Firefox 121 Now Available With Wayland Enabled By Default

Ahead of tomorrow's official announcement, the Mozilla Firefox 121.0 release binaries have hit the mirrors and it's keeping to the most exciting Christmas gift for Linux desktop users: Wayland support enabled by default!..
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Firefox-121-Available

Plymouth Boot Splash Screen Sees First Update In Nearly Two Years

One of the often overlooked pieces of the Linux desktop software stack is Plymouth that for the past 15 years or so has been providing a graphical boot splash screen that succeeded Red Hat's former RHGB software or having no graphical boot splash screen at all on some Linux distributions. This week marked the first new release of Plymouth in nearly two years...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Plymouth-2023-Release

Lab Wayland Compositor 0.7 Released - Ported To wlroots 0.17

Lab Wayland Compositor (labwc) is out with a new version ahead of Christmas for this wlroots-based window-stacking compositor that is inspired by the Openbox window manager...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/labwc-0.7