1.0-alpha.2
Pre-release
Pre-release
Sway 1.0-alpha.2 contains 327 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 383ce3d.
Package maintainers: please do not package this release.
This changelog only includes new features since 1.0-alpha.1. Bugfixes are not included.
This release replaces the asciidoc dependency with scdoc.
New Features
- Window borders
- Full damage tracking (performance improvement)
- Basic touch screen support (only for touch-supported clients)
- Basic drawing tablet support (simulates a mouse)
- Fullscreen windows
- DPMS & auto-lock via swayidle
- Criteria
- Mapping input devices to specific outputs or regions of the screen
- Ignoring input from tablets or touch screens outside a specified region of the device
- Mouse input simulation (e.g.
swaymsg seat default cursor press left) - Supports the xdg-shell stable protocol
- Full support for hardware cursors (performance improvement)
- Xwayland is now started lazily (when the first X client tries to connect)