[ANNOUNCE] wayland 1.15.0

Matt Turner mattst88 at gmail.com
Tue May 8 20:49:14 UTC 2018


On Mon, Apr 9, 2018 at 10:57 AM, Derek Foreman <derekf at osg.samsung.com> wrote:
> Wayland 1.15.0 is now out.
>
> Some highlights:
> Compositor writers take note - wl_subcompositor.get_subsurface is now
> documented to be double buffered.  It wasn't clearly specified to be so
> before (this change should be non breaking in practice and merely remove
> the opportunity for a render glitch in the compositor.)
>
> New API, wl_display_destroy_clients() has been added to help some
> compositors clean up clients before destroying their display.
>
> wayland-scanner can now generate either public or private symbols, and
> the old command line option "code" will emit a warning. It also has a
> new --strict option to immediately exit on DTD validation failure.
>
> libwayland-egl is now part of libwayland, and will presumably be removed
> from mesa in the not too distant future.

Since there doesn't seem to have been any announcement or guidance on
the Mesa side for what distros are supposed to do, I'll ask here:

Are distros supposed to stop passing "wayland" to Mesa's
--with-platforms= configure option?


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