display server release , the development of which continues by Canonical, despite the abandonment of the development of the Unity shell and edition Ubuntu 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, allowing any Wayland-based applications (for example, those built with GTK3/4, Qt5, or SDL2) to run in Mir-based environments. Installation packages are available 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 composite server (such a server can also be the miral-system-compositor provided in Mir). Switching between different sessions is accomplished via Ctrl-Alt-PgUp/Ctrl-Alt-PgDn. This feature was the final step required to migrate the UBports stack.Ubuntu Touch with mirclient on Wayland and run Unity8 as a unity-system-compositor client.
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. Arch build issues resolved. Linux.
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