Changelog

User-facing changes, newest first. Downloads are on GitHub Releases.

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Breaking for scripts: waypaper-daemon playlist start takes --monitors and --extend instead of --monitor and --mode, and POST /playlists/{id}/start takes {monitors, extend}. See the CLI and API references.
Playlists remember the monitors you asked for, so booting once with a monitor asleep no longer pins the playlist to the rest.
Fixed a playlist timer bug that could briefly blank an output about 30 seconds after a change.

Fixed the wal-qt wallpaper missing after a cold boot.
Fixed the monitor modal showing no thumbnail on a fresh start with auto backend selection.
Fixed playlists restoring wrongly after a restart or resume: paused playlists starting unpaused, missed changes, and a wrong progress bar.
The GUI resyncs with the daemon after suspend and after the event stream reconnects.
The "Allow network for HTML wallpapers" setting now actually reaches wal-qt.
Fixed a daemon panic when switching backends with none active.

New hue filter strip in the gallery: 12 hue swatches plus one for neutrals. Click to filter, click again to clear.
New Rainbow sort, ordering by hue with neutrals last.
New colour picker that adds a near:#hex~25 token to the search bar.
The Choose Display preview now fits any monitor arrangement, with larger monitor miniatures.

A rewrite, not a drop-in upgrade from v2: your v2 gallery and playlists are not migrated. See Coming from v2.

A Go daemon replaces the Node backend and keeps playlists running when you close the window.
New waypaper-daemon CLI and an HTTP API with live events. See the CLI, API and events references.
Backends: awww, hyprpaper, swaybg, feh, mpvpaper and wal-qt, plus an auto mode that picks one per media type. See Backends.
HTML wallpapers through wal-qt. See HTML wallpapers.
Loop Studio and Shader Studio (beta). See Studios.
Per-monitor wallpaper previews in the monitor modal.
New UI: drawer layout, font presets, more themes, UI scale. See Themes.
Better Wallhaven browsing. See Wallhaven.
Data moved to ~/.local/share/waypaper-engine/.
Playlist type never is now manual, and the per-playlist "show animations" toggle is gone.
swww is now awww.
The v2 scripts folder is gone; use waypaper-daemon events. See Scripting & hooks.

2.0.4 (2025-02-03): dependency fixes.
2.0.3, 2.0.2 (2024-05): small fixes; 2.0.2 started publishing an AppImage.
2.0.1 (2024-05-07): fixed a first-boot database crash and images missing from the gallery on first boot.
2.0.0 (2024-05-06): per-monitor playlists, faster stretched wallpapers, playlist control from the CLI, multi-select, a history of the last 10 images, and a scripts folder run on every image set.

Releases 1.2.0 to 1.2.8 were the original app. See the GitHub releases.