Drew DeVault

Drew DeVault announces sway 0.15-rc1, the last release before sway 1.0, and introduces wlroots — a new low-level Wayland compositor library replacing wlc. Unlike wlc, wlroots gives sway direct control over EGL, DRM, libinput, and rendering, enabling long-requested features like rotated displays, fractional scaling, multi-GPU support, touchscreen bindings, and drawing tablet support. A reference compositor called Rootston is already functional. wlroots is also designed as a shared platform for the broader Wayland ecosystem, with other compositors like way-cooler planning to adopt it. The goal is to ship sway 1.0 before end of 2017.

The future of Wayland, and sway's role in it