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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 2025-08-09 13 ---------- 14 * [dmenu 5.4](//tools.suckless.org/dmenu/) released: [download](//dl.suckless.org/tools/dmenu-5.4.tar.gz) 15 * [dwm 6.6](//dwm.suckless.org) released: [download](//dl.suckless.org/dwm/dwm-6.6.tar.gz) 16 * [slock 1.6](//tools.suckless.org/slock/) released: [download](//dl.suckless.org/tools/slock-1.6.tar.gz) 17 * [st 0.9.3](//st.suckless.org/) released: [download](//dl.suckless.org/st/st-0.9.3.tar.gz) 18 * [tabbed 0.9](//tools.suckless.org/tabbed) released: [download](//dl.suckless.org/tools/tabbed-0.9.tar.gz) 19 20 2025-05-05 21 ---------- 22 On Sunday, 2025-05-11 23 there will be scheduled maintenance of the suckless servers. 24 It's estimated this will take about 2 hours 25 from about 10:00 to 12:00 UTC. 26 27 The mailinglist, website and source-code repositories will have some downtime. 28 29 Update: the maintenance was finished at 2025-05-11 13:00 UTC. 30 There was a small issue with storage space, hence the 1h delay for fixing it. 31 32 2025-04-30 33 ---------- 34 [slstatus 1.1](//tools.suckless.org/slstatus) released: [download](//dl.suckless.org/tools/slstatus-1.1.tar.gz) 35 36 2024-11-26 37 ---------- 38 * [svkbd 0.4.2](//tools.suckless.org/x/svkbd/) released: [download](//dl.suckless.org/tools/svkbd-0.4.2.tar.gz) 39 40 2024-04-05 41 ---------- 42 * [st 0.9.2](//st.suckless.org/) released: [download](//dl.suckless.org/st/st-0.9.2.tar.gz) 43 44 This reverts a commit and a regression with cursor move with wide glyphs, for 45 example with GNU readline. 46 47 2024-03-20 48 ---------- 49 Below are some highlights of the changes for the recent releases of dmenu, dwm, 50 st and tabbed, see the git logs for all details: 51 52 General small Makefile improvements, rationale being: just be verbose and show 53 what is done: do not abstract/hide details from the user/developer. 54 Respect (more) the package manager and build system flags (CFLAGS, LDFLAGS, etc). 55 56 [dwm](https://git.suckless.org/dwm/log.html): 57 * Improvements to signal handling. 58 * Fix: Avoid missing events when a keysym maps to multiple keycodes. 59 60 [dmenu](https://git.suckless.org/dmenu/log.html): 61 * Reduce memory usage for reading the lines. 62 * Fix: X11 BadMatch error when embedding on some windows. 63 64 [st](https://git.suckless.org/st/log.html): 65 * Fix: bounds checks of dc.col. 66 * Fix: buffer overflow when handling long composed input. 67 * Ignore C1 control characters in UTF-8 mode. 68 * Improvements to cell handling and wide characters. 69 * Default config: decrease the default minlatency. 70 * [Various other terminal fixes and compatibility improvements.](https://git.suckless.org/st/log.html) 71 72 [tabbed](https://git.suckless.org/tabbed/log.html): 73 * Fix: faulty zombie process reaping. 74 * Improvements to signal handling. 75 * Improve compatibility with compiling on older systems such as Slackware 11. 76 77 Thanks to all contributors who submitted patches. 78 79 2024-03-19 80 ---------- 81 * [dmenu 5.3](//tools.suckless.org/dmenu/) released: [download](//dl.suckless.org/tools/dmenu-5.3.tar.gz) 82 * [dwm 6.5](//dwm.suckless.org) released: [download](//dl.suckless.org/dwm/dwm-6.5.tar.gz) 83 * [st 0.9.1](//st.suckless.org/) released: [download](//dl.suckless.org/st/st-0.9.1.tar.gz) 84 * [tabbed 0.8](//tools.suckless.org/tabbed) released: [download](//dl.suckless.org/tools/tabbed-0.8.tar.gz) 85 86 2023-07-04 87 ---------- 88 [slstatus 1.0](//tools.suckless.org/slstatus) released: [download](//dl.suckless.org/tools/slstatus-1.0.tar.gz) 89 90 2022-12-28 91 ---------- 92 [lchat 1.0](//tools.suckless.org/lchat) released: [download](//dl.suckless.org/tools/lchat-1.0.tar.gz) 93 94 2022-11-02 95 ---------- 96 [libgrapheme 2.0.2](//libs.suckless.org/libgrapheme) released: [download](//dl.suckless.org/libgrapheme/libgrapheme-2.0.2.tar.gz) 97 98 2022-10-08 99 ---------- 100 [libgrapheme 2.0.1](//libs.suckless.org/libgrapheme) released: [download](//dl.suckless.org/libgrapheme/libgrapheme-2.0.1.tar.gz) 101 102 2022-10-06 103 ---------- 104 [libgrapheme 2.0.0](//libs.suckless.org/libgrapheme) released: [download](//dl.suckless.org/libgrapheme/libgrapheme-2.0.0.tar.gz) 105 106 2022-10-04 107 ---------- 108 * [dmenu 5.2](//tools.suckless.org/dmenu/) released: [download](//dl.suckless.org/tools/dmenu-5.2.tar.gz) 109 * [dwm 6.4](//dwm.suckless.org) released: [download](//dl.suckless.org/dwm/dwm-6.4.tar.gz) 110 * [ii 2.0](//tools.suckless.org/ii) released: [download](//dl.suckless.org/tools/ii-2.0.tar.gz) 111 * [sic 1.3](//tools.suckless.org/sic) released: [download](//dl.suckless.org/tools/sic-1.3.tar.gz) 112 * [slock 1.5](//tools.suckless.org/slock) released: [download](//dl.suckless.org/tools/slock-1.5.tar.gz) 113 * [st 0.9](//st.suckless.org/) released: [download](//dl.suckless.org/st/st-0.9.tar.gz) 114 * [tabbed 0.7](//tools.suckless.org/tabbed) released: [download](//dl.suckless.org/tools/tabbed-0.7.tar.gz) 115 116 2022-04-19 117 ---------- 118 Suckless now has a dark mode CSS style for its pages. 119 Surf also now has support for [dark mode](https://git.suckless.org/surf/commit/1f5b8f3bd1f37d4d3dc45d21285f34ef4752dbaa.html). 120 121 2022-02-11 122 ---------- 123 [dmenu 5.1](//tools.suckless.org/dmenu/) released: [download](//dl.suckless.org/tools/dmenu-5.1.tar.gz) 124 125 2022-01-07 126 ---------- 127 * [dwm 6.3](//dwm.suckless.org) released: [download](//dl.suckless.org/dwm/dwm-6.3.tar.gz) 128 * [ii 1.9](//tools.suckless.org/ii) released: [download](//dl.suckless.org/tools/ii-1.9.tar.gz) 129 * [st 0.8.5](//st.suckless.org/) released: [download](//dl.suckless.org/st/st-0.8.5.tar.gz) 130 * [svkbd 0.4.1](//tools.suckless.org/x/svkbd/) released: [download](//dl.suckless.org/tools/svkbd-0.4.1.tar.gz) 131 132 2021-12-22 133 ---------- 134 [libgrapheme 1.0.0](//libs.suckless.org/libgrapheme) released: [download](//dl.suckless.org/libgrapheme/libgrapheme-1.0.0.tar.gz) 135 136 2021-07-30 137 ---------- 138 [svkbd 0.4](//tools.suckless.org/x/svkbd/) released: [download](//dl.suckless.org/tools/svkbd-0.4.tar.gz) 139 140 2021-05-09 141 ---------- 142 On Tuesday, 2021-05-11 there will be scheduled maintenance of the suckless 143 servers. It's estimated this will take about 1 hour from about 21:00 to 144 22:00 UTC+02:00. 145 146 The mailinglist, website and source-code repositories will have some downtime. 147 148 **Update:** the maintenance was finished at 2021-05-12 23:33 UTC+02:00. 149 P.S.: It didn't actually take 26h30, I just had forgotten to do it. 150 151 2021-05-08 152 ---------- 153 [surf 2.1](//surf.suckless.org/) released: [download](//dl.suckless.org/surf/surf-2.1.tar.gz) 154 155 2021-03-28 156 ---------- 157 [svkbd 0.3](//tools.suckless.org/x/svkbd/) released: [download](//dl.suckless.org/tools/svkbd-0.3.tar.gz) 158 159 2021-03-28 160 ---------- 161 On Wednesday, 2021-03-31 there will be scheduled maintenance of the suckless 162 servers. It's estimated this will take about 2-3 hours from about 19:00 to 163 21:00 - 22:00 UTC+02:00. 164 165 The mailinglist, website and source-code repositories will have some downtime. 166 167 **Update:** the maintenance was finished at 2021-03-31 19:10 UTC+02:00. 168 169 2021-01-19 170 ---------- 171 [scroll 0.1](//tools.suckless.org/scroll/) released: [download](//dl.suckless.org/tools/scroll-0.1.tar.gz) 172 173 2020-12-11 174 ---------- 175 [svkbd 0.2.2](//tools.suckless.org/x/svkbd/) released: [download](//dl.suckless.org/tools/svkbd-0.2.2.tar.gz) 176 177 2020-09-18 178 ---------- 179 [svkbd 0.2.1](//tools.suckless.org/x/svkbd/) released: [download](//dl.suckless.org/tools/svkbd-0.2.1.tar.gz) 180 181 2020-09-13 182 ---------- 183 [svkbd 0.2](//tools.suckless.org/x/svkbd/) released: [download](//dl.suckless.org/tools/svkbd-0.2.tar.gz) 184 185 2020-09-02 186 ---------- 187 [dmenu 5.0](//tools.suckless.org/dmenu/) released: [download](//dl.suckless.org/tools/dmenu-5.0.tar.gz) 188 189 2020-06-19 190 ---------- 191 [st 0.8.4](//st.suckless.org/) released: [download](//dl.suckless.org/st/st-0.8.4.tar.gz) 192 193 2020-05-27 194 ---------- 195 The [slcon7](conferences/2020) has been cancelled due to the 2019-nCoV 196 pandemic. 197 198 2020-04-27 199 ---------- 200 [st 0.8.3](//st.suckless.org/) released: [download](//dl.suckless.org/st/st-0.8.3.tar.gz) 201 202 2019-12-01 203 ---------- 204 On Wednesday, 2019-12-04 there will be scheduled maintenance of the suckless 205 servers. It's estimated this will take about 2-3 hours from about 19:00 to 206 21:00 - 22:00 UTC+01:00. 207 208 The mailinglist, website and source-code repositories will have some downtime. 209 210 **Update:** the maintenance was finished at 2019-12-04 20:00 UTC+01:00. 211 212 2019-04-04 213 ---------- 214 Registrations are now open for [slcon6](conferences/2019) that will be held in 215 Bad Liebenzell, Germany on 2019-10-(04-06). 216 217 The CfP for interested participants will end on 2019-06-30. 218 219 2019-03-30 220 ---------- 221 There is now a [patch overview](//gunther.suckless.org/patches/) tool to have a 222 quick overview of the patch status list. This list is generated each day from 223 the [sites](//git.suckless.org/sites/) repository. It checks if patches apply 224 cleanly in a normal patching manner. Of course it does not check patch 225 combinations. 226 227 * [Hacking patches guidelines](//suckless.org/hacking/) 228 * [Tool source-code](//git.suckless.org/sites/file/testpatches.sh.html) 229 230 Please keep the patches tidy and maintain or remove them. 231 232 2019-02-09 233 ---------- 234 [st 0.8.2](//st.suckless.org/) released: [download](//dl.suckless.org/st/st-0.8.2.tar.gz) 235 236 This release has mostly bugfixes. 237 238 2019-02-03 239 ---------- 240 * [dwm 6.2](//dwm.suckless.org) released: [download](//dl.suckless.org/dwm/dwm-6.2.tar.gz) 241 * [dmenu 4.9](//tools.suckless.org/dmenu/) released: [download](//dl.suckless.org/tools/dmenu-4.9.tar.gz) 242 243 2018-06-01 244 ---------- 245 The maintainance is completed. Let me know of any important things that are broken. 246 Internally we will keep tweaking the server configuration over the course of 247 time. 248 249 2018-05-27 250 ---------- 251 There will be a scheduled server maintenance next Friday and Saturday, 2018-06-(01-02). 252 The migration to the new server will happen on these days and the git 253 repositories and mailing list will be frozen on the old (now current) 254 server. 255 256 2018-04-11 257 ---------- 258 [farbfeld 4](//tools.suckless.org/farbfeld/) released: [download](//dl.suckless.org/farbfeld/farbfeld-4.tar.gz) 259 260 2018-03-20 261 ---------- 262 [st 0.8.1](//st.suckless.org/) released: [download](//dl.suckless.org/st/st-0.8.1.tar.gz) 263 264 This release fixes some regressions introduced in the 0.8 release. 265 266 2018-03-19 267 ---------- 268 Registrations for [slcon5](/conferences/2018/) are now open. 269 270 2018-03-14 271 ---------- 272 * [dmenu 4.8](//tools.suckless.org/dmenu/) released: [download](//dl.suckless.org/tools/dmenu-4.8.tar.gz) 273 * [st 0.8](//st.suckless.org/) released: [download](//dl.suckless.org/st/st-0.8.tar.gz) 274 275 2018-02-04 276 ---------- 277 [ii 1.8](//tools.suckless.org/ii) released: [download](//dl.suckless.org/tools/ii-1.8.tar.gz) 278 279 2017-09-04 280 ---------- 281 [suckless hackathon](/conferences/2017): we met on Sep 1-3 2017 in Würzburg, Germany. 282 283 2017-09-04 284 ---------- 285 [sent 1](//tools.suckless.org/sent) released: [download](//dl.suckless.org/tools/sent-1.tar.gz) 286 287 2017-08-30 288 ---------- 289 suckless.org now supports TLS using [Let's Encrypt](https://letsencrypt.org/). 290 Cloning git repos over HTTPS now works. Some links on the page have been 291 changed to allow both HTTP and HTTPS. 292 293 HSTS is not fully working yet. This will be fixed. 294 295 The IPv6 AAAA record was added and IPv6 is fully working now. 296 297 suckless has many subdomains, these should hopefully all work via TLS. If you 298 see a subdomain without a signed certificate please report it. If you find any 299 broken links on the wiki pages, these can be fixed by anyone. 300 301 2017-07-03 302 ---------- 303 The suckless.org project is now hosted on a new server. All inactive accounts 304 have been removed during the relocation. 305 306 Please note that the new ECDSA key fingerprint is 307 SHA256:7DBXcYScmsxbv7rMJUJoJsY5peOrngD4QagiXX6MiQU. 308 309 2017-05-06 310 ---------- 311 [blind 1.1](//tools.suckless.org/blind) released: 312 [download](//dl.suckless.org/tools/blind-1.1.tar.gz) 313 314 2017-05-02 315 ---------- 316 [dmenu 4.7](//tools.suckless.org/dmenu) released: 317 [download](//dl.suckless.org/tools/dmenu-4.7.tar.gz) 318 319 2017-04-14 320 ---------- 321 [farbfeld 3](//tools.suckless.org/farbfeld/) released: 322 [download](//dl.suckless.org/farbfeld/farbfeld-3.tar.gz) 323 324 2017-03-28 325 ---------- 326 [surf](//surf.suckless.org/) now uses webkit2 by default. The webkit1 version 327 is kept in the [surf-webkit1](//git.suckless.org/surf/log/?h=surf-webkit1) 328 branch. The “master” branch doesn't exist anymore, HEAD is now 329 [surf-webkit2](//git.suckless.org/surf/log/), so be sure to rebase your local 330 master commits onto surf-webkit1. 331 332 2016-11-20 333 ---------- 334 [slock 1.4](//tools.suckless.org/slock) released: 335 [download](//dl.suckless.org/tools/slock-1.4.tar.gz) 336 337 2016-09-26 338 ---------- 339 Videos of the [slcon 2016 talks](conferences/2016) are now available. 340 341 2016-08-24 342 ---------- 343 [slcon3](conferences/2016) preliminary schedule now published. If you want to 344 attend please register before: **2016-09-01**. 345 346 2015-12-19 347 ---------- 348 [surf 0.7](//surf.suckless.org) released: 349 [download](//dl.suckless.org/surf/surf-0.7.tar.gz) 350 351 2015-11-25 352 ---------- 353 [sent 0.2](//tools.suckless.org/sent) released: 354 [download](//dl.suckless.org/tools/sent-0.2.tar.gz) 355 356 2015-11-13 357 ---------- 358 Videos of the [slcon2 talks](conferences/2015) are now available. 359 360 2015-11-09 361 ---------- 362 [dwm 6.1](//dwm.suckless.org) released: 363 [download](//dl.suckless.org/dwm/dwm-6.1.tar.gz) 364 365 2015-09-23 366 ---------- 367 Kai and Anselm gave an interview about suckless.org on Randal Schwartz's [FLOSS 368 Weekly show](https://twit.tv/shows/floss-weekly/episodes/355?autostart=false) 369 370 2015-07-07 371 ---------- 372 [st 0.6](//st.suckless.org) released: 373 [download](//dl.suckless.org/st/st-0.6.tar.gz) 374 375 2015-02-14 376 ---------- 377 [slcon2](conferences/2015) will be held in Budapest on 2015-10-(30-31). 378 379 The CfP for interested participants is now open and will end on 2015-04-30. 380 381 2014-11-29 382 ---------- 383 [lsw 0.3](//tools.suckless.org/x/lsw) released: 384 [download](//dl.suckless.org/tools/lsw-0.3.tar.gz) 385 386 2014-11-24 387 ---------- 388 There will be a 389 [suckless assembly](https://events.ccc.de/congress/2014/wiki/Assembly%3ASuckless) 390 at the [31C3](https://events.ccc.de/congress/2014). The whole suckless 391 community is invited to come, meet and hack! 392 393 2014-08-05 394 ---------- 395 [sinit 0.9.1](//core.suckless.org/sinit) released: 396 [download](//dl.suckless.org/sinit/sinit-0.9.1.tar.gz) 397 398 2014-05-01 399 ---------- 400 [ubase 0.1](//core.suckless.org/ubase) released: 401 [download](//dl.suckless.org/ubase/ubase-0.1.tar.gz) 402 403 2014-01-21 404 ---------- 405 [tabbed 0.6](//tools.suckless.org/tabbed) released: 406 [download](//dl.suckless.org/tools/tabbed-0.6.tar.gz) 407 408 2013-06-16 409 ---------- 410 [sic 1.2](//tools.suckless.org/sic) released: 411 [download](//dl.suckless.org/tools/sic-1.2.tar.gz) 412 413 2013-05-07 414 ---------- 415 [xssstate 1.1](//tools.suckless.org/x/xssstate) released: 416 [download](//dl.suckless.org/tools/xssstate-1.1.tar.gz) 417 418 2013-05-06 419 ---------- 420 [tabbed 0.5](//tools.suckless.org/tabbed) released: 421 [download](//dl.suckless.org/tools/tabbed-0.5.tar.gz) 422 423 2013-04-21 424 ---------- 425 We are glad to announce the [slcon 2013](/conferences/2013) programme. 426 427 2012-11-29 428 ---------- 429 We are glad to announce the switch to git from mercurial in all of our 430 repositories. You can find them at [git.suckless.org](//git.suckless.org) Many 431 thanks to 20h for his contribution! 432 433 2012-10-28 434 ---------- 435 [sprop 0.1](//tools.suckless.org/x/sprop) released: 436 [download](//dl.suckless.org/tools/sprop-0.1.tar.gz) 437 438 2012-10-14 439 ---------- 440 Today we heard a very sad news that our friend, contributor and philosophical 441 advisor Uriel has passed away peacefully. We will miss him a lot. 442 443  444 445 RIP 446 447 2011-05-14 448 ---------- 449 Anselm gave a talk about **The 'suckless.org' universe** at the [LinuxTag 450 2011](http://www.linuxtag.org) conference in Berlin. 451 452 2011-01-31 453 ---------- 454 [ii 1.6](//tools.suckless.org/ii) released (regression fix): 455 [download](//dl.suckless.org/tools/ii-1.6.tar.gz) 456 457 2010-06-04 458 ---------- 459 [9base-6](//tools.suckless.org/9base) released: 460 [download](//dl.suckless.org/tools/9base-6.tar.gz) 461 462 2010-03-28 463 ---------- 464 We learned today that the previous wmii maintainer, who wasn't actively 465 involved since 2007, Denis Grelich, 466 [died on 2010-03-12](https://web.archive.org/web/20140208043925/http://www.lmt.uni-saarland.de/de/aktuelles/grelich.html). 467 We thank him for his work. Rest in peace. 468 469 2010-03-07 470 ---------- 471 We applied as a mentoring organisation for GSoC 2010. See our [project ideas 472 for GSoC 2010](/project_ideas) page for further details. 473 474 2010-02-13 475 ---------- 476 Some of us will visit [CLT2010](http://chemnitzer.linux-tage.de/2010/). Anselm 477 will give a 478 [talk](http://chemnitzer.linux-tage.de/2010/vortraege/detail.html?idx=308) 479 about stali on the second day of CLT2010 at 17:00. 480 481 2009-12-28 482 ---------- 483 There was a small community meeting in Berlin! Thanks to all attendees. 484 485 2008-08-02 486 ---------- 487 [wmname 0.1](//tools.suckless.org/x/wmname) released: 488 [download](//dl.suckless.org/tools/wmname-0.1.tar.gz) 489 490 2008-07-29 491 ---------- 492 [sselp 0.2](//tools.suckless.org/x/sselp) released: 493 [download](//dl.suckless.org/tools/sselp-0.2.tar.gz)