niri Releases

Major release introducing the Overview for workspace visualization and navigation, dynamic screencast targets, windowed fullscreen mode, window urgency indicators, and improved screenshot UI with tablet/touchscreen support.

May 17, 2025

Feature release introducing tabbed columns for window organization, window shadows, drag-and-drop view scrolling, custom Important Hotkeys titles, and keyboard shortcuts inhibit protocol.

Feb 22, 2025

This is a major feature release introducing support for several new AI providers (DeepSeek, SiliconFlow, xAI), new reasoning models (o3-mini, deepseek-r1), and experimental features like MCP and Realtime API support, alongside various model updates and bug fixes.

Feb 16, 2025

Switches to year.month versioning and introduces floating windows per workspace with independent layout management.

Jan 11, 2025

Hotfix release for v0.1.10 addressing scrolling issues and crashes.

Nov 13, 2024

Focuses on integrating the OpenAI Realtime API and adding the Claude 3.5 Haiku model, while fixing several bugs related to GLM and DALL-E 3 functionality.

Nov 11, 2024

Adds interactive window moving, pointer hiding, and improved input configuration.

Nov 9, 2024

Adds support for ChatGLM models and Claude 3.5 variants (Haiku, Sonnet, Opus), along with fixes for Gemini API errors and Alibaba Cloud deployment.

Nov 5, 2024

Introduces support for xAI models and resolves a network fetching issue in the Tauri environment.

Oct 24, 2024

Introduces IPC event stream, reworks window height distribution, and adds output name support.

Sep 14, 2024

Adds gradient color spaces, screenshot UI pointer toggle, wlr-output-management, and wlr-screencopy v3.

Aug 10, 2024

Implements fractional scaling and layout, window screencasts, and xdg-activation.

Jun 29, 2024

Adds gestures for resizing/scrolling, named workspaces, rounded window corners, and screen transitions.

May 18, 2024

Adds more animations, improves spring animations, and introduces basic variable refresh rate (VRR).

Apr 20, 2024

Adds window blocking for screencasts, dynamic window rules, warp mouse to focus, and wlr-gamma-control.

Mar 30, 2024

This release introduces touchpad gestures, spring animations, and basic touchscreen support. It also adds gradient borders, wlr-screencopy support for tools like grim, and improves system integration with systemd scopes.

Mar 9, 2024

Celebrating 1000 stars, this release adds window opening animations, configurable animation settings, and idle protocols (ext-idle-notify) for tools like swayidle. It also enables invoking actions via IPC and begins window rule support.

Feb 17, 2024

This release focuses on the user experience for fresh installs and taskbar integration. It includes auto-creation of the default config, wlr-foreign-toplevel-management support for taskbars, and output rotation capabilities.

Feb 3, 2024

The first stable release of niri, a scrollable-tiling Wayland compositor. It features dynamic workspaces per monitor, a built-in screenshot UI, screencasting support, and fully live-reloading configuration.

Jan 27, 2024

This beta release introduces IPC capabilities, a hotkey help overlay, config error overlays, and exit confirmation dialogs. It also implements popup grabs and the security-context protocol for sandboxed clients.

Jan 20, 2024