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