Hyprland 0.55 announced the switch to Lua for its config files

After quite a long while, Hyprland 0.55 is upon us! This is an enormous update by each measurable metric - commits, contributors, features and changes.

Highlights

With 0.55, there are tons of changes, let’s bring the highlights first.

Lua configs

As we’ve announced a while back, the Hyprland config is now done in Lua. This does not mean your hyprlang config is now broken - it will still work, for a few releases.

The entire wiki has been updated to reflect new Lua configs and you are encouraged to migrate over to Lua.

User-defined layouts

With Lua, we’ve also added a Layout API for you to define your own layouts directly in the config. Those layouts can be set globally, per-workspace, per-monitor, etc. and behave just like regular layouts, except fully controlled by you.

Various scrolling improvements

Scrolling now supports fullscreen windows as part of the tape by default:

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