Hi! It’s this time of the month once again it seems…

We’ve finally released Sway 1.9! Note that it uses the new wlroots rendering API, but doesn’t use the scene-graph API: we’ve left that for 1.10. We’ve also released wlroots 0.17.2 with a whole bunch of bug fixes. Special thanks to Simon Zeni for doing the backporting work!

In other Wayland news, the wlroots merge request to atomically apply changes to multiple outputs has been merged! In addition, another merge request to help compositors allocate the right kind of buffers during modesets has been merged. These two combined should help lighting up correctly more multi-output setups on Intel GPUs, which previously required a workaround (WLR_DRM_NO_MODIFIERS=1). Thanks to Kenny for helping with that work!

I also got around to writing a Sway patch to gracefully handle GPU resets. This should be good news for users of a particular GPU vendor which tends to be a bit trigger happy with resets! Sway will now survive and continue running instead of being frozen. Note, clients may still glitch, need a nudge to redraw, or freeze. A few wlroots patches were also required to get this to work.

With the help of Jean Thomas, Goguma (and pushgarden) has gained support for Apple Push Notification service (APNs). This means that Goguma iOS users can now enjoy instantaneous notifications! This is also important to prove that it’s possible to design a standard (as an IRC extension) which doesn’t hardcode any proprietary platform (and thus doesn’t force each IRC server to have one codepath per platform), but still interoperates with these proprietary platforms (important for usability) and ensures that said proprietary platforms have minimal access to sensible data (via end-to-end encryption between the IRC server and the IRC client).

It’s now also possible to share links and files to Goguma. That is, when using another app (e.g. the gallery, your favorite fediverse client, and many others) and opening the share menu, Goguma will show up as an option. It will then ask which conversation to share the content with, and automatically upload any shared file.

No NPotM this time around sadly. To make up for it, I’ve implemented refresh tokens in sinwon, and made most of the remaining tests pass in go-mls.

See you next month!