Sway 1.9

[emersion]

Planning for the next release.

Milestone: https://github.com/swaywm/sway/milestone/13

Changes for users and packagers:

• New wlroots version
• The default menu has been changed to wmenu: #7384
• The KDE idle protocol is no longer supported (superseded by the standard idle-notify-v1 protocol)

Highlights:

• All of the enhancements from wlroots 0.17, including support for the new content-type-v1, xwayland-shell-v1, wp-fractional-scale-v1, security-context-v1 and cursor-shape-v1 protocols
• Improved xdg-activation-v1 support with workspace tracking and multi-seat
• The rendering code has been ported to the new wlroots rendering API, yielding better performance
• A new config option to disable primary selection
• A new input commands to set libinput's rotation angle and scroll button lock
• Tablet tool buttons can now be used for floating mode resize
• The IPC output event is now supported
• Add support for layer-shell's on-demand keyboard interactivity

[oifj34f34f]

Is there an ETA? Looking forward to 1.9, as NVIDIA users will have no flicker on this version (at least for me, I'm on the git version)

[emersion]

We don't do ETAs.

[emersion]

https://github.com/swaywm/sway/releases/tag/1.9-rc1