Wayland

Today, 13 September 2026, is day 256 of the year (2⁸). That’s why we celebrate Programmer’s Day: 256 is the number of values that fit in a byte, the basic unit of our craft.

Alpha 4 is here, and it is the biggest update we have published so far. It is not a list of touch-ups: a good part of the desktop stopped depending on borrowed pieces from other environments and got its own —keyring, permissions, notifications, login screen and lock screen— all drawn with the same colors, the same corner radius and the same typeface you chose.