Graphics: Vulkan CoC, Mesa Release, and Wayland/Weston News
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Vulkan Adopts A Code Of Conduct [Ed: New way for Khronos Group to control the private lives of developers and get rid of people whom it doesn't like for nontechnical reasons]
The latest open-source project now officially adopting a Code of Conduct is Vulkan.
Added today to the Vulkan documentation repository is a Code of Conduct file for Vulkan.
That Code of Conduct is referencing the main Khronos Group Contributor Code of Conduct.
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mesa 18.1.9
Hi List,
Due to me just forgetting to send out the release on Friday , it's one work day late. Mesa 18.1.9 is now available for general consumption, it is the last release in the 18.1.x series, consider upgrading to 18.2.x for further updates.
This has been another busy cycle, with roughly 35 real patches (excluding maintainer patches). We've seen long standing bugs in util code fixed, patches to anv and radv, as well as fixes to the android build system, and a few patches here and there across the rest of the code.
Now that 18.1.x is all wrapped up, I'd like to say I've appreciated working with y'all as the maintainer for this cycle, thank you for your patience as I tried to get the process figured out.
Dylan
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Mesa 18.1.9 Released As The Last Of The Series
Mesa 18.1.9 is now available as the last planned point release of last quarter's release stream.
With Mesa 18.2.1 having been released, users are encouraged to upgrade to the stable Mesa 18.2 series. But if you're holding off on upgrading for one reason or another, Mesa 18.1.9 is one last push for bug fixes.
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Wayland's Weston Will Now Respect Your VR HMD
Wayland's Weston compositor will no longer try to takeover your virtual reality (VR) head-mounted display.
As was the case too with the X.Org Server up until some months back, Wayland's Weston compositor currently would try to take over VR HMDs like the HTC Vive as just another monitor output... But thanks to the work led by Keith Packard under contract for Valve to improve the X.Org and DRM components for better SteamVR handling on Linux, there is now the non-desktop bit plumbed through the Linux kernel's DRM infrastructure so VR HMDs will be treated as non-desktop display outputs. So user-space finally can know if a display output isn't intended as just another desktop display but for a special use-case like virtual reality.
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