Wayland 1.24 Released with Fixes and New Features
Wayland continues to move forward, while X11 slowly vanishes into the shadows, and the latest release includes plenty of improvements.
After more than a year of work, Wayland 1.24 is now available for download, complete with new features, fixes, and improvements. This latest release is all about maturity and stability, as well as optimizing resource management.
Wayland 1.24 adds improvements for keyboard and event handling, but the majority of the changes are found in associated protocols and compositors. Highlights include a new wl_keyboard repeated state that gives control to the compositors for key repeats, an important improvement for any situation where precise keyboard management is required; the introduction of wl_display_dispatch_queue_timeout() and wl_display_dispatch_timeout(), both of which are used to allow more control for dispatching events; and wl_shm_buffer_ref() and wl_shm_buffer_unref(), which allow access to the wl_shm_buffer storage, even after a protocol object is discarded.
Although Wayland 1.24 has been made available for download, it might be a while before it reaches your distribution's default repositories. Give it time, and it'll find its way to your machine. In the meantime, you can read all about the new additions in the official release notes. Version 1.24 might not be chock-full of bells and whistles, but it does represent an important step forward.
