Earlier this week a new version of Weston, 11.0, was announced. Here's a look at some of the changes that have landed in this new version, and what li

Weston 11.0: what's new, what's next

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2022-09-29 19:00:26

Earlier this week a new version of Weston, 11.0, was announced. Here's a look at some of the changes that have landed in this new version, and what lies ahead.

Among those changes, this new version brings in some optimization being done in the DRM-backend that refactors and simplifies the handling of buffers that can be scanned out by hardware planes, as well as some changes to include preliminary work towards having support for multiple GPUs.

Color management infrastructure code has landed that allows HDR characteristics to be delivered to an HDR-capable monitor by setting-up HDR metadata in a weston.ini configuration file and delivering that to KMS. Once Weston gains the ability to produce HDR content in a future version, it will come naturally supported.

This new version brings in multiple RDP improvements, like clipboard pasting, various keyboard language support, bumped support for a newer version of FreeRDP library, and many more other improvements and fixes.

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