• GNOME 50 Lands Updated Wayland Color Management v2 Support Following GNOME 50’s Mutter merging sdr-native color mode support for wide color gamut displays this week, another late addition to Mutter has now been merged ahead of next month’s GNOME 50 stable release. • The late change merged today to Mutter Git is supporting the Wayland color management v2 protocol. • Mutter already was supporting the initial color management protocol but now is updated to include the latest adjustments to it found in the upstream Wayland Protocols spec. • There are various minor changes with the v2 bump, including sRGB piece-wise TF, making use of 64-bit IDs to avoid potentially recycling the IDS otherwise, some event changes, and other minor alterations. • Nothing too exciting but simply Mutter being punctual in following the latest upstream Wayland changes. • More details for those interested via this merge request that landed in Git earlier today in making it for GNOME 50.
Article Summaries:
- GNOME 50 has incorporated updated Wayland color‑management v2 support into Mutter, the desktop window manager. The merge adds the latest protocol changes-such as sRGB piece‑wise transfer functions, 64‑bit IDs to prevent ID recycling, and minor event adjustments-building on Mutter’s existing support for the original color‑management protocol. The update was merged just before the upcoming stable release, but it introduced a crash in Mozilla Thunderbird (while Firefox remains unaffected). Developers expect the issue to be resolved in the next GNOME 50 release.
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