Hyprland 0.53 was released today as the last feature update to this Wayland compositor for 2025.
Hyprland 0.53 ships with start-hyprland as the new launcher script for the Hyprland compositor rather than invoking hyprland directly. With the start-hyprland script is now support for crash recovery and safe mode handling. The safe mode support for Hyprland depends upon having the separate hyprland-guiutils package installed and in turn making it now more of a hard dependency rather than optional.
Hyprland 0.53 also ships with a new welcome app when launching the Hyprland compositor for the first time.
This Wayland compositor also overhauled its window rule syntax for configurations, color management and HDR fixes, various new customization options, and “tons of fixes”.
Hyprland 0.53 downloads and more details via the Hyprland blog and GitHub.
