Release timeline
rc1: 2022 Jan 27
Final release: TBD
Changelog
@tryone144 has officially joined as a collaborator, hooray! 🎉
Notable changes:
- New blur method for the experimental backends: dual-kawase #382
- Support for rounding the corners of windows #551 #558 #614 #761 #716
- Usability of picom-trans is improved. #634 (Thanks to @subnut)
- It's now possible to match against all values of a window property in rules. Some window properties have multiple values (e.g. _NEW_WM_STATE), using
_NEW_WM_STATE[*]in a match will succeed if any of the values match. #550 - Fix darkening of window edges when using blur.
- Some long deprecated options are removed. If picom doesn't start after update please check its console output. #768
New options:
- New
wintypeoptions:blur-background. enable/disable background blurring per window type.clip-shadow-above. prevent shadow from being rendered on top of certain window types. #656
shadow-color: specify color in 1 option rather than separately in 3.corner-radius,rounded-corners-exclude: for rounded corner support.
First time contributors
@orbea @consnop @adelin-b @tonijarjour @itaranto @rharish101 @jialeens @alarixnia @omar-polo @SebastienWae @thiagokokada @lschmelzeisen @enigma9o7 @scrouthtv @subnut @kwand @pijulius @jpribyl @tom-doerr @rkitover @TK009 @ktprograms @gijsbers