Changelog

Added#

• Arch package published on every release, built by CI for the CrownOS ISO.

First stable release. The IPC protocol exposed by the crownpaper library crate is stable from this version.

Added#

• Still wallpapers (JPEG, PNG, WebP, BMP) and video wallpapers on every output.
• Cross-blur transition between wallpapers, rendered with wgpu on Vulkan.
• Video decoding in the separate crownpaper-video helper with VA-API hardware decoding and zero-copy dmabuf presentation.
• preload / unload for instant wallpaper changes, and preload-renderer / unload-renderer to control the GPU renderer lifetime.
• Typed client protocol in the library crate; build it without the graphics stack using default-features = false.

Changed#

• The daemon no longer depends on crownshell; it talks to Wayland directly.
• The GPU renderer is released shortly after a transition ends.