With the upcoming version, the powerful open-source 3D graphics suite Blender will receive native support for the open-source display server protocol Wayland under Linux. The modern replacement for the X Window System (X11) will make its debut in Blender 3.4 in early December. The integration of Intel Open PGL is also being improved.
Wayland is to replace the X Windows System
Providing support for Wayland has become necessary because many Linux distributions and desktops now also use the free display server protocol. Integration is one of the most urgent steps following the release of Blender 3.0, as well as Blender 3.1 and Blender 3.3 LTS.
< img src="/wp-content/uploads/a8d1f7046b81c7613775cd8bbe53e042.png" /> Blender 3.4 should have native support for Wayland (Image: Blender Foundation)
The release of Blender 3.4 with Wayland support is already expected at the beginning of December, from which the project has high hopes.
Recently we have been working on native Wayland support on Linux.
Wayland is now enabled for daily builds and if all goes well, it will be enabled for Blender 3.4 release too.
If you're a Wayland user, try a recent build.
The library libdecor needs to be installed
EDIT: now only for gnome-shell
To see if native Wayland is used, check the “About” splash (accessed from the “Blender” icon menu, top left). You should see:
Windowing Environment: WAYLAND
Please report bugs for any Wayland specific issues you run into.
Blender Foundation
Wayland's support aims to circumvent the restrictions of X11 and accommodate modern distributions with native Wayland support, which should also benefit from optimizations in Sculpt and the Intel Open Path Guiding Library (Open PGL). Most recently, the 3D graphics suite received support for Intel Alchemist and the hardware-accelerated 3D graphics and compute shader API Metal from Apple for the first time. In addition, the multi-core support has been further improved.
Download on ComputerBase
Blender 3.3 LTS, which provides the editors with loyal service, especially in the CPU tests, such as the AMD Ryzen 7000 (test) recently, can be downloaded as usual from the download area of ComputerBase for Windows, macOS and Linux directly below this message.< /p>
Blender benchmark for CPU and GPU tests
If you want to know how much performance your CPU or GPU achieves in Blender, you can do this easily with the linked Blender Benchmark in various project files.
More information can be found in the Project page on the GitHub developer platform, as well as the official website.
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