news: added 0.40.0 announcement

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+title: A Hyprland mega-release 0.40.0 
+date: 1714838440
+---
+
+Changing over 15,000 lines of code, the Hyprland 0.40.0 update has finally dropped. This
+is the biggest release by commit and LOC diff in history of Hyprland.
+
+As we're in the middle of slowly but surely moving off of depending on wlroots for our backend(s),
+a lot of things are moving from wlroots' C implementations into more memory-safe and cleaner C++ implementations instead.
+
+Although the work is surely not done yet (from just the protocol implementations, about 60% has been rewritten so far),
+this mega-release will also help test how the implementations fare in real world usage.
+
+A few bugs and quirks have been ironed out during the development phase, and many previously long-standing bugs
+have been fixed with these rewrites.
+
+0.40.0 also brings a few community-requested QoL features, like:
+- Better monitor auto-positioning
+- Initial workspace tracking
+- More workspace selectors
+- Two new protocols supported, ext-foreign-toplevel and alpha-modifier
+- A boatload of bugfixes
+- And much more!
+
+Hopefully the new implementations prove stable and resilient. Although we do not expect it to all be smooth
+sailing, it should prove more stable, as we've seen before with other memory-safe re-implementations.
+
+Check out the entire release on Github [here](https://github.com/hyprwm/Hyprland/releases/tag/v0.40.0)