# Sway 1.12-rc1 - Product: Sway (https://whatsnew.fyi/product/sway) - Vendor: Sway - 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 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'. --- - **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).
Full changelog ``` 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]_