Weston 13.0 is an exciting feature release with support for multiple backends working concurrently, OpenGL renderer support for more back-ends, improved full-screen handling in the Weston kiosk shell, and support for overlapping outputs.
"Highlights for this release:
- multiple backend support allowing loading multiple backends, vnc, rdp, pipewire are secondary backends
- backend-vnc, backend-pipewire and backend-rdp: GL renderer support
- improved fullscreen handling in kiosk-shell which allows xwayland type of surfaces be fullscreen
- support for overlapping outputs, which allows placing views on planes when they're displayed on multiple outputs"
Weston 13.0 also has various internal changes, API alterations, and drops launcher-logind support in its entirety. Weston 13.0 also adds VNC output resizing, a rework to the 2D coordinate handling, support for P010/P012/P016 formats in the OpenGL code, and other changes.
More details on the Weston 13.0 release via the release announcement .