Hi!

This month wlroots 0.18.0 has been released! This new version includes a fair share of niceties: ICC profiles, GPU reset recovery, less black screens when plugging in a monitor on Intel, a whole bunch of new protocol implementations, and much more. Thanks a lot to all contributors! Two recent merge requests made it in the release: Kenny’s Vulkan renderer optimizations, and support for the SIZE_HINTS KMS property to use a smaller cursor plane on Intel to save power. For the next release we’ll be trying out release candidates to formally focus on bugfixing and leave time for compositors and language bindings to update and report issues.

I’ve continued working on various graphics-related topics, for instance the wlroots implementation of the upcoming ext-screencopy-v1 protocol is now complete and the protocol itself is almost ready (still figuring out the most difficult part: how to name it). I also sent out a kernel patch to fix tearing page-flips when cursor/overlay planes don’t change (and are included in the atomic commit). I reviewed patches by Enrico Weigelt to improve libdrm’s portability to OpenBSD and Solaris. Last, I’ve released libdisplay-info 0.2.0 with a new high-level API for colorimetry and support for more EDID/CTA/DisplayID blocks.

To get the releases over with, let’s briefly mention Goguma 0.7.0. This one unlocks file uploads, a new look based on Material You with an adaptive color scheme, many improvements to the iOS port, and text/media can be shared to Goguma from other apps. slingamn has played with a gamja/Ergo setup configured with Forgejo as an OAuth server, and it worked nicely after fixing a gamja SASL-related bug and implementing a missing feature in Forgejo’s OAuth token introspection endpoint!

Last, I also added a new libscfg API to write files - this can be useful to auto-generate some configuration files for instance. And I also performed some more boring X.Org Foundation sysadmin stuff, such as dealing with domain-related issues, recovering a server running out of disk space again, and convincing Postfix to start up.

See you next month!