Wayland developers have prepared the release of Weston 16.0 Alpha 1 for this reference Wayland compositor with new features.

Weston 16.0 has been making more progress on its high dynamic range (HDR) display support and color management handling. Weston's DRM back-end now supports the "color format" DRM connector property, there is a grayscale output color effect added to Weston, color pipelines support is added to the DRM back-end, various color transform additions, and a number of other color related patches.

Weston 16 also supports the "BACKGROUND_COLOR" CRTC background color property introduced in the Linux 7.1 kernel. This addition allows offloading of solid-color backgrounds.

Weston 16's Vulkan renderer has also seen a number of bug fixes, explicit synchronization for Vulkan with the DRM back-end, support for non-axis aligned rotations with Vulkan, and other Vulkan fixes.

The full list of Weston 16 Alpha 1 changes can be found via the mailing list announcement. The Weston 16 Beta release should happen in about two weeks, the release candidate after that, and then Weston 16.0 stable sometime in July depending upon how the release cycle plays out.