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