herbstluftwm 0.8.0 release

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Thanks for your work! Herbstluftwm is the best WM :)

Thorsten Wißmann ezt írta:
> Dear fellow herbstluftwm users,
>
> I'm happy to announce a new version 0.8.0 which comes with quite a
> few
> new features for the users and the developers. From the user side we
> have:
>
>   1. single-window floating: particular windows can be put into
> floating
>      mode while the rest on the tag stays tiled. For dialog windows,
>      this happens automatically.
>   2. automatic detection of EWMH panels
>   3. monitor detection via xrandr
>   4. ... and many more little features, all listed in the NEWS[1]
> file.
>
> From a technical point of view, 0.8.0 is the first release with
>
>   1. the 'winterbreeze' codebase, a proper migration to in C++
>   2. CMake as a build system
>   3. a testsuite for automated testing (82% code coverage so far)
>
> For this new release, I enjoyed the help from the following people
> which
> I would like to thank a lot:
>
>   - Johannes Jordan pushed the project forward multiple times, both
> by
>     rewriting the source code to C++ (181 commits) and by
> encouraging
>     me to resume working on the winterbreeze branch after long
> breaks
>     (e.g. we had a weekend of hacking in 2018 in Freibug).
>
>   - Daniel Danner contributed to the C++ source code, the testsuite
> (252
>     commits) and also helped a lot with setting up the workflow on
>     github with pull requests and continuous integration.
>
>   - Simon / blarz contributed fixes and extended the testsuite (20
>     commits)
>
>   - Hans-Peter Deifel contributed to C++ rewrite (5 commits)
>
>   - Bohdan Potměkleč / tiosgz reported found many things that had
> been
>     lost during the C++ rewrite.
>
>   - Florian Bruhin helped setting up the testsuite (at the CCC
> 2016).
>
>   - There have been further one time contributions by
>     * Bernhard M. Wiedemann
>     * Johannes Schilling
>     * Matthew Martin
>     * sarthon
>
> The release tarballs can be found at the usual location[2]. I hope
> you
> enjoy the new features as much as I do. If you notice any issues
> please
> report them on github[3], on the irc[4], or this mailing list. I am
> also happy about any other form of feedback on how the new features
> (or
> herbstluftwm in general) works for you and what you are missing.
>
> All the best,
> Thorsten
>
> [1] http://herbstluftwm.org/news.html
> [2] http://herbstluftwm.org/download.html
> [3] https://github.com/herbstluftwm/herbstluftwm
> [4] #herbstluftwm on freenode
>