Hyprland 0.50 is out today as the newest feature release for this Wayland compositor focused on delivering a lot of Linux desktop bling.
Hyprland 0.50 drops its legacy renderer and thus now requires graphics drivers to support at least OpenGL ES 3.0. Hyprland 0.50 also foregoes providing an explicit sync setting any longer as now explicit sync support is always used by default.
One of the notable additions in Hyprland 0.50 is new render scheduling that is able to dynamically switch to triple buffering as needed. In some instances this can provide much better frame-rates for under-powered devices, similar to the dynamic triple buffering pursued by Ubuntu on GNOME for helping the likes of Intel integrated graphics and Raspberry Pi graphics. Hyprland 0.50 treats the new render scheduling as experimental and disabled by default but they hope for the next feature release that it could be on by default.
Hyprland 0.50 also adds a “no screenshare” option to black out any window during screen-sharing for privacy reasons and has added multi-GPU support for DRM leases, various small optimizations, and a number of fixes and other enhancements. Among those fixes are also some XWayland integrated fixes.
Downloads and more details on the Hyprland 0.50 compositor release via Hypr.land and GitHub.
