[xmonad] ANN: xmonad-0.11

[Don Stewart]

Well done!

On Monday, December 31, 2012, Adam Vogt wrote:

>                            http://xmonad.org
>
> The xmonad dev team is pleased to announce xmonad 0.11!
>
> The headlines:
>
>     http://www.haskell.org/haskellwiki/Xmonad/Notable_changes_since_0.10
>
> About:
>
>     xmonad is a leading tiling window manager, known for its lightness,
>     reliability, extensibility and efficiency. It supports true
>     multiheaded tiling, and rich, rapid customisation. It is also highly
>     portable, running on regular desktops, laptops, netbooks, phones,
>     game consoles, the OLPC, and more.
>
> Features:
>
>    * Very stable, fast, small and simple.
>    * Automatic window tiling and management
>    * First class keyboard support: a mouse is unnecessary
>    * Full support for tiling windows on multi-head displays
>    * Full support for floating, tabbing and decorated windows
>    * Full support for Gnome and KDE utilities
>    * XRandR support to rotate, add or remove monitors
>    * Per-workspace layout algorithms
>    * Per-screens custom status bars
>    * Compositing support
>    * Powerful, stable customisation and reconfiguration
>    * Large extension library
>    * Excellent, extensive documentation
>    * Large, active development team, support and community
>
> Get it!
>
>     Information, screenshots, documentation, tutorials and community
>     resources are available from the xmonad home page:
>
>         http://xmonad.org
>
>     The 0.11 release, and its dependencies, are available from
>     hackage.haskell.org:
>
>         http://hackage.haskell.org/package/xmonad
>
>     xmonad packages are available in pretty much every package system,
>     including.
>
>         Debian, Gentoo, Arch, Ubuntu, OpenBSD,
>         NetBSD, FreeBSD, Gobo, NixOS, Source Mage, Slackware
>
>     and 0.11 packages will appear in coming days.
>
>     On the fly updating to xmonad 0.11 is supported, without losing your
>     session!  You can even use cabal-install:
>
>         $ cabal update
>         $ cabal install xmonad
>         $ cabal install xmonad-contrib
>         $ xmonad --recompile; xmonad --restart
>
> Extensions:
>
>     xmonad comes with a huge library of extensions (now around 15
>     times the size of xmonad itself), contributed by viewers like you.
>
>     Extensions allow for all sorts of functionality and enhancements to
>     the window manager, via Haskell in your config file. For more
>     information on using and writing extensions see the webpage.  The
>     library of extensions is available from hackage:
>
>         http://hackage.haskell.org/xmonad-contrib
>
>     Full documentation for using and writing your own extensions:
>
>         http://xmonad.org/documentation.html
>
> This release brought to you by the xmonad dev team:
>
>     Spencer Janssen          Don Stewart
>     Adam Vogt                Brent Yorgey
>     Daniel Wagner            Devin Mullins
>     Daniel Schoepe           Braden Shepherdson
>     Nicolas Pouillard        Roman Cheplyaka
>     Gwern Branwen            Lukas Mai
>
> Featuring code contributions from over 130 developers:
>
>   Henrique Abreu          intrigeri               Mats Rauhala
>   Alexey Khudyakov        Dmitri Iouchtchenko     Geoff Reedy
>   Hans Philipp Annen      Conrad Irwin            Jesper Reenberg
>   Jeremy Apthorp          Rohan Jain              Lanny Ripple
>   Dmitry Astapov          Michal Janeczek         Andrea Rossato
>   Shachaf Ben-Kiki        Tomas Janousek          David Roundy
>   Alec Berryman           Mats Jansborg           rupa
>   Ben Boeckel             Spencer Janssen         Andres Salomon
>   Justin Bogner           Julia Jomantaite        Karsten Schoelzel
>   Gwern Branwen           Simon Peyton Jones      Daniel Schoepe
>   Joachim Breitner        kedals0                 Steffen Schuldenzucker
>   Matt Brown              Brandon Allbery         Nils Schweinsberg
>   Dominik Bruhn           Miikka Koskinen         seanmce33
>   Alexandre Buisse        Dmitry Kurochkin        Austin Seipp
>   Nick Burlett            David Lazar             Leonardo Serra
>   Luis Cabellos           lithis                  Braden Shepherdson
>   cardboard42             longpoke                Marco e Silva
>   Ismael Carnales         Carlos Lopez-Camey      Audun Skaugen
>   Roman Cheplyaka         Erik de Castro Lopo     Michael G. Sloan
>   Jason Creighton         Mike Lundy              Konstantin Sobolev
>   daedalusinfinity        Lukas Mai               Dougal Stanton
>   Nils Anders Danielsson  Jussi Maki              Mathias Stearn
>   Aaron Denney            Malebria                Don Stewart
>   Christian Dietrich      Robert Marlow           Joel Suovaniemi
>   Bas van Dijk            Tomohiro Matsuyama      Wouter Swierstra
>   Aleksandar Dimitrov     David McLean            Ivan Tarasov
>   Jurgen Doser            Chris Mears             Alex Tarkovsky
>   Nicolas Dudebout        Alejandro Serrano Mena  Christian Thiemann
>   Nelson Elhage           Eric Mertens            Joe Thornber
>   Trevor Elliott          Ivan Miljenovic         timthelion
>   Anders Engstrom         Neil Mitchell           Michal Trybus
>   Shae Erisson            Tony Morris             Ivan N. Veselov
>   Sean Escriva            Quentin Moser           Ben Voui
>   Will Farrington         Devin Mullins           Adam Vogt
>   Joachim Fasting         Yaakov Nemoy            Jan Vornberger
>   Michael Fellinger       Daniel Neri             Valery V. Vorotyntsev
>   Clemens Fruhwirth       Stefan O'Rear           Peter De Wachter
>   Johann Giwer            Carsten Otto            Daniel Wagner
>   David Glasser           Mario Pastorelli        Ferenc Wagner
>   Kai Grossjohann         perlkat                 Jamie Webb
>   Rickard Gustafsson      Jens Petersen           Klaus Weidner
>   Dave Harrison           Ilya Portnov            Wirt Wolff
>   Travis B. Hartwell      Nicolas Pouillard       Brent Yorgey
>   Juraj Hercek            Jan-David Quesel        Norbert Zeh
>   Tim Horton              Max Rabkin              Ian Zerny
>   Sam Hughes              Tom Rauchenwald
>
> As well as the support of many others on the #xmonad and #haskell IRC
> channels, and the wider Haskell and window manager communities.
>
> Thanks to everyone for their support!
>
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