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 .