--- title: Weston 16.0 Compositor Released With HDR Improvements,... description: Weston 16.0, the reference Wayland compositor, has been released with notable improvements to HDR and color management support. The DRM back-end now supports... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/weston-16-0-compositor-released-with-hdr-improvements-vulkan-fixes-l4sfjkkcj twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: Weston 16.0 Compositor Released With HDR Improvements, Vulkan Fixes | daily.dev og:description: Weston 16.0, the reference Wayland compositor, has been released with notable improvements to HDR and color management support. The DRM back-end now supports... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/weston-16-0-compositor-released-with-hdr-improvements-vulkan-fixes-l4sfjkkcj og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/l4SfJkKcJ.png og:image:alt: Weston 16.0 Compositor Released With HDR Improvements, Vulkan Fixes 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. # Weston 16.0 Compositor Released With HDR Improvements, Vulkan Fixes **[Phoronix](https://daily.dev/sources/phoronix)** · 1 min read · 0 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary Weston 16.0, the reference Wayland compositor, has been released with notable improvements to HDR and color management support. The DRM back-end now supports the 'color format' DRM connector property, grayscale output color effects, color pipeline support, and various color transform additions. The release also adds support for the BACKGROUND_COLOR CRTC property introduced in Linux 7.1, enabling solid-color background offloading. The Vulkan renderer received bug fixes, explicit synchronization with the DRM back-end, and support for non-axis aligned rotations. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. 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