0.44.0 is finally upon us!

This update mostly focuses on further bugfixes over actually implementing new stuff, but we have quite a bunch of both!

When it comes to new stuff, we have, amongst others:

• A new argument --version for checking the Hyprland binary’s version instead of hyprctl version
• Same spirit as above, --systeminfo.
• A new layerrule order for ordering layers on the same plane
• A new HYPRLAND_CONFIG envvar for another method of passing an explicit config instead of --config
• Dwindle has got some new stuff: movetoroot layout message and split_bias config option
• Layout-general, auto-grouping is now configurable
• hyprctl has some new stuff, a few more props to monitors and workspacerules requests, and a new submap request.
• A new user-check for the XDG_CURRENT_DESKTOP env has been added as Hyprland no longer overwrites it
• Implemented the single-pixel-buffer protocol

For fixes, notable ones include:

• Various fixes to surface UV and positioning calculations: chromium windows no longer go crazy when resizing, and resizing other apps should generally feel much smoother
• Various text-input fixes for IME users
• XWayland handling fixes for monitors being misplaced and input not translating correctly after monitors were unplugged / replugged.
• Some drag-n-drop edge cases have been fixed
• Initial cursor warping has been fixed
• Various crashes fixed
• Lots of cleanups of the underlying codebase :)

Generally, this update shouldn’t impact you negatively, and only polish some rough edges.

See the full release notes on Github.

Cheers, vax.