The LXQt team is proud to announce the release of lxqt-panel 2.1.0. The release can be downloaded from Github.

Main changes:

• Refactored Window Manager interaction and added 2 Wayland back-ends for task-bar.
• Made horizontal wheel scrolling work with Custom Command.
• Fixed main popup positions under Wayland.
• Made Fancy Menu filtering work with exec name.
• Set size policy in plugin-backlight and plugin-colorpicker.
• Always consider minimized windows deactivated with wlroots.
• Improved plugin-directorymenu icons.
• Fixed issues in wlroots task buttons.
• Optionally disable move-to-layer and move-to-output.
• Fixed keep_below state in LXQtWMBackend_KWinWayland.
• Fixed issues in kwin_wayland task buttons.
• Split DesktopSwitch and MoveToDesktop.
• Fixed the urgent hint of desktop switcher.
• Fixed default terminal of directorymenu plugin.
• Added an option to reverse the order of tray items.
• Fixed closing of menu with “Meta” shortcut in mainmenu/fancymenu.
• Fixed a regression in reloading X11 taskbar.
• Fixed putting of same-class task buttons together under Wayland.
• Handle errors and clean up the code of the volume plugin with Alsa.
• Capitalize plugin config titles.
• Don’t use invalid value of DesktopSwitchButton::LabelType in plugin-desktopswitch.
• Don’t use uninitialized variables/struct members in plugin-fancymenu, and initialize in the constructor.
• Initialize every member in the constructors of the panel, plugin-sysstat and plugin-kbindicator.
• Fixed a crash in worldclock popup on Wayland with Qt 6.8.0.
• Workaround for lack of context menu with Qt 6.8.0 in Fancy Menu.
• Prevent panel from accepting focus with some Wayland compositors.
• Workaround for translucency artifacts with Qt 6.8.0 on Wayland.
• Workaround for the lack of context menu with Qt 6.8.0 in Main Menu.
• Silenced compilation warning about QCheckBox::stateChanged.

A full list of changes is in the CHANGELOG file.