Breaking changes tracker

[vaxerski]

This issue serves as a tracker for breaking changes in -git.

Subscribe to this issue if you want to be notified.

Please note that if you do not use -git, you should read release notes instead, as they will also have all the breaking changes.

[fufexan]

For people that have been using hyprland-systemd.desktop to launch Hyprland as a systemd service:
We have removed the systemd session file, and replaced it with the more complete approach of using uwsm to handle the session. There's a new session file called hyprland-uwsm.desktop. Follow the wiki instructions to set up uwsm, and everything will work just fine.

(NixOS users, we'll have you covered soon too. In the meantime, take a look at my dots if you want to use uwsm)

For the technically inclined, here are the discussions that led to this change:

• systemd: add targets #8339
• systemd-desktop - replace contents to rely on uwsm to start a systemd session. Remove hyprland-session.service #8376
• Add uwsm instructions hyprland-wiki#850

[vaxerski]

With #8399, dumb_copy is now gone in favor of cursor:use_cpu_buffer. This should allow Nvidia users to have hardware cursors without the hitches dumb copy would cause.

Please note it's a bit experimental atm

[vaxerski]

with #8635 hyprland now depends on hyprgraphics>=0.1.1

[vaxerski]

with #8736 hyprland now depends on re2

[vaxerski]

With the move to RE2, your regexes now require a full match instead of any match.

For example, in the case of jeremy:

• jeremy: OK
• ^(jeremy)$: OK
• jer: Used to match, now won't. You'll need to do .*jer.* to make it act like before. (Consider not doing that though, make a better regex.)

[vaxerski]

With #8812, hyprland now depends on glaze

[vaxerski]

With #8871 master:always_center_master has been replaced with a more flexible master:slave_count_for_center_master

[vaxerski]

with #9217 opengl:force_introspection is gone.

[vaxerski]

with #9437 render:allow_early_buffer_release is gone. It's not needed anymore.

[vaxerski]

with ec4bea7 windowrule v1 syntax is nuked. windowrule and windowrulev2 will behave the same (v2) and windowrulev2 is deprecated in favor of windowrule

[vaxerski]

with #9945 cursor:warp_on_change_workspace no longer controls warps for special workspaces. Use warp_on_toggle_special for more fine control.