 Lands VK_GOOGLE_display_timing Support For Direct Display Mode   Mesa   2026-06-07
GNOME 51 Retires Legacy NVIDIA Driver Support With Removing EGLStreams   NVIDIA   2026-06-05
Widely-Used libinput Updated Due To Arbitrary Root Code Execution   Desktop   2026-06-03
COSMIC Now Implements Wayland Pointer Constraints For Better Gaming Experience   Desktop   2026-06-03
KDE Plasma 6.8 Still Planning To End X11 Support, 95% Of Plasma 6.6 Users Are On Wayland   KDE   2026-06-02
Mir 2.27 Released With More Wayland Rust Code   Wayland   2026-06-02
COSMIC Desktop's Frosted Glass Is Giving Windows Aero Vibes   Desktop   2026-06-02
X.Org Server Starts June With Nine New Security Vulnerabilities Discovered Via AI   X.Org   2026-06-01
AI-Driven Security Disclosures, NVIDIA Vera & Linux 7.1 Features That Made An Exciting May   Free Software   2026-06-01
Plasma 6.6, 6.7 & 6.8 See Plenty Of Bug Fixing This Week   KDE   2026-05-30
KDE Plasma 6.7 Beta 2 Released With More Bug Fixes   KDE   2026-05-28
Google's ANGLE Merges Wayland Support, Unblocking Chromium Embedded Framework On Wayland   Wayland   2026-05-26
NVIDIA 610.43.02 Linux Driver Released With Vulkan Improvements, DRM Color Pipeline API   NVIDIA   2026-05-26
Labwc 0.20 Wayland Compositor Released With Numerous New Features   Wayland   2026-05-25
Sway 1.12 Released With HDR Support On Vulkan Renderer, New Protocols   Wayland   2026-05-25
GNOME Commander 2.0 Released Following Rewrite In Rust & GTK4   GNOME   2026-05-22
Plasma 6.7 Improves Its Built-In Remote Desktop Server, Enhances Plasma Notifications   KDE   2026-05-16
Wine 11.9 Released With Wayland Pointer Warp, Initial Support For System Threads   WINE   2026-05-15
Older AMD GPUs Score Another Open-Source Driver Win From Valve: DRM Format Modifiers   Radeon   2026-05-13
Wine Wayland Driver Merges Pointer Warp Support   WINE   2026-05-12
Hyprland 0.55 Released With Lua-Based Configuration, User-Defined Layouts   Wayland   2026-05-09
KDE Plasma 6.7 To Support ICC Profiles In HDR Mode, Direct Scan-Out Improvement   KDE   2026-05-08
KDE Plasma 6.7 To Provide A Much Better Experience For CPU-Based Rendering   KDE   2026-05-07
Wayland Developers Target June For Weston 16 Release   Wayland   2026-04-29
AMD's Lemonade SDK 10.3 Now 10x Smaller By Getting Rid Of Electron   AMD   2026-04-28
WayVNC 0.10 Released For Advancing This Leading VNC Server For Wayland   Wayland   2026-04-28
XWayland 24.1.11 Brings Crash Fixes   Wayland   2026-04-27
Legacy NVIDIA xf86-video-nv Driver Sees First Release In Years   NVIDIA   2026-04-26
Niri 26.04 Wayland Compositor Adds Much Sought After Blur Support   Wayland   2026-04-25
Godot 4.7 Reaches Beta With HDR Output, Ray-Tracing Improvements & Editor Enhancements   Linux Gaming   2026-04-25
Ubuntu 26.04 LTS Now Available & Powered By Linux 7.0   Ubuntu   2026-04-23
Godot 4.7 Will Finally Have HDR Output, Including On Linux With Wayland   Linux Gaming   2026-04-23
LXQt 2.4 Released With More Wayland Fixes/Improvements   Desktop   2026-04-20
GIMP 3.2.4 Released With A Fix For Its XCF Code That Has Existed Since 1999   Free Software   2026-04-19
KDE Plasma 6.7 Ready With Wayland Session Management, Other New Improvements   KDE   2026-04-18
Mir 2.26 Begins Working On Rust-Based Input Platform   Ubuntu   2026-04-16
Linux Mint 23 Making Progress On Ubuntu 26.04 Base, Linux 7.0 Kernel & Wayland   Operating Systems   2026-04-16
Arch Linux's Archinstall 4.2 Fixes Botched Disk Encryption Security   Arch Linux   2026-04-15
X.Org Server 21.1.22 Released Due To Five New Security Vulnerabilities   X.Org   2026-04-14
KDE Merges Per-Screen Virtual Desktops After 21 Years   KDE   2026-04-14
Cage 0.3 Released With New Wayland Protocol Support   Wayland   2026-04-11
GNOME-Aligned Amberol 2026.1 Music Player Released, Phosh Improves X11 Support   GNOME   2026-04-11
Mir-Based Miracle-WM 0.9 Introduces A WebAssembly Plugin System   Wayland   2026-04-09
Mesa 26.1 Makes It Easier To "Fake" A GPU Reset Using LLVMpipe   Mesa   2026-04-05
KDE's KWin Continues Working On Vulkan Support, Other Improvements For Plasma 6.7   KDE   2026-04-04
Libinput Hit By Worrying Security Issues With Its Lua Plug-In System   Desktop   2026-04-02
NVIDIA Provides Preview Driver With DRM Color Pipeline API Support   NVIDIA   2026-04-01
Wayland Protocols 1.48 Released With XDG Session Management   Wayland   2026-04-01
AerynOS 2026.03 Brings GNOME 50, Other Wayland Compositor Updates   Operating Systems   2026-03-31
xx-fractional-scale-v2 Aims To Improve Wayland Fractional Scaling   Wayland   2026-03-31
Intel Panther Lake & Linux AI/LLM Debates Dominated Q1 For Linux Users   Phoronix   2026-03-31
wlroots 0.20 Released,Sway 1.12-rc1 Available For Testing With Color Management   Wayland   2026-03-26
KDE's KWin Compositor Lands First Step Toward Vulkan Support   KDE   2026-03-26
NVIDIA 595.58.03 Linux Driver Debuts As Stable R595 Build   NVIDIA   2026-03-24
Krita 6.0 Released With Qt6 Port & Better Wayland Support   KDE   2026-03-24
GTK3 Toolkit Winding Down To One Release Per Year   GNOME   2026-03-23