New year, new Hyprland release brought to you by Yours Truly. This update is quite large, so you might want to read these patch notes.

There have been quite a bunch of internal rewrites, mostly around memory safety, the renderer, and animation system. Although performance shouldn’t change much, it should improve stability in edge cases. Please do report any regressions you might find, if they aren’t reported already.

Notes for packagers

• new dependency: glaze
• I’ve dropped binary releases. Please use the source to build.

Breaking changes

• master:always_center_master has been replaced with a more flexible master:slave_count_for_center_master

New features

• CMake, Meson: add option controlling hyprpm building
• config: add exec(-onec) with rules and execr(-once) (#8953)
• core/renderer: Add GPU hotplug support (#8980)
• core: Add a periodic donation request (#8981)
• core: Add render:allow_early_buffer_release to make buffer release configurable (#9019)
• core: Add support for HDR and color management protocols (#8715)
• core: add --verify-config to verify the config with Hyprland
• ctm: add an internal fade animation to ctm transitions
• debug: add debug:pass for debugging the render pass
• hyprpm: add an option to force reload all plugins (#8883)
• hyprpm: add glaze dependency FetchContent fallback (#8899)
• keybinds: add new window destruction dispatchers (#8962)
• keybinds: add visible arg for cyclenext (#9045)
• master: add option to show slaves on left in center orientation (#8940)
• pluginAPI: add register dispatcher v2
• protocols: add hyprland_lock_notify_v1 implementation (#9092)
• protocols: add hyprland_surface_v1 implementation (#8877)
• protocols: add hyprland_surface_v1.set_visible_region implementation (#9120)
• renderer: Add supercircular window corners (#8943)
• selectors: add a tag: to for matching window tag(s) by regex (#8985)
• socket2: add focusedmonv2 event (#8921)
• windowrules: add negative: prefix for negating a regex

Fixes

• animation: fixup adding animvars during ::tick (#9030)
• animations: fix XWayland cursor glitch and refactor skill issues (#9033)
• animations: fix borderangle once (#9149)
• ci: fix “Resource not accessible by integration” for cf workflow (#9144)
• compositor: fix incorrect cast, use lambda capture instead (#9161)
• config: fix animations requiring all args
• config: fix float animation speeds < 0 (#9123)
• config/ConfigWatcher.cpp: add missing include needed for clang (#9166)
• configmgr: fix crash on very early plugin loads
• core/compositor: fix too early buffer release (#8966)
• core: fix custom resolutions (#8897)
• core: fix possible crash on null active workspace
• data-device: fix edge case crash on null xwm
• debug: fix ISDEBUG checking (#8823)
• debug: fix overlay not rendering
• desktop/DesktopTypes.hpp: fix include (#9104)
• dwindle: fix possible crash on null ws
• functionHooks: wait for hyprland pages before returning addr for trampo
• helpers/Monitor.cpp: fix include path (#9039)
• hyprctl: Fix hyprctl batch JSON command (#8749)
• hyprctl: fix hyprctl --batch not working with exec rules (#8952)
• hyprpm: fix hyrpm sometimes returning 0 despite errors occuring (#8761)
• keybinds: fix movefocus fallback for special workspaces (#9040)
• keybinds: fix nullptr deref in forcekillactive (#9021)
• keybinds: fix previous_per_monitor logic (#9010)
• logging: fix Gpu info (#8764)
• pass: fixup debug mode rendering of input boxes
• protocols: fix alpha-modifier noncompliance (#8929)
• protocols: fix compilation error (#8988)
• renderer: fix CRendererHintsPassElement reset duplication issue (#8928)
• renderer: fix fullscreen hdr check (#9076)
• renderer: fix oversized blur precalcs not blurring at all
• renderer: fix rare case when a tiled window would be rendered over fs
• shaders: fix blank windows when using corner rounding (#8969) (#8971)
• window: fixup fade out animation on silent moves
• xwayland: fix clipboard mime name and atom mismatch (#9137)
• xwayland: fix compile with no xwayland
• xwayland: fix crash when trying to initialize without Xwayland installed (#9077)
• xwayland: fix dnd including xwayland
• xwayland: fix pointer mismatches with multiple monitors (#9179)
• xwayland: fix sending large clipboard data (#9134)
• xwayland: various window handling fixes
• xwm: fixup targets in selection requests

Other

• Meson: properly install ‘hyprland’ symlink (#9091)
• Renderer: rewrite render scheduling (#8683)
• animation: avoid crashes in ::tick() on mutations
• animationmgr: don’t warp based on POINTY value (#9000)
• binds: cycle within group on single monitor if no window found in the argument direction. (#8714)
• ci(clang-format): directly do the clang-format instead of error (#8955)
• config: avoid querying the fs every tick
• config: disable borderangle by default (#9165)
• config: update animation even if disabled
• config/ConfigManager.cpp: add instruction to edit config (#9130)
• core: add LIKELY and UNLIKELY macros
• core: Unbreak build on FreeBSD (#8762)
• core: always use goal size to send to clients
• core: avoid activating toplevel-less surfaces
• core: cleanup header includes (#9088)
• core: fade in windows when they are brought from invisible workspaces
• core: guard workspace and monitor in moveWorkspaceToMonitor
• core: make persistent workspaces always follow the config
• core: move all shared_ptrs from the STL to hyprutils (#9143)
• core: move parts of the animation system to hyprutils (#8868)
• core: move sendWindowSize off of xwaylandmgr
• core: move to inotify for monitoring the config files
• core: refactor/improve monitor mode selection (#8804)
• core: reserve vector sizes as much as we can (#9118)
• core: update groups on movewindow (#9183)
• core: use cpu-buffer hw cursors on nvidia by default
• core: use readFileAsString instead of cat for os-release
• ctm: disable fade animation by default on nvidia
• datadevice: do the unfocus surface stuff before dndActive is true (#9157)
• datadevice: guard XWayland server against crashes
• desktop: move desktop types to memory-safe pointers
• dnd/seat: avoid sending button events during a dnd op
• foreign-toplevel: update active on null window focus (#8860)
• fractional-scale: avoid redundant and duplicate scale events
• github: bug issue template improvements (#8894)
• groupbar: unify title rendering
• groups: honor group lock window rule (#8782)
• hooksystem: avoid huge include for HANDLE
• hyprpm: use glaze to parse hyprctl plugin list (#8812)
• input: abord dnd op on escape pressed
• input: pass touch events to lock screens (#9129)
• internal: Make static analysis more happy (#8767)
• internal: added reference to CTimer class in KeybindManager (#8836)
• internal: few small monitor improvements (#8890)
• internal: remove dead code (#8748)
• internal: removed Herobrine
• internal: update window position/size after changing fullscreenstate (#8865)
• keybinds: attempt to wrap around if fallback is allowed in movefocus
• layershell: check if layer is valid (#9156)
• layershell: return focus to a valid ls on close if possible
• layout: apply group rules after window creation (#8779)
• layout: damage window properly on float mode changes
• layout: force full damage on toggling floating mode
• layout: set window size after toggling floating
• logging: get broader GPUINFO (#8753)
• master: make loop around optional when cycling (#8926)
• master: replace always_center_master with slave_count_for_center_master (#8871)
• monitor: avoid crashes on no good modes
• monitor: bring back old description behavior
• nix/module.nix: expand nixos module for configuring hyprland
• opengl: only allocate offMainFB on demand
• opengl: use uv to avoid rendering the entire blurbox
• pass: allow removing all pass elements of a given type
• pass: ignore empty rectangles queued
• pass: improve blur region detection
• pass: improve pass debug mode
• pass: improve pass debugging
• pass: mark crucial elements as undiscardable
• pass: scale blur region in ::render
• pass: scale blur regions properly
• pointer: always scale the cpu cursor to the right size
• protocols: allow hyprland-toplevel-export to capture hidden windows (#9041)
• protocols: do not capture cursor in toplevel without pointer focus (#9042)
• protocols: do not destroy screencopy resources before client request (#9048)
• protocols: immediately copy toplevel content when ignoreDamage set (#9049)
• regex: log an error if regex parsing fails
• renderer/internal: stop using box pointers
• renderer: Auto enable wide color gamut in HDR mode (#9090)
• renderer: Do not set hdr metadata unless needed (#9014)
• renderer: allow plugins to know what window was rendered in post
• renderer: don’t access hdrMetadata optional if it has no value (#8987)
• renderer: unload background texture if it’s disabled
• renderer: use a render pass for render modif in client render
• renderer: use cairo for cpu buffer rendering (#9071)
• shadow: avoid drawing empty shadows
• snap: don’t snap to any windows if workspace has a fullscreen window (#8870)
• snap: give edge snapping precedence over corner snapping (#8873)
• snap: revert #8659, use bounds checking instead of bit mask (#8872)
• subsurface: damage the entire parent on size change
• tablet: send motions on tip events (#9132)
• window: only set m_iMonitorMovedFrom, when moving to a different monitor (#9160)
• windowrules: precompute regexes for window/layer rules
• windows: honor xdg_toplevel_set_fullscreen output hint (#8965)
• windows: minor initial workspace improvements
• xwayland: avoid sending value of real size to xwayland
• xwayland: don’t create an abstract unix domain socket on linux (#8874)
• xwayland: don’t define atoms on no_xwayland builds
• xwayland: support sending clipboard change notification on focus (#9111)