wayland-protocols doesn't have a release schedule, releases are done on-demand. A perfectly valid way is to send an E-mail here, or ask for one on IRC.
1.40 is, FWIW, now tagged and released. Jonas On Tue, Jan 28, 2025 at 06:50:15PM -0500, James Ramsey wrote: > I'm asking because there are pull/merge requests for four compositor > implementations (wlroots, KD) of the updated ext-idle-notify protocol > that are about ready to go, and the main thing holding up those > requests from being merged is that wayland-protocols 1.40 isn't out > yet. > > I did notice that there was an unmerged MR to update the docs for > linux-dmabuf > (https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/wayland/wayland-protocols/-/merge_requests/376), > and since there's another merged MR also with updates for linux-dmabuf > (https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/wayland/wayland-protocols/-/merge_requests/364), > it crossed my mind that the plan might be for both those MRs to be > merged before the next wayland-protocols release. However, that's only > a guess on my part. > > (Please ignore an earlier post sent under the wrong email address!)