Marius Vlad
marius.vlad at collabora.com

Wed May 17 19:14:37 UTC 2023

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Hi all,

This is the official release for weston 12.0.0.

Highlights for this release:

- backend-drm: multiple GPU support, by using --additional-devices to specify
  secondary DRM devices, in the form of a comma-separated list of devices.
  Inteded as separated output devices (KMS), not as render devices
- backend-drm: add support for HDMI content type: graphics, photo, cinema and
  game.
- backend-drm: Added support for tearing-control protocol
- backend-drm: Added plane rotation property and make use of when possible
- backend-drm: Added supported formats for writeback connectors, and with it
  a writeback screen shooter
- backend-drm: Added plane alpha DRM-property
- backend-drm: use libdisplay-info as a better alternative for parsing EDID

- backed-vnc: a new backend similar to backend-rpd, based on aml and neatvnc,
  with TLS support and user authentication. Both aml and neatvnc are set-up
  as subprojects

- backend-pipewire: added PipeWire backend

- backend-wayland: allow resizing with xdg-shell

- backend-rdp: preliminary rdp multi-head support 
  (and many other bug-fixes in-between)

- backend-headless: added output decorations for testing out the color-lcms
  plugin.

- launcher-logind has been deprecated and disabled by default. As
  launcher-libseat supports logind, this shouldn't cause any regressions

- libweston/desktop (formally libweston-desktop) would take into account client
  pending state, when there's no buffer attached. Useful in situations where the
  clients would like to start from the beginning in a maximized/fullscreen
  state

- protocol: new screenshooter protocol: weston-output-capture. This new
  protocol is as a Weston public extension. The older weston-screenshooter
  protocol has been