Wayfire

Wayfire 0.11.0 announcement

Fri, 24 Jul 2026 00:00:00 +0000

Hello everyone! I am happy to announce the release of Wayfire 0.11.0.

Although it has been a while since the last release, this release includes many important improvements to the rendering infrastructure, fractional scaling, color management, and more.

Here is an overview of the most important...

Wayfire 0.10.0 announcement

Wed, 27 Aug 2025 00:00:00 +0000

Hello everyone! It has been a little over an year since the last Wayfire release. However, if you have been following the GitHub repos, you will know that development has not stopped. In fact, today is the release date of Wayfire 0.10.0.

As usual, here is an overview of the important changes and ...

Wayfire 0.9.0 announcement

Fri, 23 Aug 2024 00:00:00 +0000

Hello everyone! I am happy to announce the release of Wayfire 0.9.0. In the (relatively) long time since the last announcement, the focus has been on continually improving the stability of Wayfire and its plugins after the big API refactor which was finished last year. Nonetheless, there are still many cool additions in this latest r...

Wayfire 0.8.0 announcement

Sat, 07 Oct 2023 00:00:00 +0000

Hello everyone! It has been nearly three years since I last wrote to this blog. Fortunately, that does not mean Wayfire’s development has stopped! Quite the opposite, in fact I am happy to announce the release of Wayfire 0.8.0. There have been many changes and plugin API breakages ...

Wayfire 0.7.0 announcement

Fri, 29 Jan 2021 00:00:00 +0000

Hello everyone! Today is the day that Wayfire 0.7.0 was released. There have been quite a few exciting changes since the last time I wrote here. Check all the new features and (unfortunately) the few breaking changes below.

rendering parts of Wayfire.

Prerequisites

Wayfire 0.5.0 announcement

Tue, 04 Aug 2020 00:00:00 +0000

I am pleased to announce the release of Wayfire 0.5.0. There have been 247 commits since the last release.

Here are some highlights:

Support for always-on-top views

The new plugin architecture. Here is a summary of the important changes.

Decoration buttons support

Wayfire’s decoration plugin finally got basic supp...

Wayfire 0.3

Mon, 07 Oct 2019 00:00:00 +0000

It has been a relatively long time since the last time I have written in this blog. That doesn’t mean work on Wayfire has stopped! In fact, I’m happy to announce the release of Wayfire 0.3. There are quite a few improvements, which I’d like to share.

Improved output configuration support

X11 -> WLC -> libweston -> wlroots: how the current Wayfire came to be

Sun, 24 Feb 2019 00:00:00 +0000

Wayfire is a project which has had 4 versions and has been rewritten 3 times. In this blog post I’ll try to outline why those rewrites were necessary.

The “dark” X11 era

I started Wayfire as a X compositing manager, and it was called Fire. My pri...

Introduction to Wayfire

Sun, 13 Jan 2019 00:00:00 +0000

Hello all, I’ve recently been spending a lot of time developing Wayfire, so with the help of Drew DeVault (a huge thanks for setting up the blog) I decided to start telling more about it.

So what is Wayfire? Wayfire is a 3D floating wayland compositor, utilizing wlroots. For thos...