Hi, We have a 1.4.0 release. Tagged in git and tarballs available from http://wayland.freedesktop.org/releases.html as usual: 49b0b6d5e2366a7bad5158b29998213e5ca7f254 weston-1.4.0.tar.xz 181131253747500c4759a117ee312262fbb6ed19 weston 1.4.0 tag bc91befb8386ec5c1ff4f24ad8464c24a7496ae2 wayland-1.4.0.tar.xz 4b4cd00621d64311a64108cc921e25e0c9e4767b wayland 1.4.0 tag We didn't have a lot of activity since the release candidate (1.3.93). There was a test suite fix in Wayland and fixes for 4 bugs in Weston. The wayland repository continues to mature and moves slowly. This cycle again only saw a few wayland changes, most of wich where fairly unexciting: • SHM Buffer SIBGUS protection. We added and couple of utility functions to help compositors guard against broken or malicious clients who could truncate the backing file for shm buffers and thus trigger SIGBUS in the compositor (Neil Roberts). • Subsurfaces protocol moved to wayland repo and as such promoted to official wayland protocol (Pekka Paalanen). • wl_proxy_set_queue() can take a NULL queue to reset back to default queue. (Neil Roberts). • A few bug fixes, in particular, I'd like highlight the fix for the race between wl_proxy_create() and wl_proxy_marshal(). • A few scanner error message improvements and documentation tweaks and polish. Weston: We came pretty close to doing exactly what we had planned for 1.4 http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/wayland-devel/2013-October/011419.html: • Window buttons for xwayland windows and proper decorations for the nested compositor (wayland backend) (Jason Ekstrand). • Make the gl-renderer a loadable module and make it possible to switch from pixman to gl renderer at runtime. This lets the compositor start up faster, since we can load the gl-renderer and initialize EGL+GLES2 later in the startup (Ander Conselvan de Oliveira). • Support framebuffer formats other than XRGB8888 (gbm-format config value under [core] section). (Kristian Høgsberg) • Use logind for privileged access. logind can now do the this that weston-launch used to do: drm drop/set master and opening input devices. With this, weston can run on KMS without the weston-launch setuid helper (David Herrmann). • struct weston_surface split into struct weston_surface and struct weston_view. This is a weston-internal feature, that makes it possible to display a surface in multiple places in the compositor. (Jason Ekstrand) • Better output unplug handling. We used to crash and in general not handle output (monitor) unplug at all. We now clean up properly and move windows back into the visible region when their output is unplugged. (Ander Conselvan de Oliveira and Xiong Zhang) • Keyboard focus animation and exposay (exposé-like window picker) from Collabora. • More touch screen support, including touch-to-move and touch-to-activate for surfaces, touch screen drag-and-drop (Xiong Zhang). • Started work on xdg-shell protocol. The xdg-shell is a more format attempt at developing a protocol for the interaction between applications and a desktop environmet. The wl_shell protocol currently in wayland was always only a place-holder to help boot-strap toolkit support. Now that GNOME Shell is moving to Wayland, we have a full-featured desktop to drive the work and we can start the effort in earnest (Jasper St. Pierre, Rafael Antognolli). • Nested compositor buffer pass-through. We specified a new EGL extension to allow a nested compositor to pass buffers through to the underlying compositor. This lets the nested compositor skip rendering and instead present the contents using a subsurface or such in the underlying compositor (Neil Roberts). • Crop and scale protocol. This protocol, which we're initially staging in weston, lets a client specify that a only sub-rectangle of it's surface should be presented, and potentially scaled up. (Jonny Lamb and Pekka Paalanen) • weston-terminal gained scrollback history, use Ctrl+Shift UP/DOWN to scroll. Added a context menu for easy access to copy/paste/new terminal (which have always been available as Ctrl-Shift-C/V/N) (Kristian Høgsberg). Touch screen selection support (Xiong Zhang). Mesa: A couple of features that we did in the 1.4 timeframe landed in mesa and will be released with the next major mesa release (10.1): • Support for eglSwapInterval(dpy, 0). Setting this lets an application render as fast as possible, that is, not synced to vblank. weston-simple-egl has a new -b option that makes it set swap interval to 0 and render as fast as possible. • Support for RGB565 EGLConfigs, even if the compositor is using a different pixel format for its framebuffers. • Now uses the __DRIimageLoaderExtension that lets the driver allocate buffers without using flink. This in turn means that the clients can use drm render nodes. The support is not completely there yet, but should be able to get that in place for mesa 10.1. • eglSwapBuffers() now flushes the wl_display(), which was always the most sensible behaviour, consider the EGL eglSwapBuffer() language. And that's about it for 1.4.0. We had 425 weston commits, 46 wayland commits, and 40 individual committers this time: Adrian Negreanu, Alexandru DAMIAN, Ander Conselvan de Oliveira, Armin K, Axel Davy, Bryce W. Harrington, Cameron Stewart, Chi Ding Chris Michael, Daniel Stone, David Herrmann, Dima Ryazanov, Emilio Pozuelo Monfort, Fabien DESSENNE, Giulio Camuffo, Hardening, Jason Ekstrand, Jasper St. Pierre, Jonas Ådahl, Jonas 'Sortie' Termansen, Jonny Lamb, José Bollo, Kristian Høgsberg, Louis-Francis Ratté-Boulianne, Lubomir Rintel, Marco Barisione, MoD, Neil Roberts, Pekka Paalanen, Peter Hutterer, Philip Withnall, Rafael Antognolli, Rafal Mielniczuk, Ricardo Vieira, Rui Matos, Stefan Schmidt, Tomeu Vizoso, U. Artie Eoff, Wieland Hoffmann, Xiong Y Zhang. Thanks for helping out, let's get started on 1.5. I'll send out an update on some of the things we're looking at here at Intel and what kind of schedule we'd like to do for 1.5 shortly. Kristian