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@ddevault ddevault released this 17 Jul 21:32
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Sway 1.0-alpha.4 contains 304 changes from 20 contributors. Note that sway alpha releases are not considered complete, are missing many features, and will have many bugs. You are strongly encouraged to remain on sway 0.15.x if you are not prepared to deal with constant breakage and keep quiet about it. Please do not submit bug reports for this version of sway. Submit patches instead.

The recommended wlroots version to use with this sway release is 2a58d44.

Package maintainers: please do not package this release.

This changelog only includes new features since 1.0-alpha.3. Bugfixes are not included.

New Features

  • Real time video capture and improved screenshot capture via dmabuf-export and screencopy
  • Atomic layout updates synchronises layout updates with all clients before rendering the next frame
  • Move and resize commands supported for floating windows
  • Window urgency is now supported
  • swaylock's appearance can now be customized
  • swaylock can now be configured with a file
  • Certain windows are automatically floated now (e.g. dialogs)
  • xdg-positioner is now supported (opening drop-down menus won't go over output boundaries)
  • mode --pango_markup is now supported
  • floating_minimum_size and floating_maximum_size i3 commands supported
  • i3's get_binding_modes and get_config messages now supported over IPC