With the initial release of Plasma 5.0 behind us I also started to look more in the direction of Wayland again. Now I’m kind of in full flow on Wayland work and kwin_wayland is progressing nicely. Yes, KWin 5.1 will introduce a new binary called kwin_wayland to complement the kwin_x11 binary which got introduced in KWin 5.0.

Now I do not want to list all the changes as you can hardly express them all in a blog post, but I can point to my Akademy talk. I will provide a small overview of the current state, what is new in KWin 5.0, what will be new in KWin 5.1 and where the journey is going.

Of course there is lots of work going on and help is always appreciated. We started to use a public available task tracker on todo.kde.org. Also I have to say that there are still quite some open tasks for kdecoration2. Please help as I cannot split myself and it would be super important to release KWin 5.1 with kdecoration2.