New features:

• Add windowrules for noblur and noshadow (#884)
• Added hyprctl cursorpos
• add 10bit support to displays
• add disabling pointer devices
• added swipe create new
• allow glob wildcard in addreserved
• Allow 100%- for move rule
• allow # escaping in config

Fixes:

• Fix self-noding in changeWindowFloatingMode
• fix animate_manual_resizes with moves
• fix crash in event manager on hangup
• fix debug nest black screen
• fix default 0 in box passing test
• fix maximized windows not hiding tiled
• fix minor anim issue with swipe new
• fix minor focus oopsie
• fix refocus on last window
• fix silent + size windowrules
• fix swipe with fullscreen maximized
• minor fix for swipes from empty workspaces
• minor fix to silent ws rules
• minor fixes for xwayland refocus
• minor swipe on new fixes
• minor workspace rule parsing fixes

Other:

• CMakeLists.txt: use sh instead of bash
• Improve hyprctl
• No xwayland overhaul (#920)
• Rework candidate finding on close window
• Rework workspace rules
• T1C: window dance compat
• Transpose matrices on LEGACY_RENDERER
• allow cyclenext on null focus
• allow nofocus + workspace silent
• always report sizes after a window unmap
• avoid applying offset twice in onConnect
• avoid creating bound WS-es in moveWorkspaceToMonitor
• avoid layout changes when unnecessary in applyMonitorRule
• bump xdg ver to 5
• constrain mouse on focus change
• default focus_on_activate to false
• disable adaptive sync with no_vfr off
• don't set custom mode in change
• ensure VRR for current display only in onConnect
• handle activate requests
• ignore pointer constraints in touch
• lower IME errors to WARNs
• meson.build,CMakeLists.txt: use sh instead of bash
• meson.build: use sh instead of bash
• meson: Fallback to 'opengl' when 'GL' is not found.
• more safety around shutting down and mouse movements
• more safety for focus requests
• properly find the constraint window
• properly scan for subsurfaces in fullscreen input refocus
• remove redundant check
• render layer snapshot without blur
• respect nofocus in candidate searching
• respect wsbind in workspace silent rules
• revert output smart layout reporting
• set lastmonitor in onDisconnect
• unify LS unmap focus
• unrestrict hyprctl message size

Special Thanks

As usual, special thanks to those people for dropping some euros to me:

• JNC
• Zephan
• Lipt0nas
• HauntedCoffeePot
• Karagra

New Contributors

• @wael444 made their first contribution in https://github.com/hyprwm/Hyprland/pull/893
• @riley-martin made their first contribution in https://github.com/hyprwm/Hyprland/pull/912
• @rakino made their first contribution in https://github.com/hyprwm/Hyprland/pull/924

Full Changelog: https://github.com/hyprwm/Hyprland/compare/v0.16.0beta...v0.17.0beta