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1 Home of [dwm](//dwm.suckless.org), [dmenu](//tools.suckless.org/dmenu) and
2 other quality software with a focus on simplicity, clarity, and frugality.
3
4 Read more about our [philosophy](/philosophy) and join us on the [mailing
5 list](/community).
6
7 News
8 ====
9
10 [Atom feed](//suckless.org/atom.xml)
11
12 2025-08-09
13 ----------
14 * [dmenu 5.4](//tools.suckless.org/dmenu/) released: [download](//dl.suckless.org/tools/dmenu-5.4.tar.gz)
15 * [dwm 6.6](//dwm.suckless.org) released: [download](//dl.suckless.org/dwm/dwm-6.6.tar.gz)
16 * [slock 1.6](//tools.suckless.org/slock/) released: [download](//dl.suckless.org/tools/slock-1.6.tar.gz)
17 * [st 0.9.3](//st.suckless.org/) released: [download](//dl.suckless.org/st/st-0.9.3.tar.gz)
18 * [tabbed 0.9](//tools.suckless.org/tabbed) released: [download](//dl.suckless.org/tools/tabbed-0.9.tar.gz)
19
20 2025-05-05
21 ----------
22 On Sunday, 2025-05-11
23 there will be scheduled maintenance of the suckless servers.
24 It's estimated this will take about 2 hours
25 from about 10:00 to 12:00 UTC.
26
27 The mailinglist, website and source-code repositories will have some downtime.
28
29 Update: the maintenance was finished at 2025-05-11 13:00 UTC.
30 There was a small issue with storage space, hence the 1h delay for fixing it.
31
32 2025-04-30
33 ----------
34 [slstatus 1.1](//tools.suckless.org/slstatus) released: [download](//dl.suckless.org/tools/slstatus-1.1.tar.gz)
35
36 2024-11-26
37 ----------
38 * [svkbd 0.4.2](//tools.suckless.org/x/svkbd/) released: [download](//dl.suckless.org/tools/svkbd-0.4.2.tar.gz)
39
40 2024-04-05
41 ----------
42 * [st 0.9.2](//st.suckless.org/) released: [download](//dl.suckless.org/st/st-0.9.2.tar.gz)
43
44 This reverts a commit and a regression with cursor move with wide glyphs, for
45 example with GNU readline.
46
47 2024-03-20
48 ----------
49 Below are some highlights of the changes for the recent releases of dmenu, dwm,
50 st and tabbed, see the git logs for all details:
51
52 General small Makefile improvements, rationale being: just be verbose and show
53 what is done: do not abstract/hide details from the user/developer.
54 Respect (more) the package manager and build system flags (CFLAGS, LDFLAGS, etc).
55
56 [dwm](https://git.suckless.org/dwm/log.html):
57 * Improvements to signal handling.
58 * Fix: Avoid missing events when a keysym maps to multiple keycodes.
59
60 [dmenu](https://git.suckless.org/dmenu/log.html):
61 * Reduce memory usage for reading the lines.
62 * Fix: X11 BadMatch error when embedding on some windows.
63
64 [st](https://git.suckless.org/st/log.html):
65 * Fix: bounds checks of dc.col.
66 * Fix: buffer overflow when handling long composed input.
67 * Ignore C1 control characters in UTF-8 mode.
68 * Improvements to cell handling and wide characters.
69 * Default config: decrease the default minlatency.
70 * [Various other terminal fixes and compatibility improvements.](https://git.suckless.org/st/log.html)
71
72 [tabbed](https://git.suckless.org/tabbed/log.html):
73 * Fix: faulty zombie process reaping.
74 * Improvements to signal handling.
75 * Improve compatibility with compiling on older systems such as Slackware 11.
76
77 Thanks to all contributors who submitted patches.
78
79 2024-03-19
80 ----------
81 * [dmenu 5.3](//tools.suckless.org/dmenu/) released: [download](//dl.suckless.org/tools/dmenu-5.3.tar.gz)
82 * [dwm 6.5](//dwm.suckless.org) released: [download](//dl.suckless.org/dwm/dwm-6.5.tar.gz)
83 * [st 0.9.1](//st.suckless.org/) released: [download](//dl.suckless.org/st/st-0.9.1.tar.gz)
84 * [tabbed 0.8](//tools.suckless.org/tabbed) released: [download](//dl.suckless.org/tools/tabbed-0.8.tar.gz)
85
86 2023-07-04
87 ----------
88 [slstatus 1.0](//tools.suckless.org/slstatus) released: [download](//dl.suckless.org/tools/slstatus-1.0.tar.gz)
89
90 2022-12-28
91 ----------
92 [lchat 1.0](//tools.suckless.org/lchat) released: [download](//dl.suckless.org/tools/lchat-1.0.tar.gz)
93
94 2022-11-02
95 ----------
96 [libgrapheme 2.0.2](//libs.suckless.org/libgrapheme) released: [download](//dl.suckless.org/libgrapheme/libgrapheme-2.0.2.tar.gz)
97
98 2022-10-08
99 ----------
100 [libgrapheme 2.0.1](//libs.suckless.org/libgrapheme) released: [download](//dl.suckless.org/libgrapheme/libgrapheme-2.0.1.tar.gz)
101
102 2022-10-06
103 ----------
104 [libgrapheme 2.0.0](//libs.suckless.org/libgrapheme) released: [download](//dl.suckless.org/libgrapheme/libgrapheme-2.0.0.tar.gz)
105
106 2022-10-04
107 ----------
108 * [dmenu 5.2](//tools.suckless.org/dmenu/) released: [download](//dl.suckless.org/tools/dmenu-5.2.tar.gz)
109 * [dwm 6.4](//dwm.suckless.org) released: [download](//dl.suckless.org/dwm/dwm-6.4.tar.gz)
110 * [ii 2.0](//tools.suckless.org/ii) released: [download](//dl.suckless.org/tools/ii-2.0.tar.gz)
111 * [sic 1.3](//tools.suckless.org/sic) released: [download](//dl.suckless.org/tools/sic-1.3.tar.gz)
112 * [slock 1.5](//tools.suckless.org/slock) released: [download](//dl.suckless.org/tools/slock-1.5.tar.gz)
113 * [st 0.9](//st.suckless.org/) released: [download](//dl.suckless.org/st/st-0.9.tar.gz)
114 * [tabbed 0.7](//tools.suckless.org/tabbed) released: [download](//dl.suckless.org/tools/tabbed-0.7.tar.gz)
115
116 2022-04-19
117 ----------
118 Suckless now has a dark mode CSS style for its pages.
119 Surf also now has support for [dark mode](https://git.suckless.org/surf/commit/1f5b8f3bd1f37d4d3dc45d21285f34ef4752dbaa.html).
120
121 2022-02-11
122 ----------
123 [dmenu 5.1](//tools.suckless.org/dmenu/) released: [download](//dl.suckless.org/tools/dmenu-5.1.tar.gz)
124
125 2022-01-07
126 ----------
127 * [dwm 6.3](//dwm.suckless.org) released: [download](//dl.suckless.org/dwm/dwm-6.3.tar.gz)
128 * [ii 1.9](//tools.suckless.org/ii) released: [download](//dl.suckless.org/tools/ii-1.9.tar.gz)
129 * [st 0.8.5](//st.suckless.org/) released: [download](//dl.suckless.org/st/st-0.8.5.tar.gz)
130 * [svkbd 0.4.1](//tools.suckless.org/x/svkbd/) released: [download](//dl.suckless.org/tools/svkbd-0.4.1.tar.gz)
131
132 2021-12-22
133 ----------
134 [libgrapheme 1.0.0](//libs.suckless.org/libgrapheme) released: [download](//dl.suckless.org/libgrapheme/libgrapheme-1.0.0.tar.gz)
135
136 2021-07-30
137 ----------
138 [svkbd 0.4](//tools.suckless.org/x/svkbd/) released: [download](//dl.suckless.org/tools/svkbd-0.4.tar.gz)
139
140 2021-05-09
141 ----------
142 On Tuesday, 2021-05-11 there will be scheduled maintenance of the suckless
143 servers. It's estimated this will take about 1 hour from about 21:00 to
144 22:00 UTC+02:00.
145
146 The mailinglist, website and source-code repositories will have some downtime.
147
148 **Update:** the maintenance was finished at 2021-05-12 23:33 UTC+02:00.
149 P.S.: It didn't actually take 26h30, I just had forgotten to do it.
150
151 2021-05-08
152 ----------
153 [surf 2.1](//surf.suckless.org/) released: [download](//dl.suckless.org/surf/surf-2.1.tar.gz)
154
155 2021-03-28
156 ----------
157 [svkbd 0.3](//tools.suckless.org/x/svkbd/) released: [download](//dl.suckless.org/tools/svkbd-0.3.tar.gz)
158
159 2021-03-28
160 ----------
161 On Wednesday, 2021-03-31 there will be scheduled maintenance of the suckless
162 servers. It's estimated this will take about 2-3 hours from about 19:00 to
163 21:00 - 22:00 UTC+02:00.
164
165 The mailinglist, website and source-code repositories will have some downtime.
166
167 **Update:** the maintenance was finished at 2021-03-31 19:10 UTC+02:00.
168
169 2021-01-19
170 ----------
171 [scroll 0.1](//tools.suckless.org/scroll/) released: [download](//dl.suckless.org/tools/scroll-0.1.tar.gz)
172
173 2020-12-11
174 ----------
175 [svkbd 0.2.2](//tools.suckless.org/x/svkbd/) released: [download](//dl.suckless.org/tools/svkbd-0.2.2.tar.gz)
176
177 2020-09-18
178 ----------
179 [svkbd 0.2.1](//tools.suckless.org/x/svkbd/) released: [download](//dl.suckless.org/tools/svkbd-0.2.1.tar.gz)
180
181 2020-09-13
182 ----------
183 [svkbd 0.2](//tools.suckless.org/x/svkbd/) released: [download](//dl.suckless.org/tools/svkbd-0.2.tar.gz)
184
185 2020-09-02
186 ----------
187 [dmenu 5.0](//tools.suckless.org/dmenu/) released: [download](//dl.suckless.org/tools/dmenu-5.0.tar.gz)
188
189 2020-06-19
190 ----------
191 [st 0.8.4](//st.suckless.org/) released: [download](//dl.suckless.org/st/st-0.8.4.tar.gz)
192
193 2020-05-27
194 ----------
195 The [slcon7](conferences/2020) has been cancelled due to the 2019-nCoV
196 pandemic.
197
198 2020-04-27
199 ----------
200 [st 0.8.3](//st.suckless.org/) released: [download](//dl.suckless.org/st/st-0.8.3.tar.gz)
201
202 2019-12-01
203 ----------
204 On Wednesday, 2019-12-04 there will be scheduled maintenance of the suckless
205 servers. It's estimated this will take about 2-3 hours from about 19:00 to
206 21:00 - 22:00 UTC+01:00.
207
208 The mailinglist, website and source-code repositories will have some downtime.
209
210 **Update:** the maintenance was finished at 2019-12-04 20:00 UTC+01:00.
211
212 2019-04-04
213 ----------
214 Registrations are now open for [slcon6](conferences/2019) that will be held in
215 Bad Liebenzell, Germany on 2019-10-(04-06).
216
217 The CfP for interested participants will end on 2019-06-30.
218
219 2019-03-30
220 ----------
221 There is now a [patch overview](//gunther.suckless.org/patches/) tool to have a
222 quick overview of the patch status list. This list is generated each day from
223 the [sites](//git.suckless.org/sites/) repository. It checks if patches apply
224 cleanly in a normal patching manner. Of course it does not check patch
225 combinations.
226
227 * [Hacking patches guidelines](//suckless.org/hacking/)
228 * [Tool source-code](//git.suckless.org/sites/file/testpatches.sh.html)
229
230 Please keep the patches tidy and maintain or remove them.
231
232 2019-02-09
233 ----------
234 [st 0.8.2](//st.suckless.org/) released: [download](//dl.suckless.org/st/st-0.8.2.tar.gz)
235
236 This release has mostly bugfixes.
237
238 2019-02-03
239 ----------
240 * [dwm 6.2](//dwm.suckless.org) released: [download](//dl.suckless.org/dwm/dwm-6.2.tar.gz)
241 * [dmenu 4.9](//tools.suckless.org/dmenu/) released: [download](//dl.suckless.org/tools/dmenu-4.9.tar.gz)
242
243 2018-06-01
244 ----------
245 The maintainance is completed. Let me know of any important things that are broken.
246 Internally we will keep tweaking the server configuration over the course of
247 time.
248
249 2018-05-27
250 ----------
251 There will be a scheduled server maintenance next Friday and Saturday, 2018-06-(01-02).
252 The migration to the new server will happen on these days and the git
253 repositories and mailing list will be frozen on the old (now current)
254 server.
255
256 2018-04-11
257 ----------
258 [farbfeld 4](//tools.suckless.org/farbfeld/) released: [download](//dl.suckless.org/farbfeld/farbfeld-4.tar.gz)
259
260 2018-03-20
261 ----------
262 [st 0.8.1](//st.suckless.org/) released: [download](//dl.suckless.org/st/st-0.8.1.tar.gz)
263
264 This release fixes some regressions introduced in the 0.8 release.
265
266 2018-03-19
267 ----------
268 Registrations for [slcon5](/conferences/2018/) are now open.
269
270 2018-03-14
271 ----------
272 * [dmenu 4.8](//tools.suckless.org/dmenu/) released: [download](//dl.suckless.org/tools/dmenu-4.8.tar.gz)
273 * [st 0.8](//st.suckless.org/) released: [download](//dl.suckless.org/st/st-0.8.tar.gz)
274
275 2018-02-04
276 ----------
277 [ii 1.8](//tools.suckless.org/ii) released: [download](//dl.suckless.org/tools/ii-1.8.tar.gz)
278
279 2017-09-04
280 ----------
281 [suckless hackathon](/conferences/2017): we met on Sep 1-3 2017 in Würzburg, Germany.
282
283 2017-09-04
284 ----------
285 [sent 1](//tools.suckless.org/sent) released: [download](//dl.suckless.org/tools/sent-1.tar.gz)
286
287 2017-08-30
288 ----------
289 suckless.org now supports TLS using [Let's Encrypt](https://letsencrypt.org/).
290 Cloning git repos over HTTPS now works. Some links on the page have been
291 changed to allow both HTTP and HTTPS.
292
293 HSTS is not fully working yet. This will be fixed.
294
295 The IPv6 AAAA record was added and IPv6 is fully working now.
296
297 suckless has many subdomains, these should hopefully all work via TLS. If you
298 see a subdomain without a signed certificate please report it. If you find any
299 broken links on the wiki pages, these can be fixed by anyone.
300
301 2017-07-03
302 ----------
303 The suckless.org project is now hosted on a new server. All inactive accounts
304 have been removed during the relocation.
305
306 Please note that the new ECDSA key fingerprint is
307 SHA256:7DBXcYScmsxbv7rMJUJoJsY5peOrngD4QagiXX6MiQU.
308
309 2017-05-06
310 ----------
311 [blind 1.1](//tools.suckless.org/blind) released:
312 [download](//dl.suckless.org/tools/blind-1.1.tar.gz)
313
314 2017-05-02
315 ----------
316 [dmenu 4.7](//tools.suckless.org/dmenu) released:
317 [download](//dl.suckless.org/tools/dmenu-4.7.tar.gz)
318
319 2017-04-14
320 ----------
321 [farbfeld 3](//tools.suckless.org/farbfeld/) released:
322 [download](//dl.suckless.org/farbfeld/farbfeld-3.tar.gz)
323
324 2017-03-28
325 ----------
326 [surf](//surf.suckless.org/) now uses webkit2 by default. The webkit1 version
327 is kept in the [surf-webkit1](//git.suckless.org/surf/log/?h=surf-webkit1)
328 branch. The “master” branch doesn't exist anymore, HEAD is now
329 [surf-webkit2](//git.suckless.org/surf/log/), so be sure to rebase your local
330 master commits onto surf-webkit1.
331
332 2016-11-20
333 ----------
334 [slock 1.4](//tools.suckless.org/slock) released:
335 [download](//dl.suckless.org/tools/slock-1.4.tar.gz)
336
337 2016-09-26
338 ----------
339 Videos of the [slcon 2016 talks](conferences/2016) are now available.
340
341 2016-08-24
342 ----------
343 [slcon3](conferences/2016) preliminary schedule now published. If you want to
344 attend please register before: **2016-09-01**.
345
346 2015-12-19
347 ----------
348 [surf 0.7](//surf.suckless.org) released:
349 [download](//dl.suckless.org/surf/surf-0.7.tar.gz)
350
351 2015-11-25
352 ----------
353 [sent 0.2](//tools.suckless.org/sent) released:
354 [download](//dl.suckless.org/tools/sent-0.2.tar.gz)
355
356 2015-11-13
357 ----------
358 Videos of the [slcon2 talks](conferences/2015) are now available.
359
360 2015-11-09
361 ----------
362 [dwm 6.1](//dwm.suckless.org) released:
363 [download](//dl.suckless.org/dwm/dwm-6.1.tar.gz)
364
365 2015-09-23
366 ----------
367 Kai and Anselm gave an interview about suckless.org on Randal Schwartz's [FLOSS
368 Weekly show](https://twit.tv/shows/floss-weekly/episodes/355?autostart=false)
369
370 2015-07-07
371 ----------
372 [st 0.6](//st.suckless.org) released:
373 [download](//dl.suckless.org/st/st-0.6.tar.gz)
374
375 2015-02-14
376 ----------
377 [slcon2](conferences/2015) will be held in Budapest on 2015-10-(30-31).
378
379 The CfP for interested participants is now open and will end on 2015-04-30.
380
381 2014-11-29
382 ----------
383 [lsw 0.3](//tools.suckless.org/x/lsw) released:
384 [download](//dl.suckless.org/tools/lsw-0.3.tar.gz)
385
386 2014-11-24
387 ----------
388 There will be a
389 [suckless assembly](https://events.ccc.de/congress/2014/wiki/Assembly%3ASuckless)
390 at the [31C3](https://events.ccc.de/congress/2014). The whole suckless
391 community is invited to come, meet and hack!
392
393 2014-08-05
394 ----------
395 [sinit 0.9.1](//core.suckless.org/sinit) released:
396 [download](//dl.suckless.org/sinit/sinit-0.9.1.tar.gz)
397
398 2014-05-01
399 ----------
400 [ubase 0.1](//core.suckless.org/ubase) released:
401 [download](//dl.suckless.org/ubase/ubase-0.1.tar.gz)
402
403 2014-01-21
404 ----------
405 [tabbed 0.6](//tools.suckless.org/tabbed) released:
406 [download](//dl.suckless.org/tools/tabbed-0.6.tar.gz)
407
408 2013-06-16
409 ----------
410 [sic 1.2](//tools.suckless.org/sic) released:
411 [download](//dl.suckless.org/tools/sic-1.2.tar.gz)
412
413 2013-05-07
414 ----------
415 [xssstate 1.1](//tools.suckless.org/x/xssstate) released:
416 [download](//dl.suckless.org/tools/xssstate-1.1.tar.gz)
417
418 2013-05-06
419 ----------
420 [tabbed 0.5](//tools.suckless.org/tabbed) released:
421 [download](//dl.suckless.org/tools/tabbed-0.5.tar.gz)
422
423 2013-04-21
424 ----------
425 We are glad to announce the [slcon 2013](/conferences/2013) programme.
426
427 2012-11-29
428 ----------
429 We are glad to announce the switch to git from mercurial in all of our
430 repositories. You can find them at [git.suckless.org](//git.suckless.org) Many
431 thanks to 20h for his contribution!
432
433 2012-10-28
434 ----------
435 [sprop 0.1](//tools.suckless.org/x/sprop) released:
436 [download](//dl.suckless.org/tools/sprop-0.1.tar.gz)
437
438 2012-10-14
439 ----------
440 Today we heard a very sad news that our friend, contributor and philosophical
441 advisor Uriel has passed away peacefully. We will miss him a lot.
442
443 
444
445 RIP
446
447 2011-05-14
448 ----------
449 Anselm gave a talk about **The 'suckless.org' universe** at the [LinuxTag
450 2011](http://www.linuxtag.org) conference in Berlin.
451
452 2011-01-31
453 ----------
454 [ii 1.6](//tools.suckless.org/ii) released (regression fix):
455 [download](//dl.suckless.org/tools/ii-1.6.tar.gz)
456
457 2010-06-04
458 ----------
459 [9base-6](//tools.suckless.org/9base) released:
460 [download](//dl.suckless.org/tools/9base-6.tar.gz)
461
462 2010-03-28
463 ----------
464 We learned today that the previous wmii maintainer, who wasn't actively
465 involved since 2007, Denis Grelich,
466 [died on 2010-03-12](https://web.archive.org/web/20140208043925/http://www.lmt.uni-saarland.de/de/aktuelles/grelich.html).
467 We thank him for his work. Rest in peace.
468
469 2010-03-07
470 ----------
471 We applied as a mentoring organisation for GSoC 2010. See our [project ideas
472 for GSoC 2010](/project_ideas) page for further details.
473
474 2010-02-13
475 ----------
476 Some of us will visit [CLT2010](http://chemnitzer.linux-tage.de/2010/). Anselm
477 will give a
478 [talk](http://chemnitzer.linux-tage.de/2010/vortraege/detail.html?idx=308)
479 about stali on the second day of CLT2010 at 17:00.
480
481 2009-12-28
482 ----------
483 There was a small community meeting in Berlin! Thanks to all attendees.
484
485 2008-08-02
486 ----------
487 [wmname 0.1](//tools.suckless.org/x/wmname) released:
488 [download](//dl.suckless.org/tools/wmname-0.1.tar.gz)
489
490 2008-07-29
491 ----------
492 [sselp 0.2](//tools.suckless.org/x/sselp) released:
493 [download](//dl.suckless.org/tools/sselp-0.2.tar.gz)