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[edit] 2008 07 23: One/two week patches deadline for 1.3.4

Sawfish 1.3.4 will be released in about one or two weeks and all submitted Patches will be considered for inclusion into this release. But there are patches with just one vote, or no votes at all! Your votes are really necessary to make a decision. If you are a sawfish user concerned about sawfish release 1.3.4 please do following:

1. pick a particular patch and test it in your sawfish, by applying it to your sawfish installation and checking how it works.
2. edit the patch page and put there either {{yes}}, {{no}} or {{wtf}}, with a small comment how well/bad it performs.

To keep things moving, on this release, I'll go into the risky direction, rather accepting patches than not. By this way untested patches will suddenly get a lot of testers which hopefully will bring bugfixes into the next release, or will get a patch removed in the next release. Otherwise some useful patches will keep waiting here forever. This of course means, that future release 1.3.5 will be a bugfix release :) Thanks for staying tuned!

Remeber that your input in this wiki and the mailing list is really important, it's all of you who drives sawfish releases. I'm just humbly making it happen ;)

Janek Kozicki 22:56, 22 July 2008 (UTC)

[edit] 2008 07 14: Sawfish 1.3.4 release suggested

Janek Kozicki has suggested the release of Sawfish-1.3.4, perhaps the end of this July or so.

To help him for the release, votes for patches are welcomed. - Teika kazura 08:19, 14 July 2008 (UTC)

[edit] 2008 02 18: Sawfish 1.3.3 released

With our great community effort we have managed to make together the 1.3.3 sawfish release. This version includes several bugfixes. Window titles with UTF-8 are working and no more openoffice crashes, correct handling of pango fonts, inform the running theme when window title length has changed so that the theme can adjust and workaround some problems with KDE not always using freedesktop.org protocol in KDE tray.

This release was brought to you by Timo Korvola, Rodrigo Gallardo, Yuuki Harano and Harald van Dijk. Kudos to them!

See a list of accepted patches for details.

• direct download link
• changelog
• browse SVN tree
• mailing list

[edit] 2008 02 05: Bugfix release 1.3.3 in two weeks

[edit] sawfish 1.3.3, soon

Due to several problems with release 1.3.2 a new bugfix release will be made around 17 february. Two patches, Utf 8 names fix and Titlebar updates shall supposedly fix problems reported at:

• http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=464139
• http://mail.gnome.org/archives/sawfish-list/2008-January/msg00061.html

This is a bugfix release so patches which add new functionality are unlikely to be added here. However I'm still encouraging you to do the usual patch testing:

1. pick a particular patch and test it in your sawfish, by applying it to your sawfish installation and checking how it works.
2. edit the patch page and put there either {{yes}}, {{no}} or {{wtf}}, with a small comment how well/bad it performs.

[edit] sawfish-pager 0.7, soon

In related news, I have contacted the sawfish-pager autor, Daniel Pfeiffer, and he was glad to hear that we want to make a new release with few bugfixes. So from now on sawfish-pager will be hosted on our wiki site, and expect a 0.7 release soon, most likely altogether with sawfish 1.3.3 release.

Janek Kozicki 20:00, 5 February 2008 (UTC)

[edit] 2008 01 20: Sawfish 1.3.2 released

We are pleased to announce the 1.3.2 sawfish release. This version includes patches submitted by sawfish community.

In this release strings are re-encoded in UTF-8 thus window titles will be set correctly regardless of title encoding and documentation was updated. Other bugfixes: nautilus can now restore its desktop window size, the 64 bit client messages were fixed, KDE system tray no longer fights with sawfish to reparent a tray icon, QT applications no longer lose focus when menu is active, window placement was corrected in xinerama/dualhead and few others.

See a list of accepted patches for details.

• direct download link
• changelog
• browse SVN tree
• mailing list

[edit] 2008 01 14: One week patches deadline for 1.3.2

Sawfish 1.3.2 will be released around 20 january and all submitted Patches will be considered for inclusion into this release. However it is not possible to make an uninformed choice. Your votes are really necessary to make a decision. If you are a sawfish user concerned about sawfish release 1.3.2 please do following:

1. pick a particular patch and test it in your sawfish, by applying it to your sawfish installation and checking how it works.
2. edit the patch page and put there either {{yes}}, {{no}} or {{wtf}}, with a small comment how well/bad it performs.

Patches that I'm unable to verify (be it positively or negatively) will remain in submitted patches waiting for next release. All the other patches will be either accepted and included in 1.3.2 release or rejected.

Your input in this wiki and the mailing list is really important, it's all of you who drives sawfish releases. I'm just humbly making it happen ;)

Janek Kozicki 15:42, 14 January 2008 (UTC)

[edit] 2007 07 27: Sawfish 1.3.1 released

Sawfish 1.3.1 is the first release after the Sawfish author, John Harper, resigned from Sawfish maintainership and the Sawfish community took over.

The release 1.3.1 is to let people know about the revival of Sawfish development and that the process of collecting patches for the next release 1.3.2 has started. Please send your local or distribution-specific patches to the sawfish mailing list for consideration. Documentation was updated with v0.11 from Derek Upham, a tool for automatic screenshot generation of huge number of themes from Scott Scriven was added and a detection for Xrandr extension from Philip Langdale was added.

• direct download link
• changelog
• browse SVN tree
• mailing list

[edit] 2007 07 03: Sawfish goes to the community

Sawfish's author, John Harper, has decided to resign from maintainership of Sawfish and currently the project is completely within the hands of Sawfish community. A group of people from the Sawfish mailing list gathered together to work on a new wiki website, and to make a new sawfish release 1.3.1.

A volunteer Janek Kozicki took the lead in the sense that he will have access to the SVN repository (and can give it to others), has administering privileges of Sawfish mailing list, has access to Sawfish website on sourceforge.net and freshmeat.net. With this power he will be able to help in managing the community's effort to make Sawfish releases, patching the code in the SVN repository and improving it (like adding an XComposite extension or tabs support to windows). But since he is not a Sawfish coder (no lisp skills, poor C skills, excellent C++ skills ─ not useful in developing Sawfish), he will rely heavily on input from other people, to get the work done.

For more information see History and People.