Hyprland 0.55 is here and you don't want to miss it!
After quite a long while, Hyprland 0.55 is upon us! This is an enormous update by each
measurable metric - commits, contributors, features and changes.
Highlights
With 0.55, there are tons of changes, let’s bring the highlights first.
Lua configs
As we’ve announced a while back, the Hyprland config is now done in
Lua. This does not mean your hyprlang config is now broken - it will still work, for a few releases.
The entire wiki has been updated to reflect new Lua configs and you are encouraged to migrate over
to Lua.
User-defined layouts
With Lua, we’ve also added a Layout API for you to define your own layouts directly in the config. Those
layouts can be set globally, per-workspace, per-monitor, etc. and behave just like regular layouts,
except fully controlled by you.
Various scrolling improvements
Scrolling now supports fullscreen windows as part of the tape by default:
As well as a native trackpad gesture via scroll_move in lua.
ICC Profiles
You can now load an ICC profile per-output in your config via icc = "..path.." in your config for
color accuracy.
Renderer and CM improvements
Hyprland will now use FP16 precision and improved CM pipelines by default for Color Managed displays.
This helps with color accuracy, screensharing, and various color-related things.
Breaking changes
A few config option updates:
dwindle:pseudotile has been removed as it wasn’t doing anything
decoration:shadow:ignore_window has been removed (defaults to enabled)
render:cm_fs_passthrough has been removed, should be automatic with render:cm_auto_hdr
misc:vfr moved to debug: as it’s a debug variable that should not be changed in prod environments
New stuff and fixes
As usual, tons of goodies:
A bunch of scrolling goodies: expel, consume, consume_or_expel, wrapping options, and so on.
A new auto_consuming flag for binds
Device tags
confine_pointer window rule
move_into_or_create_group for the move dispatcher
rotatesplit layoutmsg for dwindle
A new live pinch cursor zoom trackpad gesture
A new glow decoration for windows
And much more…
And the usual fixes, way too many to list…
The raw release
As always, if you prefer reading more, check the release on Github.
Cheers,
vax