v5.0.0-beta.9

Noctalia v5.0.0-beta.9

⚠️ Breaking Changes

• Plugin manifests must now declare a canonical version = "MAJOR.MINOR.PATCH"; manifests with a missing or non-canonical version no longer load, not a concern for all official and community plugins that already respect this convention.

✨ New Features

Bar & Widgets

• Taskbar: drag to reorder pinned applications; configurable icon_scale and item_spacing, with a tighter default spacing in non-grouped mode
• Volume widget: hide_when_inactive toggle
• Audio visualizer: reversed bar direction option
• Workspaces: optional show_all_outputs to display workspaces from every monitor; Hyprland workspaces ordered by id
• System monitor: new gpu_vram_used statistic
• Screenshot region: draggable resize and move handles while selecting
• Text inputs: readline-style editing shortcuts
• Touch screens: drag-to-scroll gesture in scrollable surfaces

Launcher

• App origin indicator toggle ([launcher] show_app_origin_indicator) with AppImage and package origin detection
• Optional desktop actions surfaced in app results ([launcher] show_app_actions)

Plugins

• Plugin API 28: native panel context menus through panel.openContextMenu()
• noctalia.getSetting() reads any effective config value (API 26)
• Process execution accepts direct argv tables in addition to shell command strings
• Desktop widgets can mask the wallpaper (API 25)
• Input frames expose their visibility to plugins (API 27)
• Auto-update scope configurable as All / Official / None via plugins.auto_update
• Plugin store: back-to-catalog button on plugin details

Power & Network

• Battery charge threshold controls in Control Center when the device supports them
• WPA3 SAE connections supported
• Idle behaviors accept a locked_timeout, so e.g. screen_off runs at a shorter interval while locked and re-arms after each wake

Wallpaper & Theme

• Directory wallpaper shuffle avoids repeating an image until the whole set has been shown
• gsettings color-scheme stays in sync with palette mode changes

Notifications

• Notification filters support bypass_dnd for selective DND bypass
• Enabling DND hides already-visible toasts

Calendar

• Day cells open the default calendar app

Settings & Templates

• Widget editor sheets render inside the Settings window
• Disabled built-in templates can be undone
• Umbriel compositor support with an umbriel theme template; Hyprland template gains glow, shadow, and groupbar text colors

i18n

• Right-to-left interface support; Arabic added
• Turkish translation completed

CLI

• noctalia completions generates bash/zsh/fish completions from the live command schema, including dynamic plugin subcommand completions; bundled for Nix

🐛 Notable Fixes

• Lockscreen: locking proceeds while outputs disconnect; fcitx input context preserved after unlock; no crash after hotplugging with a deferred lock; no logind lock-request feedback loop; lock surface recovers after resume
• Notifications: action activation tokens emitted and bound to the source surface; system battery warnings still show during DND
• Tray: detects an existing StatusNotifierWatcher; hover pills align with the bar capsule thickness; passive item filtering is configurable
• Taskbar: tiles retained during title and active changes; group hover pill hit-boxes fixed
• Bar: global font changes apply on config reload; bar and dock surfaces recreated after output moves
• Launcher: localized entry names and regional locale preserved; AppImage origins no longer shadowed by path; fuzzy no-match scores kept; executable paths resolved for origin detection; null-config guard
• Dock: pinned entries matched before the full list
• Settings: tiled buffers no longer inflated past the compositor size; tooltips destroyed before modal close; no layout shift on plugin refresh; no rebuilds on battery metric changes; active settings tab restored after the widget editor exits
• Panels: panel input excluded from the click shield
• Audio: hidden shell sound gain ceiling removed
• Weather: refreshes after startup failures and resume
• Screen Time: tracking pauses while suspended or locked
• Calendar: locked-keyring credential recovery with transient-miss retries
• Network: Wi-Fi toggle no longer snaps back before state catches up
• Fingerprint / Polkit: fingerprint device left alone during suspend; authentication cancelled when its panel closes
• Desktop widgets: placement preserved across output scale changes; clock respects the center-text setting; string-list actions shown in the inspector
• Plugins: translations resolve from the plugin root; clipboard access restored for panels and shortcuts; store keeps scroll offset across rebuilds
• Render: glyph textures refreshed after resume
• Sessions: recursive IPC action commands prevented
• Config: session action fields preserved across overrides; migration warnings point to source keys
• Screenshot: unresponsive outputs skipped during freeze capture
• Theme: container saturation offset scaled by headroom
• Emoji picker: rofl recognized

🔧 Build

• CLI completions generated from the live schema; Nix bundles shell completions
• Source assets path no longer embedded; assets resolve from the install prefix
• Compile fixes: libc++ for icon_resolver
• Nix flake: deprecated xz tarball replaced with zst