Wayland dependency bump in KWin

[Vlad Zahorodnii]

On 8/6/25 10:41 AM, Sune Vuorela wrote:
> On 2025-08-05, Vlad Zahorodnii <vlad.zahorodnii at kde.org> wrote:
>> Hello,
>>
>> We would like to bump the required libwayland version to 1.24 in KWin
>> 6.5. 1.24 brings a couple of new useful APIs: wl_fixes and wl_keyboard
>> repeated state.
> This was released less than a month ago. Without having actually checked

We (Plasma developers) build and run libwayland from git master and to 
my knowledge we haven't found major issues with it, I wouldn't say it 
hasn't been checked. We found a few build breakages with 1.24 but we 
also fixed them upstream. Policy-wise, we don't have a rule stating that 
a release must mature this enough in order to start depending on it 
because it feels subjective: for example, some people may say 3 months 
is too much, some may say that you should wait at least half of a year, 
etc. If distros ship that particular version of a library, great, that 
works for us.

Given that 6.5 is going to start effectively hitting users' computers 
some time in end of October - start of November, I see no reason to wait 
so long to start depending on it. There's still plenty of time to 
revisit this if something major shows up by the time of the release.

> anything, it feels a bit aggressive.
Yes, Wayland session is developed quite actively, and we don't want to 
lose the momentum.

Regards,
Vlad