Caelestia v2.7.0

What's New in v2.7.0

Features

• nexus: redesign the settings shell around three panels (3ee1dbf)
• windowtiling: no logout required upon config change, update Krohnkite setup script, tests, and configuration integration (3515f38)
• animations: add presets and management service for shell customization (1458e76)
• nexus: enhance search result item animations (38e7172)
• nexus: add hold-to-confirm and hold-to-cancel mechanics for Enter and Escape in KeyCaptureDialog (455aa4f)
• nexus: add keyboard navigation for shortcut management items (11a33df)
• nexus: set keybind Meta+U to open nexus (7bdf20c)
• nexus: add keyboard navigation to pages (3efab31)
• add Cheaper Inference as an assistant provider (811a4c1)
• nexus: add keyboard navigation and global shortcuts for nexus navigation pane (fcba93a)
• nexus: dismiss search focus on outside taps, escape key, and backspace (77a9805)
• nexus: add shortcut "/" to focus search bar (78a7bf7)
• utilities: add timer pinning support (24bdcfe)
• menu: add automatic vertical flipping for Menu and integrate with SplitButton (486745b)
• utilities: convert keep awake card into a quicktoggle (08f41c8)
• utilities: keep cards collapsed by default (bb21451)
• nexus: add Related row in nexus to open related settings (a8a0179)
• desktop: add a widget edit mode (02f4e58)
• nexus: give printing, the on-screen keyboard and system accessibility a front door (120d1a5)
• overview: open the overview limited to one application (3b3e745)
• notifs: carry do-not-disturb in the lock screen snapshot and honour the game's request (f90b7d2)
• installer: install the KDE peers that search, printing and touch typing need (cfaab63)
• toasts: let the stack live in any corner, and say which radius owns which surface (41ebc0d)
• timers: countdown timers that survive a restart, with a card and an IPC (827a2dc)
• notifs: turn an application off from its notification and search the list (3fa8cde)
• dock: offer an application's recent files in its context menu (39f2943)
• network: detect a captive portal and edit the KDE proxy from Nexus (4cd9644)
• storage: list, mount, unmount and eject filesystems from Nexus (dd503b0)
• bar: add a privacy indicator for the microphone and video capture (dbef359)
• emoji: rank search results by relevance, favorites, and frequency (859de85)
• nexus: add vibrancy slider for icons (5b7e4ee)
• nexus: manage the programs that start at log-in (11ebb2c)
• focus: let a running calendar event start a session (232c96c)
• nexus: manage displays from the shell (f3481d4)
• calendar: keep a Google calendar in sync with conditional fetches (2194820)
• bar: open the calendar on hover and lead the empty agenda to settings (764fbb6)
• shell: add a calendar agenda, focus sessions and accessibility controls (4bf75b9)
• nexus: choose the web search engine from settings (96e191a)
• notifs: let notifications be answered from the sidebar (3111b0b)
• launcher: search the whole system through KRunner (d3ad976)
• sddm: show the session picker by default (1cfabdd)
• nexus: add mouse back button support for nexus navigation (aa8034f)
• nexus: add configurable back navigation for sub-pages (b3eb174)
• visualizer: add Single wave profile (a708740)
• tray: let each tray icon be renamed (810cc4e)
• bar: per-icon tray visibility and ordering (5b90835)
• dock: add an optional launcher tile (0a1ac7d)
• skwd-wall and plasma-audio-visualizer integration (#1066) (8eb0c72)
• nexus: polish the submenu order dialog (e3d9829)
• nexus: reorder a submenu from the right click menu page (87efbaf)
• desktop: unfold the widget entries in a submenu (8e6097a)

Performance

• nexus: optimize page searching and search results list rendering in nexus module (60ece48)
• dashboard: add component binding pragmas and improve dashboard media initialization animations (f25bc28)
• emoji: optimize search using partial sorting and precomputed scores (53616c3)

Bug Fixes

• desktop: correctly handle locked widget collision avoidance during desktop item drags (6fe422b)
• desktop: respect locked desktop widgets during movement and layout planning (6b3b789)
• desktop: include obstacles in desktop icon packing return value to prevent spurious saves (7f0b5c5)
• desktop: respect widget positions during desktop icon auto-arrangements and refactor object iteration (9d3250f)
• test: update test assertions to match recent dictionary and subpage format changes (4a5ec91)
• nexus: update SearchBar padding and add implicit height for better vertical centering (2c9f935)
• nexus: exit compact mode if searching (c2958de)
• nexus: ensure active subpage visibility and correct navigation state order when searching (03831fc)
• desktop: keep widgets where they were dropped (2284bec)
• nexus: unblock global shortcuts via D-Bus when KeyCaptureDialog is destroyed (e27564b)
• nexus: add retry limit to selectItemByLabel and clean up item toggle method calls (21fa04e)
• nexus: keycapturedialog flickering fixed (894c6eb)
• nexus: emit release signals in SliderRow and improve callback handling in PageBase (fa31177)
• keybinds: filter out unassigned keybinds (e923ded)
• nexus: only load and play media when plugin row is expanded (cc04082)
• build: fetch M3Shapes regardless of the global git config (#1211) (5db5252)
• session: shut down, reboot and log out through Plasma so the session is saved (#1213) (79968cf)
• installer: give every distro the runner and the indexer, and say when they are missing (c5434b2)
• text: make native rendering the process default (fd92bed)
• desktop: resize widgets from every border, not just the corner (ef877a8)
• notifs: collapse the stack to zero height when empty (bcfd322)
• installer: install KRunner headers on Fedora and Debian (5ec0b9c)
• text: stop forcing QtRendering on shell text (df69570)
• update shell components and nexus pages (3b90938)
• remove StyledInputField and update related components (1c5657f)
• controls: stop an input field drawing a second box inside its own (ae492d9)
• drawers: let the utilities drawer be typed in and stop it slicing notifications (c13fd15)
• cli: keep Qt's locale warning out of the IPC reply (ea11eb1)
• appdb: avoid exposing destroyed desktop entries to QML (8ff2a7e)
• network: read the Wi-Fi link's strength from the driver (34823ce)
• timers: keep the running timers as plain values, not a sequence view (48a35fb)
• timers: decide what is due from one clock read, in one place (0407422)
• toasts: keep the corner vocabulary in one place, and hand the stack two sides (6ed18a3)
• timers: start on Enter only, and read the card list from the layout (fb8afd0)
• notifs: count a notification once, and let the search take the keyboard (c4192a0)
• toasts: say what automatic does where the corner is chosen (95ffd49)
• toasts: keep each toast as wide as the stack (263cf06)
• toasts: let the corner own the stack's edges (c6a8e71)
• toasts: pin a chosen corner to the screen edge (4cf1919)
• notifs: import qs.services in the muted apps page (422b228)
• services: settle a script's answer and its failure from either event (1c1e355)
• recents: read a bookmark whose path carries a doubled slash (5bc8451)
• network: give the sign-in row its own card and take the proxy summary from the service (a112c74)
• proxy: replace kioslaverc in one step and report a refused write (9a8a377)
• recents: keep each application's own visit to a file (46ea532)
• kwin: write the shell opacity group first so the file matches the index (dce14b2)
• kwin: index the shell opacity exemption before the catch-all rule (0e46529)
• kwin: keep the shell's own windows opaque so the launcher cannot tint them (032e09a)
• storage: report sizes and every mountpoint, and never offer to unmount the system (9111a01)
• keepawake: keep keep-awake across shell restarts (cba1b2c)
• font: gaurd user configured scale if not following system size (dcd6d94)
• nexus: detect HDR from the EDID and keep the panel brightness (2f4b297)
• shell: label the session rail and nest panel corners inside the frame (d7ea655)
• calendar: list the selected day instead of a separate upcoming feed (3a49c63)
• launcher: resolve KRunner icons so results stop showing the placeholder (2ec903b)
• notifs: show the reply field without expanding the notification (bd2c984)
• sddm: read the saved session straight from SDDM's session model (289df87)
• mpris: report the real playback state in the status payload (b866e12)
• notifs: apply the streaming do-not-disturb silently (bfcc937)
• pipewire: stop screen captures from reading as an active screen share (3f6cc68)
• notifs: fix lockscreen notification sync (89faea9)
• lockscreen: restore the mpris status IPC endpoint (746c078)
• shortcuts: close the dockActivate9 shortcut block (476bd9d)
• shortcuts: keep krohnkite keybinds working after a language change (4d7091a)
• nexus: resolve wallpaper reset config reference check (8eb9317)
• nexus: restore Quickshell wallpaper settings without skwd-wall (89dc040)
• update: ensure the wallpaper engine on update, not only on install (db7eb5c)
• kwin: leave the workspace tracker off when its plugin is not installed (8665797)
• color: say why a posthook failed, and stop it blocking on sudo (77ae19a)
• mangohud: stop crashing by registering DISABLE_MANGOHUD=1 (0b44843)
• font: use system-provided Google Sans Flex if available (23e31f6)
• background: stop the shell from drawing the wallpaper when the Quickshell desktop is disabled (aaeb479)
• network: correct network popout behavior (64a1bed)
• color: make the KDE selection text readable and both scheme names current (41af049)
• launcher: align the tile icons from the top (bdd3f31)
• desktop: address the review of the widget submenu (fbb3ea8)
• lyrics: recover lookups and handle delayed browser metadata (b5b6d31)
• nexus: slide page switches as far as sub-page transitions (07b1fb4)
• shortcuts: keep the default ...

Caelestia v2.6.3

What's New in v2.6.3

Features

• desktop: add per-widget lock and widget outlines (#1146) (e59b6b3)
• nexus: reorganize DesktopAddonsPage with per-widget auto-hide (#1141) (d7d9c12)
• redesign logo with gradients, drop shadows, and KDE Plasma badge (d70d958)
• desktop: add multi-monitor support and screen-aware positioning (#1135) (b03835d)
• add custom caelestia icon and update desktop entry configuration (854bf60)
• add shimeji catwhatsnew entry and fix plugin settings popup layout and bindings (f33fd84)
• add support for background widgets in plugins and update badapple to instantiate similarly (9508f92)
• plugins: render toggle, text and number settings (ea5f666)

Bug Fixes

• desktop: place quickshell background to WlrLayer.Bottom to unhide desktop (9508f92)
• windowrule: hide black window (xwaylandvideobridge) on fedora desktops (b93cb67)
• lyrics: refresh desktop lyrics when a new track loads (#1147) (7879bdb)
• tests: skip the node schema lookup without node (7f76f37)
• plugins: open the settings popup in the window of the page (598ba89)
• plugins: show the settings button of a plugin that declares settings (32136a0)

Caelestia v2.6.2

What's New in v2.6.2

Features

• plugin API for registering custom bar widgets (#1122) (c72ef2e)
• bar: notes, weather and performance widgets (#1046) (bbdf926)
• shell: add visualiser quick toggle and tidy desktop widgets (8d7ebdc)
• dashboard: AmbientGlow in Music Tab (37532fc)
• shell: let one switch turn every animation off (16b477a)
• notifs: auto do not disturb while streaming (#996) (fe8f09b)

Performance

• offload ticking services to a dedicated background worker thread and use queued connections (2898c50)

Bug Fixes

• kwinbridge: compare screen geometry in logical space to prevent multi-monitor hiding (#733) (8ed637d)
• update sha256sum for service file in AUR PKGBUILD (0e596e7)
• add KWin version tracking and on-demand loading for workspace-tracker effect (33dcbef)
• lockscreen: defer authentication responses and add backend heartbeat timer to AuthHandler (f4ff3fc)
• bar: drop the unused bar.popouts import from Toggles (#1120) (47814ca)
• shell: hold the updater terminal open and widen slow toasts (6472a0f)
• change background wlrlayer from Bottom to Background (e883ea8)
• screenshot: kill the snapshot when it ignores the timeout signal (15c347e)
• screenshot: move snapshot timeout into TempScreenshotProcess via exec timeout (bfc1f9f)
• shell: name the duration the Anim type supplies (566420f)
• shell: contain the menu's overscroll (a5a9fed)
• shell: bound the tooltip and share the dialog buttons (c34b291)
• shell: outline content photos and use the scrim token (afcfc1d)
• shell: give disabled controls a static cue (32503ff)
• shell: reach the overview motion from the animations switch (ee5cdac)
• wallpaper-switcher: update previewTimer to 500ms (18f6d81)
• qml linting issues (64069cc)
• qml linting issues (0d825fb)
• shell: answer the motion review (f4e4c29)
• screenshot: back out when the snapshot fails or hangs (9750aff)
• launcher: read app names in full on the browse tiles (fd08890)
• shell: slide the calendar month in the scroll direction (c114aa5)
• desktop: open the context menu at its full height (56b4cc4)
• nexus: share the dialog transition and shorten the exit (7f9d022)
• bar: give a connecting Bluetooth device a static cue (19f1cd9)
• shell: make the calendars' month motion reversible (4a3985a)
• shell: suppress colour transitions while a palette lands (2520613)
• test: assert file contents in the streaming dnd suite (1e1d5bc)
• comments: keep qmllint directives (9f78f35)
• drawers: keep the top layer while the shell holds keyboard focus (#1080) (7c394d3)
• wallpapers: end the preview hold when the applied scheme lands (f73bb52)
• ci: scope the release offline proxy to build steps (d42ef08)
• config: honor XDG config path for stolen screen edges (259ff79)
• config: honor XDG config path for keybinds (98ed909)
• config: honor XDG config path for stolen shortcuts (89f7e84)

Caelestia v2.6.1

What's New in v2.6.1

Features

• hide desktop lyrics when music is not playing and remove loading indicator (7a503fb)
• add desktop clock, shapes, and lyrics widgets to desktop icons … (#1084) (5de1fd0)
• nexus: more per-setting reset buttons (#1077) (26b358d)
• launcher: add truncated name display modes (4099b1b)
• launcher: show full app names on hover (c2d2f51)

Performance

• dashboard: release tab panes when the drawer closes (baca5c4)
• dashboard: bound the notes empty-state pulse instead of looping forever (60643f9)
• dashboard: debounce the usage shape so it stops morphing every tick (3c18004)
• dashboard: stop the notes pulse when the drawer is closed (5bb4320)
• lockscreen: fetch mpris state in a single ipc call (a5a7b01)

Bug Fixes

• login: only select the SDDM theme with the greeter that runs it (5d4e169)
• install: give a fresh install five virtual desktops (3f6f149)
• implement emoji dictionary fallback and merging logic with tests (974e7df)
• updater: skip sparse checkout for missing paths (a661010)
• idle: map the inhibitor window so stay awake actually inhibits (8bb1cbd)
• launcher: keep the tile's favourite button out of the flip (c60567c)

Caelestia v2.6.0

What's New in v2.6.0

Features

• nexus: add per-setting reset buttons across pages (#1055) (9e7f43d)
• dashboard: add keepAlive timer to dashboard wrapper to prevent premature unloading (6f7c1f2)
• dashboard: note types with dedicated editors (#1038) (49e5a1b)
• brightness: render the dimming multiplier in the OSD (ee83b36)
• brightness: read and clear the dimming multiplier (a5a7b73)
• bar: Now Playing widget for bar (#1023) (c732356)
• nexus: align reset buttons and cover more settings pages (#1009) (8790752)
• appearance: follow system font option and default (#1020) (40fb1df)
• kde: keep an unanswered transfer request answerable (5b53e81)
• kde: add the Quick Share settings page (e64fca3)
• kde: add the Quick Share quick toggle (fd0d45f)
• kde: add the Quick Share utilities card (30fd89c)
• kde: add the Quick Share shell service (f73c378)
• kde: allow notifications the shell raises itself (72ab428)
• kde: add the Quick Share transfer backend (3a0966f)
• desktop: add widgets and large folders (#938) (0317ac5)
• desktop: rework icons with selection, keyboard, groups and drag and drop (#937) (9680ee8)
• background: toggle desktop icons from the menu or a middle click, unfold the desktop menu sideways (#936) (399be85)
• desktop: fix launcher renaming, launching and label alignment (#935) (c276fa2)
• sidebar: resize the pinned sidebar by dragging its edge (#926) (fd98633)
• nexus: shrink secondary text to 10pt (5b36d43)
• nexus: align per-element scale columns with row resets (9b43a22)
• visualiser: choose the capture source between output and input (a48f294)
• nexus: plugin update badge with in-place update action (#577) (#1003) (9bafc4c)
• utilities: paginated quick toggles with dots and per-page setting (#999) (b42f36a)
• nexus: alignment above offset sliders in desktop lyrics (5156eb0)
• nexus: position above offset sliders in desktop addons (b74af13)
• background: fine position offsets for desktop clock (9ef20f8)
• nexus: export full config to YAML via script (7a117c3)
• nexus: export full config to YAML (b447885)
• nexus: export configuration to YAML (7c7f2a6)
• launcher: add multiple app browser layouts (#931) (8fd2002)
• nexus: per-setting reset buttons on appearance page (#978) (1f6554d)
• utilities: reorder toggles by dragging in drawer (#979) (9916245)
• nexus: shortcut conflict warning and compact capture dialog (#991) (0262689)
• bar: right-click opens settings for os icon, power and show desktop (#988) (cb77754)
• bar: dock now supports shortcuts to open/focus apps (#983) (dcda959)
• plugins: install from git source (47b0cba)
• plugins: notify available plugin updates (318b7f4)
• plugins: notify available plugin updates (70e53f4)
• background: fine position offsets for desktop lyrics (1bbbb82)
• background: visualiser size as unit multiplier (186d22f)
• background: configurable visualiser side width (879399c)
• background: add size multiplier to visualiser margins (fd148d3)
• utilities: add custom order mode for quick toggles (#974) (590d7d1)
• utilities: add screenshot card with quick capture actions (#944) (fa0aeda)
• utilities: add edit shortcut to quick toggles card (#971) (634ebff)
• nexus: add an uninstall action to the About page (e2cb9cd)
• dashboard: Notes tab & hourly weather (#915) (b97a149)
• dock: ungrouped icons option (#897) (0368bfc)
• bar: right context menu for each bar component (#896) (7d80118)
• sidebar: pin it open and reserve its space (#869) (f60d72a)
• sidebar: open on the last used tab, or a configurable one (#870) (5d0c819)
• network: add a Wi-Fi hotspot toggle (9f7a339)
• network: add a Wi-Fi hotspot toggle (ad24290)

Performance

• launcher: pre-warm the drawer instead of building it on open (755c751)
• launcher: load the keybinds, animations and window-switcher pages asynchronously (5475ad9)
• keybinds: push JS filtering and sorting into C++ query() (83f2855)
• appdb: expose alphaApps property for O(1) QML alphabetical lists (1574f4e)
• allapps: replace O(N log N) JS inline sort with C++ cached property (51e1200)
• notifs: replace O(N) list pushes with O(1) batch initialization (57b579c)
• kwinworkspacestate: replace std::sort with counting sort for desktops (dacdde4)
• keybinds: cache defaultKeybinds() and pre-lower search strings (ab9ae87)
• appdb: replace O(N log N) full resort with O(log N) PBDS rank tree (5f936de)
• fs-model: replace repeated lower_bound+insert with std::inplace_merge (62ec1c3)
• emoji: replace O(N*L) scan with trigram inverted index (09e139a)
• optimize window list updates and active state handling in KWinActiveWindowBridge (b79a579)
• add #900 changes + keep overview alive (3ecc5a7)

Bug Fixes

• launcher: clear search text when launcher wrapper finishes closing animation (b7b7ea3)
• launcher: decide the search field on open instead of resetting on close (4eb1e51)
• nexus: correct the bar scroll action halves in the settings text (15c606c)
• i18n: complete the French catalog (#1068) (b5784d9)
• workflows: check for XDG_RUNTIME_DIR before running systemctl user commands in shell build script (1266da4)
• tray: preserve Quickshell image provider URLs (7ae6516)
• correct issues in QuickShare UI and related scripts (9b941f2)
• i18n: complete the spanish catalog (#1053) (d853ea9)
• cli: wait for the old shell before restarting it (922394d)
• kde: skip Quick Share's protobuf headers during moc (32b6493)
• Colors: cargo matugen check once on next shell startup (b6f8a06)
• brightness: step relative changes from the value the screen renders (9fb2165)
• brightness: keep KWin's record in sync for throttled writes (0db7bc8)
• brightness: record queued writes in the cache so the OSD follows the drag (4cfeceb)
• kde: give Quick Share's system access one owner (df04e26)
• overview: scale workspace indicator with screen height (a8f3b75)
• automate manual steps (ffd51d0)
• nexus: make the config export lossless and complete (2fa1dcc)
• launcher: gate the drawer pre-warm on launcher.enabled (494fca9)
• nexus: hide drawer frame on fullscreen wallhaven page (6343ef3)
• include assets/ in update sparse-checkout (5d386f1)
• kde: read the endpoint info record as the bytes protobuf hands over (e767e61)
• kde: keep received file names safe and outgoing sends bounded (33b5987)
• kde: compile and format the Quick Share protocol core (335786d)
• nexus: drop duplicated reset block breaking the shell (#1031) (44f3e81)
• nexus: lossless YAML export with proper failure reporting (96a0086)
• brightness: keep KWin's brightness record in sync with DDC writes (b154c55)
• services: keep parser failures from taking the service down (4b499ce)
• kde: guard the transfer prompt against being dismissed (d3dce08)
• kde: rename the prompt flag off the reserved word transient (7960a41)
• brightness: re-read hardware before honouring a no-op (f835a35)
• ai: restore the pre-refactor tool prompt whitespace (ff6e8c2)
• installer: apply review: one typed menu parse and a real warnings summary (c4e6729)
• scripts: keep the installer diagnostics reachable (d311ddf)
• installer: make the with-warnings summary real and menu.json non-fatal (c6b8c7b)
• installer: pin the source fallback and install the right COPR package (2f2b678)
• ai: make the tool-call tests actually run (d9ca078)
• utilities: record/capture switcher state and wheel switching (#1019) (317ad16)
• nexus: stop pages stacking (1c776ac)
• uninstall: record the install checkout (c349125)
• launcher: size the app icon from the row, keep it synchronous (1eb9741)
• images: do not request an icon before it has a real size (16d05b6)
• kde: stop wl-clip-persist re-offering app-private formats (#942) (36d83ab)
• visualiser: read the capture mode at start instead of mirroring it (0ab2658)
• centralize visualiser input ownership in AudioCollector and drop redundant CavaProvider mirror (524c8fa)
• ui: size icons from existing values, drop the 16px floors (#924) (29ed2b7)
• launcher: floor the AppTile icon size like the other icon fixes (#924) (3b092dc)
• ui: size icons by container, not by load time (#924) (c8406d5)
• nexus: use implicit shift for shifted symbols in key capture (8b34c1d)
• nexus: check x11 scancodes first (4f421f7)
• nexus: normalize shift+digit in key capture (ea63a29)
• nexus: export per-monitor configs (3807757)
• nexus: only fail export on real stderr (103a70e)
• drawers: clear stale panel background when a drawer hides (dd57b90)
• brightness: support the pre-6.7 per-output kde_output_device_v2 protocol (#965) (82397d3)
• nexus: unify clipboard entry limit range (#982) (ea77cc3)
• notifications: plain-text sanitized collapsed preview (4b45b79)
• notifs: strip markup from one-line body previews (919da5b)
• notifs: load absolute image-path hints as files (453e914)
• background: visualiser size pushes bars outward (d8816ce)
• allapps: keep hidden apps reachable in the app list (#969) (d86ece4)
• nexus: drop dead Compact toggle from greeter settings (#973) (58370b0)
• i18n: translate launcher action names and descriptions (#962) (d610ee4)
• i18n: apply placeholder args in uptime and duration formats (#966) (3dfbc8c)
• ai: refetch model list when keyring key arrives (a4ecd4f)
• i18n: wrap hardcoded strings in tr()/qsTr (92bba26)
• font: only emit fontsChanged when the built fonts changed (c5a3dd1)
• sddm: scale welcome greeting to fit narrow screens (a90dff0)
• track ethernet device state changes (57ee1bd)
• i18n: wrap hardcoded UI strings in qsTr (f56f4b6)
• services: format shell dates with the system locale (a335285)
• tests: update the uninstall button test to support colors in uninstalldialog (32afd65)
• uninstaller probe process not starting and warn scene due to missing import (e51aba5)
• nexus: reindent uninstall dialog popup body (1e9d025)
• defer lockscreen sleep request (8384d8f)
• keep lockscreen input focused (af2eeb4)
• clear lockscreen password on hide (...

Caelestia v2.5.1

What's New in v2.5.1

Features

• desktop: per-icon context menu (#883) (063f913)
• whatsnew: open the matching settings page from a feature (#884) (c52f2e4)
• bar: make clock component sizes responsive to bar scale (0055acd)
• add raise function to focus nexus in WindowFactory (f4e43eb)
• add status icons context menu popout (0eada35)
• dock hover window peak 500ms delay to prevent accidental flickers (df5f0a5)
• bar: add calendar popout for the clock (#812) (38ff740)
• network: manage multiple saved profiles for the same SSID (e3fe60b)
• scripts: download the default wallpaper pack during updates (95861de)
• nexus: add a manual light/dark mode selector to the colors page (d0818ca)
• ai: wire the chat history toggle (a750abe)

Performance

• overview: keep the wallpaper layer alive between opens (#900) (91d9f2e)
• gpu: never wake a suspended dGPU to measure it (#824) (6fa4f31)
• update: fetch metadata only, and cap the depth (b97d661)

Bug Fixes

• revert perf(overview): keep the wallpaper layer alive... for now (a287138)
• dashboard: revert smallweather and profile avatar size to original in favour of fonts drop (af4fc59)
• support WPA3 key-mgmt selection (13a349e)
• bar: let the calendar popout displace notifications like the others (#882) (200ea77)
• launcher: stop the app grid from crashing on stale desktop entries (a2af3b4)
• update: stop the tweak path from stomping user settings (55d79ab)
• systemd: install the update-checker units (d636aa7)
• switch to QStringList (bf42ce0)
• installer: add matugen helper library and integrate into distro installation scripts (9639637)
• i18n: clear dummy translations and fully translate Arabic (4e3a1a7)
• remove backticks from caelestia update in build-shell comment causing build errors (13ae4d6)
• bar: status icon dragging not working (67f6dfa)
• dock: re-add import quickshell in dock to fix dock crash (9bc230d)
• color: end a preview on an outcome and state smart from the shell (bcb206d)
• i18n: improve Spanish translations (#856) (8d6fca5)
• launcher: revert image and wallpaper changes, restore windows, keybinds, and animations (e304362)
• put appmenu on a diet (b284256)
• network: act on a saved profile from every network page (e614b35)
• network: act on the selected saved profile, not the SSID (2715f20)
• network: take the network down before a profile switch (d8fa387)
• installer: put the command directory on the session PATH (441674d)
• installer: drop the CLI check the packages step cannot satisfy (9a1042c)
• launch: keep only the bar launch routing changes per review feedback (7e47c9c)
• color: restore the desktop apply's name and the test env (afb892a)
• scripts: do not warn about our own missing checksum (903944b)
• installer: report a failed prebuilt download on stderr (f5a97a2)
• wallpaper: sort by perceptual colour distance as dominant colours load (876d7da)
• installer: stop pip-installing the legacy Python CLI (dc02fd9)
• arpc: point the Discord GitHub button at this repo (20daea5)
• shortcuts: launch the configured terminal instead of hardcoded foot (c01de53)
• keybinds: return the real keybind list from the property (f72f62c)
• nexus: make the global bar position win over per-monitor overrides (eff1c42)
• launch: route the remaining launches through the Launch module (8b1de8a)
• installer: report a failed prebuilt download on stderr (64c90b8)
• color: let a caller state smart mode instead of reading it back (d183816)
• color: make a color switch land at once and keep what the wallpaper picked (922c599)
• nexus: exempt the app info sub-page from the search audit (d2fa163)
• nexus: index the new claude cli setting for search (94c58a8)
• Remove Power management from caelestia and let kde settings manage it. (597e0de)
• aur: refuse to build without a source checksum (375b19b)
• ai: make the claude cli tool bypass opt in (229f292)
• plugins: pass index values to the install script as arguments (b2c361e)
• shell: pass secrets to secret-tool in the environment (c2164f5)
• ai: download the claude installer before running it (7404ea8)
• scripts: verify the todoist appimage download (0073e0b)
• scripts: validate the login screen sudoers rule (a674a37)
• scripts: download the ollama installer before running it (c9ed4b3)
• scripts: refuse unsafe prebuilt shell archives (37ab497)
• scripts: check the cava sdk archive before unpacking it (f103d27)
• installer: quote the shim paths in generated scripts (2bb72cb)
• installer: check the password without a shell or path lookup (282c9b1)
• installer: keep the cache directory and install log private (175b51e)
• installer: remove the shell from the cache cleanup (f3cd534)
• installer: harden privilege, download and uinput handling (7f0dd77)

Caelestia v2.5.0

What's New in v2.5.0

Features

• dock: show app badges on dock icons (7c29aee)
• services: add the launcher entry service (28e7aa6)
• components: port AnimatedRepeater from upstream (f8d21e2)
• config: type the workspace icon rules (f34fb65)
• ambient glow (#803) (ed689fd)
• settings: add QVariant union types (e7e4b15)
• lock: reveal the typed password from the greeter's leading icon (a68ec48)

Bug Fixes

• ensure caelestia env variables when systemd does not start the session (33e4541)
• sddm theme did not install when plasmalogin binary present too (5027841)
• services: read the idle timeout list through the typed list (6257448)
• settings: only convert a list write, not every mismatch (760f7d2)
• settings: accept a convertible type for a multi-type option (0666be5)
• settings: reject global option access from overlay layers (8921fee)
• nexus: open the clock format list upwards (0399552)
• dashboard: wrap long weather conditions (dc3da59)
• bar: stop reserving window icon space when maxWindowIcons is 0 (989cbaf)
• services: only list physical ethernet interfaces (d81ded3)
• bar: collapse a tray submenu that holds only separators (51697a4)
• bar: constrain audio device labels to a fixed popout width (5059c3d)
• filedialog: match filter suffixes case-insensitively (c8f4178)
• lyrics: bind hasLyrics to the signal that fires after it changes (42b7857)
• icons: settle each ask once and retry only a new window (0f28f10)
• installer: stop an unset HOME aborting the TUI (7d73e08)
• scripts: clear the lint failures keeping python-quality red (2e5121f)
• clipboard: settle a wipe once, whatever the signal order (0f1c0bc)
• weather: bound the forecast walk by the shortest array (149ff25)
• notifs: stop a cap of zero evicting the newest notification (1c6fd66)
• github: guard the contribution chain before dereferencing (b572a75)
• screenedges: push restored corners to KWin after a crash (f491a7c)
• icons: stop a failed icon lookup blocking a retry (7a0ff94)
• shortcuts: bind the new keys when gdbus cannot be spawned (985ff90)

Caelestia v2.4.3

What's New in v2.4.3

Features

• color: render a generated palette at a chosen intensity (#791) (7f91352)
• better network selection popup row (b42cfb6)
• i18n: add Spanish translation (d06438c)
• single source of icons for all drawers (a3cad98)
• add advanced color page back (432376c)
• emoji-db now reads emojis from kde directly (9320556)
• app right click menu in launcher and separate dock pinned app list (4b88ee1)
• per workspace apps and window preview on dock (4755c30)
• installer: register the window rules step (b2a8cc2)
• apply window rules for opacity, dialogs and picture-in-picture (949c9fb)
• services: offer temperature and data sizes as unit enums (7e0fc67)
• plugin: render enum values as names and guard saveItem (2a83804)
• lock: toggle password visibility (3d95adb)
• bar: add clock seconds and workspace visibility options (b16aac1)
• cli: say how to start the shell without logging out (39b71c1)
• package: the fonts move from the package to the install (31befaf)
• install: the login screen comes from the package (03beee3)
• package: ship the user's half, and clone the tag for it (9d5230e)
• install: start the shell from one systemd unit (fa7fb99)
• cli: apply the user's half from a packaged install (92b0569)
• install: pass the install kind to the step scripts (2ed8aa5)
• login: configure Plasma Login's greeter as well as SDDM's (5b22820)
• bar: make the status icons an ordered list in the config (c247123)
• utilities: add the game mode quick toggle (f95f7f1)
• nexus: add the featured wallpaper tile (d3ecd4a)
• bar: use upstream's displayType for the workspace indicator (3f0b8c4)
• bar: let bar.workspaces.ignoredTags decide which windows get an icon (0f22f96)
• aur: ship the command, the palette data, the lock screen and the effect (fdc5cbf)
• color: apply the palette to the desktop instead of handing it to a daemon (b9548b8)
• color: generate the palette ourselves with matugen (a6956ec)
• theme: add a matugen template for scheme.json (8607750)
• cli: add the caelestia dispatcher and its tests (f15f860)
• commands toggle in launcher (80185a1)
• consistancy for click & hover effects (54444b7)
• buttons now follow one base animation (2d14934)
• animation consistency in codebase (0b27815)

Performance

• storage: collect disks off the GUI thread (36f4f27)
• gpu: probe usage and name without shell chains (c43f639)
• defer startup work and silence KDE Hyprland fallbacks (70bcc8f
• lower clock precision without breaking recorder (79b9011)
• stop the logo animations while their window is off screen (8ad9894)
• only hold the audio analysis services while the shapes are shown (0335db5)
• stop analysing digital silence in the visualiser (a8e067b)

Bug Fixes

• resolve the sourced-from directory at source time (6b44a65)
• osd: keep the brightness icon on the brightness slider (#744) (194f4e3)
• color: hold the intensity slider until the render lands (36465d4)
• installer: configure the TUI build from a clean directory (caecc0f)
• scripts: choose the package manager by distro, not by PATH (a77d02d)
• scripts: locate the sparse-checkout rules in a worktree (50d53db)
• scripts: require BUNDLE_DIR and read the distro directly (ae6e6fc)
• scripts: stop reading an unanswered install kind as a checkout (5010fcd)
• installer: guard the CAVA SDK fetch and move Darkly to its own module (af3f14e)
• uninstall: source the shared helpers instead of shimming them (8ab9cf9)
• lib: report an unresolvable install directory (6de70c)
• uninstall: remove only installed packages, via the shared helpers (672b50a)
• uninstall: only hand installed packages to the package managers (b1bcda4)
• scripts: keep the update path's package check and submodule abort (d221209)
• scripts: use caelestia_sudo in setup.sh and the KDE deploy step (c50e08d)
• installer: stop repeating Darkly and CAVA work on updates (854ecb1)
• do not remove system level pkgs during uninstallation (64c80ad)
• call packages.sh from build-shell directly to ensure everything is uptodate ([3cb8ed6](3cb8ed67a6d90ff1a97a4edc43e43...

Caelestia v2.4.2

What's New in v2.4.2

Features

• update whatsnew entries (ab3933c)
• install the SDDM theme by default (6e919c7)
• notification multi monitor support and mute when fullscreen (6d2d0e6)
• window switcher addons (#710) (44f97dd)
• audio reactive material shape to desktop addons (41c8ed8)
• add whatsnew shortcut, ipc handler and launcher action (ce81302)
• track whatsnew acknowledgement by revision (34c28e4)
• cava prebuild integration (a693664)
• add per-monitor taskbar position in Nexus settings (f29441d)
• gate GIF recorder behind a config toggle (default off) (44054da)
• add SDDM theme as optional installer module (e4a91ce)
• add GIF recording option and fix drag-reorder bug (1aa315d)

Performance

• fluid window switcher (c540f42)
• cache window previews thumbnails to load them instantly (752f9a4)

Bug Fixes

• add missing dependencies (73a48f5)
• remove unlinked submodule (#722) (63d53e4)
• build libcava from AUR for the prebuilt shell asset (#674) (fc16683)
• fix bug in installer UI (ec16651)
• avoid shell interpolation in inhibitor handling (2216312)
• address remaining review findings (007ec20)
• bar unhiding a little when switching workspaces with dodgeFocusedWindows (87e1bda)
• correctly identify arch for libcava installation (1490824)
• rename conflicting whatsnew window methods (31334d4)
• update shell restart method (9ed3d2c)
• report non-fatal SDDM theme problems as WARN, not FAILED (693edd1)
• address second round of review feedback (708b094)
• show GIF recordings in RecordingList (e5b12ea)
• use delegateWrapper dims to avoid reparent rebind in drag fix (5cf6a07)
• address review feedback for SDDM theme integration (4c8c591)
• address review comments (104ee3e)
• prune the deleted submodules from local git (0b8e5ee)

Caelestia v2.4.1

What's New in v2.4.1

Features

• Troubleshooting for update issues (7349b97)
• greeter addons (#682) (e543de2)
• DodgeWindows now works on both monitors + a typeerror fix (1af13e8)
• network popout sections and related warn scene fixes (6768cde)
• Weather.cpp service used by Lockscreen and Weather.qml (dd3db19)

Bug Fixes

• lockscreen Authentication timeout (93f4f07)
• Include missing dependencies for fedora and ubuntu with a autoverifying workflow (7d8a77a)
• include missing dependencies (d3793e1)
• color page now have variants tuning and more options in advanced settings (74ff5b0)
• simpilfy dodgewindow logic to work for multiscreen setups (3ca09ae)
• Clipboard now correctly displays high res img and blank img race condition gone (412dcb1)
• Workspace tracker correctly parse desktop signal and multimonitor swipe isolation (51b92c4)
• hook fingerprint config with shell.json (2430f68)
• remove unreliable clear notification timer and qml lint conventions followed (6955208)
• CAELESTIA_FORCE_BUILD_SHELL = true until correct fix found (44b5be9)

May your desktop always reflect the stars.