After about 2 or so months, we got 0.49.0!

A lot of changes in this update as usual, let’s do a quick summary.

Breaking changes

A few breaking changes this time:

• cursor:warp_on_change_workspace no longer controls warps for special workspaces. Use warp_on_toggle_special for more fine control.
• master:center_master_slaves_on_right has been changed to master:center_master_fallback providing more options than just right.
• you’ll now need to input your sudo password for sensitive hyprpm operations. Due to that change your repositories and enabled plugins will be reset.

New stuff

Permission management

Previously, (and in every other wayland compositor to this day) any app on your system would be able to record and screenshot your screen without any permissions. This would be doable by directly using the wayland protocols instead of the portal.

No more.

With permission management, both that, and other sensitive actions are now guarded by permissions, where you can specify which apps can do what, and if you don’t, you’ll get an android / iOS / MacOS style popup asking you for confirmation.

Permission management is disabled by default for now, read up more about it on the wiki.

New protocols

Some new protocols are now supported in Hyprland, including xdg-system-bell and xdg-toplevel-tag.

Other new changes

Other new stuff include:

• keybinds can now be disabled per-device
• ANR’s missed pings (delay) is now configurable
• you can now bind click and drag actions separately with your mouse
• groupbar got some new stuff: font weight, gaps, text offset, etc.
• a few new socket2 events: monitorremovedv2, minimized
• new windowrules: nofollowmouse and noclosefor
• and more

Fixes

As usual, tons of fixes for crashes, bugs, etc.

The raw release

if you are the type that enjoys reading, check the release out on Github.

Cheers, vax.