v5.0.0-beta.4

✨ New Features

Bar & Widgets

• New Text bar widget
• Taskbar: pinned apps without grouping, idle pinned opacity, workspace group content modes (icons / count / dots), middle-click to close windows
• Battery: display content options (percent / time / rate) and a none display mode
• Sysmon: extra disk stats, text/glyph order and unit visibility, none display type; GPU monitoring on by default
• Media: artist-first display order setting, scroll wheel and side buttons for track skip
• Network: connection state beside the VPN indicator; optional WAN IP in the network widget tooltip
• Notification widget stays visible while its panel is open (with auto-hide)
• Workspace urgent color, per-widget scroll enable, smart auto-hide, show-on-workspace-switch
• Volume widget: effects-profile glyph overrides
• Broader border and shadow options across supported elements

Panels & Launcher

• Global panel anchor bar for multi-bar setups
• Optional list-item background in launcher and clipboard
• Launcher auto-paste after copy activations; opt out of currency exchange fetching
• Clipboard page up/down; encrypted clipboard history with configurable key sources
• Session panel: toggle to show shortcuts
• Window switcher dismisses on outside click
• Polkit panel is no longer dismissed with outside-click

Desktop & OSD

• New Volume desktop widget
• Hot corners: configurable activation delay
• OSD master enable; keyboard backlight OSD; audio sink/source name in volume OSD
• IPC for speaker and mic volume OSD

Calendar & Lock

• CalDAV visibility toggles, event date/time formatting, password-file credentials, secured credential storage
• Password input glyph animation (V4-style eye candy)
• Screenshot: show cursor option

Plugins & Store

• Plugin API 8: dismiss_on_outside_click, hover callbacks, interactive row/column nodes, declarative panel drag-and-drop, string map settings, httpStream, allowInsecureTls
• Plugin store: filter by source, keyboard navigation, Community badge, open plugin webpage

Settings & Security

• Encrypted persistence under a master key (secret store / libsecret)
• Settings window sized to a golden rectangle of the output

Theming

• Firefox theming via noctalia-pywalfox native messaging host

🐛 Notable Fixes

• Panels attach to the first enabled bar when no anchor is set (multi-bar / disabled-bar cases)
• Fixed mode_changed hook not firing
• Settings: confirm individual override resets; overridden filter matches override badges
• Screen corners stay above the bar after bar config changes
• Taskbar: empty workspace scroll, KDE context menus, tooltips on title change, show windows without app id
• Wallpaper: light/dark directories with theme.mode=auto, natural filename sort, favorite palette on auto rotation
• Network: bridge/bond primary and slave link reporting
• PipeWire: don’t override volumes set by other apps; spectrum silent-sample fix
• Hyprland: focus launch monitor; workspace refresh after change_id
• Dock / bar hit targets, tooltips, and context-menu dismiss polish
• Ctrl shortcuts under non-Latin layouts; desktop-entry escaped characters
• Plugins: callback CPU budgets, detached commands without login shell, catalog git off the main thread
• Lockscreen custom keyboard-layout labels; idle grace torn down before suspend
• Swedish and Turkish language registration

🔧 Build

• Packaging guide (PACKAGING.md) and distro/Repology notes
• New: libsodium and libsecret dependencies
• Native CPU optimizations opt-in; meson dependency-version regex fix