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 | |
| Written in | C |
| Operating system | Official: Linux Unofficial: NetBSD, FreeBSD, OpenBSD, DragonFly BSD Compatibility layer: Haiku |
| Type | |
| License | MIT License |
| Website | wayland |
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. 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 and simpler windowing system for Linux and other Unix-like operating systems. The project's source code is published under the terms of the MIT License, a permissive free software licence.
As part of its efforts, the Wayland project also develops a implementation of a Wayland compositor called Weston.