From ad372a98eab852578d8b904b3a8dc3ba8c0792c5 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Vaxry Date: Sat, 4 May 2024 17:10:43 +0100 Subject: [PATCH] news: added 0.40.0 announcement --- src/content/news/update40.md | 29 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 29 insertions(+) create mode 100644 src/content/news/update40.md diff --git a/src/content/news/update40.md b/src/content/news/update40.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..a252450 --- /dev/null +++ b/src/content/news/update40.md @@ -0,0 +1,29 @@ +--- +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)