# Sway 1.12

- Product: Sway (https://whatsnew.fyi/product/sway)
- Vendor: Sway
- 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

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- **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).

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<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

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