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Vlad: Weston 15.0 is here: Lua shells, Vulkan rendering, and a smoother display stack

Over on the Collabora blog, Marius Vlad has an overview of Weston 15.0, which was released on February 19. Weston is the reference an implementation of a Wayland compositor. The new release comes with a new shell that can be programmed using the Lua language, a new, experimental Vulkan renderer, smoother media playback, color-management additions, and more.
One of Weston's fundamental pillars has always been making the most efficient use of display hardware. Over time, all the work we did to track and offload as much work as possible to this efficient fixed-function hardware has come at the cost of eating CPU time. In the last couple of release cycles, we've focused really hard on improving performance on even the most low-end of devices, so not only do we make the most efficient use of the GPU and display hardware, but we're also really kind on your CPU now. As part of that and to improve our tooling, Weston 15 now comes with support for the Perfetto profiler.


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Not a reference compositor

Posted Feb 23, 2026 19:54 UTC (Mon) by rahulsundaram (subscriber, #21946) [Link] (5 responses)

LWN blurb calls it as a reference compositor but it is no longer considered one

https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/wayland/weston/-/merge_req...

Not a reference compositor

Posted Feb 23, 2026 20:43 UTC (Mon) by jake (editor, #205) [Link] (1 responses)

> LWN blurb calls it as a reference compositor but it is no longer considered one

ok, i was just going by the first line in the Weston documentation i linked in the blurb ...

jake

Not a reference compositor

Posted Feb 25, 2026 15:09 UTC (Wed) by mvlad (subscriber, #128730) [Link]

Yeah, unfortunately we missed it. Should be mended now.

Not a reference compositor

Posted Feb 23, 2026 21:09 UTC (Mon) by atai (subscriber, #10977) [Link] (2 responses)

>it is no longer considered one

What does that mean? It is a production one now? the official one? or neither?

Not a reference compositor

Posted Feb 23, 2026 21:16 UTC (Mon) by docontra (guest, #153758) [Link] (1 responses)

Weston is "now" one production Wayland compositor out of many, and provides a library that allows building different Wayland compositors, going from the quoted diff (from December 2022).

Not a reference compositor

Posted Feb 24, 2026 15:34 UTC (Tue) by iabervon (subscriber, #722) [Link]

Looks like Daniel Stone's rewrite of the MR ended up with a better description of what Weston is now, but only put it in README.md and not index.rst.


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