Releases: canonical/mir
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Release 2.23.0
A big focus on documentation.
ABI summary:
- mirplatform ABI bumped to 33
Enhancements:
Bugs fixed:
- Don't close the magnifier whenever live config settings are reloaded (#4308)
- libmiral should have no public dependency on libmircommon (#4303)
- mirwayland should not have public dependencies on mircommon (#4313)
- Frame segfault in miral::WindowManagementTrace::place_and_size_for_state (#4281)
- Fill out missing input options in live config (#4133)
- graphics: pass correct options to manually-selected platforms (#4130)
- Check for
EGL_WL_bind_wayland_display
when probing EGLStream display platform (#4147)
Documentation:
- Add a --help-markdown flag to generate documentation (#4287)
- Fix checkbox cross-references
- Documentation for miral::WindowSpecification (#4258)
- Exiting with help text output is success (#4285)
- Documentation for miral::WindowManagerTools (#4254)
- Use more markdown in configuration options (#4277)
- Rename the graphics support docs to platform support (#4236)
- Documentation for
mg::Framebuffer
(#4265) - Adopt the standard home page in Mir (#4259)
- Customize the descriptions of the configuring and contributing index pages (#4263)
- Documentation for
mg::software::BufferDescriptor
(#4266) - Documentation for
mg::NativeBufferBase
(#4269) - Documentation for
mg::Buffer
(#4250) - Documentation for miral::InternalClient (#4268)
- Documentation for miral::Zone (#4264)
- Documentation about the input platform (#4077)
- Rework "Introducing the Miral API" (#4255)
- Documentation for miral::Output (#4261)
- Documentation for miral::ExternalClientLauncher (#4243)
- Standardize header titles on Sentence case (#4256)
- Documentation for miral::WindowManagementPolicy (#4245)
- Adopt standard landing pages for Mir (#4260)
- Documentation for miral::MirRunner (#4246)
- Documentation for miral::Window (#4218)
- Documentation for miral::PrependEventFilter (#4247)
- Documentation for miral::CursorScale (#4230)
- Documentation for miral::DisplayConfiguration (#4234)
- Documentation for miral::ConfigurationOption (#4229)
- Documentation for miral::CursorTheme (#4231)
- Update argument descriptions for consistency and clarity (#4212)
- Documentation for miral::AddInitCallback (#4227)
- Use tabs instead of separate sections for "Install Dependencies" (#4223)
- Documentation for miral::WindowInfo (#4224)
- Documentation for miral::ApplicationInfo (#4213)
- Add "Using Mir to build a Desktop Environment" (#4214)
- Convert the C++ style guide to markdown (#4203)
- Remove the 'developing a wayland compositor using mir' how-to (#4190)
- Add "How to debug Mir Snaps" page (#4208)
- Refresh documentation around "high level" architecture (#4210)
- Documentation for custom protocols + remove egmde reference (#4191)
- Adding alt text to all relevant media items (#4197)
- Fix inconsistent capitalization of program option descriptions (#4192)
- Move "How To Enable Screencasting" to configuration (where it belongs) (#4188)
- Split documentation by audience (#4169)
- Refactor the getting-started-with-mir tutorial to improve language + split how some how-tos (#4173)
2.22.2
v2.22.1
Bugs fixed:
- debian: drop extra symbol (#4153)
- Fix some memory leaks (#4158)
- Changing cursor_scale causes weird cursors and crashes (#4157)
- on Ubuntu 25.10 wf-recorder y-inverts some frames (#4160)
- use-pkgconfig-better (#4194)
- Check for WL_bind_wayland_display when probing eglstream-kms support
platform (#4155) - Platform-specific options not passed through if platforms not probed
(#4130) - mircommon: Add xkbcommon to pkgconfig dependency (#4240)
v2.22.0
Breaking changes:
- Consolidation of EDID parsing
User-..
andDisplayConfigurationOutput::edid
replaced with::display_info
mir::graphics::Edid
removedmiroil::Edid::Descriptor
removed
- Nvidia 565+ breaks EGLStream support (#4147)
Use--platform-display-libs mir:atomic-kms --platform-rendering-libs mir:gbm-kms
to use our (unstable) Nvidia-on-GBM support.
We'll follow up with a point release to make this the default.
ABI summary:
- miral ABI unchanged at 7
- mircommon ABI unchanged at 11
- mircore ABI unchanged at 2
- miroil ABI bumped to 8
- mirplatform ABI bumped to 32
- mirserver ABI bumped to 65
- mirwayland ABI unchanged at 5
- mirplatformgraphics ABI unchanged at 23
- mirinputplatform ABI unchanged at 10
Enhancements:
- static_config_display: add property-based display config support (#3872)
- Implement Simulated Secondary Click (#3873)
- DRM: Explicit synchorisation support (#3717)
- live configuration facilities (#3995)
- Atomic KMS: enable bypass (#3595)
- fix: move minimized windows to the back of the Z stack (#4000)
- Implement the 'overlay_cursor' flag for WlrScreencopy (#4013)
- Support Nvidia through the atomic-kms/gbm platforms (#3979, #4060, #4070)
- Implement hover click (#3928)
- server: add
--vt-switching
option (#4033) - Improve support for bespoke Wayland extensions (#4018)
- Update linux_dmabuf_v1 to version 5. (#4001)
- Implement bounce keys (#3934)
- Implement slow keys (#3945)
- Implement magnifier accessibility feature (#3976)
- feature: implement sticky keys accessibility feature (#4076)
- Integrate some Rust code into the Mir build (#4022)
- (#4078) package mir-platform-graphics-stub and mir-platform-input-stub (#4080)
- graphics: introduce EDID parsing in
DisplayConfigurationOutput
(#4099) - Add live_config support to miral::Keymap (#4088)
- Add tracking keymap from locale1 (#4111)
Bugs fixed:
- Don't raise the parent of windows sent to the back (#4008)
- Update wl_output::geometry to include the correct transformation (#4062)
BasicScreenshooter
does not take the output transformation into account (#4086)- Screenshots wrong when display rotated (again) (#3909)
- Docking kgx left/right in miriway is misplaced (#4023)
Documentation:
v2.21.1
Incorporate fixes needed to build for Ubuntu 25.10
Bugs fixed:
- binutils 2.44.50.20250616 for arm64 still breaks LTO builds
- Turn off workaround for now-fixed GLib bug
v2.21.0
ABI summary:
- miral ABI unchanged at 7
- mircommon ABI unchanged at 11
- mircore ABI unchanged at 2
- miroil ABI unchanged at 7
- mirplatform ABI bumped to 31
- mirserver ABI bumped to 64
- mirwayland ABI unchanged at 5
- mirplatformgraphics ABI unchanged at 23
- mirinputplatform ABI unchanged at 10
Enhancements:
- Cursor Scaling Support (#3735)
- Implement mousekeys (#3757)
- Add key repeat rate/delay config options and properly merge config settings (#3830)
- feature: add the ability to associate a layout with custom user data (#3869)
- static_display_config: add display properties to output (#3903)
- feature: implement xdg toplevel tiled states (#3920)
- Update of core wayland extensions (#3927)
- feature: refactor
BasicSurface
so that it can be used internally by shell authors (#3948) - Check DRM for supported formats (#3950)
- Add an output filter for the purposes of accessibility (#3911)
Bugs fixed:
- Texture allocation happens with an incorrect context for the renderer that needs it (#3933)
Documentation:
Testing:
Deprecations:
- Deprecate "persistent" surface IDs (#3852)
v2.20.2
v2.20.1
v2.20.0
ABI summary:
- miral ABI unchanged at 7
- mircommon ABI bumped to 11
- mircore ABI unchanged at 2
- miroil ABI bumped to 7
- mirplatform ABI unchanged at 30
- mirserver ABI bumped to 63
- mirwayland ABI unchanged at 5
- mirplatformgraphics ABI bumped to 23
- mirinputplatform ABI bumped to 10
Enhancements:
- Extract rendering strategy for decorations (#3706 #3708 #3712)
- MirOIL updates for post-new-Platform-API QtMir (#3767)
- feature: adding an is_above method to the SurfaceStack (#3707)
- Implement focus stealing prevention (#2586)
Turn it on with--focus-stealing-prevention true
on supported compositors. - Pass XDG_ACTIVATION_TOKEN to apps launched via launch_app_env (#3703)
- Publish mir*-internal libraries (#3283)
- Make key repeat and delay configurable (#3730)
- Improve Firefox surface.frame event quirk (#3740)
- Workaround for LXQt panel (#3764)
- Fix SSD text (#3785)
Bugs fixed:
- TilingWindowManagerPolicy assumes that window size is always specified (#3689)
- OSK hides a half second after popping up on some input fields with zwp_text_input_v1 (Electron) (#3580)
- Closing a window brings one of the remaining windows of the same client to the front (#3309)
- Closing a window causes minimized windows to be focused (#3408)
- atomic-kms: hardware cursor disappears crossing screen boundaries (#3677)
- Crash on display unplug (#3729)
- Crash when pcmanfm-qt does DnD (#3765)
- The check for "implicit grab" for drag-and-drop is too strict (#3769)
- The cursor icons for top-left and bottom-left resize are wrong for server-side decorations (#3776)
- Incorrectly sizes some windows with server-side decorations (#3778)