display server release , which continues to be developed by Canonical, despite the abandonment of the development of the Unity shell and the Ubuntu edition for smartphones. Mir remains in demand in Canonical projects and is now positioned as a solution for embedded devices and the Internet of things (IoT). Mir can be used as a composite server for Wayland, which allows you to run any applications using Wayland (for example, built with GTK3/4, Qt5 or SDL2) in Mir-based environments. Installation packages prepared for Ubuntu 16.04/18.04/18.10/19.04 () and . Project Code licensed under GPLv2.
The new release features performance optimizations for Wayland-related code and the addition of a new "wayland" graphics platform, which allows Mir to run as a client under another Wayland compositor (such as the miral-system-compositor provided in Mir). Switching between different sessions is accomplished using Ctrl-Alt-PgUp/Ctrl-Alt-PgDn. This feature was the final step needed to migrate the UBports/Ubuntu Touch stack from mirclient to Wayland and run Unity8 as a client of unity-system-compositor.
Additionally, an initial implementation of the rpi-dispmanx graphics platform, designed for use on the Raspberry Pi, is available for Mir. New demo applications are included.
mir_demo_client_wayland_egl_spinner and miral-system-compositor. Building issues on Arch Linux have been resolved.
Source: opennet.ru
