v7

Release schedule

rc1 released on Jul 07, 2019
Final version released on Jul 18, 2019

Build changes

• compton now requires uthash to build.
• xcb-xinerama is now mandatory.
• Improved build experience on FreeBSD.

Notable changes

• compton now detects what driver it is using.

• glFinish is used automatically when not using NVIDIA driver. This should reduce input lag.

• Window shadow parameter is tweaked so it won't get cut off at the edges.

• The experimental glx backend now uses OpenGL 3.3 core profile.

• New blur configuration syntax. See here for details

  This is mainly a preparation for the kawase blur method. But if you are using the experimental backends, you can now get better gaussian blur without the need to generate blur kernels manually.

  Comparison:

  Before	After

  (Blur configuration used:

  blur: {
    method: "gaussian";
    size: 5;
    deviation: 3;
  }
  

  )

Changes

• Introduced the debug-mode. compton won't take over your screen when it's in debug mode, so you can, for example, use your debugger when compton is suspended.
• Improved transparency detection to avoid some of the necessary blur rendering #191
• Refactored how window creation is handled in compton. Should reduce possible races with X server.
• New (experimental) backends are now have feature parity.
• compton is no longer advertised to X server as xcompmgr.
• X atoms are now cached.
• More unused code removal.

Bug Fixes

• Fixed several crashes related to unredirecting.
• Fixed several rendering errors in the new glx and xrender backends.
• Fixed several rendering errors related to window reparenting.
• Fixed #50, but only under the experimental backends.
• Fixed regressions: #160 #164 #175 #176 #188 #189 #190
• Other fixes: #171