# Dunst changelog

## 1.5.0 - 2020-07-23

### Added
- `min_icon_size` option to automatically scale up icons to a desired value (#674)
- `vertical_alignment` option to control the text/icon alignment within the notification (#684)
- Ability to configure multiple actions for each mouse event (#705)
- `dunstctl` command line control client (#651)
- RGBA support for all color strings (#717)
- Ability to run multiple scripts for each notification
- `ignore_dbusclose` setting (#732)

### Changed
- `dunstify` notification client is now installed by default (#701)
- Keyboard follow mode falls back to the monitor with the mouse if no window has keyboard focus (#708)

### Fixed
- Overflow when setting a >=40 minute timeout (#646)
- Unset configuration options not falling back to default values (#649)
- Crash when `$HOME` environment variable is unset (#693)
- Lack of antialiasing with round corners enabled (#713)

## 1.4.1 - 2019-07-03

### Fixed

- `max_icon_size` not working with dynamic width (#614)
- Failure to parse color strings with trailing comments in the config (#626)
- Negative width in geometry being ignored (#628)
- Incorrect handling of the argument terminator `--` in dunstify
- Crash when changing DPI while no notifications are displayed (#630)
- Fullscreen status change not being detected in some cases (#613)

## 1.4.0 - 2019-03-30

### Added

- Add support to override `frame_color` via rules (#498)
- Support for round corners (#420)
- Ability to reference `$HOME` in icon paths with `~/` (#520)
- Support to customize the mouse bindings (#530)
- Command to toggle pause status (#535)
- Ability to automatically replace similar notifications (like volume changes)
  via `stack_tag` (#552)
- Comparison of raw icons for duplicate notifications (#571)
- Introduce new desktop-entry filter (#470)
- `fullscreen` rule to hide notifications when a fullscreen window is active (#472)
- Added `skip_display` rule option to skip initial notification display, and
  include the notification in the history. (#590)

### Fixed

- Notification age not counting the time while the computer was suspended (#492)
- Dunst losing always-on-top status on a window manager restart (#160)
- Xpm icons not being recognized
- When new notifications arrive, but display is full, important notifications don't
  have to wait for a timeout in a displayed notification (#541)
- Dunst hanging while the context menu is open (#456)
- Having & inside a notification breaking markup (#546)
- `<I> more` notifications don't occupy space anymore, if there is only a single
  notification waiting to get displayed. The notification gets displayed directly (#467)
- Segfault when comparing icon name with a notification with a raw icon (#536)
- Icon size can no longer be larger than the notification when a fixed width is specified (#540)

### Changed

- Transient notifications no longer skip history by default (#508)
- The notification summary no longer accepts markup (#497)

### Removed

- Dependency on libxdg-basedir (#550)

## 1.3.2 - 2018-05-06

### Fixed

- Crash when trying to load an invalid or corrupt icon (#512)

## 1.3.1 - 2018-01-30

### Fixed

- Race condition resulting in the service files being empty (#488)

## 1.3.0 - 2018-01-05

### Added
- `ellipsize` option to control how long lines should be ellipsized when `word_wrap` is set to `false` (#374)
- A beginning tilde of a path is now expanded to the home of the current user (#351)
- The image-path hint is now respected, as GApplications send their icon only via this link (#447)
- The (legacy) image\_data hint is now respected (#353)
- If dunst can't acquire the DBus name, dunst prints the PID of the process holding the name (#458 #460)
- Increased accuracy of timeouts by using microseconds internally (#379 #291)
- Support for specifying timeout values in milliseconds, minutes, hours, or days. (#379)
- Support for HTML img tags (via context menu) (#428)

### Fixed
- `new_icon` rule being ignored on notifications that had a raw icon (#423)
- Format strings being replaced recursively in some cases (#322 #365)
- DBus related memory leaks (#397)
- Crash on X11 servers with RandR support less than 1.5. (#413 #364)
- Silently reading the default config file, if `-conf` did not specify a valid file (#452)
- Notification window flickering when a notification is replaced (#320 #415)
- Inaccurate timeout in some cases (#291 #379)

### Changed
- Transient hints are now handled (#343 #310)
  An additional rule option (`match_transient` and `set_transient`) is added
  to optionally reset the transient setting
- HTML links are now referred to by their text in the context menu rather than numbers (#428)
- `icon_folders` setting renamed to `icon_path` (#170)
- `config.def.h` and `config.h` got merged (#371)
- The dependency on GTK3+ has been removed. Instead of GTK3+, dunst now
  requires gdk-pixbuf which had been a transient dependency before. (#334
  #376)
- The `_GNU_SOURCE` macros had been removed to make dunst portable to nonGNU systems (#403)
- Internal refactorings of the notification queue handling. (#411)
- Dunst does now install the systemd and dbus service files into their proper location given
  by pkg-config. Use `SERVICEDIR_(DBUS|SYSTEMD)` params to overwrite them. (#463)

## 1.2.0 - 2017-07-12

### Added
- `always_run_script` option to run script even if a notification is suppressed
- Support for more icon file types
- Support for raw icons
- `hide_duplicate_count` option to hide the number of duplicate notifications
- Support for per-urgency frame colours
- `markup` setting for more fine-grained control over how markup is handled
- `history_ignore` rule action to exclude a notification from being added to the history
- Support for setting the dpi value dunst will use for font rendering via the `Xft.dpi` X resource
- Experimental support for per-monitor dpi calculation
- `max_icon_size` option to scale down icons if they exceed a certain size
- Middle click on notifications can be used to trigger actions
- Systemd service file, installed by default
- `%n` format flag for getting progress value without any extra characters

### Changed
- Text and icons are now centred vertically
- Notifications aren't considered duplicate if urgency or icons differ
- The maximum length of a notification is limited to 5000 characters
- The frame width and color settings were moved to the global section as `frame_width` and `frame_color` respectively
- Dropped Xinerama in favour of RandR, Xinerama can be enabled with the `-force_xinerama` option if needed

### Deprecated
- `allow_markup` is deprecated with `markup` as its replacement
- The urgency specific command line flags have been deprecated with no replacement, respond to issue #328 on the bug tracker if you depend on them

### Fixed
- Infinite loop if there are 2 configuration file sections with the same name
- URLs with dashes and underscores in them are now parsed properly
- Many memory leaks
- Category based rules were applied without actually matching
- dmenu command not parsing quoted arguments correctly
- Icon alignment with dynamic width
- Issue when loading configuration files with very long lines
- '\n' is no longer expanded to a newline inside notification text
- Notification window wasn't redrawn if obscured on systems without a compositor
- `ignore_newline` now works regardless of the markup setting
- dmenu process being left as a zombie if no option was selected
- Crash when opening urls parsed from `<a href="">` tags

## 1.1.0 - 2014-07-29
- fix nasty memory leak
- icon support (still work in progress)
- fix issue where keybindings aren't working when numlock is activated

## 1.0.0 - 2013-04-15
- use pango/cairo as drawing backend
- make use of pangos ability to parse markup
- support for actions via context menu
- indicator for actions/urls found
- use blocking I/O. No more waking up the CPU multiple times per second to check for new dbus messages

## 0.5.0 - 2013-01-26
- new default dunstrc
- frames for window
- trigger scripts on matching notifications
- context menu for urls (using dmenu)
- pause and resume function
- use own code for ini parsing (this removes inih)
- progress hints

## 0.4.0 - 2012-09-27
- separator between notifications
- word wrap long lines
- real transparance
- bouncing text (alternative to word_wrap)
- new option for line height
- better multihead support
- don't die when keybindings can't be grabbed
- bugfix: forgetting geometry
- (optional) static configuration

## 0.3.1 - 2012-08-02
- fix -mon option

## 0.3.0 - 2012-07-30
- full support for Desktop Notification Specification (mandatory parts)
- option to select monitor on which notifications are shown
- follow focus
- oneline mode
- text alignment
- show age of notifications
- sticky history
- filter duplicate messages
- keybinding to close all notifications
- new way to specify keybindings
- cleanup / bugfixes etc.
- added dunst.service

## 0.2.0 - 2012-06-26
- introduction of dunstrc
- removed static configuration via config.h
- don't timeout when user is idle
- xft-support
- history (a.k.a. redisplay old notifications)