Release / 20 Jul 2026

Hyprland v0.56.0

Add motion blur to moving windows.

Correction: The ground-up reload command is `hyprctl reload full-reset`, not `hyprctl config full-reload`, and it crashed the compositor until v0.56.2.

What changed in v0.56.0

New motion blur and tonemap settings, Lua-driven live gestures, hyprctl repl and hyprctl config full-reload, no_auto_hdr window rule, stableid: window selector and groupbar disable_when_only. No breaking changes.

Also: gradient and angle animation for glow and shadow; tablet eraser and pressure options; xdg interactive drags.

Hyprland v0.56.0.

Fixed and improved

Motion blur for windows; glow and shadow take gradients with animated angles.

ImprovedAnimate windows and workspaces with custom bezier curves, and add blur, gradient borders, shadows and rounded corners.

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Custom live gestures written in Lua, and hyprctl repl to run Lua against the running compositor.

ImprovedWrite the configuration in Lua (hyprland.lua), with variables, functions and an API for binds, rules and layouts.

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no_auto_hdr rule turns off automatic HDR for a window; stableid: selects windows by their stable ID.

ImprovedSet rules per window, monitor or layer, such as where an app opens, its size, opacity or whether it floats.

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groupbar can hide when a group holds one window (disable_when_only).

ImprovedGroup windows into tabs that share one tile, with a bar to switch between them.

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hyprwm/Hyprland/pull/15009

hyprctl config full-reload reloads the configuration from the ground up.

ImprovedSee config changes applied as soon as you save the file, without restarting.

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hyprwm/Hyprland/pull/14748

Seeded by @iluxav with Claude Code (canido), from the release's public sources. Each change links to its evidence.