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0.4.6

What’s Changed

Full Changelog: https://github.com/Seafoam-Labs/Aqueous/compare/v0.4.5...0.4.6

Scrolling update

Full Changelog: https://github.com/Seafoam-Labs/Aqueous/compare/0.4.6...0.4.7

v0.4.8 Latest

This release expands HDR and color-management support, brings aqueousctl outputs to wlr-randr information parity, improves portrait display layouts, and fixes maximized floating-window behavior.

Highlights

  • Added Auto HDR-style SDR highlight expansion on HDR outputs.
  • Added native Wine/Proton HDR paths through color-management-v1 version 3.
  • Added full output inspection and JSON reporting to aqueousctl.
  • Added automatic vertical placement for scrolling layouts on portrait displays.
  • Improved packaging, UWSM integration, and release automation.

HDR and color management

  • Added configurable HDR peak presets through hdr_level:
    • 100, 400, or 1000 cd/m²
    • "auto" selects the nearest preset using EDID luminance metadata
  • Added configurable SDR diffuse white through sdr_white_level.
  • Added auto_hdr and auto_hdr_boost output settings.
  • Added the per-window hdr_expand rule.
  • Added Windows scRGB and Windows BT.2100 descriptions for Wine/Proton HDR clients.
  • Corrected target and reference luminance reporting so Proton receives valid HDR headroom.
  • Preserved SDR output reporting to prevent false HDR detection.
  • Added wlroots patches exposing EDID HDR metadata, SDR white-level rendering, and Windows HDR color-management support.
  • Added live tests for color-management luminance and Proton HDR behavior.

Auto HDR requires a build with Vulkan effects enabled.

aqueousctl output reporting

aqueousctl outputs now reports the complete wlr-randr information set:

  • Connector name and description
  • Manufacturer, model, and serial number
  • Physical dimensions
  • Enabled state
  • Every advertised mode
  • Current and preferred modes
  • Logical position
  • Transform
  • Scale
  • Adaptive-sync state

Use aqueousctl outputs --json for the same atomic snapshot with wlr-randr-compatible field names and value types.

Window management

  • Added prefer_vertical_on_portrait for scrolling layouts. New windows can automatically join the active column when its local usable region is taller than it is wide.
  • Fixed minimizing and restoring maximized floating windows.
  • Fixed maximized-window stacking in floating layouts so focus order determines which floating window appears on top.
  • Expanded fixture and integration coverage for vertical scrolling behavior.

Packaging and session integration

  • Updated package versions and release metadata to 0.4.8.
  • Updated install and upgrade messages with current configuration, session, shell, and logging information.
  • Moved the packaged UWSM environment from /etc/uwsm/env-aqueous to /etc/xdg/uwsm/env-aqueous, where UWSM actually discovers system configuration.
  • Corrected environment packaging across standard, Git, Intel, binary, and DMS packages.
  • Added the missing xcb-util-renderutil CI dependency.
  • Updated release and artifact GitHub Actions.
  • Improved CI concurrency and branch filtering.

Auto HDR development tools

Added an Auto HDR training and evaluation stack with:

  • Synthetic SDR/HDR pair generation
  • Multiple tone-mapping degradation methods
  • Gain-map, LUT, and parameter-regression model options
  • Training, evaluation, and export tooling
  • ROCm acceleration and GPU validation
  • Python 3.12 and 3.14 environment support

Upgrade notes

  • wayland-protocols 1.49 or newer is now required.
  • Restart the complete Aqueous session after upgrading.
  • If you maintain a custom system-wide UWSM environment under /etc/uwsm, move it to /etc/xdg/uwsm. Per-user overrides remain supported under ~/.config/uwsm.
  • Existing Aqueous configuration files remain compatible; all new HDR and portrait-layout options are optional.

What’s Changed

New Contributors

Full Changelog: https://github.com/Seafoam-Labs/Aqueous/compare/0.4.7...v0.4.8

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