--- title: Press release: Collabora Brings Wayland... | daily.dev description: Collabora and the Raspberry Pi Foundation announced a collaboration to bring Wayland and X11 graphics performance to the Raspberry Pi using its VideoCore... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/press-release-collabora-brings-wayland--5hmmonysx twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: Press release: Collabora Brings Wayland... | daily.dev og:description: Collabora and the Raspberry Pi Foundation announced a collaboration to bring Wayland and X11 graphics performance to the Raspberry Pi using its VideoCore... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/press-release-collabora-brings-wayland--5hmmonysx og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/5HMmOnYsx.png og:image:alt: Press release: Collabora Brings Wayland... 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. # Press release: Collabora Brings Wayland... **[Collabora Blog](https://daily.dev/sources/collabora)** · 4 min read · 0 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary Collabora and the Raspberry Pi Foundation announced a collaboration to bring Wayland and X11 graphics performance to the Raspberry Pi using its VideoCore hardware. Updates to the Weston compositor offload graphical operations to the BCM2835 VideoCore, reducing CPU and memory usage. XWayland improvements allow X11 apps to run faster on Wayland than under native X on the Pi. Source code and Debian packages were made available for Raspbian. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. Read it at the original source: ## Questions this post answers ### How does Wayland use the Raspberry Pi's VideoCore hardware for graphics compositing? The Weston compositor was updated to offload the majority of graphical operations to the Raspberry Pi's BCM2835 VideoCore, keeping both CPU and memory usage as low as possible. XWayland was also improved so that legacy X11 applications run faster on Wayland than they would under native X on the Raspberry Pi. Debian binary packages are available for Raspbian. _Developers targeting embedded Linux graphics platforms track Wayland and Mesa developments on daily.dev._ ## Similar posts on daily.dev - [Wayland Developers Target June For Weston 16 Release](https://daily.dev/posts/wayland-developers-target-june-for-weston-16-release-mrda2udkh) · Phoronix · 0 upvotes · 0 comments - [Raspberry Pi OS 2025-11-24 Brings HiDPI Improvements, Wayland Enhancements](https://daily.dev/posts/raspberry-pi-os-2025-11-24-brings-hidpi-improvements-wayland-enhancements-ntfofifql) · Phoronix · 0 upvotes · 0 comments - [Wayland set the Linux Desktop back by 10 years](https://daily.dev/posts/wayland-set-the-linux-desktop-back-by-10-years-bp6wqwoqi) · Hacker News · 57 upvotes · 39 comments - [Ubuntu 25.10 Scraps X11 for Wayland: A Solid Step Forward](https://daily.dev/posts/ubuntu-25-10-scraps-x11-for-wayland-a-solid-step-forward-6c2jvnb08) · The New Stack · 1 upvotes · 0 comments --- Tags: [#linux](https://daily.dev/tags/linux), [#raspberry-pi](https://daily.dev/tags/raspberry-pi) [View this post on daily.dev](https://daily.dev/posts/press-release-collabora-brings-wayland--5hmmonysx) ```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":"Press release: Collabora Brings Wayland...","url":"https://daily.dev/posts/press-release-collabora-brings-wayland--5hmmonysx","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://daily.dev/posts/press-release-collabora-brings-wayland--5hmmonysx"},"datePublished":"2026-08-11T08:57:20.221Z","dateModified":"2026-08-11T09:44:18.265Z","description":"Collabora and the Raspberry Pi Foundation announced a collaboration to bring Wayland and X11 graphics performance to the Raspberry Pi using its VideoCore...","image":"https://media.daily.dev/image/upload/s--qPvKM23u--/f_auto/v1722860399/public/Placeholder%2009","thumbnailUrl":"https://media.daily.dev/image/upload/s--qPvKM23u--/f_auto/v1722860399/public/Placeholder%2009","isAccessibleForFree":true,"articleSection":"Collabora Blog","inLanguage":"en","publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"daily.dev","url":"https://daily.dev","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://daily.dev/apple-touch-icon.png","width":180,"height":180}},"author":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Collabora Blog","logo":"https://media.daily.dev/image/upload/s--ZGZ0FjqS--/f_auto,q_auto/v1786438306/logos/collabora?_a=BAMAMicg0","url":"https://daily.dev/sources/collabora"},"commentCount":0,"discussionUrl":"https://daily.dev/posts/press-release-collabora-brings-wayland--5hmmonysx","interactionStatistic":[{"@type":"InteractionCounter","interactionType":{"@type":"LikeAction"},"userInteractionCount":0},{"@type":"InteractionCounter","interactionType":{"@type":"CommentAction"},"userInteractionCount":0}],"keywords":"linux,raspberry-pi","timeRequired":"PT4M"} {"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"Home","item":"https://daily.dev"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"name":"Collabora Blog","item":"https://daily.dev/sources/collabora"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"name":"Press release: Collabora Brings Wayland..."}]} {"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"FAQPage","@id":"https://daily.dev/posts/press-release-collabora-brings-wayland--5hmmonysx#faq","mainEntity":[{"@type":"Question","name":"How does Wayland use the Raspberry Pi's VideoCore hardware for graphics compositing?","acceptedAnswer":{"@type":"Answer","text":"The Weston compositor was updated to offload the majority of graphical operations to the Raspberry Pi's BCM2835 VideoCore, keeping both CPU and memory usage as low as possible. 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