garcon libxfce4ui libxfce4util tumbler exo xfce4-panel xfconf xfwm4 xfdesktop xfce4-settings xfce4-appfinder xfce4-session xfce4-power-manager thunar thunar-volman ristretto xfce4-notifyd (XFCE 4.18)

[Douglas R. Reno]

New minor versions for XFCE 4.18. Don't forget to also get release notes for the 4.17.x series since that was the development version up to 4.18

[Douglas R. Reno]

Add two more packages to the mix

[Tim Tassonis]

No need for 4.17.x changelog, the 4.18 changelog states it is based on 4.16. Here it is. It is HUUUUUUGE!

Note: The changelogs shown here are since the version of the components that shipped with Xfce 4.16. Dependency changes

• glib-2.0 >= 2.66 - Same version for gmodule-2.0, gobject-2.0, gthread-2.0, gio-2.0 and gdbus
• gtk >= 3.24
• libcairo >= 1.16
• gdk-pixbuf-2.0 >= 2.40
• gobject-introspection >= 1.66

Development Tools (xfce4-dev-tools)

• Add new libsoup3 to the builder
• xfce-do-release: unification of update version 'sed' command
• xfce-do-release: match multiple spaces for git version replace
• Warn about GLib functions newer than the checked GLib version
• Drop the test altogether
• xdt-autogen: Fix deprecation warning from grep 3.8
• Use GLib structured logging
• Add new dependencies to the builder
• Do not run useless distcheck in CI
• Add favicon to Xfce API docs
• Bump our xfce builder to ubuntu 22.04
• Add autopoint to xfce-build
• Add a workaround for thunar documentation generation
• xfce-build: Fix build with SELinux (!58)
• xfce-update-news: Add release date and adjust separator
• xfce-do-release: Make warnings more visible
• xfce-do-release: Check the copyright year in configure.ac*
• xfce-do-release: Extend configure.ac.in update to configure.ac
• xdt-autogen: Fallback on n as IFS if 1 is not supported
• Fix exclusion of xdt-autogen.in in .gitignore
• Update developer.xfce.org home to add tumbler
• Add tumbler to xfce-build container
• Fix "image:" name in .gitlab-ci.yml
• Add libsensors4-dev to build-container
• Try to bump docker-dind image
• gitlabci: Ensure distcheck still runs
• gitlabci: Add release stage that retains tarballs
• Add lm-sensors to dependencies, for xfce4-sensors-plugins CI
• Separate CFLAGS from CXXFLAGS
• xfce-do-release: A review of confirmation prompts
• Improve Xfce Developer Center (developer.xfce.org)
• xdt-features.m4: Always enable compilation warnings
• g_locale_to_utf8 is misspelled as g_local_to_utf8
• xfce-build: Always pick the latest stable release
• Create the m4/ if it does not exists
• Use autoreconf to bootstrap xfce4-dev-tools itself
• Use autoreconf to bootstrap autotools
• xfce-do-release: Check for docker installed
• Add dependencies to build thunarx-python CI
• Fix location of apidocs
• xfce-build: Fix conditional in gitlabci
• Export apidocs as GitLab artifacts
• Get rid of glib-gettextize usage and XGETTEXT_ARGS custom args
• Remove obsolete AM_GLIB_GNU_GETTEXT
• helpers: Fix command-line if git-config core.editor is unset
• helpers: Add 'xfce-build describe' command

Utility Library (libxfce4util)

• Remove limit on the size of configuration file line (!29)
• Clean the build system and use the new XDT_VERSION_INIT (!9)
• xfce-miscutils: Fix deadcode.DeadStores warning from scan-build
• i18n: Make sure to set locale according to environment (!26)
• Memo for future devs: Deprecate xfce_str_replace()
• Remove duplicate xfce_str_is_empty ()
• Move xfce_append_quoted () to xfce-string
• Remove invalid custom ngettext() macro
• Fix some GObject introspection warnings
• Add missing G_BEGIN_DECLS and G_END_DECLS
• Create new function xfce_create_shared_thumbnail_path
• usage of g_file_peek_path requires glib 2.56
• Add xfce_unescape_desktop_entry_value
• xfce-gio-extensions - management of gvfs trusted attribute
• libxfce4util needs to be first character Capital
• Fix (some) GObject introspection warnings
• Revamp the documentation to uniformize accross components

Widget Library (libxfce4ui)

• Added move-window-to-monitor shortcut options (!80)
• libxfce4kbd-private: Reset shortcut recursively (#53)
• Fix titled dialog subtitle when headerbar is not used (!78)
• xfce-about: Add kernel and gtk version to system tab (!76)
• titled-dialog: Exclude normal windows from CSD adjustments (!72)
• xfce4-about: Add support for 3A5000/loongarch64 (!74)
• titled-dialog: CSD XfceTitledDialog improvements (#26, !71)
• Fix intltool lock file problem during make distcheck (!69)
• xfce-spawn: Do not change DISPLAY on non-X11 displays (#13, !68)
• XfceShortcutDialog: Do not propagate key events
• Add new function xfce_gtk_toggle_tool_button_new_from_action_entry
• XfceShortcutsGrabber: Detect auto-repeat key press
• i18n: Do not use textdomain() in libs
• Simplify startup notification timeout
• XfceShortcutsDialog: center the dialog on the parent window
• Replace duplicate logic with xfce_str_replace
• Use headerbars for dialogs if Gtk/DialogsUseHeader is enabled (#14)
• Add new method "xfce_gtk_menu_append_separator" (Issue #49)
• xfce4-about - improve /etc/os-release value unquoting (Issue #47)
• Add comment to return gboolean in XfceGtkActionEntry
• Add functions for handling accelerators that use the Tab key
• Check time.h and sys/time.h for libgtop
• g_once_init_enter() parameter shouldn't be volatile anymore.
• xfce-about: Fix potential NULL pointer access
• Introduce a shortcuts editor widget
• Add xfce_gdk_device_grab
• Fix xfce_gdk_screen_get_active to return correct monitor number
• Switch keyboard shortcut 'tile-up' with 'tile-down' (were mixed up)
• Change "Setting System" to "Settings Manager"
• added xfce_gtk_label_set_a11y_relation to be used by various components
• initialize base_property prior xfce_shortcuts_provider_register
• about: Replace stock with regular button
• about: Make Close button translateable (Fixes #41)
• Check if pixbuf is valid before unref
• shortcuts: Add Alt+Super+s for orca (Fixes #39)
• shortcuts-grabber: Filter grabbing by key group
• shortcuts-grabber: Redesign shortcut regrabbing (Bug #33)
• shortcuts-grabber: Stop search when the first match is found
• shortcuts-grabber: Record xkb state group (Bug #33)
• about: Fix invalid length and Zink renderer string
• XfceTitledDialog: Add pixbuf support as fallback
• Prevent resizing on message display with XfceFilenameInput
• Delay whitespace warning in XfceFilenameInput
• Remove Gtk2 leftovers
• Don't reserve vertical space for subtitles in headerbars

Extension Library (exo)

• Fix blurriness in exo-desktop-item-edit icon when UI scale > 1
• Fix blurriness in ExoThumbnailPreview when UI scale > 1
• Fix icon cell renderer blurriness when UI scale > 1
• Deprecate exo-string functions
• Deprecate exo_noop_*
• Save clipboard before dialog closes
• Fix horizontal smooth scrolling in compact view (Issue #86)
• Do not use exo_noop
• exo-die: Don't touch exe line in .desktop files
• exo-open : Only execute local .desktop files
• Fix $DISPLAY being set to wrong value
• exo-die, exo-open: Remove dependence on exo_str_is_equal(), exo_str_looks_like_an_uri()
• Fix unreliable D-BUS-activated app launch behavior
• exo-open: Try to open Type=Link .desktop files
• Use xfce-string functions
• Dont reduce selection in single click mode (Issue #71)
• Add typecheck to prevent Gtk-CRITICAL (Issue #63)
• Initialize modifier at the time of declaration
• Fix AC_LANG_SOURCE macro
• Fix G_UNLIKELY check
• exo_strdup_strftime: Support additional encoding (Issue #66)
• exo-die: Add trusted flag support
• Keep execute permission bit after launcher modification (Issue #64)
• Deprecate ExoBinding and ExoMutualBinding In favor of GBinding
• Free hover_path in tree-view if not NULL
• Drop preferences-desktop-default-applications icon
• Properly initialize GdkRectangle to prevent crash (Issue #57)
• Fix autotools deprecation warnings
• Revamp the documentation to uniformize accross components
• Fix compilation warnings
• exo-icon-chooser-dialog: Throttle search requests
• exo-icon-chooser-dialog: Focus filter entry by default
• exo-icon-chooser-dialog: Set default to show to all icons
• exo-icon-chooser-dialog: Speed up sorting the icon view model
• Fix keyboard navigation when only one item is present (#53)
• configure.ac: Allow cross-compiling

Menu Library (garcon)

• garcon: Guard against race conditions when menu loads
• garcon-gtk: Populate GtkMenu only if GarconMenu is loaded
• garcon: Reset source id and list pointer on destruction and only then
• garcon-gtk: Fix menu icon blurriness when UI scale factor != 1 (#33, !25)
• garcon: Escape '%' when building command from URL desktop files (#31)
• garcon-gtk: Fix typo in GObject macros
• garcon-gtk: A more in-depth review of signal handler connections
• garcon-gtk: Disconnect reload callback on finalize (#27, !18)
• build: Fix intltool lock file problem during make distcheck
• garcon-gtk: Reduce latency when displaying the menu (#3, #5, !18)
• garcon-menu-separator: Fix constructor (!22)
• garcon-menu-item: Fix memory leaks (!21)
• Reintroduce the science category (#20, !15)
• menu-item: Add get/set for PrefersNonDefaultGPU (#21, !16)
• garcon-gtk: Fix a small memory leak (!14)
• Revamp the documentation to modernize and uniformize accross components (!13)

File Manager (thunar)

• Fix minor mem leak (Issue #961)
• Ask if desktop files should be trusted (Issue #959)
• build: Bump requirements for Xfce 4.18
• Initialize thumbnail request to 0
• Fix slow thumbnail loading in icon/compact view (Issue #952)
• Enable translations for some preferences fields (Issue #953)
• Enable translations for statusbar action-entries (Issue #953)
• Allow to localize toolbar Item 'Location Bar' (Issue #953)
• Follow Symlinks in 'thunar_file_can_execute' (#944)
• renamed 'thunar_file_is_executable' to 'thunar_file_can_execute'
• Regression: Trust all .desktop files inside XDG_DATA_DIRS (Issue #944)
• Check if trusted_button exists before using it (Issue #944)
• Show meaningful error for invalid remote bookmarks (Isssue #941)
• Fix for launcher trusted/executable checkboxes (Issue #944)
• thunar-apr: Properly free errors (Issue #944)
• Only show hamburger button when menubar is disabled (Issue #934)
• Only show hamburger button when menubar is disabled (Issue #934)
• Properly round percentages in 'usage' text
• Dbus methods not selecting files/folders (Issue #929)
• Fix argument type for xfce_shortcuts_editor_new (Issue #928)
• Reposition Highlight tab in Properties dialog
• Image preview visible flag desynced between instances
• Properly include pcre2 CFLAGS and LDFLAGS (Issue #848)
• Fix capitalization in some strings
• Set style to reasonable value when setting wallpaper (Issue #907)
• Fix blurriness in gesture icons when UI scale > 1
• Fix blurriness in drag icons when UI scale > 1
• Fix blurriness in path bar location image when UI scale > 1
• Fix blurriness in ThunarImage when UI scaling > 1
• Fix blurriness in emblem chooser when UI scaling > 1
• Fix blurriness in icon renderers at UI scale > 1
• Fix typo for setting "misc-image-preview-mode"
• Shorten image preview enum strings in settings dialog
• preview sidebar: only load the thumbnails if previews wanted.
• Remove lag in search feature (Issue #914)
• Bulk renamer: Drop unmainted PCRE in favor of PCRE2 (Issue #848)
• Better handing of file updates during search
• Make fd.o ShowItemProperties behavior consistent with Thunar
• List View: Add file count to size column for directories (Issue #61)
• Translation for few buttons missing (Issue #916)
• Add option to suppress the confirmation dialog on delete (Issue #809)
• Regression: Fix build with notifications disabled (Issue #909)
• Introduce separate class for 'thunar-job-operation-history'
• Add Toolbar items for undo/redo (Issue #819)
• Add notification on undo/redo (Issue #903)
• Shorten wait time to show file transfer rate (Issue #888)
• Add Image preview sidepane (Issue #357)
• Prevent GLib-GIO-CRITICAL messages if 'file_>info' is not set
• Add 'redo' feature and multi-level undo/redo (Issue #819)
• Add 'undo' support for the latest link operation (Issue #819)
• Add 'undo' support for the latest file-create operation (Issue 819)
• Add 'undo' support for the latest trash operation (Issue #819)
• Add 'undo' support for the latest rename operation (Issue #819)
• Add 'undo' support for the latest move operation (Issue #819)
• Add 'undo' support for the latest copy operation (Issue #819)
• Update Dbus support for feature "Set Default Application" (issue #342)
• hidden preference "misc-open-new-windows-in-split-view" (Issue #889)
• Add title to message dialogs
• Fix details view's name column's prelight when highlight is enabled
• Add split-view button to Toolbar (Issue #831)
• View accels not working after initial startup (Issue #803)
• Remove "open with" prefix for apps in open with menu (Issue #863)
• Prevent xfconf warning during startup for property "sort-order"
• Thunar hangs with misc-directory-specific-settings (Issue #861)
• Add DnD support for application/octet-stream (#278)
• Add support for PrefersNonDefaultGPU in .desktop files (Issue #692)
• Enable right click + drag for list view (Issue #851)
• Inhibit some actions when a search is active (Issue #847)
• Add posibillity to set custom color to specific files (Issue: #160)
• Add support for alternative copy/paste/cut shortcuts (Issue #845)
• Properly remember sort settings in all cases (Issue #836)
• Create separate section for thumbnail settings in preferences dialog
• Dont rely on xfconf value for menubar toggle (Issue #777)
• Dont rely on xfconf value for statusbar toggle (Issue #777)
• Dont rely on xfconf value for sidepane menu items (Issue #777)
• Bulk renamer: Rename in multiple iterations (Issue #108)
• meaningful naming for Location Selector (Issue #826)
• Prevent GLib-GObject-CRITICAL when using tree-view (Issue #827)
• Bulk Renamer: Allow multiple matches when using regex (Issue #230)
• Fix various memory leaks (Issue #573)
• Ignore escape sequences when executing launchers
• Fix crash when changing tab titles preferences (#808)
• Don't modify the 'exe' line in .desktop files unintentionally
• Search: show symlinks in results (Issue #809)
• Rename ThunarLauncher class to ThunarActionManager
• Enable to switch from search entry to other UI elements (Issue #792)
• Hide accel labels in launcher submenus (Issue #779)
• Fix broken build with gcc7 : “declaration is not a statement”
• List View: Show relative paths for column 'location'
• Check for empty path property in .desktop files
• Add tooltips for select by pattern dialog
• Restore view-type before exiting while search is active (Issue #794)
• Add menu item 'edit launcher' for '.desktop' files
• Search string normalization and diacritic stripping (Issue #793)
• Add border around infobar in trash (Issue #795)
• Fix segfault when closing Thunar during search (Issue #789)
• Respect last-show-hidden during search (Issue #785)
• Allow searching for multiple search terms (Issue #783)
• Handle special columns properly when ending a search (Issue #782)
• Replace exo_str_* () with GLib functions
• Fixed folder activation during search in some cases (Issue #774)
• ExoIconView search workaround: do not save the temporary view type
• Fix column editor model filter logic
• Show the Location column in recent:\.
• Show the Search with Catfish... button only if catfish is installed
• Tweak order of tab settings in preferences dialog
• build: Fix intltool lock file problem during make distcheck
• Add option to show last modified date in the statusbar (Issue #641)
• Usage of glist to concatinate statusbar strings
• Add configure option to set thunarx default dirs
• Add configure option to enable thunarx custom dirs (Issue #771)
• Sort symlinks like regular files when sorting by type (Issue #71)
• Make thunar toolbar editor resizable and set a default size
• Refactor thunarx module loading (Issue #755)
• Add preference to disable recursive search (Issue #751)
• Compact View: Optional ellipsization instead of word wrap (Issue #595)
• Add toolbar button to show menubar when hidden (Issue #174)
• Bookmark accels not working (Issue #762)
• Toolbar Editor: Default to a bigger dialog size (Issue #758)
• Toolbar: Make custom actions invisible by default (Issue #757)
• Dont show a checkbox for "vertical split pane" in the settings
• Show as well invalid bookmarks in the bookmarks menu (Issue #582)
• Remove 'Date Deleted' from 'Configure Column' List (Issue #750)
• Move trash infobar to the bottom (Issue #605)
• Show Configure Toolbar... option on right-clicking toolbar items.
• Add built-in buttons for toolbar customization: Search, Toggle,Reload, Zoom
• Allow to customize toolbar by using custom actions (Issues #607 #621)
• Location bar: Make sure to show the correct root button (Issue #725)
• Recursive search: Do not search when the search query is empty.
• Fix: Escape does not unselect files.
• Column headers: Configure columns popup on right-click
• Bulk renamer: Use wording "Extension" over "Suffix" (Issue #729)
• Look for thunar plugins at $THUNARX_DIRS (Issue #748)
• Speedup search by disabling row-related callbacks while searching
• Add spinner element to each tab to display search status
• Add option for vertical split panes (#722)
• List view name column improvements (#736)
• Option to show full path in tabs (Issue #627)
• Generate documentation for internal functions (Issue #617)
• Fix of various memory leaks
• Dont reload the view when text is copied (Issue #706)
• Use 'g_timeout_add_full' to set tree-view cursor (Issue #351)
• NULL checks to prevent crash on malformed bookmark URI (Issue #716)
• Skip files with IO errors during directory scan (Issue #696)
• Shortcuts View: Allow devices a drag and drop target (Issue #708)
• Support for thumbnail size x-large and xx-large (Issue #606)
• Add support for accelerators that include the Tab key (Issue #580)
• Add Recursive Search (!146)
• Use save way to copy a "struct tm" to prevent crash (Issue #700)
• Add UCA parameter to specify a number of files (Issue #26)
• Fix: User disabled accelerators are re-enabled on 2nd restart (!177)
• Add a GUI shortcuts editor (Issue #279)
• Use alphabetical sorting for devices in the side-pane (Issue #610)
• Use GList over gchar for getting an uri list (Issue #684)
• Prevent crash when restoring non-existing URI (Issue #684)
• Regression: Can't copy and replace a directory any more (Issue #682)
• 'New file' dialog: Dont highlight extension for templates (Issue #676)
• Use g_strcmp0 over strcmp to prevent crash (Issue #679)
• Inherit sort column/order of new tabs from current tab (Issue #678)
• Feature: Statusbar customization (Issue #666)
• Add link to thunar doc. to uca chooser dialog (Issue #245)
• Dont replace ACSII characters < 0 for FAT filesystems (Issue #655)
• Fix: Side pane tree view loading time increased (Issue #659)
• Remove the file:// prefix in the location column
• Support '.' in themed desktop-file names
• Reset sort_column if it exceeds THUNAR_N_VISIBLE_COLUMNS
• Avoid many 'Failed to open directory' windows (Issue #660)
• Add file & folder count on the properties dialog (Issue #395)
• Use basename instead of display_name for file duplication (Issue #649)
• Fix signal disconnect in thunar_window_unrealize to prevent crash
• Don't go beyond THUNAR_N_VISIBLE_COLUMNS while parsing col widths
• Listen to changes on shortcuts to update them when required
• Prevent crash on copy+paste of many files (Issue #649)
• Ctrl + L does not leave search mode (Issue #645)
• Use move action when dragging files of different users (#196)
• Prevent focus stealing of file transfer dialog (Issue #643)
• Make file transfer window non-transient (Issue #109)
• shortcut view location cursor can flicker on selection (Issue #644)
• Fix file-icon update when file is cut (Issue #588)
• Incorrect "Send To" behavior with multiple arguments (Issue #609)
• Support thumbnails for symlinks (and devices / unknowns)
• Add option to verify file checksums on copy (Issue #511)
• Open correct folder on middle-click in tree-view (Issue #626)
• Shortcut-view: Keep focus in sync with current folder
• Add a Location column that appears while in search mode
• Add "Open Item Location" option in the context menu of files in Recent
• Add a new 'Open Item Location' entry in the right click context menu.
• Rework Search in Thunar (Issues #2, #28, #290)
• Remove fragmented file if file transfer is interrupted
• Fix invalid filenames when copying to FAT-like filesystem (Issue #77)
• Support shared thumbnail repositories (Issue #262)
• Add preference to limit the maximum file size to be thumbnailed (#310)
• Use *.partial~ as an intermediate file for copy
• Restore split-view separator position (Issue #616)
• Skip switch-page handler when switching to other split-view tab (Issue #615)
• Change thunar_file_is_trashed to thunar_file_is_trash in thunar-launcher.c
• Provide additional menu item for trashed files: "restore and open folder" (Issue #382)
• Open restored tabs in correct order (Issue #613)
• After restoring tabs set focus on the last focused tab
• For "foo.txt" next available file should be of the form "foo N.txt"
• Remove redundant code
• Ask "close window with tabs?" as well for STRG+Q (Issue #611)
• Keep modified time of files copied from foreign locations (Issue #218)
• Use more general method to pick file names on copy (Issue #244)
• Add possibility to 'trust' launchers (Issue #156)
• Remove reload button from toolbar (!125)
• Add a preference to restore tabs on startup (Issue #338)
• Fix Recent entry in the Go menu
• Use thunar_g_file_new_for_computer and thunar_g_file_new_for_network
• Add support for the recent:/// location in Thunar.
• Add basic support for gtk-recent (Issue #257)
• Fix: Incorrect thumbnail size being displayed sometimes when zooming quickly
• Add zoom-level as a per-directory setting (Issue #418)
• Rename variable dot to extension
• Generate incremental file name when a name collision is detected (Issue #210)
• Fix GLib-CRITICAL in list-view (Issue #487)
• thunar_file_is_executable() now checks if .desktop file is safe
• Fix missing folder in history when opened in new tab (Issue #594)
• Fix missing folder in history when opened in new tab (Issue #594)
• Manage parallel job outside ThunarTransferJob (Issue #569)
• Replace ExoBinding with GBinding equivalent
• Move bookmarks into a separate Bookmarks menu (Issue #572)
• Proper destruction of member variables for thunar-launcher
• Fixing various memory leaks (Issue #573)
• Fix showing volume uuid in transfer dialog (Issue #579)
• Dont show "execute" on context menu for folders
• Regression: Activating Desktop Icon does not Use Default Application (Issue #575)
• Prevent crash if non-existing bookmark is right-clicked (Issue #552)
• Sendto-menu: Renamed "Create Shortcut" to "Add Bookmark"
• Allow middle-clicking navigation buttons (Issue #98)
• Support Today/Yesterday option for custom date styles (Issue #292)
• Prevent crash if invalid-symlink is used as bookmark (Issue #552)
• Scroll to correct height after changing to a parent dir (Issue #531)
• Dont execute files, passed via command line due to security risks
• Move 'reload' button out of pathbar (Issue #559)
• Improve usability of Computer:// in list view (Issue #297)
• Select the correct bookmark after opening a new window (Issue #106)
• Shortcut-view regression: Middle mouse click on folder did not work
• Make use of xfce icon "org.xfce.settings.default-applications"
• Avoid excessively checking whether files are executables (Issue #180)
• Add Option to keep focus while opening folder in new tab (Issue #364)
• Add Add Bookmark menu item to the Go menu (Issue #283)
• On "Select by Pattern" add option for case sensitivity (Issue #173)
• CDDA appears twice in side pane (Issue #486)
• Add Empty Trash infobar while in the trash folder (Issue #11)
• Add section 'Default Application' for app. selection (Issue #342)
• BulkRenamer: Preselect Name and Suffix if only dirs are selected
• List view: Leave size column blank for directories (Issue #543)
• BulkRenamer: Split 'Rename' button into 'Apply' and 'Done' (Issue #22)
• Critical error when opening Edit menu (Issue #542)
• Add menu entry 'Set Default App' to 'Open with' submenu (Issue #342)
• Shortcuts view regression : Watch trash for changes (Issue #538)
• Fix misc-full-path-in-title memory fault (Issue #484)
• Add 'sort by Date Deleted' option to 'arrange items' menu (Issue #123)
• Add 'date deleted' column for the trash directory (Issue #123)
• Use a more specific device eject label (Issue #153)
• Reload current directory before selecting new files (Issue #524)
• Shortcuts view: Open new folder after creation
• ThunarLauncher: Dont expose "select files" closure
• Use thunar-menu and launcher in shortcuts view (Issue #198)
• thunar-launcher: Send signal when device operation is started/finished
• Removed 'the root folder has no parent' dialog box
• tree-view: Hide menu-item "properties" for unmounted devices
• Regression: Missing "mount"/"unmount" on tree-view devices
• thunar-launcher: unpack g_value with correct call
• Remove watches on shortcuts (Issue #513) (Issue #47)
• Regression: Select copied files after copy operation (Issue #520)
• Reintroduce alternative zoom shortcuts (Issue #514)
• Prevent hangup if a copy task that is blocked is resumed (Issue #467)
• Improve comments in "thumbnail_needs_frame"
• Improve device unmount messages (Issue #516)
• Regression: Allow custom image files for UCA icons (Issue #517)
• Dont merge folders when creating copy with same name (Issue 491)
• Fix incorrect return value in scroll event handler (Issue #512)
• Use wording "queued" instead of "frozen" for jobs (Issue #511)
• Use wording "queued" instead of "frozen" for jobs (Issue #511)
• Revamp documentation to modernize/uniformize accross components
• Remove tray icon and related methods (Issue #495)
• Regression: Skip app info updates on sendto actions (Issue #502)
• Regression: Toggle menu visibility on F10 if menu hidden (Issue #498)
• thunar-launcher: Unify way to set selected device/location/files
• thunar-launcher: Keep ref on ThunarDevice while poking
• thunar-launcher: Unify way to set selected device/location/files
• thunar-launcher: Provide service to open locations (bookmarks)
• Regression: "Shift" + "Select Trash in menu" has to trigger delete
• By default show all available volumes (#384)
• Add "created" column to list view (#478)
• Add suffix '
• Thunar' to the title bar (Issue #482)
• Dont select previous file after delete/trash (Issue #477)
• Increase min. size of "text" field in bulk renamer (Issue #474)
• Add option to forget application association (Issue #197)
• Regression: "Open with other application" missing (Issue #470)
• New feature: Split View (Issue #445)
• Revert "Fix popup menus size (Bug #15832)"
• Always create new files and folders in current directory (Issue #462)
• Improve file operations progress dialog (Issue #365)
• Prevent crash on Ctrl+H when there is no sidepane (Issue #453)
• Roleback to previous spinner handling (Issue #448)
• Add option to unselect all files (Issue #424)
• Unset tree view cursor if toplevel path is unknown (Issue #351)
• Remove GSourceFunc casts
• Add submenus for custom actions (Issue #184)
• REFACTOR: always queue_popup in details view on right click (#421)
• merged master from upstream
• Dont use ThunarFiles when they are already destoyed
• Use single main menu category in .desktop files (Issue #40)
• Add toggle in preferences to allow running shell scripts (Issue #224)
• Add action to toggle sort direction (#130)
• Use sort menu as well for detailed view (#139)
• Add support to created date in file properties

Application Finder (xfce4-appfinder)

• Update default settings (!29)
• Fix icon blurriness UI scale > 1 (#67)
• Migration for history cache file (!28)
• Do not clamp window height in collapsed mode (!27)
• build: Fix intltool lock file problem during make distcheck
• Avoid saving duplicate command (#58)
• Use symbolic icons
• Rename icon name macro constants
• Do not allow custom action notice to wrap lines
• Fix crashes occurring when GLib rejects to parse the command string
• Add option to hide window decorations (#51)
• Include keywords and generic name to search
• Add support to garcon's PrefersNonDefaultGPU property
• Handle escaping in desktop file values (#16)
• Make close and help buttons translatable
• Parse environment variables in collapsed mode (#13)
• Mention that custom actions are only available in collapsed mode (#27)
• Launch applications as children again

Panel (xfce4-panel)

• Define and use macros for Xfconf properties (!104)
• clock: Do not include private.h in headers
• panel-desktop-handler: Add OnlyShowIn=XFCE key (!106)
• libxfce4panel: Fix menu positioning when the panel is hidden
• libxfce4panel: Fix menu widget positioning when the panel is hidden
• libxfce4panel: Strengthen sanity check for emitting "provider-signal"
• libxfce4panel: Make popup_penu() consistent with position_widget()
• panel: Remove limitation on setting struts in multi-monitor mode (#661)
• launcher: Fix tooltip icon invalidation on boutton update
• tasklist: Take window scaling into account for dnd
• clock: Improved time zone matching (!105)
• clock: [GSoC22] Merge DateTime with Clock plugin (!101)
• clock: Reveal calendar command in prefs dialog (Fixes #560)
• clock: Decrease verbosity
• panel: Remove duplicated PanelWindow:scale-factor property
• panel: Remove some duplicate build flags
• systray: Replace deprecated "GtkWidget::composited-changed" signal
• Replace deprecated "style-set" signal with "style-updated"
• windowmenu: Take window scaling into account for icons
• tasklist: Take window scaling into account for icons
• systray: Take window scaling into account for status notifiers
• libxfce4panel: Add window scaling to xfce_panel_set_image_from_source()
• launcher: Take window scaling into account for icons from files
• launcher: Rebuild the menu when the panel size changes
• launcher: Do not overwrite button icon cache with menu item icons
• launcher: Fix tooltip icon management
• panel: Chain up to parent in constructed()
• clock: Fixed zone info directory (#646, !105)
• tasklist: Properly restore button state on GtkMenu::selection-done
• tasklist: Browse a copy of the window list if it is subject to change (#594)
• clock: Improve backward compatibility (#641)
• clock: Prevent visual glitch when showing calendar window (#466)
• Revert "clock: Prevent visual glitch when showing calendar window" (#641)
• tasklist: Update button visibility when sent to another workspace
• tasklist: Properly update fallback icon (Fixes #636)
• systray: Use theme colors for symbolic icons (#635)
• Add title to message dialogs (!102)
• panel: Chain-up to parent in style_updated() (Fixes #490)
• clock: Fix widget visibility in prefs dialog
• cleanup: Use the same debug function everywhere
• clock: binary: Various refactoring and cleanups (!91, !92, !93)
• launcher: Replace deprecated GtkWidget::state-changed signal
• tasklist: Use a checkbox for button grouping
• cleanup: Remove dead code
• cleanup: Wrap some GdkScreen deprecations in one place
• cleanup: Wrap GtkImageMenuItem deprecations in one place
• cleanup: Remove deprecated GdkColor
• prefs-dialog: Rephrase "Don't reserve space on borders" (Fixes #217)
• tasklist: Simplify label text
• clock: Implement sleep monitor (#58, !88)
• systray: Help to keep status notifiers from vanishing (#102, #243, #599)
• panel: Exit gracefully when display cannot be opened (Fixes #625)
• Urgency blinking fixes (!90)
• prefs-dialog: Always select another panel after removing one
• tasklist: Do not release button if left-click minimization is disabled
• tasklist: Properly exclude grouped windows from overflow menu
• tasklist: Keep dnd position when grouping/ungrouping windows (#323)
• Reposition menu for popup commands if necessary
• panel: Populate item dialog after setting dialog screen (Fixes #62)
• panel: Switch to pixels for the panel length in the prefs dialog (#99)
• panel: Rework enter/leave opacity management (#180)
• systray: Set button border width to 0 (Fixes #604)
• systray: Perform sanity checks also for "NewStatus" signal (Fixes #602)
• pager: Fix aspect ratio for viewport (Fixes #119)
• clock: Distinguish AM/PM hours in fuzzy clock for L10N (#77)
• libxfce4panel: Report a highlighted arrow button as blinking
• windowmenu: Update plugin icon on active window icon change (Fixes #37)
• pager: Synchronize workspace layout between plugin instances (#7)
• pager: Move some function calls to their right place
• pager: Properly disconnect signal handler
• tasklist: Guard against null workspace
• tasklist: Properly update active window when it changes workspace (#207)
• libxfce4panel: Warn about deprecated xfce_panel_plugin_position_menu()
• libxfce4panel: Add new function xfce_panel_set_image_from_source() (!83)
• libxfce4panel: Add new function xfce_panel_plugin_popup_menu() (!80)
• libxfce4panel: Deprecate xfce_panel_plugin_position_menu() (!80)
• cleanup: Remove useless variable
• cleanup: Use already defined panel scale factor
• tasklist: Remove redundant function call
• refactoring: Consistency of plugin menu callbacks
• refactoring: Use g_file_peek_path() when appropriate
• Autohide refactoring (!77)
• Replace soon-to-be-deprecated exo-string functions (!79)
• panel: Silence allocation warning for external plugins (V2) (#590, !89)
• panel: Compare monitor geometries in the right dimension (#54)
• panel: Do not compare monitor geometry to itself (#54)
• tasklist: Take window scaling into account when detecting window position (#505)
• panel: Be sure to save plugins before xfconf_shutdown()
• tasklist: Fix critical warning when starting on a disconnected device
• tasklist: Delay sorting if window list is in use (#594)
• libxfce4panel: Allow to show about dialog when prefs dialog is shown (#221)
• panel: Prevent compositing message from affecting dialog size (Fixes #591)
• libxfce4panel: Unblock autohide before removing the plugin (#592)
• Grab devices until the menu takes over for popup commands (#201, #585)
• Fix return value of "remote-event" signal handlers (#585)
• Avoid "no trigger event" warning for popup commands
• Guard against the return value of gdk_seat_get_pointer()
• panel: Ensure that handles are always grabbable (Fixes #227)
• Allow to set a custom icon in appmenu and dirmenu (#254, !83)
• Use RGBA visual only if compositing is enabled (Fixes #251)
• launcher: Fix wrong format specifier in config file name (Fixes #581)
• applicationsmenu: Add option to set "small" property (Fixes #31, #113)
• pager: Consistency fixes between "miniature view" and "buttons" (#74, #209, #253, #257, #274, !82)
• libxfce4panel: Make urgency blinking more visible (Fixes #259)
• tasklist: Sorting fixes (#29, #126, #323, !81)
• systray: Force dbus-menu update when item is invalidated (Fixes #567)
• libxfce4panel: Unregister menu also on "selection-done"
• applicationsmenu: Do post-processing on "selection-done"
• windowmenu: Do not popup menu item wnck menu at widget
• Fix plugin menu popup at pointer (#297)
• Add new function xfce_panel_plugin_popup_menu() (#147, !80)
• tasklist: Middle click minimize window groups (!76)
• tasklist: Middle click close window groups (#322, !76)
• tasklist: Middle click opens new instance (#166, !72)
• Add some autohide blockers (!78)
• libxfce4panel: Destroy plugin prefs dialog on plugin "destroy" signal
• Autohide fixes (#48, #116, #397, !75)
• systray: Hide button menu if button is hidden by its app (Fixes #391)
• launcher: Use same icons for item list as in prefs dialog (Fixes #415)
• launcher: Make add dialog consistent with panel add dialog (Fixes #416)
• tasklist: Fix context menu position in deskbar mode (Fixes #417)
• systray: Display square systray icons on multiple rows (#426)
• panel: Do not rely on borders to trigger autohide animation
• Revert "Fix autohide with bg color or image (Bug #16064)" (#435, #512)
• tasklist: Hide wireframe on window buttons (#543, !70)
• systray: Icon size and priority fixes (#571, !73)
• systray: Disable broken smooth scroll with Xfwm4 (#411, !74)
• prefs-dialog: Filter out irrelevant selection changes in "Items" tab
• wrapper: Ensure that provider stays alive when processing "g-signal"
• Revert "panel: Keep a reference on item during drag and drop"
• panel: Clear opaque region so compositor properly apply transparency (#378, #427)
• Fix gdk_rgba_to_string()-related memory leaks
• systray: Load icon from theme at desired size (#463)
• Take window scaling into account (#465, #486, !71)
• clock: Prevent visual glitch when showing calendar window (#466)
• tasklist: Fix wireframe for CSD windows (v2) (#562)
• systray: Check that the proxy exists when invalidating item
• Use GLib structured logging
• Use GLIB_VERSION_MIN/MAX_REQUIRED/ALLOWED
• libxfce4panel: Silence -Wredundant-decls warnings (#495)
• Revamp the documentation to modernize and uniformize accross components (!35)
• panel: Fix regression "intellihide does not hide when leaving slowly" (#388)
• panel: Fix regression "'Span Monitor' has no effect" (#405)
• panel: Keep a reference on item during drag and drop
• systray: Do not apply icon if not yet set
• Fix deadcode.DeadStores warnings from scan-build (!56)
• Fix core.UndefinedBinaryOperatorResult warning from scan-build (#142)
• Fix core.NullDereference warning from scan-build (!57)
• panel: Fix broken drag and drop between panels (#561)
• systray: Only activate item under mouse
• Use a normalized URI internally for the background image
• panel: Disconnect from screen signals when window is destroyed
• Fix ignored *.desktop.in in .gitignore
• systray: Do not connect to proxy signal if async method failed
• actions: Lay out buttons in grid for deskbar (#437, !69)
• wrapper: Rework widget drawing (#520, !67)
• windowmenu: Emit "deactivate" signal when hiding the menu (#22, !68)
• systray: Trust the status to update the attention icon (#392, !64)
• tasklist: Add a setting to control the display of tooltips (#548, !63)
• Fixed some window buttons not appearing in the panel (#188, !66)
• Remove ellipsis (#480, !65)
• launcher: Only activate under mouse (Fixes #519)
• launcher: Clear action menu when destroyed (Fixes #540, !61)
• actions: Block panel autohide (Fixes #431, !62)
• panel: Fix grabs for popup commands (Fixes #506, !60)
• Fix compilation warnings (#492, #493, #494, !53)
• launcher: Adjust menu icon size (Fixes #255, !51)
• Fix exit procedure when plugin insertion failed (!49)
• libxfce4panel: Review memory management for context menu (#452, !46)
• panel: Mitigate a memory leak when removing items (!46)
• tasklist: Silence an allocation warning (!48)
• launcher: Check for menu item initialization (!47)
• panel: Change width of default panel-2 to 1% (Fixes #454, !44)
• Fix some *-CRITICAL warnings (!43)
• libxfce4panel: Do not destroy context menu if popped up (#442, !45)
• tasklist: Auto-adjust icon size (v2) (#90, !29)
• pager: Allow disable switch with mouse wheel for miniature view (#253, !37)
• Add icons to help and about items in panel menu (#421)
• pager: Use gobject bindings (Fixes #376, !32)
• launcher: avoid double fork (#407, !25)
• Display tooltip title of statusnotifier items as plaintext (!30)
• pager: Switch to new workspaces icon name
• statustray: Prevent crash when parsing properties (Fixes #379, !26)
• windowmenu: fix use-after-free in window_menu_plugin_window_item_new (!24)

Session Manager (xfce4-session)

• logout-dialog: New Xfconf property "ShowSave" (!29)
• settings: Revert type hint change
• Check getgrgid(3) return value to avoid crash
• build: Fix intltool lock file problem during make distcheck
• Remove pre-defined lockers
• Refresh list of screensavers (#17)
• Do not mind output of screensaver, if successful
• Run custom command in a separate shell
• Avoid extra pause by redirecting stdin
• Increase switch user timeout (!25)
• xflock4: Apply initial delay before running a screensaver/locker (#29)
• xflock4: Update copyrights
• xflock4: make the script executable
• Add labels to inline toolbar buttons
• Use correct icon for Close button

Settings Manager (xfce4-settings)

• appearance: Sync color scheme to gsettings (Fixes #406)
• settings-manager: Add padding to embedded dialogs (Fixes #388)
• display-settings: Search for clonable modes only by resolution
• mime-settings: Properly quote command parameters
• mime-helpers: Add Alacritty and kitty (Fixes #378)
• color-settings: Destroy dialog before releasing its GtkBuilder
• dialogs: Revert type hint changes
• Add binding for /Gtk/DialogsUseHeader in appearance dialog
• appearance: Fix theme list selection (#191, #270, #332)
• xfce-mime-helper: exo_str_is_equal -> g_strcmp0
• xfce4-mime-helper: Prefer full command when basic command is env (Fixes #358)
• Add Flatpak binaries (#360)
• Fix a recursive lock in libX11.
• appearance: Code style fixes
• appearance: Fix SyncThemes property path and default value
• Add addional checks to xfce_settings_editor_box_selection_changed
• Fix invalid cast error
• Fix $DISPLAY being set to wrong value
• build: Fix intltool lock file problem during make distcheck
• color-settings: Fix ColorSettings release
• Add search bar to search per component
• Use 2 decimals for refresh rate (Issue #351)
• display: Select next preset when minimal dialog is activated (!22)
• display: Add helper functions
• Replace deprecated spawn_command_line_on_screen with spawn_command_line
• Fix help button action
• Remove dependence on exo-string
• settings-manager: Always show the search entry, no slider, no button
• display: Add 'autoconnect mode' setting (Fixes #311)
• Switch to using xfce_gtk_label_set_a11y_relation
• keyboard: Mark system defaults switch as active (Fixes #310)
• Revert "keyboard: Correctly initialize setting (Fixes #310)"
• keyboard: Correctly initialize setting (Fixes #310)
• keyboard: Fix icon name in settings dialog
• xfsettingsd: Fix setting float array properties
• keyboard: Make buttons translatable (Fixes #306)
• mime-settings: Allow filtering by application name
• Drop preferences-desktop-default-applications icon name
• display: Switch to MessageDialog for confirmation
• display: Fix scale by rounding (Fixes #258)
• appearance: Add option to sync xfwm4 theme
• display: Add 1.25 and 1.75 ratios to presets
• Default to using /tmp for temporary directory base if both XDG_CACHE_HOME and TMPDIR are not defined in the environment.

Configuration Manager (xfconf)

• xfconf: Prevent Use-After-Free in GClosureNotify
• xfconf-query: Remove ENABLE_NLS ifdefs
• Create per-channel config directory if it does not exist (#20, !15)
• xfconfd: Locale independent writing of floating point values (#33, !26)
• xfconfd: Silence GLib deprecation warning
• Use I_ from Libxfce4util
• Fix "release" stage in CI
• Allow to choose an alternative service name prefix
• ci: Upload artifacts on failure without specifying a directory
• ci: Store tests results
• Add a lifecycle manager to xfconfd
• Replace GTimeVal with gint64 epoch time
• Remove memset() overhead
• Argument to g_strv_length() must not be NULL
• automake: Enable subdir-objects
• xfconf-query: Improve help string for 'verbose'
• Revamp the documentation to modernize and uniformize accross components
• configure.ac: use AC_PROG_CC_C99

Desktop Manager (xfdesktop)

• Adding wallpapers of Xfce4.18 wallpaper contest
• Improve behavior when changing folders in settings dialog
• Revert "settings: select first image when directory changes"
• Improve icon area invalidation
• Make file transfer d-bus operations async
• xfce-desktop: give the 'primary' property a more clear description
• harmonize build-time option USE_DESKTOP_MENU to ENABLE_DESKTOP_MENU
• Fix windowlist icon blurriness when UI scale factor != 1
• Don't use deprecated xfce_spawn_*() functions
• Ignore deprecation warnings from libwnck functions
• Fix blurriness in window icons when UI scale != 1
• Fix blurry drag icon when UI scale != 1
• Fix warnings in settings dialog
• Make background previews less blurry when UI scale factor != 1
• Fix blurry rendering of special file icons in settings dialog
• Fix tooltip icon blurriness when UI scale factor != 1
• Remove single-file thunar transfer function
• Support dropping multiple icons onto another icon
• Better context menu population with multiple selected icons
• Allow showing file properties when multiple are selected
• Fix blurry desktop icons when UI scaling != 1
• Fix blurry background when UI scaling != 1
• Fix incorrect args to gtk_widget_queue_draw_area()
• Properly handle UI scale factor
• Allow ejecting unmounted volumes
• settings: fix memleak on background directory change
• settings: select first image when directory changes
• settings: rename some confusingly-named variables
• Make removable volume tooltop more consistent with the others
• Follow global gtk-menu-images setting for icon context menus
• Implement better keyboard typeahead navigation
• Call file manager launch API asynchronously
• Possibly fix issues finding icon locations in the rc file
• Support for menu item "set default application"
• Output compile_flags.txt
• Clean up resources better on exit
• Properly free string array when transferring multiple files
• Prevent more than one root menu popping up at the same time
• Refactor how root menu population works
• Use proper X11 screen number for enumerating windows
• Fix X11 multiscreen support
• Fix build when desktop icons are disabled
• Fix icon view drawing glitches
• Fix crash when selected icon changed workspaces
• Copy file instead of overwrite for DND
• Resolve deadlock on background change (Issue #188)
• Set default working directory for .desktop files
• build: Fix intltool lock file problem during make distcheck
• Improve warning about registering background with AccountsService.
• Strip only known icon suffix
• Use icon_name variable instead of hard-coded value
• Allocate memory after error processing
• Add option to disable "Delete" menu entry in context menu (!22)
• Use a more specific device eject label (!24)
• Ask for confirmation before desktop icons are rearanged (Issue #128)
• Increase opacity of xfce-verticals bg (Fixes #125)
• Set default tooltip icon size to 64 (!17)
• autoconf: Remove AC_HEADER_STDC
• Do not delete property not set
• Set a pixmap XID, not the XID of the root window (#62)
• Fix Applications Menu memory leak (Bug #102)
• Fix next background (!16)
• Fix gettext extraction from settings/xfce-backdrop-settings.desktop.in.in

Window Manager (xfwm4)

• placement: Fix the initial position
• placement: Factorize max space computation
• placement: Use a GdkRectangle instead of multiple coords
• client: Move getSizeExcludingMargins()
• screen: Add a new API to get the screen max space
• placement: Remove the "same monitor" param
• placement: Add new function to compute the max space available
• client: No need to always reconfigure on monitor change
• client: Preserve saved position on monitor change
• client: Get the GdkDisplay from ScreenInfo
• settings-dialogs: Remove ENABLE_NLS ifdefs
• client: Toggle from partial maximization to unmaximize
• placement: Auto-maximize windows with both width and height
• startup-notification: Fix timeout computation
• client: Update workarea only for windows with struts
• netwm: Fix clientValidateNetStrut()
• Added functionality to move window to another monitor
• configure.ac.in: drop obsolete check for libSM
• client.c: fix a little typo
• placement: clientMaxSpace() drop unused variable
• ui_style: drop unused getUIPangoContext()
• configure.ac.in: drop unused HAVE_CYGWIN conditional
• configure.ac.in: fix obsolete AC_HEADER_STDC / obsolete checks
• configure.ac.in: replace obsolete AC_HELP_STRING
• netwm.c: simplify and optimize struts array
• client.h: move STRUTS_SIZE to hints.h
• xfce-wm-menu.png: Fix the 22x22 icon size
• Drop subtitle from workspace settings dialog
• drop obsolete and unsupported KDE systray protocol
• wireframe: add window class hint to wireframes
• configure.ac.in: configure option to enable poswin
• Make workspace setting workable with other window managers
• Makefile.am: remove stale intltool-merge lockfile
• common: xfwm_get_monitor_geometry() report fail via return code, fix potential NULL
• compositor: fix ifdef
• compositor: fix printf format strings
• placement: Compute struts using output scale
• workspace: Update maximized on struts change
• focus: Fix focus being lost on workspace switch
• icons: Check XGetGeometry() appropriate return value
• compositor: Clear root backing pixmap before use
• Fix intltool lock file bug in make distcheck
• poswin: Fix location with client-side decorations
• compositor: Damage window when adding the opaque region
• Drop subtitle and use symbolic close icon
• Replace stock icons
• Use symbolic icons
• Change dialog help and close button icons
• placement: Windows on different screens cannot overlap
• client: Do not hide transients for group if above
• stacking: Above goes on top of fullscreen
• client: Handle removal of GTK_FRAME_EXTENTS
• placement: Restack fullscreen window when necessary
• icons: Gracefully handle non-existent icons
• settings: Fix untranslatable string
• placement: Ignore struts from windows on other monitors
• focus: Check for user focus for when passing focus
• compositor: Disable GLX vblank with virgl
• startup-notification: Reduce timeout to 10 seconds
• compositor: Add support for adaptive vsync with GLX
• compositor: Do not set deprecated compositor selection
• compositor: Disable GLX on mutli-screen (Zaphod)
• Merge branch 'drsudo/xfwm4-layerRadioBox'
• Added radio buttons and checkboxes to window menu
• display: check for XResQueryClientIds to enable XRes extension.
• cleanup: Don't use parenthesis when returning constants
• netwm: Do not use _NET_WM_PING in multi-screen
• settings: Enable either windows wrap or tiling
• compositor: Add throttled repaint
• compositor: Do not clear timeout on retry
• compositor: Fix repaint timeout

Power Manager (xfce4-power-manager)

• autoconf: Use AC_CONFIG_MACRO_DIRS
• Do not include config.h in headers
• settings: Revert type hint change
• Fix intltool lock file bug in make distcheck
• -export-dynamic is a linker flag
• Free eggalarm after its last use
• Fix memory leak and make while more efficient
• Allocate dynamic memory to what so that it can be g_freed later
• Inhibit DPMS when getting power inhibit request.
• Fix icon name in autostart launcher
• panel-plugin: Switch percentage and time
• Charging ... until full, discharging ... remaining
• Fix memory corruption due to incorrect g_ptr_array usage
• Remove a floating reference
• Connect to polkit signal via GDBusProxy generic signal
• Do not log a warning about expected behavior
• Revert "Lower minimum inactivity to 5 minutes"
• Increase sleep timeout to 6hrs (Fixes #80)
• Lower minimum inactivity to 5 minutes
• automake: Enable subdir-objects
• backlight: always update notification
• remove unused variable show_presentation_indicator
• link xfpm-brightness.c with -lm
• Fix va_args usage in get_device_icon_name
• Remove GSourceFunc casts

Thumbnail Generator (tumbler)

• cleanup: Do not set and free a GError unnecessarily
• desktop-thumbnailer: Avoid recursion (Fixes #67)
• desktop-thumbnailer: allocate/free memory at the right level
• Allow libgepub 0.7 as well
• gst-thumbnailer: Add mime type check (Fixes #65)
• desktop-thumbnailer: Guard against null path
• Yet another fix to the modification time storage format
• Allow to choose an alternative service name prefix (!21)
• scheduler: Enable multi-threading (#1)
• Store modification time in locale independent format
• desktop-thumbnailer: Delete temp file at the same level it was created (#57)
• i18n: Add missing initialization
• Fix missing mutex unlock in group scheduler (#56)
• Build: Check for best possible grep, egrep, sed
• Add support for thumbnail size x-large and xx-large (#51)
• desktop-thumbnailer: Allow to override configuration in desktop files (#52)
• desktop-thumbnailer: Allow for thumbnailer override (#53)
• Try all available thumbnailers before declaring failure (#50)
• Add a corresponding systemd user service for the D-Bus session services (#14)
• Support shared thumbnail repositories of the freedesktop.org thumbnail spec
• pixbuf-thumbnailer: Stop animated image loading at first frame (#48)
• pixbuf-thumbnailer: Increase loader buffer size (!19)
• Use GLib structured logging
• Debug: Add some config-file-related messages (#23)
• Error handling: Fit to the spec and complete message if needed (#49)
• Debug: Add or adjust some traces and dumps
• Debug: Convert dump functions to GString, g_debug()
• Debug: Prefer runtime to compile-time check for logging
• Cleanup: Use g_file_peek_path() when appropriate
• Cleanup: Remove deprecated GNOME build and TODO file
• Define error messages in tumbler/tumbler-error.h
• poppler-thumbnailer: Fix deprecation warning
• ffmpeg-thumbnailer: Fix deprecation warning
• Fix warnings from scan-build (Clang 13.0)
• Fix -Wclobbered compilation warnings
• Use GLIB_VERSION_MIN/MAX_REQUIRED/ALLOWED
• Remove TUMBLER_ADD_INTERFACE (!16)
• autoconf: Some updates (!16)
• Remove GSourceFunc casts (!13)
• gepub-thumbnailer: Add missing sanity check
• Reserve some third-party API messages to debug logging (#10, #29)
• Set the priority of external thumbnailers to 0
• Revert "Set Max file sizes."
• xdg-cache: Add missing sanity check
• xdg-cache: Remove temporary file when saving failed
• xdg-cache: Set thumbnail permissions to 600
• pixbuf-thumbnailer: Try to ignore GDK_PIXBUF_ERROR_CORRUPT_IMAGE
• Use microsecond precision for last modification time (#15, !20)
• poppler-thumbnailer: Fix error handling
• pixbuf-thumbnailer: Simplify error handling
• font-thumbnailer: Fix error handling
• Cache cleanup when a request for a URI fails (#22)
• jpeg-thumbnailer: Do not use low quality embedded thumbnail (#37)
• gst-thumbnailer: Fix error handling
• ffmpeg-thumbnailer: Fix error handling
• odf-thumbnailer: Fix error handling
• xdg-cache: Ensure read_thumbnail_info() always sets an error on failure
• xdg-cache: Chain-up to parent in finalize()
• desktop-thumbnailer: Fill in finalize()
• gepub-thumbnailer: Fix a memory leak
• desktop-thumbnailer: Fix some memory leaks
• desktop-thumbnailer: Fix error handling
• Fix some priority issues
• pixbuf-thumbnailer: Use a mime-type-specific loader when possible (#20, #32, #36, !18)
• raw-thumbnailer: Check for all possible pkg-config files (#44, !18)

Volume Manager (thunar-volman)

• Drop subtitle from settings dialog
• autoconf: Use AC_CONFIG_MACRO_DIRS
• build: Fix intltool lock file problem during make distcheck
• Fix compilation warnings
• automake: Enable subdir-objects
• Replace ExoBinding with GBinding
• Remove GSourceFunc casts (!5)

Related Pages

• Changelogs – release notes of each Xfce release

Related Sites

• Archive – the Xfce download archive
• Building – documentation on building Xfce from source
• Git – browse the source repositories

[Tim Tassonis]

Note: this might take some time, I will try to finish it by the end of the year.

[Tim Tassonis]

Update: Got thru the whole build, looks good so far, with little changes. Give it some more testing and will then update the book.

[Douglas R. Reno]

xfce4-settings and thunar have had point versions (4.18.1 in both cases)

[Tim Tassonis]

Changes for thunar 4.18.1

• Lots of translation updates
• Fix several thumbnailing issues
• replace' option fixed for partial copy (Issue #974)
• Preserve trusted state when launchers are copied
• separate method for thunar_g_file_is_in_xdg_data_dir in order to reuse it later
• Moved 'set executable flag' into separate method In order to be able to reuse it
• Dont reset zoom-level for directory specific settings (issue #970)
• Prevent build failure for NixOS (Issue #972)
• Prevent location bar crash (Issue #968)
• Fix typo in tooltip

[Tim Tassonis]

Changes for xfce4-settings 4.18.1

• Translation updates
• xfsettingsd: Make CSD opt-in

[Tim Tassonis]

Fixed in commit dc2356914d