Wayland (protocol)

Wayland
	Weston, the reference implementation of a Wayland server
Original author(s)	Kristian Høgsberg
Developer(s)	freedesktop.org et al.
Initial release	30 September 2008
Stable release	Wayland: 1.23, Weston: 14.0.2 / 25 April 2025
Repository	gitlab.freedesktop.org/wayland/wayland ;
Written in	C
Operating system	Official: Linux; Unofficial: NetBSD, FreeBSD, OpenBSD, DragonFly BSD; Compatibility layer: Haiku
Type	Windowing system; Display server;
License	MIT License
Website	wayland.freedesktop.org

Wayland is a communication protocol that specifies the communication between a display server and its clients, as well as a C library implementation of that protocol.^[9] A display server using the Wayland protocol is called a Wayland compositor, because it additionally performs the task of a compositing window manager.

Wayland is developed by a group of volunteers initially led by Kristian Høgsberg as a free and open-source community-driven project with the aim of replacing the X Window System with a secure^[10]^[11]^[12]^[13] and simpler windowing system for Linux and other Unix-like operating systems.^[9]^[14] The project's source code is published under the terms of the MIT License, a permissive free software licence.^[14]^[6]

As part of its efforts, the Wayland project also develops a reference implementation of a Wayland compositor called Weston.^[9]

^ Høgsberg, Kristian (30 September 2008). "Initial commit". Retrieved 4 August 2024.
^ Cite error: The named reference wayland 1.23 was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
^ Cite error: The named reference weston 14.0.2 was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
^ "Wayland & Weston Compositor Ported To DragonFlyBSD - Phoronix". www.phoronix.com. Archived from the original on 16 August 2016. Retrieved 20 July 2016.
^ "My progress in Wayland compatibility layer". 24 July 2022.
^ ^a ^b Cite error: The named reference License was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
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^ Cite error: The named reference Larabel 2015 license was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
^ ^a ^b ^c Cite error: The named reference Wayland homepage was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
^ Sengar, Shivam Singh (16 June 2018). "Wayland v/s Xorg : How Are They Similar & How Are They Different". secjuice. Archived from the original on 23 September 2020. Retrieved 10 September 2020.
^ Cite error: The named reference Kerrisk 2012 was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
^ Cite error: The named reference Peres 2014 was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
^ Cite error: The named reference Graesslin 2015 security was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
^ ^a ^b Cite error: The named reference Wayland FAQ was invoked but never defined (see the help page).

[1] Høgsberg, Kristian (30 September 2008). "Initial commit". Retrieved 4 August 2024.

[wayland_1.23-2] Cite error: The named reference wayland 1.23 was invoked but never defined (see the help page).

[weston_14.0.2-3] Cite error: The named reference weston 14.0.2 was invoked but never defined (see the help page).

[4] "Wayland & Weston Compositor Ported To DragonFlyBSD - Phoronix". www.phoronix.com. Archived from the original on 16 August 2016. Retrieved 20 July 2016.

[5] "My progress in Wayland compatibility layer". 24 July 2022.

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[10] Sengar, Shivam Singh (16 June 2018). "Wayland v/s Xorg : How Are They Similar & How Are They Different". secjuice. Archived from the original on 23 September 2020. Retrieved 10 September 2020.

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