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1 Home of [dwm](//dwm.suckless.org), [dmenu](//tools.suckless.org/dmenu) and 2 other quality software with a focus on simplicity, clarity, and frugality. 3 4 Read more about our [philosophy](/philosophy) and join us on the [mailing 5 list](/community). 6 7 News 8 ==== 9 10 [Atom feed](//suckless.org/atom.xml) 11 12 2025-05-05 13 ---------- 14 On Sunday, 2025-05-11 15 there will be scheduled maintenance of the suckless servers. 16 It's estimated this will take about 2 hours 17 from about 10:00 to 12:00 UTC. 18 19 The mailinglist, website and source-code repositories will have some downtime. 20 21 2025-04-30 22 ---------- 23 [slstatus 1.1](//tools.suckless.org/slstatus) released: [download](//dl.suckless.org/tools/slstatus-1.1.tar.gz) 24 25 2024-11-26 26 ---------- 27 * [svkbd 0.4.2](//tools.suckless.org/x/svkbd/) released: [download](//dl.suckless.org/tools/svkbd-0.4.2.tar.gz) 28 29 2024-04-05 30 ---------- 31 * [st 0.9.2](//st.suckless.org/) released: [download](//dl.suckless.org/st/st-0.9.2.tar.gz) 32 33 This reverts a commit and a regression with cursor move with wide glyphs, for 34 example with GNU readline. 35 36 2024-03-20 37 ---------- 38 Below are some highlights of the changes for the recent releases of dmenu, dwm, 39 st and tabbed, see the git logs for all details: 40 41 General small Makefile improvements, rationale being: just be verbose and show 42 what is done: do not abstract/hide details from the user/developer. 43 Respect (more) the package manager and build system flags (CFLAGS, LDFLAGS, etc). 44 45 [dwm](https://git.suckless.org/dwm/log.html): 46 * Improvements to signal handling. 47 * Fix: Avoid missing events when a keysym maps to multiple keycodes. 48 49 [dmenu](https://git.suckless.org/dmenu/log.html): 50 * Reduce memory usage for reading the lines. 51 * Fix: X11 BadMatch error when embedding on some windows. 52 53 [st](https://git.suckless.org/st/log.html): 54 * Fix: bounds checks of dc.col. 55 * Fix: buffer overflow when handling long composed input. 56 * Ignore C1 control characters in UTF-8 mode. 57 * Improvements to cell handling and wide characters. 58 * Default config: decrease the default minlatency. 59 * [Various other terminal fixes and compatibility improvements.](https://git.suckless.org/st/log.html) 60 61 [tabbed](https://git.suckless.org/tabbed/log.html): 62 * Fix: faulty zombie process reaping. 63 * Improvements to signal handling. 64 * Improve compatibility with compiling on older systems such as Slackware 11. 65 66 Thanks to all contributors who submitted patches. 67 68 2024-03-19 69 ---------- 70 * [dmenu 5.3](//tools.suckless.org/dmenu/) released: [download](//dl.suckless.org/tools/dmenu-5.3.tar.gz) 71 * [dwm 6.5](//dwm.suckless.org) released: [download](//dl.suckless.org/dwm/dwm-6.5.tar.gz) 72 * [st 0.9.1](//st.suckless.org/) released: [download](//dl.suckless.org/st/st-0.9.1.tar.gz) 73 * [tabbed 0.8](//tools.suckless.org/tabbed) released: [download](//dl.suckless.org/tools/tabbed-0.8.tar.gz) 74 75 2023-07-04 76 ---------- 77 [slstatus 1.0](//tools.suckless.org/slstatus) released: [download](//dl.suckless.org/tools/slstatus-1.0.tar.gz) 78 79 2022-12-28 80 ---------- 81 [lchat 1.0](//tools.suckless.org/lchat) released: [download](//dl.suckless.org/tools/lchat-1.0.tar.gz) 82 83 2022-11-02 84 ---------- 85 [libgrapheme 2.0.2](//libs.suckless.org/libgrapheme) released: [download](//dl.suckless.org/libgrapheme/libgrapheme-2.0.2.tar.gz) 86 87 2022-10-08 88 ---------- 89 [libgrapheme 2.0.1](//libs.suckless.org/libgrapheme) released: [download](//dl.suckless.org/libgrapheme/libgrapheme-2.0.1.tar.gz) 90 91 2022-10-06 92 ---------- 93 [libgrapheme 2.0.0](//libs.suckless.org/libgrapheme) released: [download](//dl.suckless.org/libgrapheme/libgrapheme-2.0.0.tar.gz) 94 95 2022-10-04 96 ---------- 97 * [dmenu 5.2](//tools.suckless.org/dmenu/) released: [download](//dl.suckless.org/tools/dmenu-5.2.tar.gz) 98 * [dwm 6.4](//dwm.suckless.org) released: [download](//dl.suckless.org/dwm/dwm-6.4.tar.gz) 99 * [ii 2.0](//tools.suckless.org/ii) released: [download](//dl.suckless.org/tools/ii-2.0.tar.gz) 100 * [sic 1.3](//tools.suckless.org/sic) released: [download](//dl.suckless.org/tools/sic-1.3.tar.gz) 101 * [slock 1.5](//tools.suckless.org/slock) released: [download](//dl.suckless.org/tools/slock-1.5.tar.gz) 102 * [st 0.9](//st.suckless.org/) released: [download](//dl.suckless.org/st/st-0.9.tar.gz) 103 * [tabbed 0.7](//tools.suckless.org/tabbed) released: [download](//dl.suckless.org/tools/tabbed-0.7.tar.gz) 104 105 2022-04-19 106 ---------- 107 Suckless now has a dark mode CSS style for its pages. 108 Surf also now has support for [dark mode](https://git.suckless.org/surf/commit/1f5b8f3bd1f37d4d3dc45d21285f34ef4752dbaa.html). 109 110 2022-02-11 111 ---------- 112 [dmenu 5.1](//tools.suckless.org/dmenu/) released: [download](//dl.suckless.org/tools/dmenu-5.1.tar.gz) 113 114 2022-01-07 115 ---------- 116 * [dwm 6.3](//dwm.suckless.org) released: [download](//dl.suckless.org/dwm/dwm-6.3.tar.gz) 117 * [ii 1.9](//tools.suckless.org/ii) released: [download](//dl.suckless.org/tools/ii-1.9.tar.gz) 118 * [st 0.8.5](//st.suckless.org/) released: [download](//dl.suckless.org/st/st-0.8.5.tar.gz) 119 * [svkbd 0.4.1](//tools.suckless.org/x/svkbd/) released: [download](//dl.suckless.org/tools/svkbd-0.4.1.tar.gz) 120 121 2021-12-22 122 ---------- 123 [libgrapheme 1.0.0](//libs.suckless.org/libgrapheme) released: [download](//dl.suckless.org/libgrapheme/libgrapheme-1.0.0.tar.gz) 124 125 2021-07-30 126 ---------- 127 [svkbd 0.4](//tools.suckless.org/x/svkbd/) released: [download](//dl.suckless.org/tools/svkbd-0.4.tar.gz) 128 129 2021-05-09 130 ---------- 131 On Tuesday, 2021-05-11 there will be scheduled maintenance of the suckless 132 servers. It's estimated this will take about 1 hour from about 21:00 to 133 22:00 UTC+02:00. 134 135 The mailinglist, website and source-code repositories will have some downtime. 136 137 **Update:** the maintenance was finished at 2021-05-12 23:33 UTC+02:00. 138 P.S.: It didn't actually take 26h30, I just had forgotten to do it. 139 140 2021-05-08 141 ---------- 142 [surf 2.1](//surf.suckless.org/) released: [download](//dl.suckless.org/surf/surf-2.1.tar.gz) 143 144 2021-03-28 145 ---------- 146 [svkbd 0.3](//tools.suckless.org/x/svkbd/) released: [download](//dl.suckless.org/tools/svkbd-0.3.tar.gz) 147 148 2021-03-28 149 ---------- 150 On Wednesday, 2021-03-31 there will be scheduled maintenance of the suckless 151 servers. It's estimated this will take about 2-3 hours from about 19:00 to 152 21:00 - 22:00 UTC+02:00. 153 154 The mailinglist, website and source-code repositories will have some downtime. 155 156 **Update:** the maintenance was finished at 2021-03-31 19:10 UTC+02:00. 157 158 2021-01-19 159 ---------- 160 [scroll 0.1](//tools.suckless.org/scroll/) released: [download](//dl.suckless.org/tools/scroll-0.1.tar.gz) 161 162 2020-12-11 163 ---------- 164 [svkbd 0.2.2](//tools.suckless.org/x/svkbd/) released: [download](//dl.suckless.org/tools/svkbd-0.2.2.tar.gz) 165 166 2020-09-18 167 ---------- 168 [svkbd 0.2.1](//tools.suckless.org/x/svkbd/) released: [download](//dl.suckless.org/tools/svkbd-0.2.1.tar.gz) 169 170 2020-09-13 171 ---------- 172 [svkbd 0.2](//tools.suckless.org/x/svkbd/) released: [download](//dl.suckless.org/tools/svkbd-0.2.tar.gz) 173 174 2020-09-02 175 ---------- 176 [dmenu 5.0](//tools.suckless.org/dmenu/) released: [download](//dl.suckless.org/tools/dmenu-5.0.tar.gz) 177 178 2020-06-19 179 ---------- 180 [st 0.8.4](//st.suckless.org/) released: [download](//dl.suckless.org/st/st-0.8.4.tar.gz) 181 182 2020-05-27 183 ---------- 184 The [slcon7](conferences/2020) has been cancelled due to the 2019-nCoV 185 pandemic. 186 187 2020-04-27 188 ---------- 189 [st 0.8.3](//st.suckless.org/) released: [download](//dl.suckless.org/st/st-0.8.3.tar.gz) 190 191 2019-12-01 192 ---------- 193 On Wednesday, 2019-12-04 there will be scheduled maintenance of the suckless 194 servers. It's estimated this will take about 2-3 hours from about 19:00 to 195 21:00 - 22:00 UTC+01:00. 196 197 The mailinglist, website and source-code repositories will have some downtime. 198 199 **Update:** the maintenance was finished at 2019-12-04 20:00 UTC+01:00. 200 201 2019-04-04 202 ---------- 203 Registrations are now open for [slcon6](conferences/2019) that will be held in 204 Bad Liebenzell, Germany on 2019-10-(04-06). 205 206 The CfP for interested participants will end on 2019-06-30. 207 208 2019-03-30 209 ---------- 210 There is now a [patch overview](//gunther.suckless.org/patches/) tool to have a 211 quick overview of the patch status list. This list is generated each day from 212 the [sites](//git.suckless.org/sites/) repository. It checks if patches apply 213 cleanly in a normal patching manner. Of course it does not check patch 214 combinations. 215 216 * [Hacking patches guidelines](//suckless.org/hacking/) 217 * [Tool source-code](//git.suckless.org/sites/file/testpatches.sh.html) 218 219 Please keep the patches tidy and maintain or remove them. 220 221 2019-02-09 222 ---------- 223 [st 0.8.2](//st.suckless.org/) released: [download](//dl.suckless.org/st/st-0.8.2.tar.gz) 224 225 This release has mostly bugfixes. 226 227 2019-02-03 228 ---------- 229 * [dwm 6.2](//dwm.suckless.org) released: [download](//dl.suckless.org/dwm/dwm-6.2.tar.gz) 230 * [dmenu 4.9](//tools.suckless.org/dmenu/) released: [download](//dl.suckless.org/tools/dmenu-4.9.tar.gz) 231 232 2018-06-01 233 ---------- 234 The maintainance is completed. Let me know of any important things that are broken. 235 Internally we will keep tweaking the server configuration over the course of 236 time. 237 238 2018-05-27 239 ---------- 240 There will be a scheduled server maintenance next Friday and Saturday, 2018-06-(01-02). 241 The migration to the new server will happen on these days and the git 242 repositories and mailing list will be frozen on the old (now current) 243 server. 244 245 2018-04-11 246 ---------- 247 [farbfeld 4](//tools.suckless.org/farbfeld/) released: [download](//dl.suckless.org/farbfeld/farbfeld-4.tar.gz) 248 249 2018-03-20 250 ---------- 251 [st 0.8.1](//st.suckless.org/) released: [download](//dl.suckless.org/st/st-0.8.1.tar.gz) 252 253 This release fixes some regressions introduced in the 0.8 release. 254 255 2018-03-19 256 ---------- 257 Registrations for [slcon5](/conferences/2018/) are now open. 258 259 2018-03-14 260 ---------- 261 * [dmenu 4.8](//tools.suckless.org/dmenu/) released: [download](//dl.suckless.org/tools/dmenu-4.8.tar.gz) 262 * [st 0.8](//st.suckless.org/) released: [download](//dl.suckless.org/st/st-0.8.tar.gz) 263 264 2018-02-04 265 ---------- 266 [ii 1.8](//tools.suckless.org/ii) released: [download](//dl.suckless.org/tools/ii-1.8.tar.gz) 267 268 2017-09-04 269 ---------- 270 [suckless hackathon](/conferences/2017): we met on Sep 1-3 2017 in Würzburg, Germany. 271 272 2017-09-04 273 ---------- 274 [sent 1](//tools.suckless.org/sent) released: [download](//dl.suckless.org/tools/sent-1.tar.gz) 275 276 2017-08-30 277 ---------- 278 suckless.org now supports TLS using [Let's Encrypt](https://letsencrypt.org/). 279 Cloning git repos over HTTPS now works. Some links on the page have been 280 changed to allow both HTTP and HTTPS. 281 282 HSTS is not fully working yet. This will be fixed. 283 284 The IPv6 AAAA record was added and IPv6 is fully working now. 285 286 suckless has many subdomains, these should hopefully all work via TLS. If you 287 see a subdomain without a signed certificate please report it. If you find any 288 broken links on the wiki pages, these can be fixed by anyone. 289 290 2017-07-03 291 ---------- 292 The suckless.org project is now hosted on a new server. All inactive accounts 293 have been removed during the relocation. 294 295 Please note that the new ECDSA key fingerprint is 296 SHA256:7DBXcYScmsxbv7rMJUJoJsY5peOrngD4QagiXX6MiQU. 297 298 2017-05-06 299 ---------- 300 [blind 1.1](//tools.suckless.org/blind) released: 301 [download](//dl.suckless.org/tools/blind-1.1.tar.gz) 302 303 2017-05-02 304 ---------- 305 [dmenu 4.7](//tools.suckless.org/dmenu) released: 306 [download](//dl.suckless.org/tools/dmenu-4.7.tar.gz) 307 308 2017-04-14 309 ---------- 310 [farbfeld 3](//tools.suckless.org/farbfeld/) released: 311 [download](//dl.suckless.org/farbfeld/farbfeld-3.tar.gz) 312 313 2017-03-28 314 ---------- 315 [surf](//surf.suckless.org/) now uses webkit2 by default. The webkit1 version 316 is kept in the [surf-webkit1](//git.suckless.org/surf/log/?h=surf-webkit1) 317 branch. The “master” branch doesn't exist anymore, HEAD is now 318 [surf-webkit2](//git.suckless.org/surf/log/), so be sure to rebase your local 319 master commits onto surf-webkit1. 320 321 2016-11-20 322 ---------- 323 [slock 1.4](//tools.suckless.org/slock) released: 324 [download](//dl.suckless.org/tools/slock-1.4.tar.gz) 325 326 2016-09-26 327 ---------- 328 Videos of the [slcon 2016 talks](conferences/2016) are now available. 329 330 2016-08-24 331 ---------- 332 [slcon3](conferences/2016) preliminary schedule now published. If you want to 333 attend please register before: **2016-09-01**. 334 335 2015-12-19 336 ---------- 337 [surf 0.7](//surf.suckless.org) released: 338 [download](//dl.suckless.org/surf/surf-0.7.tar.gz) 339 340 2015-11-25 341 ---------- 342 [sent 0.2](//tools.suckless.org/sent) released: 343 [download](//dl.suckless.org/tools/sent-0.2.tar.gz) 344 345 2015-11-13 346 ---------- 347 Videos of the [slcon2 talks](conferences/2015) are now available. 348 349 2015-11-09 350 ---------- 351 [dwm 6.1](//dwm.suckless.org) released: 352 [download](//dl.suckless.org/dwm/dwm-6.1.tar.gz) 353 354 2015-09-23 355 ---------- 356 Kai and Anselm gave an interview about suckless.org on Randal Schwartz's [FLOSS 357 Weekly show](https://twit.tv/shows/floss-weekly/episodes/355?autostart=false) 358 359 2015-07-07 360 ---------- 361 [st 0.6](//st.suckless.org) released: 362 [download](//dl.suckless.org/st/st-0.6.tar.gz) 363 364 2015-02-14 365 ---------- 366 [slcon2](conferences/2015) will be held in Budapest on 2015-10-(30-31). 367 368 The CfP for interested participants is now open and will end on 2015-04-30. 369 370 2014-11-29 371 ---------- 372 [lsw 0.3](//tools.suckless.org/x/lsw) released: 373 [download](//dl.suckless.org/tools/lsw-0.3.tar.gz) 374 375 2014-11-24 376 ---------- 377 There will be a 378 [suckless assembly](https://events.ccc.de/congress/2014/wiki/Assembly%3ASuckless) 379 at the [31C3](https://events.ccc.de/congress/2014). The whole suckless 380 community is invited to come, meet and hack! 381 382 2014-08-05 383 ---------- 384 [sinit 0.9.1](//core.suckless.org/sinit) released: 385 [download](//dl.suckless.org/sinit/sinit-0.9.1.tar.gz) 386 387 2014-05-01 388 ---------- 389 [ubase 0.1](//core.suckless.org/ubase) released: 390 [download](//dl.suckless.org/ubase/ubase-0.1.tar.gz) 391 392 2014-01-21 393 ---------- 394 [tabbed 0.6](//tools.suckless.org/tabbed) released: 395 [download](//dl.suckless.org/tools/tabbed-0.6.tar.gz) 396 397 2013-06-16 398 ---------- 399 [sic 1.2](//tools.suckless.org/sic) released: 400 [download](//dl.suckless.org/tools/sic-1.2.tar.gz) 401 402 2013-05-07 403 ---------- 404 [xssstate 1.1](//tools.suckless.org/x/xssstate) released: 405 [download](//dl.suckless.org/tools/xssstate-1.1.tar.gz) 406 407 2013-05-06 408 ---------- 409 [tabbed 0.5](//tools.suckless.org/tabbed) released: 410 [download](//dl.suckless.org/tools/tabbed-0.5.tar.gz) 411 412 2013-04-21 413 ---------- 414 We are glad to announce the [slcon 2013](/conferences/2013) programme. 415 416 2012-11-29 417 ---------- 418 We are glad to announce the switch to git from mercurial in all of our 419 repositories. You can find them at [git.suckless.org](//git.suckless.org) Many 420 thanks to 20h for his contribution! 421 422 2012-10-28 423 ---------- 424 [sprop 0.1](//tools.suckless.org/x/sprop) released: 425 [download](//dl.suckless.org/tools/sprop-0.1.tar.gz) 426 427 2012-10-14 428 ---------- 429 Today we heard a very sad news that our friend, contributor and philosophical 430 advisor Uriel has passed away peacefully. We will miss him a lot. 431 432  433 434 RIP 435 436 2011-05-14 437 ---------- 438 Anselm gave a talk about **The 'suckless.org' universe** at the [LinuxTag 439 2011](http://www.linuxtag.org) conference in Berlin. 440 441 2011-01-31 442 ---------- 443 [ii 1.6](//tools.suckless.org/ii) released (regression fix): 444 [download](//dl.suckless.org/tools/ii-1.6.tar.gz) 445 446 2010-06-04 447 ---------- 448 [9base-6](//tools.suckless.org/9base) released: 449 [download](//dl.suckless.org/tools/9base-6.tar.gz) 450 451 2010-03-28 452 ---------- 453 We learned today that the previous wmii maintainer, who wasn't actively 454 involved since 2007, Denis Grelich, 455 [died on 2010-03-12](https://web.archive.org/web/20140208043925/http://www.lmt.uni-saarland.de/de/aktuelles/grelich.html). 456 We thank him for his work. Rest in peace. 457 458 2010-03-07 459 ---------- 460 We applied as a mentoring organisation for GSoC 2010. See our [project ideas 461 for GSoC 2010](/project_ideas) page for further details. 462 463 2010-02-13 464 ---------- 465 Some of us will visit [CLT2010](http://chemnitzer.linux-tage.de/2010/). Anselm 466 will give a 467 [talk](http://chemnitzer.linux-tage.de/2010/vortraege/detail.html?idx=308) 468 about stali on the second day of CLT2010 at 17:00. 469 470 2009-12-28 471 ---------- 472 There was a small community meeting in Berlin! Thanks to all attendees. 473 474 2008-08-02 475 ---------- 476 [wmname 0.1](//tools.suckless.org/x/wmname) released: 477 [download](//dl.suckless.org/tools/wmname-0.1.tar.gz) 478 479 2008-07-29 480 ---------- 481 [sselp 0.2](//tools.suckless.org/x/sselp) released: 482 [download](//dl.suckless.org/tools/sselp-0.2.tar.gz)