✨ New Features

Bar & Widgets

• Smart auto-hide for the bar (show on empty workspace, hide when windows are open)
• Per-widget interactive toggle in widget settings
• Workspace widget focus-hint style; workspace appear/disappear animations
• Taskbar: minimal style option for workspace labels
• Network widget: optional VPN name label when a VPN is connected
• Clock widgets (bar and desktop): timezone setting
• Custom images on bar widgets expand ~ / user paths

Dock

• Smart auto-hide option (same empty-workspace behavior as the bar)
• Drag-to-reorder pinned icons
• Border color and width settings (same model as the bar)
• Focus newly launched apps from the dock more reliably

Launcher

• Configurable per-provider prefixes and global-search opt-in
• Provider presence/status validation; prefix controls in Settings
• Freeform dmenu query arguments; plugin setQuery is prefix-relative

Plugins

• Plugin store: 24 plugins are now available
• Persistent per-plugin storage via noctalia.pluginDataDir()
• Lifecycle onExit; scroll forwarded to Luau as onScroll
• Color picker dialog API; noctalia.appIconPath icon resolution
• Bar widgets expose barWidget.outputName
• Plugin store: clearer update UI, source badge colors, header links to noctalia.dev / GitHub
• Setting labels use label_key only (breaking for plugins still using plain label)
• Declarative UI: button tooltips and a controlSize height tier

Theming & Appearance

• Global button border toggle
• Pure black dark mode for OLED panels
• Custom theme colors: color_dark / color_light
• Day/night schedule: custom times for theme switching
• Mango: group_bar_decorate color tokens

Settings & Sessions

• Accessibility section: ui_scale and high_contrast moved under [accessibility]
• Session panel: grid layout option; power settings consolidated
• Settings migration helper; stricter config validation before save / on reload
• Lockscreen login box: center password text toggle
• Wallpaper: option to disable all transition effects
• Setup wizard sets a default wallpaper

Notifications / OSD

• Border toggles for notification toasts and OSD popups (on by default)

System & Compositor

• Sysmon: Support for GPU usage and VRAM on Intel i915/xe
• Explicit backlight device override
• Nix package: git on the runtime path

🐛 Notable Fixes

• Dock: active icon scale updates under magnification when opacities match; magnified instance-count badges no longer clipped; tooltip dismiss during pinned drag; launcher focus / activation binding
• Taskbar: grouped capsule sizing, workspace badges, clipping/overlap, title alignment, mute/minimal badge colors, strip padding
• Context menus: scroll long menus and navigate with keybinds
• Polkit: panel height follows authentication message content
• Bluetooth: hide battery % when disconnected; avoid full list rebuild on RSSI updates
• Network: refresh Wi‑Fi signal in place; rfkill applies to all matching devices
• Audio/PipeWire: show all input devices; treat displayed zero volume as muted
• Lockscreen: blur backgrounds at output resolution; redraw after resume
• Theme: Catppuccin Latte light terminal palette; single-mode custom colors / blend source; colors_changed hooks wait for templates
• Night light: smoother temperature ramps
• Notifications: top-aligned toast icons; grace timer when a toast finishes; error accent on persistent critical toasts
• Calendar: skip unselected Google calendars
• Launcher: don’t record usage when sort-by-usage is off
• Control center: home clock/weather card height; card borders no longer cut off
• Settings: plugin source editor teardown; linked settings in page reset; search focus UAF; floating panel alignment; capsule radius visibility; custom schedule times before activation
• Config: path expansion restored; plugin settings exported; default plugin sources seeded; accessibility / hot_corners / widget enabled validation; drop undocumented [notifications] alias
• Plugins: stale store thumbnails; click anchor for attached panels; description for label vs label_key warnings
• Input: password field info-leak hardening; touchpad scroll quantized to wheel steps; hover resync after dialogs
• Clipboard hover jitter; media title marquee stops while hidden
• Render: recover EGL share group after GPU reset; skip unchanged animation frames; cache redundant GLES state
• Workspaces: delayed empty-workspace color transition; Mango overview active workspace; Niri switcher prefers compositor focus
• Bar: show_on_workspace_switch initial reveal; tray hover respects capsule settings
• Session: primary keyboard selection in the session panel
• Hot corners: only create surfaces for configured corners
• App: defer surface redraws on resume/unlock; toast fallback render to break compositor stalls

Noctalia v5.0.0-beta2

✨ New Features

Bar & Widgets

• Hover highlight (foreground-tinted state layer) for bar widgets, capsule groups, taskbar, tray, and workspace widget with per-widget opt-out
• Concave/inverted corners for bar and dock, toggled via setting (replaces negative-radius hack)
• Eye toggle to hide/show individual bar widgets and capsule groups
• Custom images on glyph widgets
• Media widget: option to hide artist name
• Tray: drawer_item_size configuration

Plugins

• Any plugin can now load custom fonts
• Declarative bar-widget UI via barWidget.render, inheriting bar font/scale
• onConfigChanged service callback for in-place settings reload
• Input focus support, multiline input, panel "fill" sizing, and new script bindings
• Role color alpha suffix support (role/alpha); redesigned plugin store home/detail pages; collapsed store categories by default

Network & Connectivity

• IWD support for WiFi
• WAN/WAN-IP display (opt-in for privacy)
• Bluetooth: actively reconnect trusted devices on power-on and startup

Settings & Sessions

• Regex content filtering for notifications + filter duration override
• Detach power and custom session commands
• Launcher settings extracted into their own section; OnlyShowIn/NotShowIn desktop-entry support
• Screen-sharing filter regex (privacy)

Other

• IPC: wallpaper next/previous, bar-reserve-toggle, notification-show payloads with two-arg CLI body
• Screenshot: expose generated path to pipe commands
• Calendar: toggle the events panel
• Runtime log-level control

🐛 Notable Fixes

• Calendar: client-side CalDAV recurrence expansion
• Wallpaper: per-display KDE/Plasma sync, crash-loop prevention on invalid paths, precise IPC outcomes
• Lockscreen: hide idle grace overlay on unlock, dim overlay through lock handoff, hideable login boxes
• Workspaces: jitter fixes, Hyprland persistent-workspace restore on reload, Mango tag mapping
• Audio/PipeWire: bar volume/OSD mute sync, simplified relative volume steps
• Brightness: sysfs fallback when logind D-Bus is unavailable
• Panel/tooltip focus, scaling, and placement fixes; desktop cross-monitor widget drag; hot-corners reload guard

🔧 Build

• Require system md4c/json/toml++/stb
• Nix devshell updates for new dependencies