- Weston 16.0 released with improved color management and HDR support, though HDR remains experimental due to lack of tone mapping.
- Added interoperability between parametric and ICC profiles, enabling wider color-aware applications and support for HDR displays and clients.
- Introduced support for in-shader blending in GL-renderer and new kernel Mode Setting (KMS) uAPI for offloading pre-blend color transformations.
- Enhanced Perfetto instrumentation for debugging, providing detailed insights into GL-renderer optimizations, buffer info, and input events.
- DRM backend updates include support for new properties like BACKGROUND_COLOR and COLOR_FORMAT, underscan properties, and state reuse optimizations.
- Alpha modifier protocol added, allowing clients to set alpha factors for transparency effects without re-rendering content.
- Deprecation of remoting and PipeWire plugins, screen-share module, and non-atomic modeset planned for future releases.