[xmonad] ANN: xmonad-0.11

Carsten Mattner carstenmattner at gmail.com
Tue Jan 1 13:16:06 CET 2013


On Tue, Jan 1, 2013 at 2:34 AM, Adam Vogt <vogt.adam at gmail.com> 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!

Perfect but did you forget to push the changes to the
xmonad darcs repository? The XMonadContrib repository
seems to be updated but not the xmonad repository.



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