casilda/CHANGELOG.md

Changelog

This documents user relevant changes, closed issues from (Gitlab)[https://gitlab.gnome.org/jpu/casilda/-/issues/] and packaging changes like new dependencies or build system changes.

Casilda used even/odd minor numbers to differentiate between stable and development releases.

1.5.0 Unreleased

• Add clipboard support
• Fix modifiers in pointer button press events
• Add keyboard Caps/Num/Scroll Lock support
• Fix popup of popup crash
• Fix maximized/fullscreen state handling
• Fix modifiers flags creation (Evgenii Danilin)
• Drop cursor surface listeners when the surface is destroyed (Evgenii Danilin)
• Close dup'd plane FDs when a dmabuf import fails (Evgenii Danilin)
• Advertise a valid output scale to avoid a scale-0 assert (Evgenii Danilin)
• Unref the wayland GSource (Evgenii Danilin)
• Meson config cleanup (Val Packett)

Packaging

• Add explicit libdrm dependency

1.4.0

2026-05-22 - Val Packett Release!

• Drop wlr_renderer, import buffers directly (Val Packett)
• Handle buffer transforms (Val Packett)
• Add support for continuous scroll events (Val Packett)
• Add touchpad gesture support (Val Packett)
• Add option to disable dmabuf support at build time

Packaging

• Added dmabuf option to disable dmabuf extension

1.2.4

2026-04-19 - 1.2.4 Third bugfix release

• Add basic fractional scale support
• Add viewporter support
• Add support for cursor shape
• Forward keyboard layout changes to clients.
• Snap textures to device pixel grid on fractional scale
• Improve virtual size calculation
• Fix maximized/fullscreen autoresize on compositor size allocation
• Add support for non fractional scale
• Add support for popups reposition
• Migrated to wlroots 0.20
• Fix GdkTexture leak

Packaging

• Casilda now depends on wlroots 0.20 instead of 0.18
• Use installed headers instead of using wayland_scanner to generate them
• Casilda now depends on Gtk 4.22.2 (needed for a leak fix on some vulkan drivers)

Issues

• #19 Add support for popups reposition
• #16 Firefox GTK backdrop/shadow not scaled correctly
• #14 "Support for fractional scaling snap to device grid"
• #13 "Wrong cursor size on client windows"
• #5 "Track keymap layout changes"
• #12 "Support for wlroots-0.19"

1.0.0

2025-09-11 - 1.0 Release

• Add dmabuf support (Val Packett)
• Added vapi generation (PaladinDev)
• Add library soname (Benson Muite
• Implement GtkScrollable iface
• Add casilda_compositor_get_client_socket_fd()
• Add casilda_compositor_spawn_async()
• Remove bg-color property
• Render windows and popups directly in snapshot()
• Position windows on center of widget
• Position transient windows on center of parent
• Fix unmaximize

Packaging

• API/soname version bumped from 0.1 to 1.0
• Small API break (bg-color property was removed)
• Do not install private header casilda-wayland-source.h

Issues

• #8 "Investigate using WAYLAND_SOCKET"
• #7 "Implement GtkScrollable iface"
• #11 "Resource leak causing crash with dmabuf"
• #3 " Unmaximize not working properly"
• #2 "Add dmabuff support" (Val Packett)
• #9 "Bad performance"
• #10 "Add a soname to shared library" (Benson Muite)

0.2.0

2024-09-13 - First Stable Release

• Rename and cleanup CmbCompositor from Cambalache into its own library