The xmonad dev team is pleased to announce the 0.5 release of xmonad! http://xmonad.org xmonad is a tiling window manager for X. Windows are arranged automatically to tile the screen without gaps or overlap, maximising screen use. Window manager features are accessible from the keyboard: a mouse is optional. xmonad is extensible in Haskell, allowing for powerful customisation. Custom layout algorithms, key bindings and other extensions may be written by the user in config files. Layouts are applied dynamically, and different layouts may be used on each workspace. Xinerama is fully supported, allowing windows to be tiled on several physical screens. 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 windows * XRandR support to rotate, add or remove monitors * Per-workspace layout algorithms * Per-screens custom status bars * Easy, powerful customisation and reconfiguration in Haskell * Large extension library * Extensive documentation and support for hacking Get it! More information, screenshots, documentation, tutorials and community resources are available from the xmonad home page: http://xmonad.org The 0.5 release, and its dependencies, are available from hackage.haskell.org, here: http://hackage.haskell.org/cgi-bin/hackage-scripts/package/xmonad **The headlines** xmonad 0.5 is a major new release of xmonad, allowing, for the first time, dynamic extension in Haskell without requiring recompilation. Extension and configuration of xmonad is now faster, simpler, and more flexible. All configuration is done via the ~/.xmonad/xmonad.hs file. Example config files and screenshots are available on the wiki: http://haskell.org/haskellwiki/Xmonad/Config_archive This marks the final break from its dwm origins. As a result, xmonad is now also much easier to package, distribute and extend, as recompilation of xmonad is not required to extend it. New features: * xmonad is now a library, as is the collection of xmonad extensions * xmonad is configured by editing ~/.xmonad/xmonad.hs * simpler layout hooks type and interface * small EDSL for writing window management rules * support for ghc 6.8.x * xmonad now requires Cabal 1.2 or newer * small bug fixes Extensions: xmonad comes with a huge library of extensions (now more than 5 times the size of xmonad), contributed by viewers like you. Extensions enable pretty much arbitrary window manager behaviour to be implemented by users, in Haskell, in the config files. Examples include: * ion-like window tabs * status bar support * X property and hints support * altnerative layout algorithms For more information on using and writing extensions see the webpage. The library of extensions is available from hackage: http://hackage.haskell.org/cgi-bin/hackage-scripts/package/xmonad-contrib Brought to you by the xmonad team: Spencer Janssen Don Stewart Jason Creighton Andrea Rossato David Roundy Brent Yorgey with code contributions from: Brandon Allbery Chris Mears Shachaf Ben-Kiki Eric Mertens Alec Berryman Neil Mitchell Gwern Branwen Devin Mullins Joachim Breitner Daniel Neri Alexandre Buisse Stefan O'Rear Nick Burlett Simon Peyton Jones Peter De Wachter Hans Philipp Annen Aaron Denney Karsten Schoelzel Nelson Elhage Michael Sloan Shae Erisson Ivan Tarasov Joachim Fasting Alex Tarkovsky Michael Fellinger Christian Thiemann David Glasser Joe Thornber Kai Grossjohann Matsuyama Tomohiro Dave Harrison Daniel Wagner Juraj Hercek Ferenc Wagner Sam Hughes Jamie Webb Miikka Koskinen Klaus Weidner David Lazar nornagon Lucas Mai timthelion Robert Marlow Valery V. Vorotyntsev Dougal Stanton Joel Suovaniemi Mats Jansborg Dmitry Kurochkin Clemens Fruhwirth 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!