RELEASE-NOTES-4.22

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This is i3 v4.22. This version is considered stable. All users of i3 are
strongly encouraged to upgrade.

The biggest change in this release is the merge of the i3-gaps fork.
The i3-gaps fork was the most popular fork of i3, adding the option to
show gaps between tiled windows and/or the screen edges.

See https://i3wm.org/docs/userguide.html#gaps for more details.

Instead of maintaining two versions of i3 (both upstream and downstream,
meaning in Linux distributions and other package collections),
we concluded it would be better for everyone to merge this feature.

For users of i3: gaps are off by default, so there is no change in behavior.
For users of i3-gaps: the configuration is compatible, so you can switch
to i3 v4.22 or newer, without any changes in behavior.

Thanks to Ingo Bürk for maintaining i3-gaps for many years,
for becoming a core i3 maintainer and for helping make this merge possible!

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  • i3bar: bar { padding } config directive now implemented (supports bar { height } from i3-gaps)
  • i3-dmenu-desktop: allow more than one --entry-type with the --show-duplicates flag
  • You can now enable gaps using the gaps config directive and/or command
  • colors now support an optional alpha value at the end (#rrggbbaa)
  • the hide_edge_borders option now supports the smart_no_gaps keyword
  • Support nonprimary keyword for outputs
  • add "mode" field in binding event

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  • gaps: workspace gaps assignments are no longer order-dependent
  • Fix compliance to _MOTIF_WM_HINTS spec when all decorations are set
  • The floating_from and tiling_from criteria now also work in commands

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Thanks for testing, bugfixes, discussions and everything I forgot go out to:

  bodea, Demian, Erich Heine, Ingo Bürk, Matias Goldfeld, Orestis Floros,
  Tudor Brindus

-- Michael Stapelberg, 2023-01-02