CHANGELOG.md

Dunst changelog

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Added

Changed

Fixed

1.6.1 - 2021-02-21:

Fixed

• Incorrect version in Makefile

1.6.0 - 2021-02-21:

Added

• Wayland support. Dunst now runs natively on wayland. This fixes several bugs with dunst on wayland and allows idle detection. (#781)
• A progress bar, useful for showing volume or brightness in notifications (#775)
• A script in contrib for using the progress bar (#791)
• dunstctl count for showing the number of notifications (#793)
• Expose environment variables info about the notification to scripts (#802)
• text_icon_padding for adding padding between the notification icon and text (#810)

Changed

• Dunst now installs a system-wide config in /etc/dunst/dunstrc (#798)
• Move part of the man page to dunst(5) (#799)

Fixed

• history_ignore flag broken when using multiple rules (#747)
• Divide by zero in radius calculation (#750)
• Monitor setting overriding follow_mode (#755)
• Incorrect monitor usage when using multiple X11 screens (#762)
• Emit signal when paused property changes (#766)
• dunstify can pass empty appname to libnotify (#768)
• Incorrect handling of 'do_action, close' mouse action (#778)

Removed

• DUNST_COMMAND_{PAUSE,RESUME,TOGGLE} (#830)

1.5.0 - 2020-07-23

Added

• min_icon_size option to automatically scale up icons to a desired value (#674)
• vertical_alignment option to control the text/icon alignment within the notification (#684)
• Ability to configure multiple actions for each mouse event (#705)
• dunstctl command line control client (#651)
• RGBA support for all color strings (#717)
• Ability to run multiple scripts for each notification
• ignore_dbusclose setting (#732)

Changed

• dunstify notification client is now installed by default (#701)
• Keyboard follow mode falls back to the monitor with the mouse if no window has keyboard focus (#708)

Fixed

• Overflow when setting a >=40 minute timeout (#646)
• Unset configuration options not falling back to default values (#649)
• Crash when $HOME environment variable is unset (#693)
• Lack of antialiasing with round corners enabled (#713)

1.4.1 - 2019-07-03

Fixed

• max_icon_size not working with dynamic width (#614)
• Failure to parse color strings with trailing comments in the config (#626)
• Negative width in geometry being ignored (#628)
• Incorrect handling of the argument terminator -- in dunstify
• Crash when changing DPI while no notifications are displayed (#630)
• Fullscreen status change not being detected in some cases (#613)

1.4.0 - 2019-03-30

Added

• Add support to override frame_color via rules (#498)
• Support for round corners (#420)
• Ability to reference $HOME in icon paths with ~/ (#520)
• Support to customize the mouse bindings (#530)
• Command to toggle pause status (#535)
• Ability to automatically replace similar notifications (like volume changes) via stack_tag (#552)
• Comparison of raw icons for duplicate notifications (#571)
• Introduce new desktop-entry filter (#470)
• fullscreen rule to hide notifications when a fullscreen window is active (#472)
• Added skip_display rule option to skip initial notification display, and include the notification in the history. (#590)

Fixed

• Notification age not counting the time while the computer was suspended (#492)
• Dunst losing always-on-top status on a window manager restart (#160)
• Xpm icons not being recognized
• When new notifications arrive, but display is full, important notifications don't have to wait for a timeout in a displayed notification (#541)
• Dunst hanging while the context menu is open (#456)
• Having & inside a notification breaking markup (#546)
• <I> more notifications don't occupy space anymore, if there is only a single notification waiting to get displayed. The notification gets displayed directly (#467)
• Segfault when comparing icon name with a notification with a raw icon (#536)
• Icon size can no longer be larger than the notification when a fixed width is specified (#540)

Changed

• Transient notifications no longer skip history by default (#508)
• The notification summary no longer accepts markup (#497)

Removed

• Dependency on libxdg-basedir (#550)

1.3.2 - 2018-05-06

Fixed

• Crash when trying to load an invalid or corrupt icon (#512)

1.3.1 - 2018-01-30

Fixed

• Race condition resulting in the service files being empty (#488)

1.3.0 - 2018-01-05

Added

• ellipsize option to control how long lines should be ellipsized when word_wrap is set to false (#374)
• A beginning tilde of a path is now expanded to the home of the current user (#351)
• The image-path hint is now respected, as GApplications send their icon only via this link (#447)
• The (legacy) image_data hint is now respected (#353)
• If dunst can't acquire the DBus name, dunst prints the PID of the process holding the name (#458 #460)
• Increased accuracy of timeouts by using microseconds internally (#379 #291)
• Support for specifying timeout values in milliseconds, minutes, hours, or days. (#379)
• Support for HTML img tags (via context menu) (#428)

Fixed

• new_icon rule being ignored on notifications that had a raw icon (#423)
• Format strings being replaced recursively in some cases (#322 #365)
• DBus related memory leaks (#397)
• Crash on X11 servers with RandR support less than 1.5. (#413 #364)
• Silently reading the default config file, if -conf did not specify a valid file (#452)
• Notification window flickering when a notification is replaced (#320 #415)
• Inaccurate timeout in some cases (#291 #379)

Changed

• Transient hints are now handled (#343 #310) An additional rule option (match_transient and set_transient) is added to optionally reset the transient setting
• HTML links are now referred to by their text in the context menu rather than numbers (#428)
• icon_folders setting renamed to icon_path (#170)
• config.def.h and config.h got merged (#371)
• The dependency on GTK3+ has been removed. Instead of GTK3+, dunst now requires gdk-pixbuf which had been a transient dependency before. (#334 #376)
• The _GNU_SOURCE macros had been removed to make dunst portable to nonGNU systems (#403)
• Internal refactorings of the notification queue handling. (#411)
• Dunst does now install the systemd and dbus service files into their proper location given by pkg-config. Use SERVICEDIR_(DBUS|SYSTEMD) params to overwrite them. (#463)

1.2.0 - 2017-07-12

Added

• always_run_script option to run script even if a notification is suppressed
• Support for more icon file types
• Support for raw icons
• hide_duplicate_count option to hide the number of duplicate notifications
• Support for per-urgency frame colours
• markup setting for more fine-grained control over how markup is handled
• history_ignore rule action to exclude a notification from being added to the history
• Support for setting the dpi value dunst will use for font rendering via the Xft.dpi X resource
• Experimental support for per-monitor dpi calculation
• max_icon_size option to scale down icons if they exceed a certain size
• Middle click on notifications can be used to trigger actions
• Systemd service file, installed by default
• %n format flag for getting progress value without any extra characters

Changed

• Text and icons are now centred vertically
• Notifications aren't considered duplicate if urgency or icons differ
• The maximum length of a notification is limited to 5000 characters
• The frame width and color settings were moved to the global section as frame_width and frame_color respectively
• Dropped Xinerama in favour of RandR, Xinerama can be enabled with the -force_xinerama option if needed

Deprecated

• allow_markup is deprecated with markup as its replacement
• The urgency specific command line flags have been deprecated with no replacement, respond to issue #328 on the bug tracker if you depend on them

Fixed

• Infinite loop if there are 2 configuration file sections with the same name
• URLs with dashes and underscores in them are now parsed properly
• Many memory leaks
• Category based rules were applied without actually matching
• dmenu command not parsing quoted arguments correctly
• Icon alignment with dynamic width
• Issue when loading configuration files with very long lines
• '\n' is no longer expanded to a newline inside notification text
• Notification window wasn't redrawn if obscured on systems without a compositor
• ignore_newline now works regardless of the markup setting
• dmenu process being left as a zombie if no option was selected
• Crash when opening urls parsed from <a href=""> tags

1.1.0 - 2014-07-29

• fix nasty memory leak
• icon support (still work in progress)
• fix issue where keybindings aren't working when numlock is activated

1.0.0 - 2013-04-15

• use pango/cairo as drawing backend
• make use of pangos ability to parse markup
• support for actions via context menu
• indicator for actions/urls found
• use blocking I/O. No more waking up the CPU multiple times per second to check for new dbus messages

0.5.0 - 2013-01-26

• new default dunstrc
• frames for window
• trigger scripts on matching notifications
• context menu for urls (using dmenu)
• pause and resume function
• use own code for ini parsing (this removes inih)
• progress hints

0.4.0 - 2012-09-27

• separator between notifications
• word wrap long lines
• real transparance
• bouncing text (alternative to word_wrap)
• new option for line height
• better multihead support
• don't die when keybindings can't be grabbed
• bugfix: forgetting geometry
• (optional) static configuration

0.3.1 - 2012-08-02

• fix -mon option

0.3.0 - 2012-07-30

• full support for Desktop Notification Specification (mandatory parts)
• option to select monitor on which notifications are shown
• follow focus
• oneline mode
• text alignment
• show age of notifications
• sticky history
• filter duplicate messages
• keybinding to close all notifications
• new way to specify keybindings
• cleanup / bugfixes etc.
• added dunst.service

0.2.0 - 2012-06-26

• introduction of dunstrc
• removed static configuration via config.h
• don't timeout when user is idle
• xft-support
• history (a.k.a. redisplay old notifications)