niri Releases

Introduced dedicated ANSI themes and improved the theming system with new dark and light themes.

Apr 30, 2026

Major release introducing background blur, moving to a GitHub org, and significant rendering optimizations including a push-based architecture refactor.

Apr 25, 2026

A minor maintenance release to address a scrolling anchor glitch in the Textual library.

Apr 19, 2026

A major security template update introducing numerous new vulnerabilities and critical detection fixes.

Apr 15, 2026

Web scraping engine update with advanced browser interaction, new SDKs, and improved PDF parsing.

Apr 10, 2026

Network monitoring tool update focusing on security hardening and CPU efficiency improvements.

Apr 9, 2026

Focuses on performance optimization to reduce lag during window resizing operations.

Apr 5, 2026

LLM security testing tool update introducing new detection capabilities and removing deprecated components.

Apr 3, 2026

Security template update featuring bug fixes, improved accuracy, and new critical vulnerability templates.

Mar 31, 2026

Network monitoring tool update adding TUI enhancements, new protocol support, and Android builds.

Mar 17, 2026

This release introduces 94 new templates and 47 CVEs, addressing critical vulnerabilities in software like Qwik, Nginx UI, Ivanti Endpoint Manager, and various WordPress plugins. The update also includes significant bug fixes for false positives and enhancements to classification metadata.

Mar 16, 2026

This release introduces JSON configuration support alongside YAML, refactors the report generator system, and removes deprecated features like `--generate_autodan` and the `gpt-3.5` model.

Feb 4, 2026

This major release introduces Parallel Agents, a new Firecrawl CLI, and a dedicated Skill for AI agents, alongside the introduction of the Spark model family.

Feb 3, 2026

The update adds new security probing plugins for API keys and zero-width characters, introduces AWS Bedrock support, and significantly improves documentation standards.

Dec 12, 2025

Focuses on enterprise capabilities with ZDR Search support and improved branding detection, while enhancing redirect handling and introducing UUIDv7 IDs.

Dec 5, 2025

Major release featuring Alt-Tab recent windows switcher with live previews, animated un/fullscreen transitions, true Wayland maximize support, horizontal drag-to-scroll for view navigation, per-output and per-workspace layout config overrides, config file includes, DisplayLink support, and screen reader enhancements.

Nov 29, 2025

Feature release adding niri logo, new searchable wiki, xwayland-satellite integration for seamless X11 app support, basic screen reader accessibility support, modal exit confirmation dialog, and ext-workspace protocol for desktop bars.

Aug 30, 2025

The first stable release of Octos, an HTML dynamic desktop engine for Windows, introducing multi-monitor support and interactive wallpapers.

Aug 22, 2025

A maintenance update for the ChatGPT client featuring support for several new AI models including GPT-4.5, o3, and o4-mini, as well as new providers like 302ai and Alibaba. It also includes infrastructure improvements like a Vite migration and fixes for multimodal image uploads.

Jul 29, 2025

Hotfix release fixing layer surface handling issues, cursor hiding problems, and renaming urgent-related actions.

May 25, 2025