Sway 1.10

[emersion]

Planning for the next release.

Milestone: https://github.com/swaywm/sway/milestone/14

Changes for users and packagers:

• wlroots 0.18 is required.
• dmenu_run is no longer a dependency of the default config file.
• The default config file now contains keybindings with pactl for volume adjustment, brightnessctl for brightness adjustment and grim for screenshots.
• The legacy wl_drm protocol is now disabled by default (superseded by the standard linux-dmabuf-v1 protocol). This causes breakage in xorg-xwayland < 24.1.0, libva < 2.22.0 and amdvlk < 2024.Q4.1, and can be re-enabled manually via -Dlegacy-wl-drm.
• The xwayland built-time option has been removed: Xwayland support is now enabled at build-time if it was enabled for wlroots.

Highlights:

• All of the enhancements from wlroots 0.18.
• Rewrite the renderer to leverage the wlroots scene-graph API, resulting in improved performance.
• Add GPU reset recovery for improved robustness.
• Add a command to use an ICC profile for an output.
• Improved output configuration algorithm to light up more outputs when the GPU bandwidth is constrained. WLR_DRM_NO_MODIFIERS shouldn't be necessary anymore to workaround black screens on Intel.
• Add support for IME popups used for CJK.
• Add support for tearing-control-v1, to opt-in for tearing page-flips for gaming use-cases.
• Add support for ext-transient-seat-v1, allowing remoting apps such as wayvnc to create separate temporary seats for input events.
• Add support for ext-foreign-toplevel-list-v1, the new standard protocol to obtain information about other toplevels. This will eventually be used by taskbars, window switchers and per-toplevel screen capture.
• Add support for xdg-shell v5 with popup repositioning and hiding maximize/minimize buttons in CSD.