Cool stuff.

Info for packagers:

the source- tarball has changed. Everything is now in a subdir called hyprland-source/

New features:

• Add nofullscreen to windowrules (#1107)
• Add option for retrieving first empty workspace (#1085)
• Added handling more special workspaces
• Added screen shaders
• Fix incorrect layout positions in mirror re-add
• Nix: add libdrm and wayland-protocols overlay
• add scroll_button libinput opt
• added blur_xray
• added border gradients
• added hyprctl switchxkblayout
• Implement window sharing with the hl toplevel export proto (#1179)

Fixes:

• Fix a compiler warning (#1124)
• Fix cmake error when using clang (#1009)
• Fix incorrect layout positions in mirror re-add
• Fix minor issues with mirrors
• Fix swiping on the first workspace going to the last (#1067)
• Fix wrong layout recalculate if statement (#1167)
• fix AA on borders
• fix border inner offset in shader
• fix crash in blurls remove
• fix crash in setActiveMonitor null
• fix crash with invalid frag dynamic shaders
• fix decorations missing after no_gaps_when_only toggle floating
• fix events in changeworkspace with bound ws-es
• fix fadeout with animated border
• fix group border oversaturation
• fix invisible windows on moving fullscreen out
• fix master resizes all
• fix minor issues with blur w/o new optim
• fix minor issues with blur_new_optimize
• fix shader destroy id unset
• fix transformed border thickness
• fix up the border shader
• fix warning
• minor fixes for mirrors & log more monitor events
• minor monitor code fixups
• monitor rule fixes
• use highp for pixcoord to fix nvidia border issues

Other:

• Render focused window at last (#1060)
• Reset callbacks on remap
• Setting wayland environment variables at startup (#1045)
• Unify rounding shaders
• Update wiki link in manpage (#1144)
• Use internal device naming for Hyprctl devices (#1174)
• nix: add cmake and wlroots to devshell (#1155)
• nix: add xdph to nixos module
• allow 360 degrees of freedom in gradients
• avoid duplicate device names
• avoid header clashes in make all
• avoid using wayland-0 as a socket name
• better capability handling
• block surface feedback on window sharing
• blur xray for layers (#1158)
• check for special workspace open in attemptDirectScanout
• convert bordercolors to GradientValueData correctly (#1122)
• damage monitor on group switch
• damage windows after switch
• default blur new optimizations to 1
• don't attempt rendering on begin failure
• don't change alpha on special anims
• don't focus back after dnd on follow mouse 1
• don't initial focus on LS keyboard grab
• don't send motion events to lock constraints
• don't set AS in onConnect
• find base surface if no subsurface found in ls
• find floating windows below closed one
• ignore alpha when sharing window
• improve constraint handling
• make focus/swap master layoutmsgs two-way
• minor changes to unsafe state handling
• more memory safety around onDisconnect
• nix: remove merged hwdata override
• nix: update nixpkgs (includes merged hwdata update)
• optimize border shader
• optimize data feeding to gradient renderer
• override force opaque rule on keybind
• recalculate layout only when needed on dynamic keywords
• reload shader on dynamic shader keyword
• remove global var
• remove idiotic guard in processMouseDownNormal
• remove redundant strval_empty checks
• remove resize transitions
• reset m_bEmptyFocusCursorSet on workspace switch
• respect no_gaps_when_only in fullscreen 1
• return full monitor box for fullscreen windows in idealBB
• schedule frames and reloads on session re-activate
• show groupings and swallowing in hyprctl (#1159)
• skip covered windows on fullscreen workspaces in getWindowInDirection
• unify setting of the active monitor
• use gradients in default configs

Special Thanks

Special thanks as usual to those alpha male gigachads for dropping me some euros:

• umop3plsdn
• Karagra
• Teddy-Kun
• Martin E
• Vibrose
• AmadeusWM
• Lipt0nas
• HauntedCoffeePot
• Leftas
• Pebor

New Contributors

• @julianschuler made their first contribution in https://github.com/hyprwm/Hyprland/pull/1060
• @Maks-s made their first contribution in https://github.com/hyprwm/Hyprland/pull/1009
• @CactiChameleon9 made their first contribution in https://github.com/hyprwm/Hyprland/pull/1067
• @hnboy made their first contribution in https://github.com/hyprwm/Hyprland/pull/1124
• @heymisphere made their first contribution in https://github.com/hyprwm/Hyprland/pull/1144
• @eriedaberrie made their first contribution in https://github.com/hyprwm/Hyprland/pull/1159

Full Changelog: https://github.com/hyprwm/Hyprland/compare/v0.18.0beta...v0.19.0beta