quickshell/changelog/next.md

Breaking Changes

Config paths are no longer canonicalized

This fixes nix configs changing shell-ids on rebuild as the shell id is now derived from the symlink path. Configs with a symlink in their path will have a different shell id.

Shell ids are used to derive the default config / state / cache folders, so those files will need to be manually moved if using a config behind a symlinked path without an explicitly set shell id.

New Features

• Added support for creating Polkit agents.
• Added support for creating wayland idle inhibitors.
• Added support for wayland idle timeouts.
• Added support for inhibiting wayland compositor shortcuts for focused windows.
• Added the ability to override Quickshell.cacheDir with a custom path.
• Added minimized, maximized, and fullscreen properties to FloatingWindow.
• Added the ability to handle move and resize events to FloatingWindow.
• Pipewire service now reconnects if pipewire dies or a protocol error occurs.
• Added pipewire audio peak detection.
• Added initial support for network management.
• Added support for grabbing focus from popup windows.
• Added support for IPC signal listeners.
• Added Quickshell version checking and version gated preprocessing.
• Added a way to detect if an icon is from the system icon theme or not.
• Added vulkan support to screencopy.

Other Changes

• FreeBSD is now partially supported.
• IPC operations filter available instances to the current display connection by default.
• PwNodeLinkTracker ignores sound level monitoring programs.
• Replaced breakpad with cpptrace.
• Reloads are prevented if no file content has changed.
• Added QS_DISABLE_FILE_WATCHER environment variable to disable file watching.
• Added QS_DISABLE_CRASH_HANDLER environment variable to disable crash handling.

Bug Fixes

• Fixed volume control breaking with pipewire pro audio mode.
• Fixed volume control breaking with bluez streams and potentially others.
• Fixed volume control breaking for devices without route definitions.
• Fixed escape sequence handling in desktop entries.
• Fixed volumes not initializing if a pipewire device was already loaded before its node.
• Fixed hyprland active toplevel not resetting after window closes.
• Fixed hyprland ipc window names and titles being reversed.
• Fixed missing signals for system tray item title and description updates.
• Fixed asynchronous loaders not working after reload.
• Fixed asynchronous loaders not working before window creation.
• Fixed memory leak in IPC handlers.
• Fixed ClippingRectangle related crashes.
• Fixed crashes when monitors are unplugged.
• Fixed crashes when default pipewire devices are lost.
• Fixed ToplevelManager not clearing activeToplevel on deactivation.
• Desktop action order is now preserved.
• Fixed partial socket reads in greetd and hyprland on slow machines.

Packaging Changes

• glib and polkit have been added as dependencies when compiling with polkit agent support.
• vulkan-headers has been added as a build-time dependency for screencopy (Vulkan backend support).
• breakpad has been replaced by cpptrace, which is far easier to package, and the CRASH_REPORTER cmake variable has been replaced with CRASH_HANDLER to stop this from being easy to ignore.
• DISTRIBUTOR_DEBUGINFO_AVAILABLE was removed as it is no longer important without breakpad.