Mir 1.7.0 Release

[alan_g]

@GizmoChicken

For the sole benefit of UBports ? Or are others still using the optional mirclient API?

So far as I am aware, yes.

There are no remaining snaps consuming the “mir” interface in the snap store, and we have been able to drop that from the mir-kiosk snap. The work we’ve done with MATE is entirely based on Wayland, with no need for mirclient support.

UBports is the only downstream project that has yet to migrate away from mirclient. The developers are aware of the need to migrate to Wayland and we have worked with them to ensure that they have all the support they need. My understanding is that they are close to completing the first " Updating to Mir 1.x" step described here:

The Way to Wayland (for Unity8)

Unity8 While the Mir team is no longer as active in the Unity8 project as we once were, we are happy they are using Mir and are planning to upgrade to the latest version in the near future. As we’ve been involved in a number of conversations about different aspects of this I’m taking a moment to write about how we see this going from the Mir perspective and what we can do to help. I’m going to address three topics: Updating to Mir 1.x Updating Mir-on-Mir Updating to Wayland I think this is t…