Wayland
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Key facts
- Original author
- Kristian Høgsberg
- Developer
- freedesktop.org et al.
- Initial release
- 30 September 2008 ; 17 years ago ( 2008-09-30 )
- Stable release
- Wayland : 1.25 / 19 March 2026 (2 months ago) ( 19 March 2026 ) , Weston : 15.0.0 / 19 February 2026 (3 months ago) ( 19 February 2026 ) , Wayland-Protocols : 1.49 / 7 June 2026 (3 days ago) ( 7 June 2026 )
- Written in
- C
- Operating system
- Official: Linux , Unofficial: NetBSD , FreeBSD , OpenBSD , DragonFly BSD , Compatibility layer: Haiku
- Predecessor
- X Window System
- Type
- Windowing system Display server
- License
- MIT License
- Website
- wayland .freedesktop .org
- Repository
- gitlab .freedesktop .org /wayland /wayland
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Wikidata facts
- Official website
- wayland.freedesktop.org
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- Commons category
- Wayland
- user manual URL
- wayland.freedesktop.org/docs/html
- inception
- 2008-00-00
- Stack Exchange tag
- superuser.com/tags/wayland
- IRC channel URL
- irc://irc.freenode.net/#wayland
- software version identifier
- 1.25
- source code repository URL
- gitlab.freedesktop.org/wayland/wayland
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Article
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 license. The Wayland project also develops an implementation of a Wayland compositor called Weston.