wl-restart v0.3.0

This release adds a new environment-based restarting mechanism to wl-restart (#4) and fixes some issues related to systemd shutdown while wl-restart was running.

New Features

• Add support for an environment-based socket handover mechanism (used by the support branch for labwc) (#4)

Bugfixes

• Fix some issues related to signal handling which could cause delays to systemd shutdown.

Changes

• Log messages are now printed on stderr.
• Made release tarballs reproducible. Running ./scripts/release.sh while checked out on a tag should now result in an identical tarball as attached to this release.

wl-restart v0.2.0

This release adds an environment variable that communicates the current restart count to the compositor and updates the documentation to link to the correct Sway and Hyprland branches.

New Features

• wl-restart now sets WL_RESTART_COUNT to the current restart counter on compositor restart.

Other Changes

• The links to the Sway and Hyprland branches have been updated.

wl-restart v0.1.0

This is the first release of wl-restart.

Features

• Restarts your compositor when it crashes
• Don't lose your session (for programs that support seamless Wayland reconnect)
• Configurable max number of crashes before giving up