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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 2025-12-24 13 ---------- 14 [libgrapheme 3.0.0](//libs.suckless.org/libgrapheme) released: [download](//dl.suckless.org/libgrapheme/libgrapheme-3.0.0.tar.gz) 15 16 2025-08-09 17 ---------- 18 * [dmenu 5.4](//tools.suckless.org/dmenu/) released: [download](//dl.suckless.org/tools/dmenu-5.4.tar.gz) 19 * [dwm 6.6](//dwm.suckless.org) released: [download](//dl.suckless.org/dwm/dwm-6.6.tar.gz) 20 * [slock 1.6](//tools.suckless.org/slock/) released: [download](//dl.suckless.org/tools/slock-1.6.tar.gz) 21 * [st 0.9.3](//st.suckless.org/) released: [download](//dl.suckless.org/st/st-0.9.3.tar.gz) 22 * [tabbed 0.9](//tools.suckless.org/tabbed) released: [download](//dl.suckless.org/tools/tabbed-0.9.tar.gz) 23 24 2025-05-05 25 ---------- 26 On Sunday, 2025-05-11 27 there will be scheduled maintenance of the suckless servers. 28 It's estimated this will take about 2 hours 29 from about 10:00 to 12:00 UTC. 30 31 The mailinglist, website and source-code repositories will have some downtime. 32 33 Update: the maintenance was finished at 2025-05-11 13:00 UTC. 34 There was a small issue with storage space, hence the 1h delay for fixing it. 35 36 2025-04-30 37 ---------- 38 [slstatus 1.1](//tools.suckless.org/slstatus) released: [download](//dl.suckless.org/tools/slstatus-1.1.tar.gz) 39 40 2024-11-26 41 ---------- 42 * [svkbd 0.4.2](//tools.suckless.org/x/svkbd/) released: [download](//dl.suckless.org/tools/svkbd-0.4.2.tar.gz) 43 44 2024-04-05 45 ---------- 46 * [st 0.9.2](//st.suckless.org/) released: [download](//dl.suckless.org/st/st-0.9.2.tar.gz) 47 48 This reverts a commit and a regression with cursor move with wide glyphs, for 49 example with GNU readline. 50 51 2024-03-20 52 ---------- 53 Below are some highlights of the changes for the recent releases of dmenu, dwm, 54 st and tabbed, see the git logs for all details: 55 56 General small Makefile improvements, rationale being: just be verbose and show 57 what is done: do not abstract/hide details from the user/developer. 58 Respect (more) the package manager and build system flags (CFLAGS, LDFLAGS, etc). 59 60 [dwm](https://git.suckless.org/dwm/log.html): 61 * Improvements to signal handling. 62 * Fix: Avoid missing events when a keysym maps to multiple keycodes. 63 64 [dmenu](https://git.suckless.org/dmenu/log.html): 65 * Reduce memory usage for reading the lines. 66 * Fix: X11 BadMatch error when embedding on some windows. 67 68 [st](https://git.suckless.org/st/log.html): 69 * Fix: bounds checks of dc.col. 70 * Fix: buffer overflow when handling long composed input. 71 * Ignore C1 control characters in UTF-8 mode. 72 * Improvements to cell handling and wide characters. 73 * Default config: decrease the default minlatency. 74 * [Various other terminal fixes and compatibility improvements.](https://git.suckless.org/st/log.html) 75 76 [tabbed](https://git.suckless.org/tabbed/log.html): 77 * Fix: faulty zombie process reaping. 78 * Improvements to signal handling. 79 * Improve compatibility with compiling on older systems such as Slackware 11. 80 81 Thanks to all contributors who submitted patches. 82 83 2024-03-19 84 ---------- 85 * [dmenu 5.3](//tools.suckless.org/dmenu/) released: [download](//dl.suckless.org/tools/dmenu-5.3.tar.gz) 86 * [dwm 6.5](//dwm.suckless.org) released: [download](//dl.suckless.org/dwm/dwm-6.5.tar.gz) 87 * [st 0.9.1](//st.suckless.org/) released: [download](//dl.suckless.org/st/st-0.9.1.tar.gz) 88 * [tabbed 0.8](//tools.suckless.org/tabbed) released: [download](//dl.suckless.org/tools/tabbed-0.8.tar.gz) 89 90 2023-07-04 91 ---------- 92 [slstatus 1.0](//tools.suckless.org/slstatus) released: [download](//dl.suckless.org/tools/slstatus-1.0.tar.gz) 93 94 2022-12-28 95 ---------- 96 [lchat 1.0](//tools.suckless.org/lchat) released: [download](//dl.suckless.org/tools/lchat-1.0.tar.gz) 97 98 2022-11-02 99 ---------- 100 [libgrapheme 2.0.2](//libs.suckless.org/libgrapheme) released: [download](//dl.suckless.org/libgrapheme/libgrapheme-2.0.2.tar.gz) 101 102 2022-10-08 103 ---------- 104 [libgrapheme 2.0.1](//libs.suckless.org/libgrapheme) released: [download](//dl.suckless.org/libgrapheme/libgrapheme-2.0.1.tar.gz) 105 106 2022-10-06 107 ---------- 108 [libgrapheme 2.0.0](//libs.suckless.org/libgrapheme) released: [download](//dl.suckless.org/libgrapheme/libgrapheme-2.0.0.tar.gz) 109 110 2022-10-04 111 ---------- 112 * [dmenu 5.2](//tools.suckless.org/dmenu/) released: [download](//dl.suckless.org/tools/dmenu-5.2.tar.gz) 113 * [dwm 6.4](//dwm.suckless.org) released: [download](//dl.suckless.org/dwm/dwm-6.4.tar.gz) 114 * [ii 2.0](//tools.suckless.org/ii) released: [download](//dl.suckless.org/tools/ii-2.0.tar.gz) 115 * [sic 1.3](//tools.suckless.org/sic) released: [download](//dl.suckless.org/tools/sic-1.3.tar.gz) 116 * [slock 1.5](//tools.suckless.org/slock) released: [download](//dl.suckless.org/tools/slock-1.5.tar.gz) 117 * [st 0.9](//st.suckless.org/) released: [download](//dl.suckless.org/st/st-0.9.tar.gz) 118 * [tabbed 0.7](//tools.suckless.org/tabbed) released: [download](//dl.suckless.org/tools/tabbed-0.7.tar.gz) 119 120 2022-04-19 121 ---------- 122 Suckless now has a dark mode CSS style for its pages. 123 Surf also now has support for [dark mode](https://git.suckless.org/surf/commit/1f5b8f3bd1f37d4d3dc45d21285f34ef4752dbaa.html). 124 125 2022-02-11 126 ---------- 127 [dmenu 5.1](//tools.suckless.org/dmenu/) released: [download](//dl.suckless.org/tools/dmenu-5.1.tar.gz) 128 129 2022-01-07 130 ---------- 131 * [dwm 6.3](//dwm.suckless.org) released: [download](//dl.suckless.org/dwm/dwm-6.3.tar.gz) 132 * [ii 1.9](//tools.suckless.org/ii) released: [download](//dl.suckless.org/tools/ii-1.9.tar.gz) 133 * [st 0.8.5](//st.suckless.org/) released: [download](//dl.suckless.org/st/st-0.8.5.tar.gz) 134 * [svkbd 0.4.1](//tools.suckless.org/x/svkbd/) released: [download](//dl.suckless.org/tools/svkbd-0.4.1.tar.gz) 135 136 2021-12-22 137 ---------- 138 [libgrapheme 1.0.0](//libs.suckless.org/libgrapheme) released: [download](//dl.suckless.org/libgrapheme/libgrapheme-1.0.0.tar.gz) 139 140 2021-07-30 141 ---------- 142 [svkbd 0.4](//tools.suckless.org/x/svkbd/) released: [download](//dl.suckless.org/tools/svkbd-0.4.tar.gz) 143 144 2021-05-09 145 ---------- 146 On Tuesday, 2021-05-11 there will be scheduled maintenance of the suckless 147 servers. It's estimated this will take about 1 hour from about 21:00 to 148 22:00 UTC+02:00. 149 150 The mailinglist, website and source-code repositories will have some downtime. 151 152 **Update:** the maintenance was finished at 2021-05-12 23:33 UTC+02:00. 153 P.S.: It didn't actually take 26h30, I just had forgotten to do it. 154 155 2021-05-08 156 ---------- 157 [surf 2.1](//surf.suckless.org/) released: [download](//dl.suckless.org/surf/surf-2.1.tar.gz) 158 159 2021-03-28 160 ---------- 161 [svkbd 0.3](//tools.suckless.org/x/svkbd/) released: [download](//dl.suckless.org/tools/svkbd-0.3.tar.gz) 162 163 2021-03-28 164 ---------- 165 On Wednesday, 2021-03-31 there will be scheduled maintenance of the suckless 166 servers. It's estimated this will take about 2-3 hours from about 19:00 to 167 21:00 - 22:00 UTC+02:00. 168 169 The mailinglist, website and source-code repositories will have some downtime. 170 171 **Update:** the maintenance was finished at 2021-03-31 19:10 UTC+02:00. 172 173 2021-01-19 174 ---------- 175 [scroll 0.1](//tools.suckless.org/scroll/) released: [download](//dl.suckless.org/tools/scroll-0.1.tar.gz) 176 177 2020-12-11 178 ---------- 179 [svkbd 0.2.2](//tools.suckless.org/x/svkbd/) released: [download](//dl.suckless.org/tools/svkbd-0.2.2.tar.gz) 180 181 2020-09-18 182 ---------- 183 [svkbd 0.2.1](//tools.suckless.org/x/svkbd/) released: [download](//dl.suckless.org/tools/svkbd-0.2.1.tar.gz) 184 185 2020-09-13 186 ---------- 187 [svkbd 0.2](//tools.suckless.org/x/svkbd/) released: [download](//dl.suckless.org/tools/svkbd-0.2.tar.gz) 188 189 2020-09-02 190 ---------- 191 [dmenu 5.0](//tools.suckless.org/dmenu/) released: [download](//dl.suckless.org/tools/dmenu-5.0.tar.gz) 192 193 2020-06-19 194 ---------- 195 [st 0.8.4](//st.suckless.org/) released: [download](//dl.suckless.org/st/st-0.8.4.tar.gz) 196 197 2020-05-27 198 ---------- 199 The [slcon7](conferences/2020) has been cancelled due to the 2019-nCoV 200 pandemic. 201 202 2020-04-27 203 ---------- 204 [st 0.8.3](//st.suckless.org/) released: [download](//dl.suckless.org/st/st-0.8.3.tar.gz) 205 206 2019-12-01 207 ---------- 208 On Wednesday, 2019-12-04 there will be scheduled maintenance of the suckless 209 servers. It's estimated this will take about 2-3 hours from about 19:00 to 210 21:00 - 22:00 UTC+01:00. 211 212 The mailinglist, website and source-code repositories will have some downtime. 213 214 **Update:** the maintenance was finished at 2019-12-04 20:00 UTC+01:00. 215 216 2019-04-04 217 ---------- 218 Registrations are now open for [slcon6](conferences/2019) that will be held in 219 Bad Liebenzell, Germany on 2019-10-(04-06). 220 221 The CfP for interested participants will end on 2019-06-30. 222 223 2019-03-30 224 ---------- 225 There is now a [patch overview](//gunther.suckless.org/patches/) tool to have a 226 quick overview of the patch status list. This list is generated each day from 227 the [sites](//git.suckless.org/sites/) repository. It checks if patches apply 228 cleanly in a normal patching manner. Of course it does not check patch 229 combinations. 230 231 * [Hacking patches guidelines](//suckless.org/hacking/) 232 * [Tool source-code](//git.suckless.org/sites/file/testpatches.sh.html) 233 234 Please keep the patches tidy and maintain or remove them. 235 236 2019-02-09 237 ---------- 238 [st 0.8.2](//st.suckless.org/) released: [download](//dl.suckless.org/st/st-0.8.2.tar.gz) 239 240 This release has mostly bugfixes. 241 242 2019-02-03 243 ---------- 244 * [dwm 6.2](//dwm.suckless.org) released: [download](//dl.suckless.org/dwm/dwm-6.2.tar.gz) 245 * [dmenu 4.9](//tools.suckless.org/dmenu/) released: [download](//dl.suckless.org/tools/dmenu-4.9.tar.gz) 246 247 2018-06-01 248 ---------- 249 The maintainance is completed. Let me know of any important things that are broken. 250 Internally we will keep tweaking the server configuration over the course of 251 time. 252 253 2018-05-27 254 ---------- 255 There will be a scheduled server maintenance next Friday and Saturday, 2018-06-(01-02). 256 The migration to the new server will happen on these days and the git 257 repositories and mailing list will be frozen on the old (now current) 258 server. 259 260 2018-04-11 261 ---------- 262 [farbfeld 4](//tools.suckless.org/farbfeld/) released: [download](//dl.suckless.org/farbfeld/farbfeld-4.tar.gz) 263 264 2018-03-20 265 ---------- 266 [st 0.8.1](//st.suckless.org/) released: [download](//dl.suckless.org/st/st-0.8.1.tar.gz) 267 268 This release fixes some regressions introduced in the 0.8 release. 269 270 2018-03-19 271 ---------- 272 Registrations for [slcon5](/conferences/2018/) are now open. 273 274 2018-03-14 275 ---------- 276 * [dmenu 4.8](//tools.suckless.org/dmenu/) released: [download](//dl.suckless.org/tools/dmenu-4.8.tar.gz) 277 * [st 0.8](//st.suckless.org/) released: [download](//dl.suckless.org/st/st-0.8.tar.gz) 278 279 2018-02-04 280 ---------- 281 [ii 1.8](//tools.suckless.org/ii) released: [download](//dl.suckless.org/tools/ii-1.8.tar.gz) 282 283 2017-09-04 284 ---------- 285 [suckless hackathon](/conferences/2017): we met on Sep 1-3 2017 in Würzburg, Germany. 286 287 2017-09-04 288 ---------- 289 [sent 1](//tools.suckless.org/sent) released: [download](//dl.suckless.org/tools/sent-1.tar.gz) 290 291 2017-08-30 292 ---------- 293 suckless.org now supports TLS using [Let's Encrypt](https://letsencrypt.org/). 294 Cloning git repos over HTTPS now works. Some links on the page have been 295 changed to allow both HTTP and HTTPS. 296 297 HSTS is not fully working yet. This will be fixed. 298 299 The IPv6 AAAA record was added and IPv6 is fully working now. 300 301 suckless has many subdomains, these should hopefully all work via TLS. If you 302 see a subdomain without a signed certificate please report it. If you find any 303 broken links on the wiki pages, these can be fixed by anyone. 304 305 2017-07-03 306 ---------- 307 The suckless.org project is now hosted on a new server. All inactive accounts 308 have been removed during the relocation. 309 310 Please note that the new ECDSA key fingerprint is 311 SHA256:7DBXcYScmsxbv7rMJUJoJsY5peOrngD4QagiXX6MiQU. 312 313 2017-05-06 314 ---------- 315 [blind 1.1](//tools.suckless.org/blind) released: 316 [download](//dl.suckless.org/tools/blind-1.1.tar.gz) 317 318 2017-05-02 319 ---------- 320 [dmenu 4.7](//tools.suckless.org/dmenu) released: 321 [download](//dl.suckless.org/tools/dmenu-4.7.tar.gz) 322 323 2017-04-14 324 ---------- 325 [farbfeld 3](//tools.suckless.org/farbfeld/) released: 326 [download](//dl.suckless.org/farbfeld/farbfeld-3.tar.gz) 327 328 2017-03-28 329 ---------- 330 [surf](//surf.suckless.org/) now uses webkit2 by default. The webkit1 version 331 is kept in the [surf-webkit1](//git.suckless.org/surf/log/?h=surf-webkit1) 332 branch. The “master” branch doesn't exist anymore, HEAD is now 333 [surf-webkit2](//git.suckless.org/surf/log/), so be sure to rebase your local 334 master commits onto surf-webkit1. 335 336 2016-11-20 337 ---------- 338 [slock 1.4](//tools.suckless.org/slock) released: 339 [download](//dl.suckless.org/tools/slock-1.4.tar.gz) 340 341 2016-09-26 342 ---------- 343 Videos of the [slcon 2016 talks](conferences/2016) are now available. 344 345 2016-08-24 346 ---------- 347 [slcon3](conferences/2016) preliminary schedule now published. If you want to 348 attend please register before: **2016-09-01**. 349 350 2015-12-19 351 ---------- 352 [surf 0.7](//surf.suckless.org) released: 353 [download](//dl.suckless.org/surf/surf-0.7.tar.gz) 354 355 2015-11-25 356 ---------- 357 [sent 0.2](//tools.suckless.org/sent) released: 358 [download](//dl.suckless.org/tools/sent-0.2.tar.gz) 359 360 2015-11-13 361 ---------- 362 Videos of the [slcon2 talks](conferences/2015) are now available. 363 364 2015-11-09 365 ---------- 366 [dwm 6.1](//dwm.suckless.org) released: 367 [download](//dl.suckless.org/dwm/dwm-6.1.tar.gz) 368 369 2015-09-23 370 ---------- 371 Kai and Anselm gave an interview about suckless.org on Randal Schwartz's [FLOSS 372 Weekly show](https://twit.tv/shows/floss-weekly/episodes/355?autostart=false) 373 374 2015-07-07 375 ---------- 376 [st 0.6](//st.suckless.org) released: 377 [download](//dl.suckless.org/st/st-0.6.tar.gz) 378 379 2015-02-14 380 ---------- 381 [slcon2](conferences/2015) will be held in Budapest on 2015-10-(30-31). 382 383 The CfP for interested participants is now open and will end on 2015-04-30. 384 385 2014-11-29 386 ---------- 387 [lsw 0.3](//tools.suckless.org/x/lsw) released: 388 [download](//dl.suckless.org/tools/lsw-0.3.tar.gz) 389 390 2014-11-24 391 ---------- 392 There will be a 393 [suckless assembly](https://events.ccc.de/congress/2014/wiki/Assembly%3ASuckless) 394 at the [31C3](https://events.ccc.de/congress/2014). The whole suckless 395 community is invited to come, meet and hack! 396 397 2014-08-05 398 ---------- 399 [sinit 0.9.1](//core.suckless.org/sinit) released: 400 [download](//dl.suckless.org/sinit/sinit-0.9.1.tar.gz) 401 402 2014-05-01 403 ---------- 404 [ubase 0.1](//core.suckless.org/ubase) released: 405 [download](//dl.suckless.org/ubase/ubase-0.1.tar.gz) 406 407 2014-01-21 408 ---------- 409 [tabbed 0.6](//tools.suckless.org/tabbed) released: 410 [download](//dl.suckless.org/tools/tabbed-0.6.tar.gz) 411 412 2013-06-16 413 ---------- 414 [sic 1.2](//tools.suckless.org/sic) released: 415 [download](//dl.suckless.org/tools/sic-1.2.tar.gz) 416 417 2013-05-07 418 ---------- 419 [xssstate 1.1](//tools.suckless.org/x/xssstate) released: 420 [download](//dl.suckless.org/tools/xssstate-1.1.tar.gz) 421 422 2013-05-06 423 ---------- 424 [tabbed 0.5](//tools.suckless.org/tabbed) released: 425 [download](//dl.suckless.org/tools/tabbed-0.5.tar.gz) 426 427 2013-04-21 428 ---------- 429 We are glad to announce the [slcon 2013](/conferences/2013) programme. 430 431 2012-11-29 432 ---------- 433 We are glad to announce the switch to git from mercurial in all of our 434 repositories. You can find them at [git.suckless.org](//git.suckless.org) Many 435 thanks to 20h for his contribution! 436 437 2012-10-28 438 ---------- 439 [sprop 0.1](//tools.suckless.org/x/sprop) released: 440 [download](//dl.suckless.org/tools/sprop-0.1.tar.gz) 441 442 2012-10-14 443 ---------- 444 Today we heard a very sad news that our friend, contributor and philosophical 445 advisor Uriel has passed away peacefully. We will miss him a lot. 446 447  448 449 RIP 450 451 2011-05-14 452 ---------- 453 Anselm gave a talk about **The 'suckless.org' universe** at the [LinuxTag 454 2011](http://www.linuxtag.org) conference in Berlin. 455 456 2011-01-31 457 ---------- 458 [ii 1.6](//tools.suckless.org/ii) released (regression fix): 459 [download](//dl.suckless.org/tools/ii-1.6.tar.gz) 460 461 2010-06-04 462 ---------- 463 [9base-6](//tools.suckless.org/9base) released: 464 [download](//dl.suckless.org/tools/9base-6.tar.gz) 465 466 2010-03-28 467 ---------- 468 We learned today that the previous wmii maintainer, who wasn't actively 469 involved since 2007, Denis Grelich, 470 [died on 2010-03-12](https://web.archive.org/web/20140208043925/http://www.lmt.uni-saarland.de/de/aktuelles/grelich.html). 471 We thank him for his work. Rest in peace. 472 473 2010-03-07 474 ---------- 475 We applied as a mentoring organisation for GSoC 2010. See our [project ideas 476 for GSoC 2010](/project_ideas) page for further details. 477 478 2010-02-13 479 ---------- 480 Some of us will visit [CLT2010](http://chemnitzer.linux-tage.de/2010/). Anselm 481 will give a 482 [talk](http://chemnitzer.linux-tage.de/2010/vortraege/detail.html?idx=308) 483 about stali on the second day of CLT2010 at 17:00. 484 485 2009-12-28 486 ---------- 487 There was a small community meeting in Berlin! Thanks to all attendees. 488 489 2008-08-02 490 ---------- 491 [wmname 0.1](//tools.suckless.org/x/wmname) released: 492 [download](//dl.suckless.org/tools/wmname-0.1.tar.gz) 493 494 2008-07-29 495 ---------- 496 [sselp 0.2](//tools.suckless.org/x/sselp) released: 497 [download](//dl.suckless.org/tools/sselp-0.2.tar.gz)