Hello Linux Geeksters. As you may know, Canonical has been working a lot lately at Ubuntu Desktop, Ubuntu Touch, Unity 7, Unity 8 and Mir, in order to get closer to the mobile-desktop convergence.
The Mir display server is an important piece from the convergence project. While it is already used on Ubuntu Touch along with Unity 8, Unity 7 and X.org are still kept on the Ubuntu desktop. If everything goes as Canonical hopes to, the first Ubuntu system to receive Unity 8 + Mir is Ubuntu 16.04.
The latest version available is Mir 0.11, which comes with new features and enhancements. Among others, the support for external displays with Android drivers has been enhanced, a performance improvement for using optimally-efficiency fragment shading has been added and to reduce the lag, Mir is now using double buffering instead of triple buffering.
Also, the below bug-fixes has been implemented:
- shell: merge the FocusSetter strategy into DefaultShell
- geometry: add a remove() method to the Rectangles class
- Add server-side platform probing support.
- common,mesa: Remove Mesa specific code from mircommon
- tools: Update armhf valgrind suppressions