The current stable version of Dunst is 1.12.1 released on December 17 2024.
There have been many important contributions in the last few months. Some notable changes are: adding hot-reload for the configuration, exporting rules via dunstctl, adding color gradients, removing default hard-coded icons. For detailed information consult the changelog.
Important notice for all users:
The behaviour of the setting height has been changed in a breaking way.
Before you could specify a single value that would be used as the max height
of a notification. In this release the dynamic height was implemented to make
this settings behave more similarly to width.
Now the values accepted are either a single number (for a fixed height) or
a tuple of numbers (for a min/max range).
The way of specifying a maximum height before was:
height = 300
The equivalent way now is:
height = (0, 300)
Furthermore the preferred syntax for the offset settings has been changed
from NxN to (N,N). The old syntax is supported nevertheless.
If you are a maintainer it would be helpful to include the message above when an user updates from an older version of dunst.
Take a look at the changelog for all the bug fixes and improvements.