Released today was wlroots 0.20 as this Wayland support library used by some Wayland compositors for doing much of the "heavy lifting" of compositor bring-up. Following wlroots 0.20, Sway 1.12-rc1 was released for testing as this closely-aligned Wayland compositor inspired by the i3 window manager.

The wlroots 0.20 release brings new protocol implementations including color-representation-v1, ext-workspace-v1, foreign toplevel support in ext-image-capture-source-v1, xdg-toplevel-tag-v1 for tapping top-levels, color-management-v1 minor version 2, cursor-shape-v1 minor version 2, and xdg-shell minor version 7.

Also quite exciting with wlroots 0.20 is having full Vulkan renderer, back-end, and scene-graph coverage for Wayland's color management "color-management-v1" protocol.

More details on the many exciting wlroots 0.20 changes via the FreeDesktop.org GitLab .

Released a short time ago was Sway 1.12-rc1 for testing. This release depends upon the new wlroots 0.20 and in turn delivers support for HDR10 when running with the Vulkan renderer. Sway 1.12 is also supporting color-management-v1, color-representation-v1, xdg-toplevel-tag-v1, ext-workspace-v1, and wl_fixes protocols. Nice seeing the color management support coming together for Sway.

Sway 1.12-rc1 also adds support for capturing individual windows as well as adding new options and properties to use the color primaries advertised in monitor EDID data. There is also support for keypad slide switches as another new feature.

Downloads and more details on the Sway 1.12-rc1 compositor test release via GitHub .