New features:

• Add an idleinhibit windowrule
• Add bordercolor windowrule (#992)
• Add focusmaster dispatcher (#942)
• Add keyboard led update after keys/mod update
• Added creating / destroying outputs on a multi-backend + headless backend
• Added decoration:shadow_scale
• Added direct scanout
• Added exec rules
• Added multiple master layoutmsgs
• Added resize transitions
• Added resizing individual master windows
• add more wlroots flags for faster compile
• add move cursor windowrule
• added monitor cycling
• added toggle for drm scanout flags
• added unset rules
• added workspace_swipe_forever

Fixes:

• Fix crashes with DS and mirrors
• Fix missing focusedmon event on focusmonitor dispatcher
• Fix resize transitions on multimon + transformed
• Minor fixes for virtual input devices
• Multiple animation optimization and xwayland wine fixes
• Nix HM: Fix invalid escapes
• fix extents in shadow deco
• fix fullscreen maximize size
• fix invalid master slave pos calc on y != 0
• fix issues with direct scanout's lack of surface frame feedback
• fix master window finding on closed
• fix missing stub for xwayland
• fix ordering in mouse connect
• fix passing input to constrained windows without relative
• fix raw exec in configmanager
• fix relative protocol paths
• fix safety over ls outputs
• fix shadow extent & offset calculations
• fix slide calcs for windows outside the viewport
• fix swipe on 2 detached workspaces
• fix the damageBox in damageMonitor
• fix trailing comma in hyprctl activewindow
• fix unregistering avars on sethidden
• minor fixes for follow_mouse 3
• minor loose focus fixes
• resize transition fixes + default transitions to false

Other:

• Allow arguments to hyprctl dispatch exec commands. (#990)
• Dispatcher to center floating window (#961)
• Nix HM: prevent race condition between dbus and systemd
• Revert "Set child stdout and stderr to /dev/null (#1000)"
• Set child stdout and stderr to /dev/null (#1000)
• apply some rules dynamically when state of window changes (#1020)
• automatically update dbus environment on start
• constraint focus simplifications
• deprecate general:damage_tracking
• don't update the env in session-less hl
• guard empty str in isNumber
• guard empty str in removeBeginEndSpacesTabs
• guard header windows in layout messages
• guard lastwindow in circlenext
• handle transforming displays in outputMgr
• helpers: implement getPPIDof on BSDs (#972)
• ignore constraints on exclusiveClient create
• include utility in defines
• meson: explicitly specify path for find(1) (#971)
• meson: use gl instead of GL
• move no_direct_scanout to misc
• notify idle on touch down
• possible crash when current workspace does not exist (#1023)
• prevent double-registering of avars
• remove ensureFDsValid, legacy
• remove old comments
• remove redundant check in CShader
• remove redundant includes
• remove spammy ime logs
• remove spammy logs for DS
• render the debug overlay only on visible monitors
• set cursor to hand1 when moving a window
• streamline hypctl output of windows (#983)
• update window values after map finish
• use goal values in changeWindowFloatingMode
• use lld instead of i in hyprctl getopt for accurate int reads

Special Thanks

As tradition, special thanks to those gigachads for donating in support of the project:

• re-ynd
• Pebor
• speedboat
• HauntedCoffeePot
• Karagra
• Lipt0nas

New Contributors

• @abbadanor made their first contribution in https://github.com/hyprwm/Hyprland/pull/942
• @jbeich made their first contribution in https://github.com/hyprwm/Hyprland/pull/972
• @philj56 made their first contribution in https://github.com/hyprwm/Hyprland/pull/990
• @sioodmy made their first contribution in https://github.com/hyprwm/Hyprland/pull/991
• @leftas made their first contribution in https://github.com/hyprwm/Hyprland/pull/997
• @ElJeffe made their first contribution in https://github.com/hyprwm/Hyprland/pull/983
• @Mango0x45 made their first contribution in https://github.com/hyprwm/Hyprland/pull/1000

Full Changelog: https://github.com/hyprwm/Hyprland/compare/v0.17.0beta...v0.18.0beta