From 33ae9677a1c54dfdf9f10fa139c7340eb8be5227 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Vaxry Date: Sun, 8 Sep 2024 18:10:48 +0100 Subject: [PATCH] blogposts --- src/content/news/independentHyprland.md | 61 +++++++++++++++++++++++++ src/content/news/update43.md | 28 ++++++++++++ 2 files changed, 89 insertions(+) create mode 100644 src/content/news/independentHyprland.md create mode 100644 src/content/news/update43.md diff --git a/src/content/news/independentHyprland.md b/src/content/news/independentHyprland.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..ef7a765 --- /dev/null +++ b/src/content/news/independentHyprland.md @@ -0,0 +1,61 @@ +--- +title: Hyprland is now fully independent! +date: 1721559307 +--- + +With great pleasure may I announce that our move off of wlroots is now complete and [MR 6608](https://github.com/hyprwm/Hyprland/pull/6608) is +now merged. + +After over 1000 comments on 6608 alone, and over 3 months of the entire process, the rewrite is done. + +With it, Hyprland is no longer a wlroots-based Wayland compositor, and instead, a fully independent implementation of the protocol. + +Don't worry though, all your wlroots apps will still work. + +## Timeline + +As I've outlined in my [blogpost on blog.vaxry.net](https://blog.vaxry.net/articles/2024-wlrootsRewrite) in May, the rewrite took +place in two parts. + +The first part was rewriting all protocol implementations. This has been finished on June 8th, with [MR 6268](https://github.com/hyprwm/Hyprland/pull/6268) being merged. + +The second part was rewriting the backend implementation, i.e. the low-level backend stuff (KMS/DRM/libinput et al) which is now done with 6608. + +## Changes under the hood + +All protocol implementations are now integrated into Hyprland itself, and written with C++. This should reduce the amount of memory issues and bugs compared to wlroots implementations +and has already been doing that. + +The backend rendering stuff has been migrated into a library written from scratch called [aquamarine](https://github.com/hyprwm/aquamarine). + +Aquamarine is _not_ a competitor to wlroots - wlroots is a library for building Wayland compositors, while aquamarine is a tiny library providing an abstraction on top of the very low-level +backend stuff, that also allows your program to run on either a Wayland compositor (in a window) or on a DRM session (tty). + +Additionally, many new interfaces have been added to `hyprutils`, and `hyprwayland-scanner` has gotten the ability to generate client code, already used by aquamarine and hyprpaper. + +## Changes for the user + +See the [wiki MR](https://github.com/hyprwm/hyprland-wiki/pull/721) for the changes to config options, environment variables, etc. + +Apart from a few minor changes to how things are called, nothing else should change for you, the user. + +## When will I get it? + +The changes are staged for 0.42.0. If you want to test them right away, check out the -git branch, as usual. + +## Special thanks + +Massive thanks to all the people who helped in the long process (what was it, like 3 months?) of rewriting the wlroots stack to a nicer language. + +Special thanks to: + - Agent00Ming (testing and patience) + - Ikalco (tons of patches) + - gulafaran (patches and testing) + - phonetic112 (testing) + - UjinT34 (testing and patches) + - fufexan (nix and meson) + - And everyone who helped test here and there! There's been 38 participants in the aquamarine MR alone! + + +Cheers and ad meliora, +vaxry. diff --git a/src/content/news/update43.md b/src/content/news/update43.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..db0ed58 --- /dev/null +++ b/src/content/news/update43.md @@ -0,0 +1,28 @@ +--- +title: Hyprland 0.43.0 released! +date: 1725814920 +--- + +Quite a while after 0.42.0, 0.43.0 has finally been released. + +This update focuses mostly on polishing up annoying issues from 0.42.0, especially those with random crashes and monitors +not turning on/displaying garbage. + +Most (like 95%) of the "monitor not on" issues have now been fixed with 0.43, though please also use aquamarine 0.4.1 as +some fixes were done in aquamarine itself. + +Additionally to all the bugfixes, some new features have been added, for example: + - New windowrule to keep windows rendered when invisible ([#7582](https://github.com/hyprwm/Hyprland/pull/7582)) + - `exec-shutdown` added to the config to execute something on hyprland exit + - Animations got `workspacein` and `workspaceout` configs + - `hyprctl switchxkblayout` now can also take `current` and `all` for keyboard param + - `HYPRLAND_NO_SD_VARS` environment has been added to prevent Hyprland from updating systemd's environment + - New screens for when your lockscreen dies instead of the infamous red screen of death, with information on recovering + - `xwayland:enabled` has been added to runtime-disable xwayland + - `cursor:sync_gsettings_theme` has been added to sync the cursor theme to system gsettings + - and much much more! + +Hyprland continues being the most advanced independent wayland compositor, all thanks to the amazing community and the huge +influx of new contributors! Your contributions are greatly appreciated. + +Cheers, vax.