Sway 0.11

[ddevault]

Sway 0.11-rc1 is now available:

https://github.com/SirCmpwn/sway/releases/tag/0.11-rc1

Please test it. I intend to ship 0.11 during 2016 if possible, so get your bugfixes in soon.

[ddevault]

Working release notes:

This release includes 139 changes from 12 authors. The biggest feature 0.11 offers is the first steps towards the goal of a secure Wayland desktop by adding new knobs to secure your sway installation - read sway-security(7) for details. These are only the first steps towards a secure sway, and no promises are made about how well it works. Please test it and look for ways to break it and provide feedback on your experiences.

Package maintainers - consider reading through sway-security(7) and seeing if there are any security-related configuration changes you'd like to ship with your sway installation. SYS_CAP_PTRACE is now required on /usr/bin/sway. Sway also hardcodes LD_LIBRARY_PATH on startup now - you can change this with -DLD_LIBRARY_PATH=... if you set this to something other than /usr/lib in your distro.

FreeBSD users - note that we cannot enforce security policies on a per-executable basis until this issue is resolved. The default security policy will be applied to all executables.

Changes

• Sway now depends on libcap on Linux
• Moving between containers now wraps according to i3 behavior (@thejan2009 - parse pango markup in workspace names (and bugfix) #936)
• Alpha blending is now done with CAIRO_OPERATOR_SOURCE (@SirCmpwn - c0916f6)
• bar pango_markup defaults to false, following i3 change (@Hummer12007 - config: set pango_markup default to false #958)
• -Denable-binding-event is no longer available - see sway-security(7) (@SirCmpwn - Security features #981)
• New floating windows now spawn in the center of the screen (@alkino - Put floating views in center, fallback on top left #1001)

New Features

• Clicking titlebars now focuses that window (@alkino, @thejan2009 - add click on title_bar to focus a container #933, fix for click on title_bar #934, Fixes dealing with workspace_layout and related bugs [rfc] #945)
• Changing focus between floating containers is now supported (@thejan2009 - Wrap focus change #935)
• Numeric character references in bar are now supported (@thejan2009 - parse pango markup in workspace names (and bugfix) #936)
• Pango markup in workspaces names is now supported (@thejan2009 - parse pango markup in workspace names (and bugfix) #936)
• Input device configuration can now enable left_handed (@t3hknr - Add left_handed support for input devices #961)
• Improvements to logging (@SirCmpwn - 0d6cbca...d3e55f8)
• New bar colors following new i3 features - see sway-bar(5) (@thejan2009 - Fix some colour settings in swaybar #965)
• New security-related features - see sway-security(7) (@SirCmpwn - Security features #981)

Bugs Fixed

• Errors in swaybar's hidpi rendering were corrected (@thejan2009 - Correctly scale swaybar #920)
• Bug fixed where IPC events were emitted before IPC initialization (@gutsoo - moved ipc_init above config file processing. #923)
• Segfault during edge case on workspace switching was fixed (@zandrmartin - prevent dereference of freed workspace #924)
• An IPC tree response compatability issue was corrected (@zandrmartin - consolidate nodes json #925)
• Buggy font selection issues were fixed in swaylock (@wasamasa - Explicitly set cairo font to avoid wonky fallback #928)
• Fixes to scale factor in text scaling (@alkino - Add constant scale factor in get_text_size #937)
• Issue creating a sibling of a floating window fixed (@alkino - Fix creating of sibling floating/children #938)
• Some commands were not matched during command matching (@thejan2009 - reorder cmd_handler arrays for bsearch #940)
• Indicator border no longer shown on floating windows (@thejan2009 - Fix border color for floating containers #941)
• An issue with for_window [] move scratchpad was fixed (@thejan2009 - fix for_window [] move scratchpad #942)
• You can now move empty workspaces (@alkino - Can't move an empty workspace #947)
• Fixes with default workspace layouts (@thejan2009 - Fixes dealing with workspace_layout and related bugs [rfc] #945)
• layout toggle split behavior fixed for tabbed/stacked layouts (@thejan2009 - Change layout toggle to default on horizontal split #966)
• When swaylock exited, it would not focus whatever you were using before (@cyphar - sway: extensions: make locking give back focus #1014)

[eliihen]

On Gentoo with sway-9999, include /etc/sway/conf.d/* does not work. include /etc/sway/config.d/* does work, however. Typo?

[ddevault]

Yes, thank you.

[lnjX]

I updated (via. git checkout 0.11-rc1), runned cmake (without errors) and make -j4:

[ 95%] Building C object sway/CMakeFiles/sway.dir/ipc-server.c.o
[ 96%] Building C object sway/CMakeFiles/sway.dir/layout.c.o
[ 97%] Building C object sway/CMakeFiles/sway.dir/main.c.o
/opt/sway/sway/main.c:12:28: fatal error: sys/capability.h: Datei oder Verzeichnis nicht gefunden
 #include <sys/capability.h>
                            ^
compilation terminated.
sway/CMakeFiles/sway.dir/build.make:2270: die Regel für Ziel „sway/CMakeFiles/sway.dir/main.c.o“ scheiterte
make[2]: *** [sway/CMakeFiles/sway.dir/main.c.o] Fehler 1
make[2]: *** Es wird auf noch nicht beendete Prozesse gewartet...
[ 97%] Building C object sway/CMakeFiles/sway.dir/output.c.o
CMakeFiles/Makefile2:369: die Regel für Ziel „sway/CMakeFiles/sway.dir/all“ scheiterte
make[1]: *** [sway/CMakeFiles/sway.dir/all] Fehler 2
Makefile:127: die Regel für Ziel „all“ scheiterte
make: *** [all] Fehler 2

Now, I got this error. (the message is in german, I can translate, if you need something in English)
Are there new dependencies?

[ddevault]

Are you building on Linux? Which distro? You need to find sys/capability.h somewhere in your package manager.

[lnjX]

I'm using Debian Sid.

I searched for the package:

lnj@ceres ~$ apt-file search "sys/capability.h"
dietlibc-dev: /usr/include/diet/sys/capability.h
libcap-dev: /usr/include/sys/capability.h
libklibc-dev: /usr/lib/klibc/include/sys/capability.h
lnj@ceres ~$

It's libcap-dev, now it's building correctly! 😃

[ddevault]

0.11-rc2 is out https://github.com/SirCmpwn/sway/releases/tag/0.11-rc2

[ddevault]

0.11-rc3 is out https://github.com/SirCmpwn/sway/releases/tag/0.11-rc3

[ddevault]

If everything goes according to plan, sway 0.11 will ship on 2016-12-26 (the Monday after next).

[ddevault]

0.11 will have to wait until tomorrow, since I forgot to bring the signing key with me on this travel laptop. Flying home today.

[ddevault]

Sway 0.11 released: https://github.com/SirCmpwn/sway/releases/tag/0.11