-
- ┌──────────────────────────────┐
- │ Release notes for i3 v4.8 │
- └──────────────────────────────┘
-
-This is i3 v4.8. This version is considered stable. All users of i3 are
-strongly encouraged to upgrade.
-
-The biggest new feature certainly is layout saving/restoring. See
-http://i3wm.org/docs/layout-saving.html for more details. tl;dr: export your
-current layout as JSON file, load it into new i3 sessions, get placeholder
-windows that will be replaced by the actual apps once you start them.
-
-Also very important for owners of HiDPI/“retina” displays is that i3 will now
-respect your configured DPI and scale up its UI elements accordingly. Use
-“xrandr --dpi 184” to set your dpi to 184, in case your setup does not figure
-it out automatically. To get properly scaling fonts, we also changed the
-default font from a bitmap font to a pango font (“DejaVu Sans Mono 8”).
-
-Multiple changes improve the compatibility of i3 with other software, e.g.
-java-based software (focus handling, once again) or external pagers (we now
-provide _NET_CLIENT_LIST and let pager applications change workspaces).
-
-For packagers, another change is that yajl ≥ 2.0 is now required for compiling
-i3. This should not be a problem for anyone, as that version is pretty old by
-now.
-
-For contributors, note that we have starting formatting the source code with
-clang-format-3.5. This means that there will no longer be a need to argue about
-coding style when discussing patches :).
-
- ┌────────────────────────────┐
- │ Changes in v4.8 │
- └────────────────────────────┘
-
- • docs/ipc: reformat/update list of ipc libraries
- • docs/ipc: fix current_workspace outputs reply member
- • docs/ipc: update ipc COMMAND reply docs
- • docs/userguide: fix multiple typos
- • docs/debugging: use bzip2
- • docs/debugging: explain how to enable logging on the fly
- • docs/debugging: merge the debug symbols/backtrace section
- • docs/debugging: recommend i3 --moreversion
- • man/i3-nagbar.man: update manpage to document all options
- • i3bar: Amend status line error 127 message
- • i3bar: don’t kill watcher on EOF, leads to better error messages
- • i3bar: send mouse wheel events to child too
- • i3bar: do click handling and tray padding retina-correctly
- • i3bar: render separators render-correctly
- • i3bar: reinit colors on barconfig update
- • i3bar: Don't start child unless status_command
- • i3bar: implement custom workspace numbers config
- • resize floating windows when right-clicking the decoration
- • enable shmlog when invoked as i3-with-shmlog
- • Disable pointer warps when focus_follows_mouse is disabled
- • Movement into a branch considers movement direction
- • set ewmh desktop properties on startup
- • handle ButtonPress events with child != XCB_NONE
- • implement layout restoring
- • only LOG() the DPI when it changes, DLOG() it otherwise
- • send IPC window events for focus and title changes
- • these types of windows are now floating by default:
- dialog, utility, toolbar and splash windows, modal windows, windows with an
- equal minimum and maximum size
- • send last event timestamp with WM_TAKE_FOCUS message
- • maintain the _NET_CLIENT_LIST property
- • don’t set input focus _and_ send WM_TAKE_FOCUS
- • respect CFLAGS in linking command
- • fix parallel make
- • reset SIGPIPE handler before executing a command
- • render default window border width retina-correctly
- • draw workspace buttons and padded text blocks retina-correctly
- • render resize windows retina-correctly
- • delegate click handling to dock clients
- • send complete config on barconfig_update
- • implement the window::fullscreen_mode ipc event
- • make all workspaces starting with "__" internal
- • improve error messages for i3-internal workspace names
- • allow _NET_ACTIVE_WINDOW requests to switch workspaces if they indicate
- that they are a pager (following the spec)
- • workspace assignments by number
- • add configuration option for disabling mouse warping
- • set _NET_ACTIVE_WINDOW to None when none has focus
- • set X-LightDM-DesktopName in i3.xsession.desktop to fix autostart on Ubuntu
- • don’t ELOG ipc EOF
- • replace all printf()s with D?LOG
- • delete ipc socket when exiting, cleanup tmpdir
- • default config: switch to DejaVu Sans Mono 8 as default font
- • cleanup tmpdir when restarting and not using XDG_RUNTIME_DIR
- • Snap pointer to resize bar on drag resize
- • Size resizebar according to container size
- • Fix clang -Wextra except -Wunused-parameter
- • Respect Motif hint for window decorations
-
- ┌────────────────────────────┐
- │ Bugfixes │
- └────────────────────────────┘
-
- • create con pixmaps when not needed
- • i3bar: fix resource leak: statusline_ctx needs to be freed first
- • tree_split should not split floating cons
- • fix memory leak with ipc_receive_message
- • fix invalid reads by setting con->window to NULL in tree_close
- • fix memory leak when closing windows
- • fix memory leak when matching window by criteria
- • fix memory leak when matching window by con_id
- • ignore dock clients in the resize command
- • clear wm_size_hints if they are not set
- • resize window check should check for NULL
- • fix window event crash with no window
- • i3-dmenu-desktop: also quote the %c field code
- • new_window and new_float can now be used simultaneously with different
- border widths
- • fix crash when using multiple for_window statements that move windows
- • Set input focus with last timestamp
- • handle windows whose WM_TRANSIENT_FOR points to themselve
- • don’t overwrite the original size of floating windows when changing border
- • don’t errnously render floating fullscreen windows during restart
- • ensure floating windows don’t drop out of fullscreen when restarting
- • don’t overwrite the window’s geometry after restartingnext
- • i3bar: Set `mapped` flag on trayclient creation
- • i3bar: don't show "EOF" status line error
-
- ┌────────────────────────────┐
- │ Thanks! │
- └────────────────────────────┘
-
-Thanks for testing, bugfixes, discussions and everything I forgot go out to:
-
-Aleksi Blinnikka, Alexander Berntsen, Alexander Kedrik, Antonio, Arun
-Persaud, Atte Peltomaki, bo, Campbell Barton, chris, David Coppa, eeemsi,
-Holger Langenau, Jean-Philippe Ouellet, Jens, jeroentbt, Jonas Maaskola,
-Julian Ospald, Kernc, Koston, lasers, lkraav, Marcin, Marco Hunsicker,
-Marcus Crestani, Matthias Thubauville, Maxime, Michael Stapelberg, Peter
-Boström, Petr Písař, Quentin Glidic, Steve Jones, TonyC, Tony Crisci,
-Vivien Didelot, Wieland Hoffmann, x33a, xeen
-
--- Michael Stapelberg, 2014-06-15