# Sway changelog

> An i3-compatible tiling window manager for Wayland.

- Vendor: Sway
- Category: Operating Systems
- Platforms: Linux
- Official site: https://swaywm.org
- Tracked by: What's New (https://whatsnew.fyi/product/sway)
- Harvested from: GitHub (swaywm/sway)
- Entries below: 10 (newest first)

What's New is an index, not a publisher: every entry below links to the vendor's own release notes, which are the authoritative source. Entries are labelled where they are hand-curated sample data, pre-releases, or drawn from a secondary source such as a developer blog.

Reuse: the summaries, labels and curation here are © What's New. Quote freely with attribution and a link back; wholesale republication of the corpus is not permitted — terms: https://whatsnew.fyi/terms. The vendors' own release notes remain their publishers'.

## Releases

### 1.12

- Date: 2026-05-25
- Version: 1.12
- Original notes: https://github.com/swaywm/sway/releases/tag/1.12
- Permalink: https://whatsnew.fyi/product/sway/releases/1.12
- Labels: Platforms: Linux

- **added** — Add support for capturing individual windows
- **added** — Add support for HDR10 when running with the Vulkan renderer
- **added** — Add support for new protocols: color-management-v1, color-representation-v1, xdg-toplevel-tag-v1, ext-workspace-v1, wl_fixes
- **added** — Add a new --device-primaries option to output color_profile to use color primaries advertised in EDID
- **added** — Add support for keypad slide switches
- **changed** — The default configuration file now ships key bindings for playerctl
- **changed** — Sway no longer refuses to start on unsupported GPUs and instead displays an informational message that can be disabled via the --unsupported-gpu CLI flag or SWAY_UNSUPPORTED_GPU environment variable
- **changed** — Display managers are now officially supported for Sway startup
- **changed** — The srgb output color profile now applies the piece-wise sRGB transfer function rather than gamma 2.2

Sway 1.12 contains 138 changes from 50 contributors.

This release depends on wlroots 0.20.0. See the [wlroots release notes](https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/wlroots/wlroots/-/releases/0.20.0).

###### New features

- Add support for capturing individual windows.
- Add support for HDR10 when running with the Vulkan renderer.
- Add support for new protocols: color-management-v1, color-representation-v1, xdg-toplevel-tag-v1, ext-workspace-v1, wl_fixes.
- Add a new `--device-primaries` to `output color_profile` to use color primaries advertised in EDID.
- Add support for keypad slide switches.

###### Changes

- The default configuration file now ships key bindings for `playerctl`.
- Sway no longer refuses to start on unsupported GPUs (e.g. NVIDIA proprietary drivers). Instead, it displays an informational message. The message can be disabled via the `--unsupported-gpu` CLI flag or via the `SWAY_UNSUPPORTED_GPU` environment variable. Sway's policy hasn't changed: only the consequences when starting Sway have.
- Display managers are now officially supported for Sway startup. Historically they were marked as unsupported (ie, issues involving login managers were rejected) due to login manager bugs, but we haven't seen such bugs in a while and never got around to re-evaluating our official policy until this release.
- The `srgb` output color profile now applies the piece-wise sRGB transfer function rather than gamma 2.2. Use `gamma22` for gamma 2.2. The effective default remains unchanged (gamma 2.2).

<details>

<summary>Full changelog</summary>

```
Alexander Orzechowski (2):
      Chase wlroots!3879
      container: Move foreign toplevel enter/leave events to view

André Marçais (1):
      Fix logical error in criteria matching

Attila Fidan (2):
      text_input: Ignore enable requests from unfocused windows
      text_input: Don't relay IM state from unfocused windows

Bill Li (2):
      input/text_input: chase wlroots update
      input/text_input: chase wlroots update

Bonsaiiv (1):
      Improve example of input section in default config

Callum Andrew (1):
      config.in: bind XF86Audio* keycodes to playerctl

Calvin Lee (2):
      sway: change unsupported GPU message to swaynag
      sway: add details to unsupported gpu nag

Damino (1):
      tree/view: check for null workspace output

Felix Pehla (1):
      README: update German translation

Fenveireth (1):
      tree/view: save new wlr_scene_buffer fields

Furkan Sahin (6):
      input/seatop_down: Update decorations for touchscreen inputs
      bar_cmd_colors: fix crash on incorrect usage
      input/seat: end keyboard grab when clearing focus
      input/seat: fix drag-and-drop regression and improve popup dismissal
      tree/workspace: fix crash on dragging container to workspace edge
      seatop_move_tiling: clamp edge thresholds to parent box

Félix Poisot (5):
      sway/config: apply output CT before initial commit
      sway/commands/output: color_profile "srgb" applies the piece-wise TF
      sway/commands/output: add color_profile "--device-primaries"
      sway/config/output: fix hdr+color_profile conflict detection
      common/pango: get_text_size out pointers may be NULL

GreyXor (1):
      build: bump wlroots version

Hugo Osvaldo Barrera (6):
      Make workspace_move_to_output reusable
      ext-workspace-v1: initial implementation
      Centre fullscreen surfaces smaller than output
      Don't ignore initialisation errors
      Treat ext-workspace-v1 as privileged
      Ignore failures creating linux-drm-syncobj

Jan Palus (1):
      man: update drag_lock default

Joaquim Monteiro (1):
      Add wl_fixes interface

Kenny Levinsen (15):
      config/output: Use INT_MAX as x/y unset value
      config/output: Fix missing output config supersedes
      output: Minimize interaction with output after destroy
      tree/workspace: Remove exclude arg from get_highes

_[Truncated at 4000 characters — full notes: https://github.com/swaywm/sway/releases/tag/1.12]_

### 1.12-rc3

- Date: 2026-04-26
- Version: 1.12-rc3
- Original notes: https://github.com/swaywm/sway/releases/tag/1.12-rc3
- Permalink: https://whatsnew.fyi/product/sway/releases/1.12-rc3
- Labels: Pre-release; Platforms: Linux

### 1.12-rc2

- Date: 2026-04-12
- Version: 1.12-rc2
- Original notes: https://github.com/swaywm/sway/releases/tag/1.12-rc2
- Permalink: https://whatsnew.fyi/product/sway/releases/1.12-rc2
- Labels: Pre-release; Platforms: Linux

### 1.12-rc1

- Date: 2026-03-26
- Version: 1.12-rc1
- Original notes: https://github.com/swaywm/sway/releases/tag/1.12-rc1
- Permalink: https://whatsnew.fyi/product/sway/releases/1.12-rc1
- Labels: Pre-release; Platforms: Linux

- **added** — Add support for capturing individual windows
- **added** — Add support for HDR10 when running with the Vulkan renderer
- **added** — Add support for new protocols: color-management-v1, color-representation-v1, xdg-toplevel-tag-v1, ext-workspace-v1, wl_fixes
- **added** — Add a new --device-primaries to output color_profile to use color primaries advertised in EDID
- **added** — Add support for keypad slide switches
- **changed** — The default configuration file now ships key bindings for playerctl
- **changed** — Sway no longer refuses to start on unsupported GPUs, instead displaying an informational message that can be disabled via the --unsupported-gpu CLI flag or SWAY_UNSUPPORTED_GPU environment variable
- **changed** — Display managers are now officially supported for Sway startup
- **changed** — The srgb output color profile now applies the piece-wise sRGB transfer function rather than gamma 2.2, with gamma22 available for gamma 2.2
- **fixed** — Fix logical error in criteria matching
- **fixed** — Fix crash on incorrect bar_cmd_colors usage
- **fixed** — Fix crash on first stylus tap after reboot via null check
- **fixed** — Fix output priority in workspace assignment
- **fixed** — Fix reported WM capabilities in xdg-shell

Sway 1.12-rc1 contains 119 changes from 46 contributors.

This release depends on wlroots 0.20.0. See the [wlroots release notes](https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/wlroots/wlroots/-/releases/0.20.0).

###### New features

- Add support for capturing individual windows.
- Add support for HDR10 when running with the Vulkan renderer.
- Add support for new protocols: color-management-v1, color-representation-v1, xdg-toplevel-tag-v1, ext-workspace-v1, wl_fixes.
- Add a new `--device-primaries` to `output color_profile` to use color primaries advertised in EDID.
- Add support for keypad slide switches.

###### Changes

- The default configuration file now ships key bindings for `playerctl`.
- Sway no longer refuses to start on unsupported GPUs (e.g. NVIDIA proprietary drivers). Instead, it displays an informational message. The message can be disabled via the `--unsupported-gpu` CLI flag or via the `SWAY_UNSUPPORTED_GPU` environment variable. Sway's policy hasn't changed: only the consequences when starting Sway have.
- Display managers are now officially supported for Sway startup.
- The `srgb` output color profile now applies the piece-wise sRGB transfer function rather than gamma 2.2. Use `gamma22` for gamma 2.2. The effective default remains unchanged (gamma 2.2).

<details>

<summary>Full changelog</summary>

```
Alexander Orzechowski (1):
      Chase wlroots!3879

André Marçais (1):
      Fix logical error in criteria matching

Attila Fidan (2):
      text_input: Ignore enable requests from unfocused windows
      text_input: Don't relay IM state from unfocused windows

Bill Li (2):
      input/text_input: chase wlroots update
      input/text_input: chase wlroots update

Bonsaiiv (1):
      Improve example of input section in default config

Callum Andrew (1):
      config.in: bind XF86Audio* keycodes to playerctl

Calvin Lee (2):
      sway: change unsupported GPU message to swaynag
      sway: add details to unsupported gpu nag

Damino (1):
      tree/view: check for null workspace output

Felix Pehla (1):
      README: update German translation

Fenveireth (1):
      tree/view: save new wlr_scene_buffer fields

Furkan Sahin (2):
      input/seatop_down: Update decorations for touchscreen inputs
      bar_cmd_colors: fix crash on incorrect usage

Félix Poisot (5):
      sway/config: apply output CT before initial commit
      sway/commands/output: color_profile "srgb" applies the piece-wise TF
      sway/commands/output: add color_profile "--device-primaries"
      sway/config/output: fix hdr+color_profile conflict detection
      common/pango: get_text_size out pointers may be NULL

GreyXor (1):
      build: bump wlroots version

Hugo Osvaldo Barrera (3):
      Make workspace_move_to_output reusable
      ext-workspace-v1: initial implementation
      Centre fullscreen surfaces smaller than output

Joaquim Monteiro (1):
      Add wl_fixes interface

Kenny Levinsen (15):
      config/output: Use INT_MAX as x/y unset value
      config/output: Fix missing output config supersedes
      output: Minimize interaction with output after destroy
      tree/workspace: Remove exclude arg from get_highest_available
      Remove the temporary SUID warning
      sway/tree: Simplify sway_node teardown
      tree/container: Remove child from all lists
      Revert "tree/container: Remove child from all lists"
      Revert "sway/tree: Simplify sway_node teardown"
      tree/node: Do not mark destroying nodes as dirty
      config/output: Only error when enabling HDR
      linux-dmabuf-v1: Bump to version 5
      cursor-shape-v1: Bump to version 2
      layer-shell-v1: Bump to version 5
      protocols: Bump vendored wlr-protocols

Kirill Chibisov (2):
      readme: sync Russian translation
      readme: sync Japanese translation

Konstantin Pospelov (1):
      swaybar: deduplicate mode and workspace rendering code

Lars-Ragnar A. Haugen (1)

_[Truncated at 4000 characters — full notes: https://github.com/swaywm/sway/releases/tag/1.12-rc1]_

### 1.11

- Date: 2025-06-08
- Version: 1.11
- Original notes: https://github.com/swaywm/sway/releases/tag/1.11
- Permalink: https://whatsnew.fyi/product/sway/releases/1.11
- Labels: Platforms: Linux

- **added** — Add support for linux-drm-syncobj-v1 for explicit synchronization
- **added** — Add support for alpha-modifier-v1 for setting an alpha multiplier for a surface
- **added** — Add support for ext-image-copy-capture-v1 and ext-image-capture-source-v1 for improved screen capture
- **added** — Add support for ext-data-control-v1 as an alternative protocol for clipboard managers
- **added** — Pointer keys are now supported and can be bound in keymaps to trigger pointer events
- **added** — security-context-v1 metadata is exposed in IPC, and can be used in criteria and title format
- **changed** — The default configuration file now ships key bindings for a few utilities: pactl, brightnessctl, grim
- **changed** — The default menu now uses wmenu-run and no longer depends on dmenu_path
- **changed** — The default tap-and-drag lock mode has been switched to sticky
- **changed** — The sway.desktop file now sets DesktopNames
- **changed** — Improved output configuration logic for better and faster fallbacks

Sway 1.11 contains 189 changes from 53 contributors.

This release depends on wlroots 0.19.0. See the [wlroots release notes](https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/wlroots/wlroots/-/releases/0.19.0).

###### New features

- All of the enhancements from [wlroots 0.19.0](https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/wlroots/wlroots/-/releases/0.19.0).
- Add support for linux-drm-syncobj-v1 for explicit synchronization
- Add support for alpha-modifier-v1 for setting an alpha multiplier for a surface
- Add support for ext-image-copy-capture-v1 and ext-image-capture-source-v1 for improved screen capture
- Add support for ext-data-control-v1 as an alternative protocol for clipboard managers
- Improved output configuration logic for better and faster fallbacks
- Pointer keys are now supported and can be bound in keymaps to trigger pointer events
- security-context-v1 metadata is exposed in IPC, and can be used in criteria and title format

###### Changes

- The default configuration file now ships key bindings for a few utilities: pactl, brightnessctl, grim
- The default menu now uses wmenu-run and no longer depends on dmenu_path.
- The default tap-and-drag lock mode has been switched to sticky [as recommended by upstream](https://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/wayland-devel/2024-November/043860.html)
- The `sway.desktop` file now sets `DesktopNames` (`XDG_CURRENT_DESKTOP` will be set by login managers)

<details>

<summary>Full changelog</summary>

```
Adam Chovanec (1):
      readme: update Czech translation

Alexander Orzechowski (19):
      transaction: Reparent all container children when disabling for scratchpad
      xwayland: Let scene restack
      output: Use wlr_scene_output_needs_frame
      output: Use wlr_scene_set_gamma_control_manager_v1
      output: Chase wlroots!4803
      container: Skip % char if it doesn't match a view property
      text_input: Check for allocation failure
      text_input: Move popup placement to own function
      transaction: Allow no popup descriptor in popup list
      text_input: Properly handle map/unmap events
      text_input: Inline input_popup_update into input_popup_set_focus
      Fix alpha-modifier-v1
      layer_shell: Arrange exclusive zone clients first
      layer_shell: Restore sway 1.9 ordering
      container: Properly constrain title bar padding
      swaybar: Handle opaque region properly
      output: Expose output_configure_scene to header
      output: Allow configuring scene without an output
      commands/opacity: Call output_configure_scene on updated container

Anna (navi) Figueiredo Gomes (1):
      sway/commands/move.c: arrange new workspace

AsciiWolf (1):
      Remove language bars from remaining non-English README files

Attila Fidan (1):
      input/cursor: remove tool_proximity listener in destroy

Baltazár Radics (1):
      input/libinput: fix parsing input drag_lock command

Bill Li (4):
      build: Bump wlroots version
      Chase wlroots!2434
      ci: use package x11-servers/xwayland instead of x11-servers/xwayland-devel
      Drop wlr_matrix.h include from sway/desktop/output.c

Bonsaiiv (1):
      Improve example of input section in default config

Chris Perl (1):
      Remove constraint that con->view != NULL to use __focused__ criteria

Claudia (1):
      Fix tabbed/stacking container height regression

Dan Baterisna (1):
      man: Document bar mode toggle command

Daniel De Graaf (1):
      Use wl_event_loop_add_signal for exit signals

Dennis Baurichter (1):
      man: clarify criteria (incl. PCRE2 usage)

Emil Engberg (1):
      Add toggle for output adaptive_sync

Felix Pehla (1):
      commands/output/color_profile: allows use of relative path for ICC profile

Ferdinand Bachmann (7):
      sway/ipc-json: add ext-foreign-toplevel-handle identifier to get_tree ipc output
      server: remove event listeners on fini
      input/input-manager: remove event listeners on fin

_[Truncated at 4000 characters — full notes: https://github.com/swaywm/sway/releases/tag/1.11]_

### 1.11-rc4

- Date: 2025-05-25
- Version: 1.11-rc4
- Original notes: https://github.com/swaywm/sway/releases/tag/1.11-rc4
- Permalink: https://whatsnew.fyi/product/sway/releases/1.11-rc4
- Labels: Pre-release; Platforms: Linux

### 1.11-rc3

- Date: 2025-05-18
- Version: 1.11-rc3
- Original notes: https://github.com/swaywm/sway/releases/tag/1.11-rc3
- Permalink: https://whatsnew.fyi/product/sway/releases/1.11-rc3
- Labels: Pre-release; Platforms: Linux

### 1.11-rc2

- Date: 2025-04-27
- Version: 1.11-rc2
- Original notes: https://github.com/swaywm/sway/releases/tag/1.11-rc2
- Permalink: https://whatsnew.fyi/product/sway/releases/1.11-rc2
- Labels: Pre-release; Platforms: Linux

### 1.11-rc1

- Date: 2025-04-20
- Version: 1.11-rc1
- Original notes: https://github.com/swaywm/sway/releases/tag/1.11-rc1
- Permalink: https://whatsnew.fyi/product/sway/releases/1.11-rc1
- Labels: Pre-release; Platforms: Linux

- **added** — Add support for linux-drm-syncobj-v1 for explicit synchronization
- **added** — Add support for alpha-modifier-v1 for setting an alpha multiplier for a surface
- **added** — Add support for ext-image-copy-capture-v1 and ext-image-capture-source-v1 for improved screen capture
- **added** — Add support for ext-data-control-v1 as an alternative protocol for clipboard managers
- **added** — Pointer keys are now supported and can be bound in keymaps to trigger pointer events
- **added** — security-context-v1 metadata is exposed in IPC, and can be used in criteria and title format
- **changed** — Improved output configuration logic for better and faster fallbacks
- **changed** — The default configuration file now ships key bindings for a few utilities: pactl, brightnessctl, grim
- **changed** — The default menu now uses wmenu-run and no longer depends on dmenu_path
- **changed** — The default tap-and-drag lock mode has been switched to sticky
- **changed** — The sway.desktop file now sets DesktopNames

Sway 1.11-rc1 contains 163 changes from 48 contributors.

This release depends on wlroots 0.19.0-rc1. See the [wlroots release notes](https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/wlroots/wlroots/-/releases/0.19.0-rc1).

###### New features

- All of the enhancements from [wlroots 0.19.0-rc1](https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/wlroots/wlroots/-/releases/0.19.0-rc1).
- Add support for linux-drm-syncobj-v1 for explicit synchronization
- Add support for alpha-modifier-v1 for setting an alpha multiplier for a surface
- Add support for ext-image-copy-capture-v1 and ext-image-capture-source-v1 for improved screen capture
- Add support for ext-data-control-v1 as an alternative protocol for clipboard managers
- Improved output configuration logic for better and faster fallbacks
- Pointer keys are now supported and can be bound in keymaps to trigger pointer events
- security-context-v1 metadata is exposed in IPC, and can be used in criteria and title format

###### Changes

- The default configuration file now ships key bindings for a few utilities: pactl, brightnessctl, grim
- The default menu now uses wmenu-run and no longer depends on dmenu_path.
- The default tap-and-drag lock mode has been switched to sticky [as recommended by upstream](https://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/wayland-devel/2024-November/043860.html)
- The `sway.desktop` file now sets `DesktopNames` (`XDG_CURRENT_DESKTOP` will be set by login managers)

<details>

<summary>Full changelog</summary>

```
Adam Chovanec (1):
      readme: update Czech translation

Alexander Orzechowski (19):
      transaction: Reparent all container children when disabling for scratchpad
      xwayland: Let scene restack
      output: Use wlr_scene_output_needs_frame
      output: Use wlr_scene_set_gamma_control_manager_v1
      output: Chase wlroots!4803
      container: Skip % char if it doesn't match a view property
      text_input: Check for allocation failure
      text_input: Move popup placement to own function
      transaction: Allow no popup descriptor in popup list
      text_input: Properly handle map/unmap events
      text_input: Inline input_popup_update into input_popup_set_focus
      Fix alpha-modifier-v1
      layer_shell: Arrange exclusive zone clients first
      layer_shell: Restore sway 1.9 ordering
      container: Properly constrain title bar padding
      swaybar: Handle opaque region properly
      output: Expose output_configure_scene to header
      output: Allow configuring scene without an output
      commands/opacity: Call output_configure_scene on updated container

Anna (navi) Figueiredo Gomes (1):
      sway/commands/move.c: arrange new workspace

AsciiWolf (1):
      Remove language bars from remaining non-English README files

Attila Fidan (1):
      input/cursor: remove tool_proximity listener in destroy

Baltazár Radics (1):
      input/libinput: fix parsing input drag_lock command

Bill Li (4):
      build: Bump wlroots version
      Chase wlroots!2434
      ci: use package x11-servers/xwayland instead of x11-servers/xwayland-devel
      Drop wlr_matrix.h include from sway/desktop/output.c

Chris Perl (1):
      Remove constraint that con->view != NULL to use __focused__ criteria

Claudia (1):
      Fix tabbed/stacking container height regression

Dan Baterisna (1):
      man: Document bar mode toggle command

Daniel De Graaf (1):
      Use wl_event_loop_add_signal for exit signals

Dennis Baurichter (1):
      man: clarify criteria (incl. PCRE2 usage)

Emil Engberg (1):
      Add toggle for output adaptive_sync

Felix Pehla (1):
      commands/output/color_profile: allows use of relative path for ICC profile

Ferdinand Bachmann (7):
      sway/ipc-json: add ext-foreign-toplevel-handle identifier to get_tree ipc output
      server: remove event listeners on fini
      input/input-manager: remove event listeners on fini
      desktop/idle_inhibit: remove event listeners o

_[Truncated at 4000 characters — full notes: https://github.com/swaywm/sway/releases/tag/1.11-rc1]_

### 1.10.1

- Date: 2025-01-26
- Version: 1.10.1
- Original notes: https://github.com/swaywm/sway/releases/tag/1.10.1
- Permalink: https://whatsnew.fyi/product/sway/releases/1.10.1
- Labels: Platforms: Linux