Hi!

Today wlroots 0.19.0 has finally been released! Among the newly supported protocols, color-management-v1 lays the first stone of HDR support (backend and renderer bits are still being reviewed) and ext-image-copy-capture-v1 enhances the previous screen capture protocol with better performance. Explicit synchronization is now fully supported, and display-only devices such as gud or DisplayLink can now be used with wlroots. See the release notes for more details! I hope I’ll be able to go back to some feature work and reviews now that the release is out of the way.

In other graphics news, I’ve finished my review of the core DRM patches for the new KMS color pipeline. Other kernel folks have reviewed the patches, we’re just waiting on a user-space implementation now (which various compositor folks are working on). I’ve started a discussion about libliftoff support.

In addition to wlroots, this month I’ve also released a new version of my mobile IRC client, Goguma 0.8.0. delthas has sent a patch to synchronize pinned and muted conversations across devices via soju. Thanks to pounce, Goguma now supports message reactions (not included in the release):

My extended-isupport IRCv3 specification has been accepted. It allows servers to advertise metadata such as the maximum nickname length or IRC network name early (before the user provides a nickname and authentication details), which is useful for building nice connection UIs. I’ve posted another proposal for IRC network icons.

go-smtp 0.22.0 has been released with an improved DATA command API, RRVS support (Require Recipient Valid Since), and custom hello after reset or STARTTLS. I’ve also spent quite a bit of time reaching out to companies for XDC 2025 sponsorships.

See you next month!