--- title: One Year Into Three Million Dollars of Trust | daily.dev description: A year after Devolutions committed $3 million over three years to fund Avalonia's open-source development, the Avalonia team shares what changed. Headcount... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/one-year-into-three-million-dollars-of-trust-p5oafntcl twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: One Year Into Three Million Dollars of Trust | daily.dev og:description: A year after Devolutions committed $3 million over three years to fund Avalonia's open-source development, the Avalonia team shares what changed. Headcount... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/one-year-into-three-million-dollars-of-trust-p5oafntcl og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/p5OAfNtCl.png og:image:alt: One Year Into Three Million Dollars of Trust og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # One Year Into Three Million Dollars of Trust **[Avalonia UI Blog](https://daily.dev/sources/avalonia-blog)** · 10 min read · 0 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary A year after Devolutions committed $3 million over three years to fund Avalonia's open-source development, the Avalonia team shares what changed. Headcount doubled to 20, documentation guides grew 125%, and a dedicated QA lead was hired. The sponsorship's safety net enabled decisions that would have otherwise stayed commercial: Wayland support is being released as FOSS under MIT (shipping in Avalonia 12.1), the WebView control was open-sourced, and the VS Code extension and other tooling became free via the new Avalonia Community tier, now used by over 100,000 developers. Usage has surged, with builds already passing 410 million in the first half of 2026 versus 122 million for all of 2025. The post also describes a visit to Devolutions' Montreal retreat and frames the sponsorship as a model for sustainable open-source funding, alongside commercial growth including 19 resellers and a record Q1. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. Read it at the original source: ## Questions this post answers ### Is Wayland support in Avalonia going to be a paid feature? No, Wayland support is being released as free and open source under the MIT license rather than locked behind a paywall. Initial support has already been merged and is planned for the upcoming Avalonia 12.1 release, a decision made possible after Devolutions committed $3 million in sponsorship funding. _Developers planning a Wayland migration can follow framework changes like this one on daily.dev._ ### Is the Avalonia WebView control free or a paid add-on? The Avalonia WebView control, originally a paid component in the commercial offering, has been open-sourced and is now part of the core framework free for everyone. It lets developers embed web content directly inside Avalonia applications without purchasing a commercial license. _Developers deciding between paid and free UI toolkit components can track shifts like this on daily.dev._ ### How much has Avalonia usage grown recently? Avalonia project builds reached 122 million for the entirety of 2025, and in just the first six months of 2026 that number already surpassed 410 million. The growth followed a one-year, $3 million sponsorship from Devolutions that funded team expansion, faster releases, and free tooling. _Teams evaluating cross-platform .NET frameworks can watch adoption trends like this on daily.dev._ ## Similar posts on daily.dev - [Three-Year Sponsorship Accelerates Avalonia’s Open-Source Roadmap](https://daily.dev/posts/three-year-sponsorship-accelerates-avalonia-s-open-source-roadmap-dgopqn7rl) · Avalonia UI Blog · 0 upvotes · 0 comments - [Balancing Growth and Sustainability](https://daily.dev/posts/balancing-growth-and-sustainability-stxg4tnr9) · Avalonia UI Blog · 1 upvotes · 0 comments - [A Year in Recap: Celebrating this years milestones](https://daily.dev/posts/a-year-in-recap-celebrating-this-years-milestones-1xhg4xn0x) · Avalonia UI Blog · 0 upvotes · 0 comments - [$100 million for open source: A milestone built by the community](https://daily.dev/posts/100-million-for-open-source-a-milestone-built-by-the-community-47un6vrrj) · GitHub Blog · 0 upvotes · 0 comments - [Convex Open Source Recap 2025](https://daily.dev/posts/convex-open-source-recap-2025-hiwaxkxbh) · Convex · 1 upvotes · 0 comments --- Tags: [#open-source](https://daily.dev/tags/open-source), [#linux](https://daily.dev/tags/linux), [#.net](https://daily.dev/tags/.net), [#avalonia](https://daily.dev/tags/avalonia) [View this post on daily.dev](https://daily.dev/posts/one-year-into-three-million-dollars-of-trust-p5oafntcl) ```json {"@context":"https://schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"Organization","@id":"https://daily.dev/#organization","name":"daily.dev","url":"https://daily.dev","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://daily.dev/apple-touch-icon.png","width":180,"height":180},"sameAs":["https://twitter.com/dailydotdev","https://github.com/dailydotdev","https://www.linkedin.com/company/daily-dev-ltd"]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https://daily.dev/#website","url":"https://daily.dev","name":"daily.dev","publisher":{"@id":"https://daily.dev/#organization"},"potentialAction":{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https://daily.dev/search?q={search_term_string}"},"query-input":"required name=search_term_string"}}]} {"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"TechArticle","headline":"One Year Into Three Million Dollars of Trust","url":"https://daily.dev/posts/one-year-into-three-million-dollars-of-trust-p5oafntcl","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://daily.dev/posts/one-year-into-three-million-dollars-of-trust-p5oafntcl"},"datePublished":"2026-10-04T13:25:35.095Z","dateModified":"2026-10-04T13:26:00.077Z","description":"A year after Devolutions committed $3 million over three years to fund Avalonia's open-source development, the Avalonia team shares what changed. 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