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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 2026-01-30 13 ---------- 14 * [dwm 6.8](//dwm.suckless.org) released: [download](//dl.suckless.org/dwm/dwm-6.8.tar.gz) 15 16 This fixes a regression in getatomprop(): 17 <https://git.suckless.org/dwm/commit/a9aa0d8ffbb548b0b1f9f755557aef2482c0f820.html> 18 19 Threads: 20 * <https://lists.suckless.org/dev/2601/35936.html> 21 * <https://lists.suckless.org/hackers/2601/19537.html> 22 23 It is encouraged to upgrade to 6.8 or HEAD if you use dwm 6.7. 24 25 2026-01-10 26 ---------- 27 * [dwm 6.7](//dwm.suckless.org) released: [download](//dl.suckless.org/dwm/dwm-6.7.tar.gz) 28 29 2025-12-24 30 ---------- 31 [libgrapheme 3.0.0](//libs.suckless.org/libgrapheme) released: [download](//dl.suckless.org/libgrapheme/libgrapheme-3.0.0.tar.gz) 32 33 2025-08-09 34 ---------- 35 * [dmenu 5.4](//tools.suckless.org/dmenu/) released: [download](//dl.suckless.org/tools/dmenu-5.4.tar.gz) 36 * [dwm 6.6](//dwm.suckless.org) released: [download](//dl.suckless.org/dwm/dwm-6.6.tar.gz) 37 * [slock 1.6](//tools.suckless.org/slock/) released: [download](//dl.suckless.org/tools/slock-1.6.tar.gz) 38 * [st 0.9.3](//st.suckless.org/) released: [download](//dl.suckless.org/st/st-0.9.3.tar.gz) 39 * [tabbed 0.9](//tools.suckless.org/tabbed) released: [download](//dl.suckless.org/tools/tabbed-0.9.tar.gz) 40 41 2025-05-05 42 ---------- 43 On Sunday, 2025-05-11 44 there will be scheduled maintenance of the suckless servers. 45 It's estimated this will take about 2 hours 46 from about 10:00 to 12:00 UTC. 47 48 The mailinglist, website and source-code repositories will have some downtime. 49 50 Update: the maintenance was finished at 2025-05-11 13:00 UTC. 51 There was a small issue with storage space, hence the 1h delay for fixing it. 52 53 2025-04-30 54 ---------- 55 [slstatus 1.1](//tools.suckless.org/slstatus) released: [download](//dl.suckless.org/tools/slstatus-1.1.tar.gz) 56 57 2024-11-26 58 ---------- 59 * [svkbd 0.4.2](//tools.suckless.org/x/svkbd/) released: [download](//dl.suckless.org/tools/svkbd-0.4.2.tar.gz) 60 61 2024-04-05 62 ---------- 63 * [st 0.9.2](//st.suckless.org/) released: [download](//dl.suckless.org/st/st-0.9.2.tar.gz) 64 65 This reverts a commit and a regression with cursor move with wide glyphs, for 66 example with GNU readline. 67 68 2024-03-20 69 ---------- 70 Below are some highlights of the changes for the recent releases of dmenu, dwm, 71 st and tabbed, see the git logs for all details: 72 73 General small Makefile improvements, rationale being: just be verbose and show 74 what is done: do not abstract/hide details from the user/developer. 75 Respect (more) the package manager and build system flags (CFLAGS, LDFLAGS, etc). 76 77 [dwm](https://git.suckless.org/dwm/log.html): 78 * Improvements to signal handling. 79 * Fix: Avoid missing events when a keysym maps to multiple keycodes. 80 81 [dmenu](https://git.suckless.org/dmenu/log.html): 82 * Reduce memory usage for reading the lines. 83 * Fix: X11 BadMatch error when embedding on some windows. 84 85 [st](https://git.suckless.org/st/log.html): 86 * Fix: bounds checks of dc.col. 87 * Fix: buffer overflow when handling long composed input. 88 * Ignore C1 control characters in UTF-8 mode. 89 * Improvements to cell handling and wide characters. 90 * Default config: decrease the default minlatency. 91 * [Various other terminal fixes and compatibility improvements.](https://git.suckless.org/st/log.html) 92 93 [tabbed](https://git.suckless.org/tabbed/log.html): 94 * Fix: faulty zombie process reaping. 95 * Improvements to signal handling. 96 * Improve compatibility with compiling on older systems such as Slackware 11. 97 98 Thanks to all contributors who submitted patches. 99 100 2024-03-19 101 ---------- 102 * [dmenu 5.3](//tools.suckless.org/dmenu/) released: [download](//dl.suckless.org/tools/dmenu-5.3.tar.gz) 103 * [dwm 6.5](//dwm.suckless.org) released: [download](//dl.suckless.org/dwm/dwm-6.5.tar.gz) 104 * [st 0.9.1](//st.suckless.org/) released: [download](//dl.suckless.org/st/st-0.9.1.tar.gz) 105 * [tabbed 0.8](//tools.suckless.org/tabbed) released: [download](//dl.suckless.org/tools/tabbed-0.8.tar.gz) 106 107 2023-07-04 108 ---------- 109 [slstatus 1.0](//tools.suckless.org/slstatus) released: [download](//dl.suckless.org/tools/slstatus-1.0.tar.gz) 110 111 2022-12-28 112 ---------- 113 [lchat 1.0](//tools.suckless.org/lchat) released: [download](//dl.suckless.org/tools/lchat-1.0.tar.gz) 114 115 2022-11-02 116 ---------- 117 [libgrapheme 2.0.2](//libs.suckless.org/libgrapheme) released: [download](//dl.suckless.org/libgrapheme/libgrapheme-2.0.2.tar.gz) 118 119 2022-10-08 120 ---------- 121 [libgrapheme 2.0.1](//libs.suckless.org/libgrapheme) released: [download](//dl.suckless.org/libgrapheme/libgrapheme-2.0.1.tar.gz) 122 123 2022-10-06 124 ---------- 125 [libgrapheme 2.0.0](//libs.suckless.org/libgrapheme) released: [download](//dl.suckless.org/libgrapheme/libgrapheme-2.0.0.tar.gz) 126 127 2022-10-04 128 ---------- 129 * [dmenu 5.2](//tools.suckless.org/dmenu/) released: [download](//dl.suckless.org/tools/dmenu-5.2.tar.gz) 130 * [dwm 6.4](//dwm.suckless.org) released: [download](//dl.suckless.org/dwm/dwm-6.4.tar.gz) 131 * [ii 2.0](//tools.suckless.org/ii) released: [download](//dl.suckless.org/tools/ii-2.0.tar.gz) 132 * [sic 1.3](//tools.suckless.org/sic) released: [download](//dl.suckless.org/tools/sic-1.3.tar.gz) 133 * [slock 1.5](//tools.suckless.org/slock) released: [download](//dl.suckless.org/tools/slock-1.5.tar.gz) 134 * [st 0.9](//st.suckless.org/) released: [download](//dl.suckless.org/st/st-0.9.tar.gz) 135 * [tabbed 0.7](//tools.suckless.org/tabbed) released: [download](//dl.suckless.org/tools/tabbed-0.7.tar.gz) 136 137 2022-04-19 138 ---------- 139 Suckless now has a dark mode CSS style for its pages. 140 Surf also now has support for [dark mode](https://git.suckless.org/surf/commit/1f5b8f3bd1f37d4d3dc45d21285f34ef4752dbaa.html). 141 142 2022-02-11 143 ---------- 144 [dmenu 5.1](//tools.suckless.org/dmenu/) released: [download](//dl.suckless.org/tools/dmenu-5.1.tar.gz) 145 146 2022-01-07 147 ---------- 148 * [dwm 6.3](//dwm.suckless.org) released: [download](//dl.suckless.org/dwm/dwm-6.3.tar.gz) 149 * [ii 1.9](//tools.suckless.org/ii) released: [download](//dl.suckless.org/tools/ii-1.9.tar.gz) 150 * [st 0.8.5](//st.suckless.org/) released: [download](//dl.suckless.org/st/st-0.8.5.tar.gz) 151 * [svkbd 0.4.1](//tools.suckless.org/x/svkbd/) released: [download](//dl.suckless.org/tools/svkbd-0.4.1.tar.gz) 152 153 2021-12-22 154 ---------- 155 [libgrapheme 1.0.0](//libs.suckless.org/libgrapheme) released: [download](//dl.suckless.org/libgrapheme/libgrapheme-1.0.0.tar.gz) 156 157 2021-07-30 158 ---------- 159 [svkbd 0.4](//tools.suckless.org/x/svkbd/) released: [download](//dl.suckless.org/tools/svkbd-0.4.tar.gz) 160 161 2021-05-09 162 ---------- 163 On Tuesday, 2021-05-11 there will be scheduled maintenance of the suckless 164 servers. It's estimated this will take about 1 hour from about 21:00 to 165 22:00 UTC+02:00. 166 167 The mailinglist, website and source-code repositories will have some downtime. 168 169 **Update:** the maintenance was finished at 2021-05-12 23:33 UTC+02:00. 170 P.S.: It didn't actually take 26h30, I just had forgotten to do it. 171 172 2021-05-08 173 ---------- 174 [surf 2.1](//surf.suckless.org/) released: [download](//dl.suckless.org/surf/surf-2.1.tar.gz) 175 176 2021-03-28 177 ---------- 178 [svkbd 0.3](//tools.suckless.org/x/svkbd/) released: [download](//dl.suckless.org/tools/svkbd-0.3.tar.gz) 179 180 2021-03-28 181 ---------- 182 On Wednesday, 2021-03-31 there will be scheduled maintenance of the suckless 183 servers. It's estimated this will take about 2-3 hours from about 19:00 to 184 21:00 - 22:00 UTC+02:00. 185 186 The mailinglist, website and source-code repositories will have some downtime. 187 188 **Update:** the maintenance was finished at 2021-03-31 19:10 UTC+02:00. 189 190 2021-01-19 191 ---------- 192 [scroll 0.1](//tools.suckless.org/scroll/) released: [download](//dl.suckless.org/tools/scroll-0.1.tar.gz) 193 194 2020-12-11 195 ---------- 196 [svkbd 0.2.2](//tools.suckless.org/x/svkbd/) released: [download](//dl.suckless.org/tools/svkbd-0.2.2.tar.gz) 197 198 2020-09-18 199 ---------- 200 [svkbd 0.2.1](//tools.suckless.org/x/svkbd/) released: [download](//dl.suckless.org/tools/svkbd-0.2.1.tar.gz) 201 202 2020-09-13 203 ---------- 204 [svkbd 0.2](//tools.suckless.org/x/svkbd/) released: [download](//dl.suckless.org/tools/svkbd-0.2.tar.gz) 205 206 2020-09-02 207 ---------- 208 [dmenu 5.0](//tools.suckless.org/dmenu/) released: [download](//dl.suckless.org/tools/dmenu-5.0.tar.gz) 209 210 2020-06-19 211 ---------- 212 [st 0.8.4](//st.suckless.org/) released: [download](//dl.suckless.org/st/st-0.8.4.tar.gz) 213 214 2020-05-27 215 ---------- 216 The [slcon7](conferences/2020) has been cancelled due to the 2019-nCoV 217 pandemic. 218 219 2020-04-27 220 ---------- 221 [st 0.8.3](//st.suckless.org/) released: [download](//dl.suckless.org/st/st-0.8.3.tar.gz) 222 223 2019-12-01 224 ---------- 225 On Wednesday, 2019-12-04 there will be scheduled maintenance of the suckless 226 servers. It's estimated this will take about 2-3 hours from about 19:00 to 227 21:00 - 22:00 UTC+01:00. 228 229 The mailinglist, website and source-code repositories will have some downtime. 230 231 **Update:** the maintenance was finished at 2019-12-04 20:00 UTC+01:00. 232 233 2019-04-04 234 ---------- 235 Registrations are now open for [slcon6](conferences/2019) that will be held in 236 Bad Liebenzell, Germany on 2019-10-(04-06). 237 238 The CfP for interested participants will end on 2019-06-30. 239 240 2019-03-30 241 ---------- 242 There is now a [patch overview](//gunther.suckless.org/patches/) tool to have a 243 quick overview of the patch status list. This list is generated each day from 244 the [sites](//git.suckless.org/sites/) repository. It checks if patches apply 245 cleanly in a normal patching manner. Of course it does not check patch 246 combinations. 247 248 * [Hacking patches guidelines](//suckless.org/hacking/) 249 * [Tool source-code](//git.suckless.org/sites/file/testpatches.sh.html) 250 251 Please keep the patches tidy and maintain or remove them. 252 253 2019-02-09 254 ---------- 255 [st 0.8.2](//st.suckless.org/) released: [download](//dl.suckless.org/st/st-0.8.2.tar.gz) 256 257 This release has mostly bugfixes. 258 259 2019-02-03 260 ---------- 261 * [dwm 6.2](//dwm.suckless.org) released: [download](//dl.suckless.org/dwm/dwm-6.2.tar.gz) 262 * [dmenu 4.9](//tools.suckless.org/dmenu/) released: [download](//dl.suckless.org/tools/dmenu-4.9.tar.gz) 263 264 2018-06-01 265 ---------- 266 The maintainance is completed. Let me know of any important things that are broken. 267 Internally we will keep tweaking the server configuration over the course of 268 time. 269 270 2018-05-27 271 ---------- 272 There will be a scheduled server maintenance next Friday and Saturday, 2018-06-(01-02). 273 The migration to the new server will happen on these days and the git 274 repositories and mailing list will be frozen on the old (now current) 275 server. 276 277 2018-04-11 278 ---------- 279 [farbfeld 4](//tools.suckless.org/farbfeld/) released: [download](//dl.suckless.org/farbfeld/farbfeld-4.tar.gz) 280 281 2018-03-20 282 ---------- 283 [st 0.8.1](//st.suckless.org/) released: [download](//dl.suckless.org/st/st-0.8.1.tar.gz) 284 285 This release fixes some regressions introduced in the 0.8 release. 286 287 2018-03-19 288 ---------- 289 Registrations for [slcon5](/conferences/2018/) are now open. 290 291 2018-03-14 292 ---------- 293 * [dmenu 4.8](//tools.suckless.org/dmenu/) released: [download](//dl.suckless.org/tools/dmenu-4.8.tar.gz) 294 * [st 0.8](//st.suckless.org/) released: [download](//dl.suckless.org/st/st-0.8.tar.gz) 295 296 2018-02-04 297 ---------- 298 [ii 1.8](//tools.suckless.org/ii) released: [download](//dl.suckless.org/tools/ii-1.8.tar.gz) 299 300 2017-09-04 301 ---------- 302 [suckless hackathon](/conferences/2017): we met on Sep 1-3 2017 in Würzburg, Germany. 303 304 2017-09-04 305 ---------- 306 [sent 1](//tools.suckless.org/sent) released: [download](//dl.suckless.org/tools/sent-1.tar.gz) 307 308 2017-08-30 309 ---------- 310 suckless.org now supports TLS using [Let's Encrypt](https://letsencrypt.org/). 311 Cloning git repos over HTTPS now works. Some links on the page have been 312 changed to allow both HTTP and HTTPS. 313 314 HSTS is not fully working yet. This will be fixed. 315 316 The IPv6 AAAA record was added and IPv6 is fully working now. 317 318 suckless has many subdomains, these should hopefully all work via TLS. If you 319 see a subdomain without a signed certificate please report it. If you find any 320 broken links on the wiki pages, these can be fixed by anyone. 321 322 2017-07-03 323 ---------- 324 The suckless.org project is now hosted on a new server. All inactive accounts 325 have been removed during the relocation. 326 327 Please note that the new ECDSA key fingerprint is 328 SHA256:7DBXcYScmsxbv7rMJUJoJsY5peOrngD4QagiXX6MiQU. 329 330 2017-05-06 331 ---------- 332 [blind 1.1](//tools.suckless.org/blind) released: 333 [download](//dl.suckless.org/tools/blind-1.1.tar.gz) 334 335 2017-05-02 336 ---------- 337 [dmenu 4.7](//tools.suckless.org/dmenu) released: 338 [download](//dl.suckless.org/tools/dmenu-4.7.tar.gz) 339 340 2017-04-14 341 ---------- 342 [farbfeld 3](//tools.suckless.org/farbfeld/) released: 343 [download](//dl.suckless.org/farbfeld/farbfeld-3.tar.gz) 344 345 2017-03-28 346 ---------- 347 [surf](//surf.suckless.org/) now uses webkit2 by default. The webkit1 version 348 is kept in the [surf-webkit1](//git.suckless.org/surf/log/?h=surf-webkit1) 349 branch. The “master” branch doesn't exist anymore, HEAD is now 350 [surf-webkit2](//git.suckless.org/surf/log/), so be sure to rebase your local 351 master commits onto surf-webkit1. 352 353 2016-11-20 354 ---------- 355 [slock 1.4](//tools.suckless.org/slock) released: 356 [download](//dl.suckless.org/tools/slock-1.4.tar.gz) 357 358 2016-09-26 359 ---------- 360 Videos of the [slcon 2016 talks](conferences/2016) are now available. 361 362 2016-08-24 363 ---------- 364 [slcon3](conferences/2016) preliminary schedule now published. If you want to 365 attend please register before: **2016-09-01**. 366 367 2015-12-19 368 ---------- 369 [surf 0.7](//surf.suckless.org) released: 370 [download](//dl.suckless.org/surf/surf-0.7.tar.gz) 371 372 2015-11-25 373 ---------- 374 [sent 0.2](//tools.suckless.org/sent) released: 375 [download](//dl.suckless.org/tools/sent-0.2.tar.gz) 376 377 2015-11-13 378 ---------- 379 Videos of the [slcon2 talks](conferences/2015) are now available. 380 381 2015-11-09 382 ---------- 383 [dwm 6.1](//dwm.suckless.org) released: 384 [download](//dl.suckless.org/dwm/dwm-6.1.tar.gz) 385 386 2015-09-23 387 ---------- 388 Kai and Anselm gave an interview about suckless.org on Randal Schwartz's [FLOSS 389 Weekly show](https://twit.tv/shows/floss-weekly/episodes/355?autostart=false) 390 391 2015-07-07 392 ---------- 393 [st 0.6](//st.suckless.org) released: 394 [download](//dl.suckless.org/st/st-0.6.tar.gz) 395 396 2015-02-14 397 ---------- 398 [slcon2](conferences/2015) will be held in Budapest on 2015-10-(30-31). 399 400 The CfP for interested participants is now open and will end on 2015-04-30. 401 402 2014-11-29 403 ---------- 404 [lsw 0.3](//tools.suckless.org/x/lsw) released: 405 [download](//dl.suckless.org/tools/lsw-0.3.tar.gz) 406 407 2014-11-24 408 ---------- 409 There will be a 410 [suckless assembly](https://events.ccc.de/congress/2014/wiki/Assembly%3ASuckless) 411 at the [31C3](https://events.ccc.de/congress/2014). The whole suckless 412 community is invited to come, meet and hack! 413 414 2014-08-05 415 ---------- 416 [sinit 0.9.1](//core.suckless.org/sinit) released: 417 [download](//dl.suckless.org/sinit/sinit-0.9.1.tar.gz) 418 419 2014-05-01 420 ---------- 421 [ubase 0.1](//core.suckless.org/ubase) released: 422 [download](//dl.suckless.org/ubase/ubase-0.1.tar.gz) 423 424 2014-01-21 425 ---------- 426 [tabbed 0.6](//tools.suckless.org/tabbed) released: 427 [download](//dl.suckless.org/tools/tabbed-0.6.tar.gz) 428 429 2013-06-16 430 ---------- 431 [sic 1.2](//tools.suckless.org/sic) released: 432 [download](//dl.suckless.org/tools/sic-1.2.tar.gz) 433 434 2013-05-07 435 ---------- 436 [xssstate 1.1](//tools.suckless.org/x/xssstate) released: 437 [download](//dl.suckless.org/tools/xssstate-1.1.tar.gz) 438 439 2013-05-06 440 ---------- 441 [tabbed 0.5](//tools.suckless.org/tabbed) released: 442 [download](//dl.suckless.org/tools/tabbed-0.5.tar.gz) 443 444 2013-04-21 445 ---------- 446 We are glad to announce the [slcon 2013](/conferences/2013) programme. 447 448 2012-11-29 449 ---------- 450 We are glad to announce the switch to git from mercurial in all of our 451 repositories. You can find them at [git.suckless.org](//git.suckless.org) Many 452 thanks to 20h for his contribution! 453 454 2012-10-28 455 ---------- 456 [sprop 0.1](//tools.suckless.org/x/sprop) released: 457 [download](//dl.suckless.org/tools/sprop-0.1.tar.gz) 458 459 2012-10-14 460 ---------- 461 Today we heard a very sad news that our friend, contributor and philosophical 462 advisor Uriel has passed away peacefully. We will miss him a lot. 463 464  465 466 RIP 467 468 2011-05-14 469 ---------- 470 Anselm gave a talk about **The 'suckless.org' universe** at the [LinuxTag 471 2011](http://www.linuxtag.org) conference in Berlin. 472 473 2011-01-31 474 ---------- 475 [ii 1.6](//tools.suckless.org/ii) released (regression fix): 476 [download](//dl.suckless.org/tools/ii-1.6.tar.gz) 477 478 2010-06-04 479 ---------- 480 [9base-6](//tools.suckless.org/9base) released: 481 [download](//dl.suckless.org/tools/9base-6.tar.gz) 482 483 2010-03-28 484 ---------- 485 We learned today that the previous wmii maintainer, who wasn't actively 486 involved since 2007, Denis Grelich, 487 [died on 2010-03-12](https://web.archive.org/web/20140208043925/http://www.lmt.uni-saarland.de/de/aktuelles/grelich.html). 488 We thank him for his work. Rest in peace. 489 490 2010-03-07 491 ---------- 492 We applied as a mentoring organisation for GSoC 2010. See our [project ideas 493 for GSoC 2010](/project_ideas) page for further details. 494 495 2010-02-13 496 ---------- 497 Some of us will visit [CLT2010](http://chemnitzer.linux-tage.de/2010/). Anselm 498 will give a 499 [talk](http://chemnitzer.linux-tage.de/2010/vortraege/detail.html?idx=308) 500 about stali on the second day of CLT2010 at 17:00. 501 502 2009-12-28 503 ---------- 504 There was a small community meeting in Berlin! Thanks to all attendees. 505 506 2008-08-02 507 ---------- 508 [wmname 0.1](//tools.suckless.org/x/wmname) released: 509 [download](//dl.suckless.org/tools/wmname-0.1.tar.gz) 510 511 2008-07-29 512 ---------- 513 [sselp 0.2](//tools.suckless.org/x/sselp) released: 514 [download](//dl.suckless.org/tools/sselp-0.2.tar.gz)